Badges for Praetorian Events

GM told me to post this here, after I had already posted it in the Player's Help forum:

I have an Empath defender, who I am trying to get badges for. I wanted to get the Laureate badge. Went to paragonwiki, and it said the badge is awarded when you, "Complete the "The Great Escape" zone event in Neutropolis." (not using paragonwiki as the official word, only as a guide) So, I tried to solo the event, with no luck, mainly because Emp Defs are "poor solo characters", "designed to team", etc. This makes sense; half my powers dont work when I'm soloing, since they only target teammates, not self.

So, the next logical step: I get a teammate. Run it again. (Remember, you have to wait an hour between runs.) This time, we complete it. My teammate, he gets the Reward selection of the badge. I get to pick from a DO enhancement, information, or an inspiration. No badge. We run it again. Again, he gets to select an emote, I get enh, inf, or insp.

I petition the GMs for the badge, and I am told that,

"The rewards for zone events are unlocked by players' direct participation level in them. This means that, at the end, any reward tier that becomes available is based on your character's participation throughout the event itself.

In this case it means that you didn't meet the participation requirement for it. The best suggestion I can make is for you to keep running the event, ensuring that you participate fully in all phases of the trial."

My teammate can testify, I participated fully, by buffing, healing, and occasionally blasting my way through the event. Also, it would seem to me, that the Rewards menu would not have presented itself if I had NOT directly participated. Also, I did some research on the forums, and according to Baryonyx,

"Once a player qualifies for a component reward, the final block of choices presented to the player are rolled randomly. If you qualified for a component reward, you reached the level of participation for yourself and your league needed to have a chance at any component type."

(See City of Heroes Forums > Official City of Heroes Freedom Forums > Development > Developers' Corner > Incarnate Rewards. Sorry, I dont know how to tag another thread)

So, I run the event again. This time, I lead the team, I am blasting away (I only have one attack power in my build, but I set it as my autopower), I ask my teammate to let me have some kills, and, again, I get the Reward menu: DO enh, inf, or insp.

Now, it seems to me, that the badge SHOULD be awarded for running the event. If it is awarded via the Rewards Menu, it should be on the first tier, which means, I should have gotten it. I dont know what else I can do, but it is sooo frustrating to not be able to complete this badge run in less than four (three SUCCESSFUL) attempts.

Empaths always seem to get the short end of the deal. We have to team, that's what our Primary powerset is designed to do, but when we do, we get shorted out of the rewards. It seems to me that if an Empath and a Tanker run this event, the Empath will always get shorted out of the badge. Maybe I'm not seeing this correctly, but this doesn't seem fair. Please help!

The best solution I've found for the Praetorian zone events is to solo them on a 50: no matter how hard I've tried, I've never managed to get anything less than the full rewards table (and that includes some rather bizarre antics, like running the event with a petless mastermind.)

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=293072

Already being covered here.

He's running a "pure healer" Emp/* build and has only taken the T1 attack from his secondary.

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One other option to try would be a second build that takes all the attacks would work. Probably wouldn't need anything more than SOs.