IanTheM1

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Badges don't care if you are villain or hero, there are no (or should I say, very few) badges that are "hero only" or "villain only". If you are able to defeat an enemy required for a badge, you can earn that badge.

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I asked earlier in this thread, is this the case with the Circle of Thorns AV "Baphomet"? He is in a CoV mission and does not award a badge for defeat, whereas in CoH he awards the "Demon Slayer" badge for being defeated. Customer Service told me that the Demon Slayer badge is only available in City of Heroes, and the CoV version of Baphomet does not offer a badge. This seems somewhat contradictory to what you just stated, but this could be one of those "very few". Is that the case? Is it intentional? Just curious, thanks.[/qoute]

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Only when they appear in the world (outside of mission maps) do "Giant Monsters" count for badges. Basically: if it was meant to be taken down by more than 1 team, it gives the badge. Mission versions are scaled down versions that are more like AV's, thus able to be defeated by a single team, and thus do not give the badge.

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I think you're a bit confused here, Posi. Baphomet has always been a Circle AV (now AV/EB) that appears in a portal mission or Shadow Shard TF in CoH. Now in a mission in CoV, he's not giving the badge, despite being in the same conditions.

Never appeared outside or as a Giant Monster, AFAIK.

A few previous posters were right, this is how the respec stuff works in CoH:

I do the Terror Volta Trial at level 24, and succeed. For completing the trial, I get "Transmogrified", which is an Accomplishment "Trial" badge, using the same graphic as the ones for the Sewer, Eden, and Cavern Trials. The badge text says "You have saved the Terra Volta reactor, blah blah blah."

Then, if I choose the respec reward at the end, I get a second badge: Received the Stallwart Medallion, which is an accolade. The text says "...Your powers seem to be fluctuating."

If I go cash in on that respec, Stallwart Medallion will be taken away and replaced by a near identical badge, same title, but different text, now saying "...has changed your powers in a permenant way."

However, City of Villains for some reason does not have an available Trial badge for the Thorn Tree, which would be perfect to use to unlock Leery, since you would get it regardless of your respec usage or awardage.

Secondly, in that vein, Positron, could we get a fix so that the CoH respec badges stay in order, even with the awarding/re-awarding, instead of how it is now? Because I really like have them in order regardless of my respec usage.

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But Posi, If I earned my accolade at lvl 20 or 22 and when I reach 35 I help an sg mate in his/her lvl 25 Missions, How is it justified I lose an accolade power I already had when I first reached that lvl? I can understand the loss of powers but not for accolades as they are badge oriented and one can get at any lvl if one is persistent enough.

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Exemplaring doesn't kill your accolades unless you earned them after that level. That act just like normal powers, basically.

In theory, however, the system is unfair to those who got all of their badges at level 50, and other such cases. People have talked about being able to just farm and hunt badges out for low level characters and get them "every" accolade by level X. So, in other words, there could be level 25s in Bloody Bay with higher level accolades, which isn't all that fair.

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Bug Hunter - is this supposed to be awarded to people who were in Beta?

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Right now this badge can only be awarded by the GMs for discovering a serious exploit. It's been given out *once*. Positron has recently talked about giving it out to those who participated in beta, though exactly how is still unknown. (As in, do all characters get it if the account has some connection to one of the Beta tests, or is it stricter, such as if you were only in CoV Beta, you can only get it on villains?)

[/ QUOTE ]GMs can't award it. The badge is given out by devs only. I confirmed this with NCSoft's support.

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*shrug* Okay. Same difference.

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Can you clarify how the Epic Death badges work? Are they for number of deaths, or high levels of debt relief? Can we get exact numbers?

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All six are for debt being paid off. This was confirmed by CuppaJo a while ago.

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Bug Hunter - is this supposed to be awarded to people who were in Beta?

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Right now this badge can only be awarded by the GMs for discovering a serious exploit. It's been given out *once*. Positron has recently talked about giving it out to those who participated in beta, though exactly how is still unknown. (As in, do all characters get it if the account has some connection to one of the Beta tests, or is it stricter, such as if you were only in CoV Beta, you can only get it on villains?)

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Will Shadow Shard and Moonfire Task Force badges ever get unique artwork?

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They already have unique artwork, it's just that the actual image pathing has been bugged since they were implemented.

*you see a printed flyer, apparently made in some version of CreyComp's Office Suite, or some other OS equivalent*

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Perhaps I missed it but just when are the gladiators to be awarded, even on test I haven't gotten either. And I have both ToyCollector and Toothbreaker.

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Positron sez:
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It is fixed, and hopefully will be up on the live servers before the end of the event.

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I know this won't get answered, but here it goes: My level 10+ characters on the Training Room got either a Heart of Darkness or Heart of Light accolade. Reading the descriptions made me wonder if they were supposed to be for the (hopefully) upcoming Hero/Villain switch feature (as in being able to switch sides, and have a hero go to RI as a villain, and villain becoming a hero in Paragon).

Or is it supposed to be awarded after doing the missions in Pocket D?

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It's simply a freebie badge for logging in during the event.

It will have NO connection to switching sides.

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How do you get the Handsome/Beautiful badge?

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There is a contact for each side (Ganymede for heroes and Scratch for villains). Both give two missions. The first can be done alone. The second requires at least one of the other type. Completion of that mission gives Handsome/Beautiful.

--Rad

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Correction: You need to do BOTH "Help me!" missions (Get the Girdle and Destroy the Cauldron) in order to get Handsome/Beautiful.

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Snowbeast?

ummm say what?

Is this another badge related to the gifts? Will it give only if you got toy collector or if you also killed a large number of all types of snowman?

I got toy collector but didn't really fight many snowmen...

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It's a gladiator. If you have Toy Collector, you'll get Snowbeast.

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*waves to Positron*

Will Snowbeast also be fixed?

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Yes. This is given to players who got the Toy Collector badge in December.

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YAY!

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Uhh...how exactly do we get this badge?

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You have to do DJ Zero's mission 5 times. In order to unlock DJ Zero, you need the Handsome/Beautiful badge.

*waves to Positron*

Will Snowbeast also be fixed?

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Ok, this is a little weird to me. My MM has started to get his healing badge, and he has no healing powers. I know you can get it by healing henchmen, but the only thing I've ever done to them was maybe give one a respite. He's a Merc/Traps MM, just started him. Am I missing something?

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yes you are, your 3rd soldier is a medic...

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I'm not sure if it's intentional or not, but you can in fact get your healing badges by feeding your henchies heal inspirations.

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Following this same topic, does the Triangle Beacon count toward the healing badges (or is it too much of a stretch)?

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No, Triage Beacon is a +Regen buff, not a heal.

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Ok, this is a little weird to me. My MM has started to get his healing badge, and he has no healing powers. I know you can get it by healing henchmen, but the only thing I've ever done to them was maybe give one a respite. He's a Merc/Traps MM, just started him. Am I missing something?

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yes you are, your 3rd soldier is a medic...

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I'm not sure if it's intentional or not, but you can in fact get your healing badges by feeding your henchies heal inspirations.

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Why can't I have Bug Finder?

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Because it doesn't exist.

Bug Hunter on the other hand...

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Just because you refuse to participate in certain aspects of the game doesn't mean the dev's should caiter to your needs. You don't PvP - but PvP zones still have PvE missions with cool outcomes and awesome temp powers. You refuse to enter them apparently.

Your loss

CoV is an expanshalone. You can play it without CoH, but lets face it...it's an expansion. You refuse to either buy or play this expansion.

Your loss

Hon, there is new content in this Issue for Heroes. And it does include a whole new (PvP) zone for them. Just because you refuse to use it is YOUR problem, not ours.

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Um....most of us are talking about net-content-gain here. Villains have equal access to Recluse's Victory, and thus it doesn't seem all that shiny to us heroes.

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Also, as a follow up question. What about summoned illusionists. Do you have to do 25% damage to them before they disappear? Any amount of damage? Kill them entirely before they disappear?

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Woo, I can answer this... ANY damage works.

When my elec/elec was helping out, we had a scrapper tanking and me fighting. Summoned Ill's would show up, I'd throw a single Ball Lightning at 'em, we'd get the "You have defeated" when they disappeared for all of 'em.

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The best skill for Illusionist hunting/farming is Caltrops. Auto-hit damage on the summoned ones, keeps the Master controlled.

Was anyone explicitly complaining about lack of a new zone?

Most of us have been calling for Hazard Zone renervations instead of new zones.

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Any chance that could get changed since you don't want PvP missions to go all the way to 50? Otherwise thats a badge added that level 50s can't get which would just suck.

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I'm assuming (more like hoping, but still) that Recluse's Victory will have patrol missions.

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most likey ur right but hey i dont needto listen 2 u

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The feeling is mutual. Your posts make my eyes bleed.

[/ QUOTE ] my work is done

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Go ahead and be proud of that. I'll be over here.

[/ QUOTE ] over hear is beter

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I don't know where "over hear" is nor what "beter" means. I'm inclined to, y'know, stop caring.


In DA for Stalkers, they'll probably do the same thing they did with Energy Aura - change the Cloaking Skill to Hide and presumably cut off any extra benefits.

I'm really, really hoping there's more to I7 than what's on that list. Way too many "Villains only" tags for my liking.

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Is there an ETA on fixing Hercules Titan gladiator badge? '

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that badge is fixed. all you have to do is win 10 glad matches. or have a friend rig it for you in a secret way i wont reveal.

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It's fixed in that you can get it via 10 rated Gladiator wins. Whether or not it should be rewarded for any 10 wins, like Lanista is for a single victory, is unknown.

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most likey ur right but hey i dont needto listen 2 u

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The feeling is mutual. Your posts make my eyes bleed.

[/ QUOTE ] my work is done

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Go ahead and be proud of that. I'll be over here.

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most likey ur right but hey i dont needto listen 2 u

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The feeling is mutual. Your posts make my eyes bleed.

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I cant read the artical (stupid work filters). But to me it would seem that most of the stuff on it would probably be speculation. I bet they just put things on there thats been rumored for a while now. Ill wait for the official word from our friends at cryptic first.

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Bet he's "rong".