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Villains have the council base in Sharkhead for Wolves, Nerva Rooftops for Vamps, and a lot of council missions for both.

The Dr. Kahn TF has a lot too.

Ironically, the worst place to hunt is the one place the badge placeholder suggests: Thorn Isle in Nerva.

As others have suggested: Cap au Diable hordelings along the PTS or the hellfrosts in the lower part of Sharkhead. Either is preferable.

Hordeling Bezerkers rez and count both times (if you defeat the rezzed hordeling before it explodes). You can find multiple hordelings per group, and they are lower levels so my usual preference is hunting them in Cap.

Verifying that this has been my experience as well.

Synapse.

I'm about 52% of the last. I agree about the prestige in sgmode

I had between 11-12 million HP healed yesterday, and my Empathy/Illusionist is about 4.5 years old.

This is S.O.P.

With Issue 16, the requirements have been reduced from 10,000 to 2,000 crafts.

It is a requirement for safeguards too. This info has been posted before, but the forum purges have deleted the posts.

All the information you have given was already available on ParagonWiki, dating back to December 2006.
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Safegu...ssions#Farming

The only nerdrage I think would happen would be why the heck the gladiator badges were not given progress bars in the first place. I blame Statesman and the original Lord Recluse (the developers, not the npcs). I am still somewhat annoyed with Positron for leaving them without progress bars with the lame excuse that "They are not really badges, but only use the badge system."

With the follow up response:

Guardians I got in an hour with a full team doing level 15-20 pvp missions in bloody bay. It took an hour to get that and the spider smasher (before Faultline revamp).

Toxics I finished up with multiple Khan TF runs and a single radio mission. I still endorse the reduction to 50 from 200.

Unfortunately this is fully correct since the introduction of the gladiator badges.

FYI, the changes for the mezzed line will be:

• Restrained/Slacker: Reduced this badge's requirements from being mezzed for 30 minutes to being mezzed for 10 minutes
• Entangled/Sleepy: Reduced this badge's requirements from being mezzed for 120 minutes to being mezzed for 30 minutes
• Imprisoned/Dazed and Confused: Reduced this badge's requirements from being mezzed for 600 minutes to being mezzed for 60 minutes.
• Confined: Reduced this badge's requirements from being mezzed for 20 hours to being mezzed for 3 hours.
• Caged: Reduced this badge's requirements from being mezzed for 40 hours to being mezzed for 6 hours.
• Jailed: Reduced this badge's requirements from being mezzed for 80 hours to being mezzed for 12 hours.

Fake Nems can be found on the main island of Grandville, in several RWZ missions, and in the RWZ.

As for Paragon Protectors: Crey missions level 30+ (you can now set mission to think you are a full team for more bosses), the demon PPs, and the PP elites (both in the Fab or in missions). Sorry, but PPs are accessible. The only 2 missions that cause an advantage for heroes are the 7th Gen PP missions.

Finally, I'll repeat myself since you seem to have ignored this the first time I posted:

Synapse fixed the requirements only, and only those requirements that did not affect any other department.

So none of the following changes were looked at for these changes:

• Mob placing
• New missions
• Technical fixes
• Artwork

Any mob changes, new missions, technical fixes, or artwork (or any other change requiring anything more than changing numbers on a table) will have to wait for a future issue.

Any complaints that involve those four points is fruitless at the moment.

1. The Rularuu weapon unlocks sooner and easier for villains than heroes. Try again after research.

2. Family bosses for CoV has gotten a very nice fix:
The first line should be "marcone capo" not "mook capo". The tommy gun unlock will be plentiful.

To be clear: Synapse fixed the requirements only, and only those requirements that did not affect any other department. So mob placing, new missions, technical fixes, and artwork was never considered in these changes. Any mob changes, new missions, technical fixes, or artwork (or any other change requiring anything more than changing numbers on a table) will have to wait.

We will likely get Going Rogue before any of those happen, and they might consider that the solution to limited mob opportunities for either side.

YUCK.

This suggestion would only put the grind back into badging.

Completely /UNSIGNED.

Those who complain of the amount of their time "wasted" arena farming didn't need to be very smart. All the signs pointed to it being an eventual nerf bat target.

* The proponents did everything possible to hide the activity on these forums. Including warning others not to organize on these forums.

* A large amount of testing went into various means to get the best possible return for the least effort. This testing revealed an aberrant pattern, namely arena targets at full health counted for the badge. At this point the previous method was dropped as being too difficult (having mesons was popular at one point).

*The developer stance towards AE farming. At this point I think we're lucky to still have the badges.

* No one forced them to be impatient and get the badges through farming.

Because your "PlayerA" type is not a long term subscriber. They burn out quicker than the others. Many of the same players are leaving the game and had made the decision to do so before this was announced.

Those requirements should never have been put in place without determining if the requirements were achievable through normal play. The Developers guessed. They didn't know what it would actually take to get the badges. Players were never meant to get the badges through farming. That people got the badges through farming isn't the developer's or the casual player's fault. The blame for any time "wasted" lies only with those who chose to farm the badges. No one else. They were rewarded: they got the badges earlier than others.

Not the epic Damage or Healing series. Call it meta-gaming or whatever, it is still outside the intended ways of getting the badges. The Healing series just has a clear-cut example. I know that, given extremely ideal conditions, Empath would have been earned only in 30 years. Even reduced to 100 million would require over 1,000 level 50 ITFs as the only healer on bad pick up groups. That alone would have made a lot of people quit before getting the badge.

I would say that the INF badges were not exploits, but encouraged exploitative behavior. We might not have the Rikti Comm Officer nerfs without inf farming in the RWZ.

The writing was on the wall with the AE badge removals.

I sense... bitterness and sarcasm. No one had a gun to anyone's head telling them that they had to farm the badges.

The reason they will never make "new" badges that equal the old values is that would put the developers in the exact same situation they are currently faced with: In an attempt to appease the few people that farmed the badges they annoy the rest of the player population.

So it isn't a "win-win". It is a win for those wanting a e-peen, a lose to the average badge collector, and a lose for the developers that would have to come up with some excuse for back tracking on a promised fix for the requirements.

Additionally. the statements made during Issue 14 show that they do not want to reward aberrant, unintended, or just plain un-fun game play. Making new badges at the old values does the exact opposite.

In a lot of cases the "grind" was using known exploits (arena farming healing targets at full health).

Maybe because the developers see the fringe behavior needed to get some of these badges as unhealthy both for the game (long term subscriptions) and for their fans? The numbers were, to be blunt, guess at for being reasonable. Now that they have had a chance to see through data mining what is possible, they can change the requirements to appropriate numbers.

I am glad you are not a developer, because I would quit paying for the game.

This is 100% false. Healing the reactor core has never counted.

This is correct.

I hold no illusions that AFK farming will be eliminated. I agree it will still be around. However for the majority of the changes we will now be able to earn the badges with actual play time.

The damage taken series is the notable exception. Immortal is 25 times what I would consider "reasonable". Of course that would require the earlier badges (non-epics) in the series to be reduced too.

And just think that Going Rogue likely means that, in addition to any day jobs introduced with it, that there will be six more day job badges for everyone to collect. There are six for each side that are exclusive to that faction.

Keep in mind that these badge changes, just like the regular badges changes, were the ones with no impact on other departments. So no art or coding was included.