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Hi, one other great aid for any Badge Hunter not too often mentioned, is to find and join an active badge orientated Supergroup. I never understood that on live and worked mostly solo due to odd play times and duration ingame. I never had or joined a supergroup. Then here I was so happy to find that I could have and kit out my very own base, that I concentrated doing that. I have no regrets because I have massively enjoyed learning from knowing nothing to owning my own home base 🥳 So it was a mainly solo badge job again lol. Do consider the SG path if it would suit you. Cheers

Hi, not too sure if this is frowned on or see as cheating amongst the Badging Community but is really handy, and that is to give a bit of thought to any second account alts you have that can be used as a dual boxing support to your Badger alt. Makes getting badges from say the Arena a lot easier especially if you have to solo a lot of your ingame time. Same as having a pocket healer when kneeling down in front of CoT taking damage et cetera. Apart from that and as Voltor said, try and prioritise any new badges that come ingame especially the “needs a team” ones. I missed a bit of time when the Incarnate trials were introduced and have still not got the Keep out of the Green Stuff and the Three at Once (?) from Keyes and The Magesterium trials. These are a lucky find if you see a shoutout these days. But back on topic I had a Claws/SR Scrappie as my badger before Sunset and here now I have a Fire/EM blaster and I have no regrets about either choice. Go Hunt Kill ENJOY 🥇🥇

Hi twozerofoxtrot, yes I revisited that spot and started clearing all Crey mobs and eventually they slowly appeared in the new mobs. Not a lot, but enough to keep me working away at them and I thank you for your original info. 👍 I do seem to be logging in for shorter play times these days so street sweeping does better suit than joining a team and fretting that I will have to bail at short notice. My original post was to check if I needed to change my noteriety settings or something to get those Bosses to spawn but actually patience was all I needed🥴 Thanks guys Edit to update status: Badge awarded and all earned street sweeping at spot in Eden yippee! TYVM GUYS 👍👏😀

Hi guys, catching up on my main badger (now at 1573) after getting a bit disillutioned, still cannot get The green stuff and Really hard way plus MoM badges, sighs gently..but never the less I am getting the solo ones which include the one titled above. I was not sure if they were only found in the Aeon SF (aaargh) so asked ingame and searched here and found a location mentioned in Eden around the skyscraper in the Serpentine region. But the badge needs Bosses and all I can find there are Lts. Any pointers/locations and tips will be gratelfully received. Thanks 🍪🍪🍩🍩 Edit: Duh old brain fart, apologies I should of course said Cryogenicists and not tanks, got carried away having just got the two hundred of them for the badge!

Cannot wait for the event start because after last years mind boggling SG set up as a Haunted House I soooo want to see it again along with any changes they may have made. If you missed it last year DO NOT MISS IT THIS YEAR! It is utterly fantastic… Bring it on 😀😀

Hello everybody, just rolled a new alt and (I suspect like many of us) went through my new alt routine. One part of this routine is to visit the Gull and deny group fly deny speed boost hide travel tray and deny all Mystic Fortunes. But I am wondering if the last deny is actually the best choice? I know virtually nothing about how this power works or the pro’s and con’s of acceptance or denial. I only know that back in the day the few times I got hit with a fortune it always seemed to be a debuff and really annoying. However this could be just a skewed perception on my part that led me to the always deny choice. What do you guys choose and any thoughts/info on the merits of the power will be really appreciated. And for the alts that have it how do you decide when and on who to use it, or is it an autofire power when ready? Thanks

Try a really hard mode Aeon SF. Would be interesting to see how near that gets you to what you are looking for. Cheers 👍

Hi guys, been looking for new maps as well and prior to page 4 I always used the Chuck Norris tunnel map and I always farm solo or just to level up my own alts. So been using 41794 America’s Angel asteriod active farm and 50968 KaizenSoze’s Decoy asteriod farm. Solo farming gets me this XP Minion 4272 Lt 8544 Boss 25632 or 24463 Inf Minion 5979 Lt 20504 Boss 64081 The Boss numbers do seem toa change very slightly during the mission but I could see no reason why! With the Farmer and one alt at level 10 I got (just for info) XP Minion 4005 Lt 8010 Boss 24031 Inf Minion 3738 Lt 12816 Boss 40051 So both these page 4 arcs are pretty much on par and the only difference for me is the actual game play style, one is just a usual large mobs wandering and the other uses decoys to aggro the mobs to you. Finish times are much the same. Really enjoyed both and thanks to you both guys for doing the work to help us farmers out, appreciated 👍👏👏 If anybody has a page 4 tunnel map I can use I would love the number ID please, ty. HOWEVER, I have no logged data to support this feeling but it appears to me that the leveling speeds of my lowbie alts using 2xp has dropped considerably? For example both the above maps took three runs to level up a lvl 10 alt to lvl 20 with 2 xp on that alt. Also I have a lvl 44 alt with 2xp and it seems to level at the same rate as the lvl 50 Farmer. I watch the progress bars and they increase together and I would expect the lvl 44 with 2xp to level at roughly twice the speed of the lvl 50. This is absolutely not happening. Any ideas please? Thanks again guys 😀

Can you just log out at any of the other day job locations, that would not acrue patrol xp, I think 🤔

Hi, apologies if been covered before but searching found nothing. Historically we had blueside six TF’s each numbered in sequence 1 to 6 (the badges use roman numbers). All six collected awarded the TF accolade. However now we have seven (ignoring the Posi split in two parts because that still eventually gives the number 1 badge) with two number 3’s! One of those number three’s is still named Sister Psyche. Why was the numbering left like that and why did the name not get changed to reflect it is now the Penny Yin TF? Can I ignore one of the “three’s” and still get the TF accolade award? Thanks for any info, background and rationals. Will be appreciated.🤔👍

Hi guys, just wanted jump back in for two reasons, firstly to apologise for my earlier post having reread it, I absolutely come over as a whiney ranting very spoilt childlike individual and it is really embarassing. It was supposed to be a cry from the wilderness for help and guidance but I can only assume that somewhere in the writing I turned into my grumpy old dad lol. Secondly I want to offer my thanks to all of you that responded by just ignoring my tone and by providing some proper and helpful information and guidance. All of which is very much appreciated. I am still curious as to why the VEATS were implimented in the way they were, given that we used to have had a lvl 50 to unlock the HEATS and I reckon that the VEATS are a level higher in build understanding and implimentation. I bet I can build a rubbish VEAT with no thought at all! Whatever, I am slowly getting to grips with them and more familiar with the opportunities they offer so thanks again 👏👏👍😀🍩🍩

Hi, like the OP I also am rolling my first VEAT and am also finding it a bit (well more than a bit!) confusing. I wish there was some sort of guide or info about what the different flavours of the VEAT are aimed at so I could at least decide which of the many build trees to start choosing from. I have rolled and played Warshades and PB’s on live and here (all tri forms) so am okay with multiple power menus but not when very different end results can be achieved. And why do we have a level 24 respec just to get to pick the powers that seem to be just duplicated with different names from the under lvl 24 choices? Why complicate the whole thing like that and not just let us pick what we want from lvl 1? Just seems a lot of unecessary work just to start all over at lvl 24. Would love some sort of tree diagram showing the branch splits and a description of what they are cause just saying roll a Crabber or a Huntsman means nothing to me without context. Why are they so complicated? Lol so many question and so few scraps of info. Thanks

Hi, tested on two chars, same result. Tested UK time 09:30 tuesday 19 July after latest update. If you place your character very close/touching the RIGHT SIDE HALF ONLY (as you look at it) of the info screen attached to the front of any of the SF portals it makes the whole gui on my monitor occilate up and down rapidly. Take a step back from the portal info screen and it stops, step forward to touch the info screen and the up down occilations start. To clarify, as you look at the portal info screen just move character very close/touching with leg or foot ( might be the foot clipping into/through the screen and touching the portal base) as the screen is at floor level, anywhere on the right side half of the screen causes the glitch. This effect is the same on all the Portal info screens in the Crucible. Cheers

Hi, apologies if this has been addressed already in thread, given that the new system directly affects the character select pages system, could we not now put in place a basic “sort by ……” system on the screen so we could sort by level and then anything else that might be deemed useful… Maybe in place of the search option we have now. At least sorted by level would go a long way to speed up the need to log in requirement when live. Ideally a sort by level and days since last logged in would be fab. Is it just me that when logging out an alt to character selection system I always get sent back to page one every time? I would like to be send back to where the logging out alt was in the listings. This is now but that might not be the better way when the new changes go live, not sure. Cheers

Hi, so just how many Ms Liberty’s ingame is enough? I count three in different locations atm. Am very happy to be corrected 😃 One in her tradition spot by Atlas, one in IP on the deck of the ship and now a third inside the newly refurbished building in Atlas where the AE used to be. This third version is especially confusing as a new alt will spring into life just by the Atlas version and then just a hop away she appears in the new location! Just wondering if perhaps she is getting a tad too much workload and share of the limelight. (15 minutes is a good metric according to a certain artist!) Cheers

Hi, just asking because I have no idea if this is a factor, how does an arbitory length ie the 8 seconds, affect the game feel when playing at different difficulty levels? Getting mezzed playing solo at -1/0 is less jepardy than when at 4/8 teamed and now with these new diff level options how will say the newer tf/sf’s run. Could we be looking at potential team wipes if my toogles are down for the mezz time plus 8? Advance apologies if this seems silly or naive. Thanks guys.

Hi M_G, I use vidiotmaps and have gotten into the habit of when first time visiting a new zone to do a quick sweep for all eight explore badges and all the plaques. I think I usually start north and work down south but depends on where I enter from. So I know that if I have the accolade for a zone I also have the plaques. Not ideal or perfect but it only takes a short time to get both sets. I wish that the newish LRTS lists that show if you have unlocked a zone by getting one badge (currently in white instead of greyed out) would also change that white to a different colour when you have all eight and been awarded the accolade. Would make it easier to track both Explore badges and also in my case the plaques not yet gotten in a zone because sometimes you cannot help getting the odd explore badge when doing a TF or something when teamed up and have no time to do a complete collect run just then. Cheers

well, as a previous poster in this thread and now 74, I am just pleased to still be around to see this necro 😃😃

My other half jumped on this thread as soon as she saw it and then looked a bit crestfallen when she saw it was about the game! And then kicked me on the way out! 🥴🥴

oh my goodness, wow… Thank you so much ATC, I have printed both sets of data and can now use them as and when I roll new alts and also to go fill in the missing bits of my existing ones. I had completely forgotten the Black Shroud ones and can now see missing accolades. This really will be of great help to me. Do any of the accolades change name if we change alignement, ie are any shared ones? So can I actually have all 56 accolades? Appreciate your help, keep safe 👍👏🥇

Hello guys, am in a muddle with the maths and could do with a bit of help. Firstly how many areas/zones/places in total have exploration badges in them? I use the new transport system to keep track of the main ones but it is a long way from the total. Lots of locations such as both the Blue side sewer systems and pvp/hazard zones et cetera. Second is just how many Exploration related Accolades are there. I find it very difficult to match up the ones I have with the zone/location that awarded them. The badge descriptions are a tad obscure on a lot of them. And of course not all the explore badge locations have an accolade? (Kallista?) So with a total location figure and an Accolade total I can at least try and match up to get to the missing stuff. Thanks muchly

I so want a badge (or better still a series of badges with an accolade) called “Duh other end again” or whatever, for number of times I have chosen the wrong one! Come to think about it, I don’t think I can recall a single time since live I have actually chosen the “Right End”. 😢😢🥴 RNG hates me…..😤

Hi srmalloy, yes good info and very valid. I think the actual point we both want to highlite is that the temptation to grab the free 2xp boost immediately is strong, but should be delayed by whatever time it takes to achieve which objective route you want. Having said that, I have been known to do just that if my shiny new alt arrives at Ms Liberty at the same time as a shout for DFB goes up. I will grab the buff and do the DFB and then just cancel it out whilst I then do my usual new alt routine 😄

Just one suggestion, when you place your single object use the front location option so you can just enter mish go a few yards and the glowie is there, not even any fighting to do. PS Voltor has confirmed just a couple of days ago that to get the “Amongst Friends” badge, which is the 8 man team one, that only the mission holder has to enter the mission and all 8 get the badge even if the others are in a different zone. So form up and enter, job done, real quick.