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I've been testing this further, logging out usually resets the arena, however I am still testing whether the problem can also occur if some players on the arena team run the 64 bit client and others the 32bit client.

Okay, so let's say you have all the day job badges and their accolades. First, congratulations. 🙂 Second, logging out in certain spots will charge up a temp power given by the Dayjobs/Accolades, so lets go through the list: Police Chief: log out in City Hall or a Police Station to charge your baton temp, power max charges = 30 Security Chief: log out in a Vault or Police Station to earn charges of Tear Gas temp power max charges = 30 So to charge these two at once, log out in a police station. Traveler: log out at a train station or in the shadow shard to charge up your Travel's Jet Pack: 2 hours max fuel Entrepreneur: log out in a shop or the auction house to earn coupons for discounts on crafting inventions. Scientist: log out in the University or Portal Corp building for charges of Sleep Gas, max of 30 charges Physician: log out in University or Hospital to earn charges of Revive Ally: max of 30 charges So log out in the University for both of these Alchemist: log out in Midnighter Club or Hospital to charge your Vitalize power: 30 charges Archaeologist: log out in Midnight Club or Graveyard for Rune of Purification: 30 charges so log out in the Midnight Club Mercenary: log out in vanguard base for charges of Fragmentation Grenade: max 30 charges Gladiator: log out in PVP zone or arena to charge your combat shield power: 30 minutes max charge time Rapid Response: log out near a base portal to charge your base teleport power: 30 charges Time Lord: log out in Cimerora to charge up your time lord power. log out for 7 days and the power should be at maximum charge

While using one of my low level toons after the patch, I had to put them in rest mode as they aren't slotted up yet. I saw this message constantly appear in Chat while in rest mode "toon name Phases you with their rest" replace toon name with the name of said character. He didn't look like he was being phased at any time Is this a bug or a new feature of rest?

The Arena System Back in the first era of CoH it wasn't entirely stable, but now it seems to have a chronic problem of not wanting to start arena matches. My nephew visits and links his laptop to my network and we team up in the game and like to fight in the arena. Sometimes we can run only one match, some times several but then the Arena system bugs out and when the start button is clicked, if it can be clicked, the timer will briefly start and then stop. When that happens , neither of us can start an arena match at all. Also there is the old problem with the Swiss Draw badge that was never fixed prior to shut down, thus making it necessary to designate the person in slot 2 as the match winner and then rotate players to ensure all get the badge. If this problem cannot be fixed anytime soon, can swiss draw matches be reduced to needing FOUR players instead of EIGHT to launch? Too many players get fidgety and impatient seeking this badge

For Dimensional Warder badge progress, which of the arcs do you prefer? A Hero's Hero: the original Maria Jenkins arc that awards the Statesman's Pal badge and 60 merits at the end, and 13 of 15 Praetorians in it that count toward Dimensional Warder? Shadow Hunter and Tyrant do not count. It is somewhat long arc,, I can blast through it in about an hour and 15 minutes. It is the only arc now that we can see Statesman in, not counting Who Will Die and the only way to get Statesman's Pal badge. Anti-Matter is not in the arc and must be gotten separately either from Tina Macintyre's Arc or the Keyes Trial. or A Hero's Epic: A more streamlined arc where at the end you face Olympian Guard, which is a knock off of Tyrant to free the captive Positron and get the Positron's Pal badge and 31 merits. Siege is not in it nor is Anti-Matter, both must be gotten separately. I can go thru this arc in about an hour. It is the only way to get Positron's Pal badge. So if you are dedicated to getting all the badges you do need to run both of these but just for the sake of Dimensional Warder, which one do you like? I prefer the original arc as it gives more merits and more progress on the badge, but mileage varies.

My nephew and i are trying to do some arena fights and the arena system is acting all buggy about setting up and launching the event. Update: found the problem: it seems the 64bit version of the client has a problem with the arena.

Anyone who could obtain a Master of Synapse badge would have truly earned that. 🙂 Seriously though, the discussion about the criteria for damage/money/heal badges is as old as the game itself. I am fine with their present criteria. As to new plaques, when I was mapping the presents in Khalisti Whard I found about 3 plaques but I suspect there are more. Perhaps KW should have its plaques enabled and explore badges added? Accolade badges for the History badges? hmmm maybe one for all redside history badges, one for all blue and one for all praetorian history badges As for having to be L50 to get all badges, you can just shut off XP and keep working the badges until they all ding. I prefer to get to 50 and slot up the alt then go back and obtain the badges either be street sweeping for defeat badges, or using Ouro. What I would like to see is the other incarnate powers brought online. That's 5 powers, one badge for each.

okay so for those that are gathering the 200 presents for Toy Collector and the gladiator badge during the event you have undoubtedly gained some inspirations in the form of presents but they are supposed to be a mystery as to what they are. Well there are 6 different kinds: 1. Damage booster 2. Stamina booster 3. Defense booster 4. Healing 5. Gift of Experience = 1 hour debt protection 6. Lump of coal They all look the same so you can't tell which is which right away. So here is what you could do 1. Put 6 inspiration storage bins in your base 2. Insert all presents in your inspiration tray into one bin. The bin will sort them by type but not ID them 3. Take one of the sets of presents out of the bin and stick those presents in another bin, repeat until all 6 bins have only ONE type of present in them 4. Now starting with Bin #1, take out one present. Right click it and select detailed info and scroll to the bottom and with 4 of the presents it will tell you what it does. 5. Put it back into the storage bin and then for future reference put one regular inspiration in the bin that corresponds to the type of presents in the bin. For example: presents that offer damage boost, insert a red inspiration into the bin so that you know what is in there. Repeat this for the stamina, heal and defense presents. 6. Now for the 2 types that do not show data: if you put them all in one bin they will show as two stacks, so make sure that each type is in its own bin. Now open one from one of the bins and see what it is: if it is the gift of experience, I insert a break free into the bin to mark it. Break frees help prevent debt by waking you up from stuns/holds/sleeps so they technically correspond to the Gift of Experience. Once this is done then you know which bin has the lumps of coal in it and you do not need to mark it with an inspiration. Once you are done sending your alts around to gather presents you can then easily figure out which bins to dump them into, then when all is done you can sell the lump of coal presents on the market. The market has all 6 presents listed but doesn't seem to indicate which is which so some people are buying lumps of coal. There are no presents that act as orange inspirations, accuracy inspirations or awakens.

My main badge hunter right now is my blaster, Voltor My casual hunters include a Mastermind, tank, pb and ws with more to come at a later date. The heal badges, use the incarnate Rebirth Destiny to get heal badges or the old arena method still works too. badges for damage received can be gained the slow way or by farming. Same with damage inflicted upon enemies. Money badges: run farms Badges that may take a few runs to get: incarnate trials and the no Defeat Master badges in the TF's There really is no "best" AT to get all the badges with. Any AT can do it, but some power set combos may make it easier then others. The only badges that you need to jump on immediately to get are the Holiday events and special anniversary badges

There was never such a badge for TF's back in the first era of CoH. My badge hunters (bunters?) had them all prior to shut down, except Bug Hunter of course. I have heard no mention of a such a badge having been added to the game now.

I found no presents in Night Ward or Recluse Victory. Glitch? As to which zone is best for presents, well mileage will vary. For example: I do not recommend Atlas Park as that zone can be a bit crowded. Kings Row? Better have the ability to fly as some presents are atop tall buildings. Skyway? Forget it. Many levels, ramps, buildings, etc., and its a big zone. A winter lord team I joined in that zone took 15 minutes to find him after we received the alert that he had appeared. PvP zones make it more challenging. Also while there are those that like Super Speed as their travel power, remember you cannot run up walls and buildings. Super Jump can be good, but I prefer Flight + afterburner. As to the Winter Lord: every zone I mapped, I mapped it solo. Opening presents solo without killing snowmen did not trigger a WL spawn for me. Opening presents + killing snowmen until the badge for defeating 100 of them dinged while solo did not trigger a WL spawn. Any time I spawned him was on a full team opening presents until a naughty present triggered him. If there is another way to make WL spawn, great. Just stating how it was for me.

Here is the holiday map for First Ward. As with the previous maps, I have endeavored to be as accurate as possible with the placing of the gift icons. But as always, turn game music volume to zero and sound FX up to at least 30 and use your ears and eyes to find them. Also while you are there, go get the map badges and plaques., and avoid the Seed of Hamidon

Here is the holiday map for Neutropolis. As with the previous maps, I have endeavored to be as accurate as possible with the placing of the gift icons. But as always, turn game music volume to zero and sound FX up to at least 30 and use your ears and eyes to find them. Also while you are there, go get the map badges and plaques.

Here is the holiday map for Imperial City. As with the previous maps, I have endeavored to be as accurate as possible with the placing of the gift icons. But as always, turn game music volume to zero and sound FX up to at least 30 and use your ears and eyes to find them. Also while you are there, go get the map badges and plaques.

Well I spent some time in Nova Praetoria tonight and have constructed some maps for those that want to use Praetoria to get presents. As with the previous maps, I have endeavored to be as accurate as possible with the placing of the gift icons. But as always, turn game music volume to zero and sound FX up to at least 30 and use your ears and eyes to find them. Also while you are there, go get the map badges and plaques.

While sending an alt through Khalisti Wharf I found two present locations and added them to the map, along with a second Easter egg. The two white squares in the south east area of the map are tiny Easter egg pictures I used to mark the locations. Also adjusted the icon for a present in the northwest area. Also added yellow markers for plaques. clicking the plaques does nothing.

Yes, just get another duplicating gift and pass it on before it expires

Want to find presents in Khalisti Wharf? Here are all the ones I found. As always I tried to be precise but just go to the icon on the map and listen for the glowie if you don't see it.

Here is a shiny warburg map I have made, it is the vidiotmap of all 8 map badges, PLUS.......the holiday presents that I could locate. WARNING, WILL ROBINSON! DANGER, DANGER! The BLUE icons are for the presents that are IN the tunnels.....beware!

Perhaps this will be of help: a map for the explore badges and holiday presents..... I strove to be as precise as I could with the placing of the icons. Head for an icon and look around and listen for the sound of the glowie.....

Meant to ask has the vidiot maps team made any maps for any of the PVP zones for Holiday present hunting? Well if not then I am pleased to say that an old project of mine that I didn't get to finish thanks to NCSoft is done. Back in the first era of CoH, presents DID spawn in the PvP zones. I was plotting out locations and creating maps when NCSoft's announcements made me stop. Well now, they are complete. Presents do spawn in Bloody Bay, Siren's Call and Warburg, but they do NOT spawn in Recluse Victory. I turbo flew with after burner through Recluse Victory to refresh my memory and saw no presents in that zone at all. Now....why hunt for presents to get Toy Collector badge in a PvP zone? Simple answer: Why not? Think of it as more challenging and fun then being a level 50 cruising through Kings Row or Mercy Island. Better answer: don't forget there is a badge for spending an hour in each of the pvp zones, BB, Siren, WB and RV. BB/Siren/WB have plaques for redside history badges. Also each zone was expanded to have 8 map badges, plus accolade for all 8 and 5 merits. Also there are other badges to get such as Gunner for taking down a firebase and getting your shivan shard after you visit the meteors of Bloody Bay. See if you can patrol in BB, Siren and WB for a temp power from each zone. Also if you do a mission in the zone you just might get a badge also.... Also if there is one thing in this game that needs some stimulation.....it IS PvP. Ever since issue 13 changed PvP and drove off many PvP players, PVP has been almost extinct, imo. So without further ado, I give a shout out to Vidiotmaps for making the new maps with all 8 exploration badges, and I now present to you maps for Bloody Bay, Siren, and Warburg that also show icons were you should find a present. First up: Bloody Bay Then Siren's Call, also some of the icons represent a present that is atop a building And finally, Warburg. WARNING, WILL ROBINSON! DANGER, DANGER! The BLUE present icons represent presents that are IN THE TUNNELS. The Green colored ones are on the surface. Whether you choose to enter the tunnels......I leave that to you. Disclaimer: I have done what I can to as precise as possible with the placing of the gift icons. As always, when gift hunting in any zone, you should go into game options and turn the music volume to zero and the sound FX up.....then head for the icon area and listen for the sound of the glowie......

Gift Getter you receive when you get the Duplicating Gift. Once you have it, you have 10 minutes before it expires to pass it on to someone that doesn't have it. Then you get the gift which keeps giving badge.

Want some maps to help locate the presents? https://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Winter_Event/Presents

I was there on the Last Day. I was recording for preservation purposes and one day upload to youtube everything I possibly could about the game that we all love so dearly. Sadly I couldn't record everything before shutdown, but the return has enabled me to correct that. In the final hour, recording stopped and I was in Atlas on Virtue and got to experience the Atlas 33 effect as I call it thanks to the zone overloading as other servers went dark one by one and everyone started jumping into Virtue. Eventually my connection to Atlas on Virtue literally imploded before shutdown and though Virtue was still up, I logged into Exalted server and spent the final minutes on one of the floating islands in Ouroborus and waited until the final disconnect screen appeared. Then I hopped into the Test Server one last time and it went down a few minutes later. Next day I awoke and out of habit tried to launch the game, only to get the message from the NCSoft launcher that the game was done. My characters were all backed up, all my old guides and notes were saved with them in the hopes we could get our City back. Tried other MMO's, but they didn't have the magic that this one does. The other hero MMO's are all lacking, and while I monitored the "spiritual successors", too much time was passing and my interest was waning. Then came Icon and Paragon Chat then finally the game itself. Ran into some old gaming pals, most of whom still play, one appears to have vanished. Alts have been rebuilt, main badge hunter is at max capacity at the moment. Though my life priorities have shifted over the years and I have other things that I need/want to do it is good to back. Also the more we play the more we stick it to NCSoft. Can't argue with that. 🙂