Speculate: Badge rewards

[Techwright]

Some badges give minor boosts or temporary tools/powers, usually after some effort expended getting said badges.

 

Speculate, if you will, what rewards might be added to badges currently without anything to make them more attractive in the mini-game that is badge hunting.

 

For example, an oft-overlooked badge group are those badges hidden in safeguard missions. People generally depart once the archvillain is dealt with.  Perhaps a six-hour in-game-time boost to health/energy/power might encourage a hunt?

[dtjunkie]

Valet - reduces the cost of purchasing the Team Transporter

 

[ZorkNemesis]

There's a badge for running all 16 of the Patron story arcs in Grandville, a monumentous task that involves handing Recluse his ass four times, Dr. Aeon at least four times, and each Patron and their lieutenants once, along with Numina, Seraphina, a Black Scorpion wannabe, and some no-name hero.  At that point I feel as though you should be granted access to a special summon on a 12 hour cooldown to demonstrate that you've asserted total dominance over Arachnos and their flunkies, one that calls Recluse and his Patrons all at once to fight your battles for you.

 

Edited April 7, 2022 by ZorkNemesis

[Shred Monkey]

I think It'd be interesting if for every 150 badges you collect, you get a permanent 2% global damage boost and 1% global resist buff.   Max would be about 20% damage and 10% resists.  Maybe the last one adds a small team buff just for the cherry on top.  Nice enough that a lot of us would be pursuing content we normally skip for a month or 2 after hitting level 50, but not game breaking in power.  

[Techwright]

On 4/7/2022 at 7:10 AM, ZorkNemesis said:

There's a badge for running all 16 of the Patron story arcs in Grandville, a monumentous task that involves handing Recluse his ass four times, Dr. Aeon at least four times, and each Patron and their lieutenants once, along with Numina, Seraphina, a Black Scorpion wannabe, and some no-name hero.  At that point I feel as though you should be granted access to a special summon on a 12 hour cooldown to demonstrate that you've asserted total dominance over Arachnos and their flunkies, one that calls Recluse and his Patrons all at once to fight your battles for you.

 

Would you settle for Recluse and the Patrons (totally a 60s band) summoned to lick your boots every 12 hours?

[Yomo Kimyata]

31 minutes ago, Techwright said:

Would you settle for Recluse and the Patrons (totally a 60s band) summoned to lick your boots every 12 hours?

 

That's what I was thinking too.  Like a vanity pet that follows you around kowtowing for a minute or two so you can brag to your teammates.

[Greycat]

Honestly... I'd rather not see power boosts and such.

Utilities? Sure. Get all the various PVP zone (not necessarily PVP defeat, but explore/event/etc.) badges, get a permanent or recurring bypass/code for BB (shivan shard) or Warburg (one of the nuke codes,) for instance.

[Icono04]

9 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

That's what I was thinking too.  Like a vanity pet that follows you around kowtowing for a minute or two so you can brag to your teammates.

+1 to this. Except that we shouldn't have to do our own bragging, we should have Recluse to that for us.

I.e. summon vanity-pet-Recluse and/or the Patrons and have them bow down to us in public and say in /local something to  the effect of "I am humbled and I acknowledge the supremacy of $character. All hail @character, morituri te salutamus."

[Shred Monkey]

2 hours ago, Icono04 said:

+1 to this. Except that we shouldn't have to do our own bragging, we should have Recluse to that for us.

 

I like where you're going with this, but Auroa Borealis saying nice things to me would be better in so many ways.

[Aracknight]

Hmm.  

 

Defeat or gladiator badges could earn you summonable pets outside the arena.

 

Exploration badges could give speed bonuses.

 

Healing badges a bonus to healing, damage badges a bonus do damage,  damage taken a bonus to resistance,  time mezzed a bonus to mez resistance.

 

 

These could all be very small bonuses that could ignore ED like the Alpha slot does.

 

Might be something to this.

[Techwright]

On 6/9/2022 at 3:56 PM, Aracknight said:

Hmm.  

 

Defeat or gladiator badges could earn you summonable pets outside the arena.

 

I choose you Hordling Lasher!

 

Purely pet battles.  You know you want to.  😉