Healing badge for non-healers

[Jawbreaker]

How do you go about unlocking the healing badges on, say, melee characters? Is Aid Other the best option?

[Astralock]

There's Aid Other, certainly.  But, even better is the tier 4 Rebirth Core Destiny.  Go start a level 50 Ouroboros Flashback story arc, go to Mercy Island near Kalinda, find the large group of Arachnos troops, and put that Rebirth Core Destiny on auto.  Go AFK for about fifteen hours.  Profit.

 

Note that it has to be Rebirth Core.  Rebirth Radial won't do it.

Edited March 14, 2023 by Astralock

[Jawbreaker]

35 minutes ago, Astralock said:

There's Aid Other, certainly.  But, even better is the tier 4 Rebirth Core Destiny.  Go start a level 50 Ouroboros Flashback story arc, go to Mercy Island near Kalinda, find the large group of Arachnos troops, and put that Rebirth Core Destiny on auto.  Go AFK for about fifteen hours.  Profit.

 

Note that it has to be Rebirth Core.  Rebirth Radial won't do it.

Oh well that sounds easy enough. Thank you

[Ironblade]

There is another method that I prefer because there is frequently someone already healing the troops by Kalinda.

 

Gladiator 'heal farms' are done on an instanced map.  Unfortunately, you either need two accounts or someone willing to help.  If you can find someone else who also wants those badges, you're good to go.  I ran overnight heal farms back on live (when the requirement was 1 billion HP healed) and would sometimes have more than a full team of people show up.

 

You need the Longbow Defender gladiator which, if I recall correctly, is earned for 50 PvP rep.  If you're going for all the badges, you'll need that anyway.

You start a gladiator match in the Arena with the Longbow Defender and a bunch of low-cost spuds and set them to defensive so they spam the heal.

Since you can't have an Arena match without an opponent, you need another player or a second account.

[Jiro Ito]

I thought the Longbow Warden gladiator was nerfed for badge credit?

 

I used Rebirth at Hami Raids and MSRs (which you also need to do for badges) and got the healing badges very quickly.

[Ironblade]

1 hour ago, Jiro Ito said:

I thought the Longbow Warden gladiator was nerfed for badge credit?

Not unless it happened fairly recently.  I got the healing badges last year (maybe in the 3rd quarter - not really sure).

[Burk]

On 3/14/2023 at 11:51 AM, Ironblade said:

There is another method that I prefer because there is frequently someone already healing the troops by Kalinda.

 

Multiple toons farming healing in Mercy Island is not a problem, but a benefit. For some reason it boosts the heal credit you get if the soldiers are already affected by a Rebirth Core. When farming it on all of my toons, I actually brought in multiple accounts specifically to boost my main account's credit. Having multiple players only becomes a problem if the first person to arrive doesn't first reset the area until they get all 6 spawns and instead settles on inefficiently farming 2-3 spawns.

[Ironblade]

Interesting.  That's the opposite of what I would have expected.  I wonder how many people can be doing it before it starts to be ineffective.

[Rexer]

On 3/14/2023 at 10:38 AM, Astralock said:

There's Aid Other, certainly.  But, even better is the tier 4 Rebirth Core Destiny.  Go start a level 50 Ouroboros Flashback story arc, go to Mercy Island near Kalinda, find the large group of Arachnos troops, and put that Rebirth Core Destiny on auto.  Go AFK for about fifteen hours.  Profit.

 

Note that it has to be Rebirth Core.  Rebirth Radial won't do it.

It looks like they deactivated the large formation of Arachnos soldiers by Kalinda.  You can find a group of 6 soldiers and get 2 more if another group is near by.  Unless I'm missing something.  Just takes a might bit longer.

 

I stand corrected.  The groups of Arachnos are by the S.T.A.R.T. Vendor now.

 

Edited December 3 by Rexer

[Glacier Peak]

12 minutes ago, Rexer said:

It looks like they deactivated the large formation of Arachnos soldiers by Kalinda.  You can find a group of 6 soldiers and get 2 more if another group is near by.  Unless I'm missing something.  Just takes a might bit longer.

The group formation size changes frequently. Sometimes moving away far enough then back changes the size of the group formation, other times zoning and coming back or logging in and out changes it too. 

[Rexer]

For those that have not done this, you are looking for groups that are marching in place.