Accolade Guide: 4 Passive Bonuses

[Wavicle]

They were meant to be rewards for having quite fully explored the content.

 

Click plaques, find badges, do Arcs and TFs, you'll get them, mostly.

[victusfate]

On 10/5/2024 at 8:47 AM, Triumphant said:

 

They're pretty strong permanent buffs to your character.  They're meant to be difficult to get, with the player having to strive to complete each requirement (meaning that playing organically is not likely to get it done.  You need to know what each requirment is and then grind away at those tasks until you succeed to achieve the accolade.  They aren't meant to be gained through casual play).

I'd understand if I couldn't get everything else via casual play (complete IO sets, uniques, incarnates).

 

Earning accolades feels like a holdover from the original game design.

[Triumphant]

5 hours ago, victusfate said:

I'd understand if I couldn't get everything else via casual play (complete IO sets, uniques, incarnates).

 

Earning accolades feels like a holdover from the original game design.

 

I can see how you'd feel that way.  Having said that, they aren't necessary to enjoy the game.  I have several T3 incarnates that can run +4/8 content and the only accolade they have is the long range teleport power (which you can just buy outright from the start vendor).  I wouldn't get too knotted-up about it, if I were you.  The powers are handy, but they arent THAT great.

[Frozen Burn]

On 10/5/2024 at 4:45 AM, victusfate said:

I've been playing off and on since live and only got a single accolade on one character (thanks to a generous in game guide helping us all get one).

 

Why is it so awkward playing the game and achieving these organically?

 

It is never awkward to achieve these organically depending on how you play - heroside, that is - villainside it is not organic at all.  But still, every single one of my characters get all 4 - even villains (they may switch to rogue and do hero content to get most or all of them and then switch back to Vill).

 

So, speaking of heroside only....

 

Typically, the only out of the ordinary things you need to do is collect explores and history plaques.  But even that can be organic as you run around the city and zones as you go from mission to mission or just explore.  Some of the defeat badges, you may have to go out of your way to finish them up, but there is also content you can do to get them easily - just work it into the content you're doing.

 

Outside of explores and plaques, just work into your play....

• For Atlas Medallion
  • Do a Moonfire TF with 8 people or set to x8 (you'll get most, if not all, of your wolves and vamps for the defeat badges - any remaining ones can be easily hunted right there in Striga).
  • Rescue the Fortune Teller (through Ouro, if you did not do the content naturally leveling up through Steel Canyon) - easy to solo and you'll get the mission badge
• For Task Force Commander
  • Easiest to get organically out of all of them - just run the first 6 TFs hero-side... Posi through Numi.
  • (This is actually easiest to get Villainside with a lvl 50 who can access all the Mayhem Missions from a single contact - just collect the explores in them and you get the accolade (usually within 15-20 mins).  While quicker, you don't get all the juicy reward merits, xp, and inf like you do from running TFs - it's even better when those TFs are the WST!)
• For Freedom Phalanx
  • If you did TF Commander, you'll probably already have the defeat badge for Clockwork Gears and Freakshow Tanks - easily hunted for any few missing
  • Getting the Fake Nem Badge can be easily gotten organically through lvl 40+ nemesis content (Fake Nems do not spawn lower than lvl 40)
    • Maxwell Christopher arc
    • Dr Q TF
    • Last arc in Pandora's Box signature series (contact is the Jaeger in Steel Canyon) - most will farm the first mission (27-33 per run, so 3-4 times is needed).  If you run the arc, you'll get most of them and only need to run the first mish again, or get the Fakes through other means
    • (There are lots of Fakes hanging out in the Shadow Shard zones and you can most easily hunt them there - but street sweeping isn't organic - but listing here anyway just for reference)
• Portal Jockey
  • If you run content from Tina MacIntyre and Maria Jenkins, you'll get the badges and accolade.
    • Tina Mac has:
      • 3 of the needed Praet AV defeats:  Anti-Matter, Synapse, Marauder
      • Mission for the Multidimensional Explore badge (can also be gotten through Ouro)
    • Maria Jenkins has:
      • All of Praet AVs except Anti-Matter
      • Mission for the Shrouded explore badge (can also be gotten through Ouro)
  • You can also get all the Praet AVs by running all the Incarnate Trials - and then you'd just need the explore badge missions through Ouro (as noted above)

Work this content into your heroside play, and you'll easily get your 4 passives.  🙂  

 

 

Edited October 7 by Frozen Burn

[Frozen Burn]

(When I went to save my post above, nothing happened.  So I clicked "Save" a few times.  Still nothing happened.  I copied my text, and refreshed the screen, and redid my post and it saved right away.  But now, there are like 4 duplicate posts!  Ugh.  Unfortunately, there is no "Delete" so I clicked "Hide" on the others, but I do not know if that just hides it for me or for everyone.  I hope they are hidden from all so you all don't see 4 long posts.  Sorry, if you do.)  😕  

[lemming]

The Accolades are handy, but as others said, not strictly necessary.

I have a checklist that I run on characters after a point to get the various accolades and usually it's just finishing up some exploration and history badges.  Though the Mark & Recall power accolade is handy enough, I'm tossing it onto the "Would be nice to have" list.

 

I think the only defeat badge that takes extra effort is the Fake Nemesis one and depending on what I've run, easy enough to knock out with a heldenjaeger run.