Event badge annoyances

[Spectre7878]

I love trying to get the Halloween badges but the zombie apocalypse and deadly apocalypse are just so annoying. Usually a tot league does doors but they also do monster hunt and bit apocalypse. Lately all players do is plop their butts at the motel and that’s it. It’s next to impossible to get the deadly apocalypse done with out everyone helping. I can’t get the banners completed. So it’s just aggravating to have badges you can’t just get yourself. 
 

sorry for the rant. Just annoyed with the process on the banners event. 

[Ukase]

Anecdotally, I have learned to do these badges within the first 48 hours, or it's unlikely to get done - unless you have some solid relationships in game with a lot of people. Certain SG leaders can just recruit for something, and fill a league within minutes. Whereas someone who doesn't routinely lead would never come close to filling the league. It's just the way things go sometimes. 

If you have an SG, you might ask your fellow members. If not, during the evening time for most of the US, like 7pm-10pm Central would probably be the best time to try and get something going. 

Also, some ToT league leaders are pretty good at getting the banners done. I'm not even sure who it was, but I got it done on 4 characters or so, and I wasn't even looking to get it done on more than one. Each time, I was doing the ToT league thing. 

[lemming]

Trying to get the Deadly Apocalypse done in PI (at least on Everlasting) is a bit of a struggle now.   My suggestion is to watch for it in another zone and recruit a couple teams for it.

 

Monster hunting: If you get someone to be an anchor, most leagues will go with it.  6 Reward merits every 2 minutes is a decent incentive.  People just hate being away from doors if they have to travel.

 

Zombies, it's been weird, but those badges can be gotten throughout the year, you just have to finish a Katie Hannon, and one will pop up.

[WumpusRat]

Yeah, trying to get it done in PI is pretty much a lost cause most of the time. Nobody wants to leave the hotel-farm.

 

Last year I got a bunch of them done because someone was organizing them in other zones when they'd pop up, and we'd all swoop in and start working on them.

 

A large part of it also is that the halloween event is still in the first couple weeks, so everyone's trying to farm up. Once a lot more people get their farming done I'm sure they'll start looking at the other events for it, same with the haunted house mission, etc.

[Digirium]

Uhm. Relying on the PI ToT Motel or KW leagues to get DA or ZA badges is not good strategy.

 

A better one is to watch event notifications waiting for a good zone to come up and run the DA or ZA event yourself. Both can be done with a minimum of 7-8 players. Pop a message in LFG and players will come (neither connections or a SG are necessary). For ZA, 7-8 players all in one place are needed for the EBs to spawn. This DIY strategy makes more sense because there are many more opportunities than only PI/KW.

 

The only annoying badge for me is Ostentatious. By the 30-40th costume, the Whispered Rumor set is usually complete dragging it out to the 50th is pain usually with a whole lot of Hamidon Halloween Costumes thrown my way just to taunt me! If only they counted.

 

 

 

Edited October 13 by Digirium

[lemming]

6 hours ago, Digirium said:

The only annoying badge for me is Ostentatious. By the 30-40th costume, the Whispered Rumor set is usually complete dragging it out to the 50th is pain usually with a whole lot of Hamidon Halloween Costumes thrown my way just to taunt me! If only they counted.

I found doing House of Horror isn't bad for a quick 1-5 costumes for the badge.

[Snarky]

22 hours ago, Spectre7878 said:

I love trying to get the Halloween badges but the zombie apocalypse and deadly apocalypse are just so annoying. Usually a tot league does doors but they also do monster hunt and bit apocalypse. Lately all players do is plop their butts at the motel and that’s it. It’s next to impossible to get the deadly apocalypse done with out everyone helping. I can’t get the banners completed. So it’s just aggravating to have badges you can’t just get yourself. 
 

sorry for the rant. Just annoyed with the process on the banners event. 

Yeah. I miss Cosmic Council Really Hard Way runs.  Guaranteed easy badge. Now?  Fughedaboutit 

[Jacke]

8 hours ago, Snarky said:

Yeah. I miss Cosmic Council Really Hard Way runs.  Guaranteed easy badge. Now?  Fughedaboutit 

 

Which Badge is that, Snarky?

[Ironblade]

8 hours ago, Snarky said:

Yeah. I miss Cosmic Council Really Hard Way runs.

 

9 minutes ago, Jacke said:

Which Badge is that, Snarky?

 

um....  "Really Hard Way"

[High_Beam]

Yeah PI and KW are you best opportunities to catch the Deadly Apocalypse Banners in large part because there a metric butt ton of players there.  I caught one in Talos last year and a King's Row this year but it was in part because a ZOMPOC happened so there was a crowd already there.  I don't worry about the ZOMPOC badges cause those happen when it isn't Halloween as well.

 

Thus I focus on banners, Kaine and Tips.  I wish you nothing but good luck in the future though.

[Snarky]

14 minutes ago, Jacke said:

 

Which Badge is that, Snarky?

there is a badge for defeating Emp Cole while killing no lights in the last battle.  the standard cosmic way was with a full league loaded with incarnate inspirations.  we loaded in popped an ultimate, hit hybris, summoned lores, buffed and ate insp.  the tank grabbed the boss and it was usually over in less than two minutes.  Really Hard Way badge.

 

 

[Ukase]

On 10/12/2024 at 6:02 PM, lemming said:

Zombies

A little story which might shed some light how easy the zombie badges are to get. 
As we are likely aware, Adamastor is capable of being summoned 1 hour after his last defeat. 

I zone in with my ice/dark corruptor. Adamastor can be summoned - but for whatever reason, it hasn't been done yet. I saw the call out in lfg, so quickly logged in my corruptor who is already at the platform. 

I summon my lore pets, figuring they will summon Adamastor within a couple of minutes. And, the Zombie event begins. 
I did absolutely nothing but put my lore pets to aggressive. 

I got all the badges in less than a couple of minutes. Doing nothing but waiting to clobber Adamastor. My lore pets did all the work for that. I didn't even have anything targeted. 

It probably helped there were more than a half dozen folks waiting on the platform for Adamastor. Pretty sure I don't see those kinds of numbers when I'm solo and nobody else is around. 

[Jacke]

On 10/14/2024 at 2:18 AM, Snarky said:

there is a badge for defeating Emp Cole while killing no lights in the last battle.  the standard cosmic way was with a full league loaded with incarnate inspirations.  we loaded in popped an ultimate, hit hybris, summoned lores, buffed and ate insp.  the tank grabbed the boss and it was usually over in less than two minutes.  Really Hard Way badge.

 

Oh, "The Really Hard Way" Badge.  I have that on my main Badger.

 

How is that associated with Events?  And what was changed that made that more difficult?

[Snarky]

4 hours ago, Jacke said:

 

Oh, "The Really Hard Way" Badge.  I have that on my main Badger.

 

How is that associated with Events?  And what was changed that made that more difficult?

it was a general lament related to badging not the event

 

Cosmic Council ran this (and a few random i trials) every Saturday night.  for years.  now,....no

[UltraAlt]

On 10/12/2024 at 2:55 PM, Spectre7878 said:

sorry for the rant. Just annoyed with the process on the banners event. 

 

Some leagues are really good about doing the banner events, hunting the giant monsters, and doing the Zombie Apocalypse.

But I have been on plenty that just sit at Motel 666. 

I think you will be more likely to get the banner events and the Zombie Apocalypse done on Everlasting or Excelsior during prime time. 

[Jiro Ito]

leading a ToT league is the most unrewarding form of PvP 

[GM Crumpet]

On 10/15/2024 at 3:25 AM, Ukase said:

A little story which might shed some light how easy the zombie badges are to get. 
As we are likely aware, Adamastor is capable of being summoned 1 hour after his last defeat. 

I zone in with my ice/dark corruptor. Adamastor can be summoned - but for whatever reason, it hasn't been done yet. I saw the call out in lfg, so quickly logged in my corruptor who is already at the platform. 

I summon my lore pets, figuring they will summon Adamastor within a couple of minutes. And, the Zombie event begins. 
I did absolutely nothing but put my lore pets to aggressive. 

I got all the badges in less than a couple of minutes. Doing nothing but waiting to clobber Adamastor. My lore pets did all the work for that. I didn't even have anything targeted. 

It probably helped there were more than a half dozen folks waiting on the platform for Adamastor. Pretty sure I don't see those kinds of numbers when I'm solo and nobody else is around. 

people still hang around to farm Adamastor? Do they know you only get rewards for him every 18 hours?

[Ukase]

5 hours ago, GM Crumpet said:

people still hang around to farm Adamastor?

For reasons that I'm unaware of the rewards for Adamastor are almost 3x of other named GMs, aside from Lusca. It's a small thing to have a number of alts parked on that platform, and log in - and if Adamastor is due to be summoned within a few minutes, great. If not, one can either make a note and log back in, port to the sg base to prevent auto-logging off, and then exit at the right time. 

Or, like me, often get totally distracted and miss out on Adamastor until the next day. 

Now, they don't camp their characters there 24/7, but they do log in on that platform and are generally ready to go. 

Sometimes, the platform has more than just a few at 5 minutes out, and sometimes, it's empty and a PSA call has to be put out on lfg to get the bodies there to assist if they'd like. 

Does that shed more light? 

If I have 30 alts, 10 on each account and were actually motivated to max out merits, I could conceivably bring on one from each account and get my hits in on Adamastor and collect the rewards on 3 characters, just about every waking hour. But, seriously, that's really not very fun. At least, it's not my idea of fun. I much prefer the labyrinth and Hamidon if I want reward merits and monstrous aethers. 

But I do have a number of alts parked on the platform, mainly because it's on the far side of the entrance and is a pain to get to. Sometimes, the PSA for Adam goes out, and I don't notice it until there are 2 minutes left until summon - so that's when I log in the alt that hasn't done it in a day.