Spectral Pirates spawning from Treasure Chests do not count for Pirate badge

[Hedgefund]

Subject heading really sums it up.  I have a character who doesn't have the Pirate badge.  The enemies that spawn from Treasure Chests in the current special event are in the faction "Spectral Pirates".  However whenever I defeat any of these, no progress is made on the Pirate badge for defeating Spectral Pirates.  

 

To pre-emptively head off this question - no, I'm not talking about the Spectral badge, for trapping, but Pirate, for simply defeating.

[srmalloy]

I think this was deliberate due to the surprise nature of the event, so that people who couldn't log in to the game during the event wouldn't get shut out of badges without knowing that it would occur — with there being no badge for defeating Bladehook as another example. Next year, when people know about it in advance, we'll likely see a badge for Bladehook as well as the chest spawns counting for the Pirate badge. 

[macskull]

According to some dev comments, this event was kind of slapped together really quickly to get it out to the live servers before International Talk Like A Pirate Day so they just re-used some default mobs. Future events will be a bit broader and will have their own event-specific variant of the mobs.

[Jacke]

For Badging purposes, I go to Fort Hades in NE Port Oakes to not only get the Pirate Badge but also the Spectral Badge.  They're both for 100 Pirates defeated, but to count for the Spectral Badge, the Spectral Pirate needs to be defeated near one of the Arachnos Spectral Traps to count.  Have to use a weak ranged Power (Origin Power is good for this) and lure them over to one of the Traps and defeat it.  That then counts towards progress on both Badges.  Have to watch out because you often get other Spectral Pirates appearing when you're trapping.  Including Levelless Bosses who can be tough to put down.

 

Ran my main Badging Toon through these while Exemplared down to L15 (via an Arc in my SG Base Pillar of Ice and Flame).  New Spectral Pirates only show up when dark (so after the Hour and Half-Hour times on the clock).  Got defeated a few times when mobbed by more Spectral Pirates appearing.

[Rudra]

2 minutes ago, Jacke said:

For Badging purposes, I go to Fort Hades in NE Port Oakes to not only get the Pirate Badge but also the Spectral Badge.  They're both for 100 Pirates defeated, but to count for the Spectral Badge, the Spectral Pirate needs to be defeated near one of the Arachnos Spectral Traps to count.  Have to use a weak ranged Power (Origin Power is good for this) and lure them over to one of the Traps and defeat it.  That then counts towards progress on both Badges.  Have to watch out because you often get other Spectral Pirates appearing when you're trapping.  Including Levelless Bosses who can be tough to put down.

If you use the same trap, you can spawn more Spectral Pirates by overloading the trap. Defeat those at the trap too and they also count towards both badges. (Also, if you can squeeze in a taunt, even if only on an alternate build, then you can safely pull the pirates to the trap. I've defeated a lot by accident even using the Origin power.)