Suggestion for new Defeat badge

[srmalloy]

They're annoying, and they're randomly scattered across a number of zones -- Crey's Folly, Founder's Falls, Peregrine Island, Echo: Rikti Crash Site, and Rikti War Zone -- a sniper can just take exception to your continued existence and light you up for the temerity of daring to share the same neighborhood as them.

 

I'd like to throw out for comment a proposal to create a new defeat badge, perhaps titled "Counter-Sniper" or "Spotter" or the like, for defeating 100 or 200 of the mobs tagged as snipers -- the thirteen different Comet and Tirailleur mobs belonging to Nemesis, Crey Special Agent Sharpshooters, Council Penumbra Elite Sharpshooters, 5th Column Nacht Elite Sharpshooters, and Freakshow Juicer Snipers.

[Ukase]

Being selfless, it sounds fine to me. 

But being self-absorbed, as I am prone to be, I really don't want to hunt these down to get another badge. It's kind of meaningless, like 1600 or so of the current badges are. 

[srmalloy]

5 hours ago, Ukase said:

It's kind of meaningless, like 1600 or so of the current badges are. 

Yes, and?

 

Some of the defeat badges you generally go out and street-sweep to get done and over with -- the Skulls, Skull bosses, and Hellion bosses are examples. Others are 'incidental' acquisitions, that you pick up in the process of getting other badges, where you're clearing spawns while you're getting badges, like the one for CoT mages, and you get the one for Hordelings as a side benefit.

[lemming]

Whacking snipers is everyone's duty.   I want a counter that shows how many we've popped so a badge would help with that.  Since iirc, badges count these items even after you get them. 😉

[Ukase]

7 minutes ago, lemming said:

Since iirc, badges count these items even after you get them. 😉

If they're retroactive, full steam ahead. 

I'm very outside the norm, I'm sure. I feel like my "badger" is done. Retired. But for one to have all the badges, one needs to keep playing it every so often. And that makes me think I'm doing it wrong. 
 

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Off topic, no sense polluting the discussion. Had a chat with someone who felt like sitting in a fire in mercy or spamming rebirth in mercy in pursuit of badges was...well, cheap, and outside the scope of what that badge really means. 

They have a point. 
 

 

[lemming]

18 minutes ago, Ukase said:

If they're retroactive, full steam ahead. 

I'm very outside the norm, I'm sure. I feel like my "badger" is done. Retired. But for one to have all the badges, one needs to keep playing it every so often. And that makes me think I'm doing it wrong. 
 

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Off topic, no sense polluting the discussion. Had a chat with someone who felt like sitting in a fire in mercy or spamming rebirth in mercy in pursuit of badges was...well, cheap, and outside the scope of what that badge really means. 

They have a point. 
 

 

Unfortunately, badge counts can't be retroactive since they don't track them before they exist.

 

Yea, my char with all the badges only comes out now for new stuff, so only gets played a bit after a release, then back in the box.

[MsSmart]

As few as they are, and difficult to find, doing 100 of them or more seems simply abusive, I am thinking for instance the much hated 100 Fake Nemesis badge for instance  and the Fakes are not hidden, just very scarce and not nearly as scarce as the so called sniper.

 

I would be ok with the badge, say if you defeat 10 snipers in any of their spawning zoned, I only knew of the PI one and had never experienced them in other zones but there is something to be learned about this game every day.

[Six-Six]

I don't think they're that hard to find. There are 2 missions from Technician Naylor alone that would get that badge done in 20 minutes without going out of your way to look for them.

So, I propose raising the limit to 500 snipers. If it was easy, then it doesn't deserve a badge.

[lemming]

There are also more of them in Kallisti now