Badge Tips Thread

DBones

In light of the upcoming free badge swap, I thought it might be a good idea to start a thread where we can share tips for the most effective ways to badge our survivors. I’ll start her off by suggesting that %Dmg badges should go with survivors who have high base damage (scouts, shooters), whereas +Dmg should go with survivors who have low base damage. The same thinking goes for %Health versus +Health (ex., % on bruisers, assaults and + on scouts).

Let’s try to get as many helpful tips as we can in here so we can really maximize our badge usage!

bladgier

I think most general and simple tip to follow is to enhance every single class type with their strengths.

Like damage and critical damage for shooters/scouts
Or health and dmg reduction for bruisers.

DLich

If you are looking to un-equip all of your badges and then re-equip them and it seems like a daunting task... I recommend just focus on organizing your legendary, epic and rare badges. For many of us over half our badges are common/uncommon.

It will give you some peace only organizing 1/2 your badges. Figure out where you want to put them on your team (obvi that you want to match up sets).

Then simply use uncommon / common to fill in any gaps.

HuttSlayer23

Thanks for this thread! I have started planning to remove all badges and redo them all this weekend. Right now, I have Abe (who is my challenge leader), Rosita (outpost leader), Daryl, Carol and Tara equipped with my best badges, and it has worked, but Now that Sasha is legendary, I want to hook her up! My question is, who should I focus the best badges on, Abe or Sasha to be my A team leader? A different suggestion? By the end of the weekend, my main survivors should be upgraded to level 21. I also have a 7* hunter I want to equip well. Would he be better to hook up than Daryl? All suggestions are welcome and appreciated.

WellyLuga

@HuttSlayer23
Sasha > Abe (assuming you play the distance heavily and regularly push to +5 level above your survivors)
Cody > Daryl

jrodrf2

> @HuttSlayer23 said:
> Thanks for this thread! I have started planning to remove all badges and redo them all this weekend. Right now, I have Abe (who is my challenge leader), Rosita (outpost leader), Daryl, Carol and Tara equipped with my best badges, and it has worked, but Now that Sasha is legendary, I want to hook her up! My question is, who should I focus the best badges on, Abe or Sasha to be my A team leader? A different suggestion? By the end of the weekend, my main survivors should be upgraded to level 21. I also have a 7* hunter I want to equip well. Would he be better to hook up than Daryl? All suggestions are welcome and appreciated.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there something someone said about "badges don't work in Outpost defense?" If so, I would probably strip Rosita...

HuttSlayer23

Thank you! I always play the distance. I can complete it on normal mode easily, but on hard mode, I usually make it 11 maps, before I am done. Those Aaron tokens stay just out of reach, lol.

WeekOne

@Governator I think you had created a wonderful spreadsheet?... if so, would you mind sharing the link again? Maybe you tweaked your sheet or something.

I missed the last free swap event and have a lot of re-organizing to do this weekend.

If it wasn’t you.... I need to find who! I haven’t been able to find the post/thread this morning.

EDIT: found it!

HuttSlayer23

@jrodrf2 , that’s a great question! I’d like to know too. I run a lot of challenges with 2 assaults, and as of now she’s better than the rest of my line up. If they don’t work in the outpost though, i May have to rethink that.

WellyLuga

True that badges don't work in outpost but I also use my outpost defenders in the distance so I at least badge them up for that

WeekOne

Found the link I was looking for:
Badge Strategies thread of January 2018

Have fun folks!

The_Jer

I would definitely make Sasha your top hunter, and leader for challenges once body shots become frequent. Properly badged she is awesome. Level/stars are not the same as yours, but with this badge/weapon/armor setup a regular crit shot is 15-18k, and a charged crit is 22-25K, and can take a hit from +3/4 without bruising. Still looking for a higher level armor with the same traits, and gold destructive on the weapon is a big help

DBones

Thanks for the link to the old thread, @WeekOne. I wasn't even thinking about looking for old threads. @Mods, any way we can merge the two threads? @MadPuppy @zbot @David_H79 @Kaz

Boukephalos

WellyLuga said:

True that badges don't work in outpost but I also use my outpost defenders in the distance so I at least badge them up for that

True that badges don't work in outposts for defenders. They do work for attackers.