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Originally Posted by Tranquility  Sorry for being a little picky, but wasn't it City of Heroes with the Zookeeper badge that you had to kill 10-billion of those alien monkeys? Thank god for my fire-ice tank. |
Badges are completely optional, though, and you have to get a full set of badges to get any buffs worth talking about.
I've had dozens of Heroes & Villains and I think exactly 2 ever worried about badges at all, and then not much. It's just not important to your character's viability at higher levels. Especially now that you can craft your own enhancements - some of those are really sweet.