Discussion of Farming Strategy for all Ribbons & Medals in SGL

Since it’s been over three years since I started playing this game, it’s been a challenge to set different goals to keep me interested.  I’ve already exhausted the option of creating a new account to have that feeling of having lots of different things to do since I am on my sixth account that I’ve leveled to 27.  I originally started this latest account in September of 2020 to see how different my setup would be from my first account.  In the process, I ended up diving even deeper into PvE than I ever have and experimenting with different builds and skills simply to challenge the opinions that I had been so resistant to change for so very long given how much I’ve analyzed and played this game.  Some of those opinions were reaffirmed while others were changed significantly.  Before I turn this into another rambling post, I’ll just mention a few important lessons I’ve learned.

1.      There is little to no validity to the claim that the game gives newer/lower fame players better chance at higher quality loot.  The older players are tempted into holding the opinion that they are getting screwed because if you think about it, the more you play the game, the more likely it is that you have collected very powerful items.  Therefore, even if you manage to drop another version of any particular item, the chances get smaller and smaller over time that the new version will be of a higher quality.  This isn’t the game being rigged; it’s just an intrinsic characteristic of a loot-based game.

2.      The Damage per Second (“DPS”) statistic is the most generic indicator of weapon power, but it is NOT the most important statistic for weapon selection.  Looking at weapons based on their Time to Kill (“TTK”) will show you that there is much more variety in available weapons to choose for PvE than simply selecting your weapon based on DPS.

3.      Even though there are certain weapons and skill builds that become the meta because they are so versatile and powerful, there is an immense amount of variety in viable strategies that can be utilized in the game, more so in PvE than PvP, but there is still more variety in PvP than most people would think.  That being said, I often revisit the skill build decision tree that I created some months ago, and perhaps the only thing I don’t agree with at this point is the inclusion of the 7A-12C-1S build among the 13 builds I recommend even though I did just suggest it for having fun.  If you want to design your own high damage build for PvE, it MUST have at least 6 points in Agility and 8 points in Combat. If you want to have an effective build for PvP, it MUST have at least 9 points in Agility and 2 points in Survival. If you just want an easy build that works in PvE and PvP and don’t have to challenge yourself very much at all in developing new tactics or play styles, just go with 12A-0C-8S.

4.      Your enjoyment of this game is limited more by your mindset than by any other reason. Experiment.  Learn.  Set different goals.  Try a new play style.  Try a new build.  Try a new weapon.  Don’t just get stuck in looking at PvE as only a grind fest for better gear.  Don’t just get stuck in looking at PvP as requiring you to play 12A-0C-8S or 9A-3C-8S with one set of weapons and two or three different skills.

I’ll step off my soapbox now and get to the point of this article.  One of the goals that I set was to obtain all the medals in the game.  It did take me a while to complete it, but I did learn a lot more about the game and about the variety that exists in this journey.  I will list out and discuss each of the 65 ribbons in the game as well as suggestions for how to obtain these in the easiest way possible.  As a TLDR takeaway, I will say that Hunter Mines were slightly more fun than I thought they would be, Rocket Man has become one of my most hated skills, Berserker has become one of my favorites (mostly for fun), and the Headhunter ribbon (5 consecutive headshot kills in a single PvP match) definitely gets my vote for the hardest to farm.  I will offer my suggestion on the best way to farm each ribbon, but a common theme that you’ll see is that Brothers of Fire, Arena Bronze, and Arena Silver are the best places for the specific purpose of farming all of the ribbons in the game.  This is because these places have specific spawn points where a lot of very weak enemies show up.  This allows you to rack up the kills you need with weapons and skills easily.  While I detest rocket launchers anywhere outside of Brothers of Fire and Arena Bronze, it is a very good weapon choice to get your kill count high while you are using skills to farm different ribbons.  If you just want to have fun and let the chips fall where they may, I highly encourage that approach as well.

I’ve organized the ribbons into four categories since the order in which they show up on the Medals screen is a bit jumbled.  There are ribbons that are earned in PvE Wargames (Dungeons & Arenas), PvP Wargames (Duels & Team PvP), through Skills & Kills (reaching a specific number of kills with a particular weapon type or skill), and Play Time & Other (Hub and Mission related activity).  Let’s dive in.

**PvE Wargames**

**Naked Gun Ribbon (Hidden)**

Requirement: Get 30 kills with no armor equipped and only using a pistol

# of Ribbons per Medal: 50

Fame per Ribbon: 150

Fame per Medal: 1,900

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: 6A-8C-6S or 8A-6C-6S

Suggested Farming Location: Arena Bronze or Brothers of Fire

Maze’s musings: Before I begin, I should give a shoutout to the players that helped me finish out my medal farming with these naked pistol PvE ribbons. NinjaLux, Flowreal, and -Olaf\_ were instrumental in my finishing this journey, and I can't thank them enough for their assistance. You will pick these ribbons up pretty easily if you get a squad together to try the Naked Dungeon and Naked Arena runs, but the key to making this one super easy to farm is using the 6A-8C-6S build.  When you also buff with the projectile resistance buff from the Bar of War, then you’ll have a total of 15% Melee Resist, 25% Explosion Resist, and 15% Projectile Resistance, which more than compensates for the missing armor. Once that buff is gone, you’ll definitely feel a little squishy.  There are some quirks with these naked pistol ribbons that took some trial and error to figure out, but here they are.  Any skills that do direct damage to the enemy will invalidate your efforts, so you cannot use Stunner, Sentry Gun, Rocket Man, Frag Grenades, AM Bomb, Melee Berserker, or Hunter Mines.  You can use Blink, Supercharger, Deflector Skin, Survival Kit, EMP, Emergency Shield, and Invisibility Tech.  The only other thing to watch out for is those red exploding barrels.  If you shoot one of these barrels and it damages or kills an enemy, then you will also invalidate your efforts.  There’s only really one barrel to watch out for in Brothers of Fire, but if you are going into Arena Bronze, make sure to destroy all the barrels before round 1 starts.  Cosmetic items should be ok to use, but most people take all cosmetics, armor, tombstones, and the premium ring off just to be safe.

**Naked Gun 2.0 Ribbon (Hidden)**

Requirement: As a squad, clear a dungeon.  No armor equipped.  Only pistols

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 320

Fame per Medal: 1,900

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: 6A-8C-6S

Suggested Farming Location: Brothers of Fire

Maze’s musings: See my discussion on the Naked Gun Ribbon for details on strategy here.  It took an average of 5 minutes per run for my squad to clear through Brothers of Fire.  Just be careful not to damage the grunt in the portal room on the far left with the barrel that is close to it.

**Naked Gun 2.5 Ribbon (Hidden)**

Requirement: As a squad, clear the arena.  No armor equipped.  Only pistols.

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 312

Fame per Medal: 1,900

Difficulty: Medium

Suggested Build: 6A-8C-6S

Suggested Farming Location: Arena Bronze

Maze’s musings: See my discussion for the Naked Gun Ribbon for more details on strategy here.  Arena Bronze is the only one I suggest doing for this because Silver is just unnecessarily hard to farm for this ribbon. It is imperative that you destroy all the barrels in the arena before Round 1 starts because if you damage Torment with these barrels, it will invalidate the run.  If you think your squad did everything correctly and you still did not get the ribbon, have everyone relog before trying again.

**Hive Mind Ribbon**

Requirement: Complete the Hive Mind dungeon

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 180

Fame per Medal: 1,125

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Hive Mind

Mazes’ musings: This is a numbers game.  Just play the game long enough and you’ll easily pick up the 10 Hive Mind runs needed to get this medal.  Just make sure that you are at 270 power before you queue for this (if queuing randomly) or else impatient level 27s will leave you at the start of the dungeon.

**Hive Mind Extreme Ribbon**

Requirement: Complete the Hive Mind dungeon in under 20 minutes

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 150

Fame per Medal: 1,125

Difficulty: Medium

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Hive Mind

Maze’s musings: JHC still has relevant video guides for every PvE instance in the game that will help you learn how to run things quickly.  Make sure to get to 270 power and put together a good squad and you’ll be able to achieve this 10 times for the medal before long.

**Brothers of Fire Ribbon**

Requirement: Complete the Brothers of Fire dungeon

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 90

Fame per Medal: 600

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Brothers of Fire

Maze’s musings:  This is a numbers game.  Just play the game long enough and you’ll easily pick up the 10 Brothers of Fire runs needed to get this medal.

**Brothers of Fire Extreme Ribbon**

Requirement: Complete the Brothers of Fire dungeon in under 10 minutes

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 60

Fame per Medal: 600

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Brothers of Fire

Maze’s musings: JHC still has relevant video guides for every PvE instance in the game that will help you learn how to run things quickly.  This is the easiest dungeon in the game, so it is just a matter of time before you do enough Brothers of Fire runs to get this medal.

**Blade Dancer Ribbon**

Requirement: Complete the Blade Dancer dungeon

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 150

Fame per Medal: 1,000

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Blade Dancer

Maze’s musings:  This is a numbers game.  Just play the game long enough and you’ll easily pick up the 10 Blade Dancer runs needed to get this medal.

**Blade Dancer Extreme Ribbon**

Requirement: Complete the Blade Dancer dungeon in under 20 minutes

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 120

Fame per Medal: 1,000

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Blade Dancer

Maze’s musings: JHC still has relevant video guides for every PvE instance in the game that will help you learn how to run things quickly.  This is a dungeon that many newer players do not know how to run because it actually can be rather confusing.  I learned this dungeon through watching a JHC tutorial and now I hold the official speedrun record for it (5:17).  20 minutes is very easy to do, especially if your entire squad is at 270 power and has decent experience in the game.

**Voltaic Fist Ribbon**

Requirement: Complete the Voltaic Fist dungeon

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 120

Fame per Medal: 750

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Voltaic Fist

Maze’s musings:  This is a numbers game.  Just play the game long enough and you’ll easily pick up the 10 Voltaic Fist runs needed to get this medal.

**Voltaic Fist Extreme Ribbon**

Requirement: Complete the Voltaic Fist dungeon in under 15 minutes

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 90

Fame per Medal: 750

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Voltaic Fist

Maze’s musings: JHC still has relevant video guides for every PvE instance in the game that will help you learn how to run things quickly.  This dungeon can be done in as little as 5 and a half minutes.  There are so many enemies that do not need to be killed (especially after the basin has been drained), so just run by them all to get to the boss fight quickly.

**Takedown Ribbon**

Requirement: Successfully complete a dungeon run 10 times

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 150

Fame per Medal: 975

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Any Dungeon

Maze’s musings: Similar to the Maverick Ribbon, this one is simply a numbers game.  Play the game and you’ll get to completing 100 dungeons for this medal soon enough.

**A-Squad Ribbon**

Requirement: Clear a dungeon without anyone getting killed

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 180

Fame per Medal: 900

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: 13A-0C-7S or 12A-0C-8S

Suggested Farming Location: Brothers of Fire

Maze’s musings: It should be fairly easy if you and your squad are at 270 power to clear Brothers of Fire without anyone dying.  This ribbon is not hard to farm at all, but I didn’t even worry about farming it and you’ll get it through simply playing the game long enough.

**Bronze Glory Ribbon**

Requirement: Complete the Bronze Arena

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 90

Fame per Medal: 750

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Arena Bronze

Maze’s musings: This is a numbers game.  Just play the game long enough and you’ll easily pick up the 10 Arena Bronze runs needed to get this medal.

**Bronze Arena Extreme Ribbon**

Requirement: Complete the Bronze Arena in under 15 minutes

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 90

Fame per Medal: 600

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Bronze Arena

Maze’s musings: JHC still has relevant video guides for every PvE instance in the game that will help you learn how to run things quickly.  This is another one that can be done in roughly 5 and a half minutes, so 15 minutes is more than enough time to easily get this ribbon, especially when your squad is at 270 power.

**Silver Glory Ribbon**

Requirement: Complete the Silver Arena

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 180

Fame per Medal: 1,125

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Arena Silver

Maze’s musings: This is a numbers game.  Just play the game long enough and you’ll easily pick up the 10 Arena Silver runs needed to get this medal.

**Silver Arena Extreme Ribbon**

Requirement: Complete the Silver Arena in under 20 minutes

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 120

Fame per Medal: 900

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Silver Arena

Maze’s musings: JHC still has relevant video guides for every PvE instance in the game that will help you learn how to run things quickly.  Make sure to get to 270 power and put together a good squad and you’ll be able to achieve this 10 times for the medal before long.

**Gold Glory Ribbon**

Requirement: Complete the Gold Arena

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 210

Fame per Medal: 1,500

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Arena Gold

Maze’s musings: This is a numbers game.  Just play the game long enough and you’ll easily pick up the 10 Arena Bronze runs needed to get this medal.  Just make sure that you are at 270 power before you queue for this (if queuing randomly) or else impatient level 27s will leave you at the start of the arena.

**Gold Arena Extreme Ribbon**

Requirement: Complete the Gold Arena in under 25 minutes

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 240

Fame per Medal: 1,200

Difficulty: Medium

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Gold Arena

Maze’s musings: JHC still has relevant video guides for every PvE instance in the game that will help you learn how to run things quickly.  Make sure to get to 270 power and put together a good squad and you’ll be able to achieve this 10 times for the medal before long.

**Maverick Ribbon**

Requirement: Clear the Arena 10 times

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 150

Fame per Medal: 975

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Arena Bronze, Arena Silver, or Arena Gold

Maze’s musings:  This one is self-explanatory.  You’ll just have to complete 100 arena runs to get this medal.  This just requires a time investment.

**The Untouchables Ribbon**

Requirement: As a group, survive the entire Arena.  No deaths.

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 180

Fame per Medal: 1,275

Difficulty: Medium

Suggested Build: 13A-0C-7S or 12A-0C-8S

Suggested Farming Location: Arena Bronze

Maze’s musings: I didn’t really make it a point to farm for this ribbon.  As long as you play the game long enough, you’ll get lucky at least 10 times to grab this medal.  Use a build that’s higher in Survival and grab two other skilled players if you really want to farm this one.  Arena Silver is easy enough to do, but Bronze is a piece of cake if you’re just out to get the medal.

**PvP Wargames**

*Duels Ribbons*

**Untouchable Ribbon**

Requirement: Win a duel via Nitro without taking damage

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 60

Fame per Medal: 780

Difficulty: Medium

Suggested Build: Any PvP Build (at least 9 in agility and 2 in survival)

Suggested Farming Location: Duels

Maze’s musings: This one seems like it should be difficult, but it’s actually just a numbers game. If you play duels for long enough, you’ll encounter enough times where the opponent fails to load into the duel, and you get this ribbon for free.

**Deadshot Ribbon**

Requirement: Win a duel via Nitro with 3 headshot kills

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 45

Fame per Medal: 540

Difficulty: Medium

Suggested Build: Any PvP Build (at least 9 in agility and 2 in survival)

Suggested Farming Location: Duels

Maze’s musings: This one is much easier than the Headhunter ribbon.  Use an AR and a sniper rifle, and just train your aim on your opponent’s head of course.

**Rank Climber Ribbon**

Requirement: Win 10 duels via Nitro

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 39

Fame per Medal: 229

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any PvP Build (at least 9 in agility and 2 in survival)

Suggested Farming Location: Duels

Maze’s musings: This is just a numbers game.  Play duels enough and you’ll pick up the 100 victories you need for the medal.  It is easier to get with the right build, good gear, and practice.

**Hot Streak Ribbon**

Requirement: Win 3 duels in a row

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 15

Fame per Medal: 540

Difficulty: Medium

Suggested Build: Any PvP Build (at least 9 in agility and 2 in survival)

Suggested Farming Location: Duels

Maze’s musings: This one is a bit of a combination of luck and skill.  Get good gear, use a good skill build, and practice dueling, and you’ll get this medal before too long.

*Team PvP Ribbons*

**Rank Ascender Ribbon**

Requirement: Win 10 Ascendancy matches via Nitro

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 39

Fame per Medal: 270

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any PvP Build (at least 9 in agility and 2 in survival)

Suggested Farming Location: Ascendancy

Maze’s musings: This is just a numbers game.  Play Ascendancy long enough and you’ll pick up the 100 victories you need for the medal. It is easier to get with a decent squad, using the right build, good gear, and practice.

**Eliminator Ribbon**

Requirement: Win 10 elimination matches via Nitro

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 39

Fame per Medal: 229

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any PvP Build (at least 9 in agility and 2 in survival)

Suggested Farming Location: Team PvP

Maze’s musings: This is just a numbers game.  Play Elimination long enough and you’ll pick up the victories you need for the medal. It is easier to get with a decent squad, using the right build, good gear, and practice.

**On a Roll Ribbon**

Requirement: Win 3 Team PvP matches in a row

# of Ribbons per Medal: 5

Fame per Ribbon: 180

Fame per Medal: 780

Difficulty: Medium

Suggested Build: Any PvP Build (at least 9 in agility and 2 in survival)

Suggested Farming Location: Team PvP

Maze’s musings: This is just a numbers game.  Play Team PvP long enough and you’ll pick up the victories you need for the medal.  It is easier to get with a decent squad, using the right build, good gear, and practice.

**Rampage Ribbon**

Requirement: Kill 4 opponents within 8 seconds in Team PvP

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 45

Fame per Medal: 855

Difficulty: High

Suggested Build: Any PvP Build (at least 9 in agility and 2 in survival)

Suggested Farming Location: Elimination

Maze’s musings: You kind of have to get pretty lucky to get these ribbons either from the perspective of pulling weak opponents or competing with your squad mates for kills. Elimination is the easiest mode to get these ribbons because the enemy team can revive downed teammates for additional chances for kills in case you didn’t wipe all 4 of them by yourself. It is easier to get with a decent squad, using the right build, good gear, and practice.

**Juggernaut Ribbon**

Requirement: Get a 10 kill streak in PvP

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 60

Fame per Medal: 780

Difficulty: Medium

Suggested Build: Any PvP Build (at least 9 in agility and 2 in survival)

Suggested Farming Location: Team PvP

Maze’s musings: You’ll notice that it does not specify in the requirement that the 10 kill streak must be achieved in a single PvP match.  You can actually get a juggernaut ribbon in a match where you’ve only gotten a single kill because you got 9 kills in a row without dying in a previous match.  This is what brings my difficulty rating down from High to Medium.  It is easier to get with a decent squad, using the right build, good gear, and practice.

*Other PvP Ribbons (any mode)*

**Mentalist Ribbon (Hidden)**

Requirement: Win a wargames (PvP) match naked using only a pistol

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 60

Fame per Medal: 1,235

Difficulty: High

Suggested Build: 10A-6C-4S or 10A-8C-2S

Suggested Farming Location: Duels

Maze’s musings: This was a very fun medal to get for me because of how obsessed with pistols I have been over the past year.  Because many people have gotten away from playing PvE, they usually do not run with a build that contains at least 6 points in Combat, so they never end up using their pistol because the killing power is so low.  This leads everyone to think that pistols are useless in this game, and I assure you they are not.  It can be quite difficult to farm this ribbon if you happen to pull an opponent in PvP that has great gear and knows how to play the game very well, but every so often you’ll get lucky by pulling a bunch of fairly inexperienced opponents in duels.  You’ll also sometimes get lucky when an opponent fails to load into a duel where you’ll get a free ribbon.  Similar to the naked gun ribbon, you are not disallowed from using skills in farming this ribbon; you just have to use skills that do not cause damage to be dealt to your opponent.  The skills that are great for farming this ribbon are Blink, Supercharger, Deflector Skin, and Survival Kit.  Survival Kit is probably the least useful because you have such low defense that it will be pretty easy for your opponent to kill you while you are healing on it, so I would really recommend only using Blink and Supercharger (what I used) or Blink and Deflector Skin.  A good Black Dragon will very much help with making this ribbon easier to get, but you also have to be very careful to not just remain in the open all the time to try to pick up your kills.  You have to duck in and out of cover, use blink to knock the opponent down to set up easy backshots, and make use of supercharger to maximize that headshot damage.  Be absolutely sure to grab the projectile resistance and either the damage or crit buffs for this because without some extra defense, you will be dead meat. You could also call upon your OP PvP friends to carry you in Team PvP if you want to try to get the ribbons that way, but I wouldn’t expect to get many of these ribbons by queuing randomly for Team PvP.

**Headhunter Ribbon (Hidden)**

Requirement: Get 5 headshot kills in a row in a single Wargames (PvP) match

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 60

Fame per Medal: 1,235

Difficulty: High

Suggested Build: Any PvP Build (at least 9 in agility and 2 in survival)

Suggested Farming Location: Duels

Maze’s musings: This was absolutely the toughest medal for me to farm.  Having all of your kills be headshot kills is not an easy thing to do, especially if using your primary weapon because sometimes you’ll land plenty of headshots but the killing shot will be a shot to the body.  Other times, the enemy will turn around to run, and you’ve got to fight the urge to finish the kill with backshots.  This just takes practice and a little bit of luck to pull off a duel win with 5 headshot kills, but I found that the combination of using Faraday and a sniper rifle helped me finish this one off.  I also would use Stunner to freeze them in place and get an easy sniper headshot once or twice in a single duel.  I absolutely have to give a shoutout to my good friend oMaestro, who has the most Headhunter ribbons I’ve seen anyone get in this game.  Across his two accounts he easily has over 3,000 of these, and he definitely helped me with suggesting I make the switch to Faraday to try to farm these.

**Killing Spree Ribbon**

Requirement: 4 kills without dying in a single Wargames (PvP) match

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 45

Fame per Medal: 540

Difficulty: Medium

Suggested Build: Any PvP Build (at least 9 in agility and 2 in survival)

Suggested Farming Location: Team PvP

Maze’s musings: This one takes practice and a decent gear setup to be skilled enough in PvP to pull this off consistently, but it’s ultimately not a ribbon that I spent time specifically farming.  You can also get this ribbon in duels, but Team PvP is an easier environment to get this ribbon because of the number of targets there.

**Skills & Kills**

**Primary Kills Ribbon**

Requirement: Get 25 kills with Primary Weapon

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 4

Fame per Medal: 40

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Any

Maze’s musings: N/A

**Pro Primary Ribbon**

Requirement: Get 6 kills with Primary Weapons in 10 seconds

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 7

Fame per Medal: 70

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Any

Maze’s musings: These should be pretty easy to collect off of the packs of weak enemies, especially if you use the supercharger skill.

**Secondary Kills Ribbon**

Requirement: Get 25 kills with Secondary Weapon

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 4

Fame per Medal: 40

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Any

Maze’s musings: N/A

**Pro Secondary Ribbon**

Requirement: Get 6 kills with Secondary Weapons in 10 seconds

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 7

Fame per Medal: 70

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Any

Maze’s musings: These should be pretty easy to collect off of the packs of weak enemies, especially if you use the supercharger skill.  Machine Guns and Rocket Launchers offer the easiest path to collecting these.

**Pistol Kills Ribbon**

Requirement: Get 25 kills with a pistol

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 4

Fame per Medal: 40

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Any

Maze’s musings: While builds that have at least 6 points in combat will make it easier to get these ribbons, these are very easy to collect, and you will easily get the medal if you simply play the game long enough.

**Pro Pistol Ribbon**

Requirement: Get 5 kills with your pistol in 10 seconds

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 9

Fame per Medal: 90

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Builds that contain at least 6 points in Combat are preferable, but pretty much any build is capable of executing on this ribbon, especially with supercharger

Suggested Farming Location: Arena Bronze or Arena Silver

Maze’s musings: I am obsessed with pistols and have already collected over 3,000 pro pistol ribbons on my current account.  Kestrei and Black Dragon are the easiest pistols to use to grab these ribbons, and you don’t even need supercharger to blast through the packs of dreads and spiders that spawn in Bronze and Silver to snap these ribbons up.

**Explosion Kills Ribbon**

Requirement: Get 25 kills with explosions (Grenades, Rocket Man, Hunter Mines, Rockets, Barrel Explosions)

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 4

Fame per Medal: 40

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Any

Maze’s musings: These are not hard to pick up as long as you use rockets or grenades, so there’s no use strategizing here.

**Pro Explosion Ribbon**

Requirement: Get 6 kills with explosions in 5 seconds (Grenades, Rocket Man, Hunter Mines, Rockets, Barrel Explosions)

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 9

Fame per Medal: 300

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Brothers of Fire or Arena Bronze

Maze’s musings: Lobbing a grenade or sending a rocket at the packs of dreads and spiders that spawn in Bronze or the packs that spawn at the portals in Brothers of Fire make this ribbon easy work.

**Deflector Skin Ribbon**

Requirement: Kill 25 enemies while using Deflector Skin

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 120

Fame per Medal: 1,472

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any that contains at least 4 points in Survival (12A-0C-8S is optimal)

Suggested Farming Location: Brothers of Fire or Arena Bronze

Maze’s musings: Because Deflector Skin only lasts for 3 seconds, you’ll want to grab as many kills as you can in that time frame, so of course rockets are the easiest way to farm these.  After activating Deflector, lob a grenade or send a rocket at the packs of dreads and spiders that spawn in Bronze or the packs that spawn at the portals in Brothers of Fire. Since it is very meta to run with this skill for PvP, I’m sure you’ll collect 625 kills while Deflector is activated without having to sweat too hard.

**Frag Grenade Ribbon**

Requirement: Kill 25 enemies with Frag Grenades

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 20

Fame per Medal: 250

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any that contains at least 7 points in Agility

Suggested Farming Location: Brothers of Fire, Arena Bronze, Arena Silver, Arena Gold

Maze’s musings: Frag Grenades are one of the most versatile skills in the game and they are pretty crucial to speedrunning, as well.  You should absolutely get familiar with using this skill.  Similar to the Deflector Skin and Explosion ribbons, go in Brothers of Fire or any of the Arenas and lob off some grenades at packs of enemies. Note that the strongest enemy that can be killed by a single grenade is a decimator grunt.  If the enemy is any stronger, it will take more than one to bring them down.  A pro farming tip is to use a build with deflector skin and then launch your grenades so that you can farm 4 ribbons at once (explosion kills, pro explosion, deflector skin, and frag grenades).

**Sentry Gun Ribbon**

Requirement: Kill 25 enemies with the Sentry Gun

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 68

Fame per Medal: 1,083

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any that contains at least 10 points in Combat

Suggested Farming Location: Arena Bronze or Arena Silver

Maze’s musings: The sentry gun has fairly low health and low damage output to boot, so using this skill for the spawn points for dreads and spiders in Bronze and Silver is really your best option here.  If you try to use this against stronger enemies, they will take it down pretty quickly.

**Survival Kit Ribbon**

Requirement: Kill 25 enemies while healing in the Survival Kit

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 27

Fame per Medal: 780

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any that contains at least 1 point in Survival

Suggested Farming Location: Brothers of Fire, Arena Bronze, or Arena Silver

Maze’s musings: The easiest way to farm these ribbons is to plop a kit down by one of the portals in Brothers of Fire or the dreads or spiders spawn points in Bronze or Silver and just take out a machine gun and rip through everything.  This farming method isn’t necessarily what the Survival Kit is intended for, but it makes it quite easy to farm the ribbons.

**Stunner Ribbon**

Requirement: Kill 25 enemies disabled by Stunner

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 35

Fame per Medal: 1,176

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any that contains at least 7 in Combat

Suggested Farming Location: Brothers of Fire, Arena Bronze, or Arena Silver

Maze’s musings: Stunner has to be one of my favorite skills in the game.  It’s super nasty in PvP and it will Stun almost any enemy in PvE except for the bosses (Regis, Blade Dancer, and the big Hellstorms and Red Hammers that have specific names).  It’s a great tool to use both offensively and defensively because it freezes all enemies around you from attacking so if you’re low health and a twin blade is mid jump, you can stun them in midair and keep yourself alive and set up an easy kill. Stunner is my favorite tool for battling blinkers in Hive Mind as well when they get a little too up in my grill. To farm this ribbon easily, look again for the portals in Brothers of Fire or the trash spawns in Bronze and Silver to pick up a lot of kills at once.  Machine Guns and Rocket Launchers are great tools to pick up the kills while they are stunned for 3 seconds.

**EMP Ribbon**

Requirement: Kill 25 enemies disabled by EMP

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 72

Fame per Medal: 988

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: 7A-0C-13S

Suggested Farming Location: Arena Bronze or Arena Silver

Maze’s musings: It had been a very long time since I had used EMP ever since they moved it all the way up to the end of the Survival skill tree, and while it was relatively easy to farm these ribbons in the Arena, there are some quirks to it.  It only disables enemies that use projectile weapons, so those melee enemies will just keep on coming.  It’s best to drop the EMP at the spawn points of grunts in the arena, but there is one annoying trait of the EMP and that is that spiders, thorns, and sharks will not come out of their spawn point because it freezes them in place.  This makes it difficult to rack up kills unless you chuck some grenades or rockets in their spawn portals, but if they usually come over a ledge, then there’s no way to reach them, so you have to wait for the EMP to wear off or get destroyed before these enemies will spawn.  I didn’t like that very much since it just messes up my rhythm in the arena. The other frustrating thing about farming this ribbon is that 7A-0C-13S is the only option that remotely makes any sense to use, and I did not like the build at all.

**AM Bomb Ribbon**

Requirement: Kill 25 enemies with AM Bomb

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 35

Fame per Medal: 1,102

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: 13A-0C-7S or 13A-3C-4S

Suggested Farming Location: Brothers of Fire, Voltaic Fist, Hive Mind, Arena Bronze, or Arena Silver

Maze’s musings: The 13A-0C-7S build is the prime build for any new level 27 that has a lot of gear to farm for.  It’s got plenty of survivability and AM Bomb really helps out in some key spots in the dungeons that I’ve listed when your weapon power isn’t the greatest.  Note that the AM Bomb is not an instant kill against elite enemies, so to farm this ribbon, use it in spots when there are a lot of non-elites packed together.  The portals in Brothers of Fire and the code room in Voltaic Fist are two great spots to pick up lots of easy kills.  At some point, you will start to realize though that Frag Grenades pack a lot more bang for your buck because you have three charges and a shorter cooldown period, so I haven’t used AM Bomb in a very long time.

**Rocket Man Ribbon**

Requirement: Kill 25 enemies with Rocket Man

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 135

Fame per Medal: 1,558

Difficulty: Medium

Suggested Build: Any with at least 4 points in Combat

Suggested Farming Location: Brothers of Fire, Arena Bronze, or Arena Silver

Maze’s musings: I used to love trolling people in duels by Blinking them and then using Rocket Man when they were on the ground, but the cooldown on Rocket Man makes it such that this can only be done maybe once per duel, so the entertainment value wears off pretty quickly.  As I hinted at in the beginning, this was probably the most frustrating ribbon for me to farm for a few reasons: (1) the spread on the rockets is pretty wild, so unless you’re right up on a pack of enemies, it’s a little difficult to get a bunch of kills in one use of the skill (2) the cooldown is fairly long and (3) most builds that have at least 4 points in Combat should also have at least 7 points in Agility, and Frag Grenades are a much more effective and easy to use skill.  I did not enjoy farming this medal at all, and I don’t even upgrade the rocket man skill anymore even though I run a build that has it as an available option all the time.  Farm the ribbons in a similar fashion to Frag Grenades.

**Supercharger Ribbon**

Requirement: Kill 25 enemies while using the Supercharger

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 27

Fame per Medal: 305

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any with at least 1 point in Agility

Suggested Farming Location: Any

Maze’s musings: This ribbon shouldn’t need to be farmed because Supercharger should almost always be one of your skills in PvE no matter what build you’re running or whatever dungeon or arena you’re playing.  You’ll pick up the 625 kills for the medal quickly enough.

**Invisibility Tech Ribbon**

Requirement: Kill 25 enemies while using Invisibility Tech

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 135

Fame per Medal: 1,558

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any with at least 7 points in Survival

Suggested Farming Location: Arena Bronze

Maze’s musings: I see a lot of newer players use Invisibility when they have to revive a downed teammate in PvE, and this irks me because you are granted invincibility while reviving your teammate.  That point aside though, the easiest way to farm this ribbon is to use rocket launchers at the spawn points of dreads and spiders in Bronze.  Throw Invisibility on and then shoot a rocket in the middle of the pack to pick up a bunch of kills at once.  As a little anecdote from my farming efforts, I found myself trying to wrap up my skills medals and needing Hunter Mine kills and Invisibility Kills as my final medals to farm.  Well in order to farm both at the same time, I had to use a 0A-13C-7S build, which was HORRIBLE.  The lack of mobility meant I was in serious danger for such a long time if I had to reload my weapon when I was in the thick of battling enemies.  I compensated for this by picking primary weapons like Embra MK II so that I’d have to reload less often.  I did learn however that engaging my Hunter Mines would take me out of Invisibility mode, so just be careful of that quirk of the Invisibility skill while you’re farming it.

**Emergency Shield Ribbon**

Requirement: Kill 25 enemies while using Emergency Shield

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 105

Fame per Medal: 1,273

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any with at least 10 points in Survival

Suggested Farming Location: Brothers of Fire, Arena Bronze, or Arena Silver

Mazes’ musings: These ribbons were very easy to farm because you can just use the same method as Survival Kit.  There are a few things I don’t like about this skill though.  When there are lots of melee enemies around like Blades and Twin Blades, these bad boys will run up into your shield and march you out of it because you won’t have a lot of killing power due to the fact that you spent at least 10 of your precious skill points to add this ability to your arsenal. Beware of using this skill if there are lots of those enemies nearby.  The other frustrating thing is that all bullets fired outside of the shield bounce off of it, so it can create some frustrating situations for your teammates in PvE if you don’t place it in a decent spot.

**Melee Berserker Ribbon**

Requirement: Kill 25 enemies with Melee Berserker

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 106

Fame per Medal: 1,606

Difficulty: Medium

Suggested Build: Any with at least 4 points in Agility

Suggested Farming Location: Brothers of Fire, Arena Bronze, or Arena Silver

Maze’s musings: Ok so this was a total sleeper skill for me.  There’s a lot of hatred for this skill in the game and for good reason. The cooldown is rather long, and there was a period of time where it was bugged in PvP, and people were exploiting that. On top of that, it doesn’t kill very many enemies in one punch (only dreads, red grunts, decimator dreads, and grey blinkers).  In order to farm this ribbon, you have to use it in spawn areas of those enemy types, which slows down the process.  I will take the opportunity to talk about the newly found love that I have for this skill. It gives you 70% damage reduction and 100% knockdown resistance for 3 seconds after activation, so it kind of acts a bit like Deflector Skin but it also does damage to enemies on top of that, which is pretty cool.  Since I like to run 0- and 2-point survival builds a lot, I was looking for ways to replace the utility of Deflector Skin, and this skill absolutely fits that build. See a Twin Blade in mid jump? Give him a punch to stay alive and on your feet.  I’ve also used it for some hilarious finishing moves on Blade Dancer in Arena Silver, and it makes me laugh every single time when I take out this enormous monster with a hefty smack of my fist.  As a side note, the medal offers the most fame of any skill usage related medal in the game, which I just thought was an interesting point.

**Hunter Mine Ribbon**

Requirement: Kill 25 enemies with Hunter Mines

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 115

Fame per Medal: 1,396

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: 7A-13C-0S

Suggested Farming Location: Arena Bronze or Arena Silver

Maze’s musings: I have spouted a lot of hatred for this skill for a long time.  It sickens me to see it used in PvP because of the choices that I know a player has made in selecting their skill build.  Most often, Hunter Mine users will be using 5A-13C-2S, and I just hate that it breaks my rules for building a proper skill build without the additional back damage for PvE and mobility needed for competitive PvP. Unlike Blink, which garners its own hatred from the community, this skill is absolutely the sign of someone being a troll just to be a troll or just using a skill in the game to pick up their only kills of the PvP match because they are so terrible in their basic PvP technique.  I only have accidentally used Hunter Mines once in PvP when I mistakenly accepted the duel invitation from Nitro and it brought me into a duel before I could cancel the queue.  Hilariously enough, when I was able to use the skill, two of the mines exploded near my opponent and I was able to finish them off with my AR, but the third mine went rogue and actually came back around to help me with the final kill of the match.  While I enjoyed the humor of that moment, I just won’t use Hunter Mines in PvP because the sacrifices you have to make with regards to the bread-and-butter Agility skills for PvP are too great and they make the experience of playing PvP only enjoyable in the moments where Hunter Mines are done with their ridiculously long cooldown.  Furthermore, I do not like how unpredictable the mines can be in which enemies they decide to go after.  Sometimes, they will just roll around as you take out enemies around you without even going after them, which just feels silly.  The one positive thing I will say about them is that they are kind of fun to use when you snipe in the arena because they act like this trip mine to any enemies that come to chase you in your chosen sniping location.  For farming the ribbons, you can do the trick where you load into an Operation mission, use the skill to kill a few enemies, exit to hub, start a new operation, and rinse and repeat.  Alternatively, you can just use them in Arenas near packs of dreads and spiders so that you can pick up as many kills as you can so that you can change out your build as soon as you’ve collected the 625 kills for the medal.

**Blink Ribbon**

Requirement: Kill 25 enemies immediately after using Blink

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 50

Fame per Medal: 855

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any with at least 10 in Agility

Suggested Farming Location: Arena Bronze or Arena Silver

Maze’s musings: MFG saved the best for last of the skill ribbons.  When I was a sweaty PvP player, I very much bought into the opinion that Blink was a dirty skill that was indicative of a player wanting to compensate for poor technique with a cheesy OP skill.  Back when it had three available charges and Kira’s boots were not yet in the game, this did have some truth to it, but I just decided one day to think for myself and explore using a skill that so many people hated just to see what all the fuss was about.  I found my new addiction.  If you take a moment to disregard the knockdown effect, this skill has such huge mobility advantages that I even use it when I know my opponent is wearing Kira’s boots.  If they duck behind cover, I can blink to a different angle and then they will be aiming at a completely different spot when they pop back out of cover so I can just blast them to pieces.  If I am surprised and need a quick exit, I’ll just get out of that sticky situation and live to fight another exchange.  If I need to get in range to use my Stunner, I’ll blink close, stun, and finish the kill. I love the skill so much that I even use it almost all the time in Arena Gold now because I can escape Blade Dancer jumps, get out of other sticky situations, or move to a better firing position super quickly and easily.  These techniques are so powerful because not only is the AI in PvE not anticipating this, but enemies in PvP don’t anticipate this either because they just expect you to try to cheese the knockdown for some easy backshots.  The cooldown is also so short that you can use the skill a lot and with so many different ways to use the skill, it is gameplay that engages your brain so much more.  Now that I’ve adequately ranted about how much I love this skill (and I absolutely don’t care what hate is thrown my way for it), I’ll give you the easy farming technique.  Use it on dreads and grunts when they spawn in Arenas coupled with a rocket launcher. Blink them to knock them down, turn around and blast them with a rocket.  Easy peasy.

**Dodger Ribbon (Hidden)**

Requirement: Kill 30 enemies without taking damage in a single mission

# of Ribbons per Medal: 50

Fame per Ribbon: 150

Fame per Medal: 1,900

Difficulty: Medium

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Arena Bronze, Arena Silver, or Kill Zone Operations

Maze’s musings: I didn’t make it a point to specifically farm for these since I almost always play with builds that have fight for your life in them, so I actually want to take damage in PvE so that it boosts my damage higher.  That being said, this is pretty easy to do with an AR or a Sniper Rifle, particularly in round 1 of Arena Bronze and Arena Silver.  Just sit back and pick things off from a safe range, and you’ll get these easily enough.

**Exterminator Ribbon**

Requirement: Get 10 kills within 15 seconds

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 90

Fame per Medal: 720

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Brothers of Fire, Arena Bronze, or Arena Silver

Maze’s musings: These are extremely easy ribbons to obtain if you just sit at the spawn points of spiders and dreads in the Arena with a Machine Gun or a Rocket Launcher.  You can also chuck an AM Bomb at the portals of Brothers of Fire and grab these very easily, too.

**Hitman Ribbon (Hidden)**

Requirement: Get 4 headshot kills in 6 seconds

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 90

Fame per Medal: 1,020

Difficulty: Medium

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Arena Bronze or Arena Silver

Maze’s musings: This takes both a bit of skill and a bit of luck as well.  Sniper Rifles are the easiest to do this with, but you can also use an AR or even a pistol and get these with just a bit of focus.  Arenas are the easiest place to farm this ribbon just due to the number of targets that are there.

**Play Time & Other**

**Millionaire Ribbon**

Requirement: Earn 100,000 in credits

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 75

Fame per Medal: 420

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Any PvE

Maze’s musings:  This is just a numbers game.  Your in-game salary and selling unwanted gear to Willow and Big Red contribute to this ribbon.  If you’ve spent the $5 to expand your inventory space, be sure to keep a pair of shoulders that have high selling perks (max is 15%) to generate lots of in game credits.  It will help you get credits to change builds more quickly and buy and sell uncommon items to Willow and Big Red to farm those fame missions that they offer to unlock the perks on your newer items.

**High Roller Ribbon**

Requirement: Spend 100,000 on the Casino’s Slot Machines

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 200

Fame per Medal: 1,900

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Casino

Maze’s musings: So the first ribbon is quite annoying to earn here because each spin only uses 100 credits, so you’ll have to spin the wheel 1,000 times to get the first ribbon. Once you’ve done this, the VIP section of the casino will open up to you, and there you can spin the wheel for 1,000 credits with each spin, so then you only have to spin the wheel 900 additional times to get the medal.  Is this an annoying medal to farm?  Yes, absolutely, but it’s mindless and easy.

**Local Hero Ribbon**

Requirement: Hit the Hub 7 days in a row

# of Ribbons per Medal: 4

Fame per Ribbon: 200

Fame per Medal: 1,500

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: N/A

Maze’s musings: This simply requires you to log into the game for 28 days straight to get the medal. As addictive as this game is, I doubt that that will be a problem for many people.

**Treasure Hunter Ribbon**

Requirement: Open 10 loot chests during mission gameplay

# of Ribbons per Medal: 10

Fame per Ribbon: 90

Fame per Medal: 250

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Any PvE

Maze’s musings: JHC has guides that show the location of the loot chests in all of the dungeons, and there are certainly loot chests in Campaign, Side, and Daily missions that help with getting the 100 total chests you need to get this medal.  It will simply be a matter of time before you get this medal.

**Service Ribbon**

Requirement: Complete 1 Solo Mission (Operation, Daily, Adventure, Campaign, or Side)

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 15

Fame per Medal: 150

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Operations, Co-op, Campaign, Side, Adventure, and Daily missions

Maze’s musings: N/A

**Battle Tested Ribbon**

Requirement: Complete 1 mission and take damage (Operation, Daily, Adventure, Campaign, Side, or Co-op)

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 15

Fame per Medal: 150

Difficulty: Low

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Operations, Co-op, Campaign, Side, Adventure, and Daily missions

Maze’s musings: N/A

**Combat Veteran Ribbon**

Requirement: Complete 1 solo mission without taking damage

# of Ribbons per Medal: 25

Fame per Ribbon: 69

Fame per Medal: 950

Difficulty: Medium

Suggested Build: Any

Suggested Farming Location: Kill Zone Operation Mission

Maze’s musings: There are basically two easy ways to get these.  You can either bring a long-range A/R like Niko or a sniper like Brusell or Turbo Gauss and just pick enemies apart from a safe distance while taking your time, or you can start a Kill Zone mission, get to the part where the timer starts counting down and then just hide for the rest of the mission.