there was a vote about the hard badge being 100 or 108 stars. http://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/380539-upcoming-badges?page=53. this page helps you see future badges.
really, I am not a fan and not particularly good. But this was badge of the day before and I just sat down and got the badge by some training. Stop complaining about such easy badges. I just needed some exercise here and suddenly I got the easy badge. Next time a game in this series got a badge of the day. 5 minutes to get easy badge. You give up too soon.
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for full refund when selling.
always possible to get back mana (also health when used for healing)
ability to change characters color with new weapon
-you have to buy from shop to get anything to sell.
only one new weapon each.
New weapon ONLY changes color and gives no bonuses whatsoever.
if you want chests:weapon chest automatically opens. the biggest sum I got in a chest is around 650 but key costs 200 and you only get one. Mostly it's 200-300 so at least a third is lost. Instead practice and save up for island which give you an extra turn, which is both chests and battlefield+plus if first dream gives a medium badge.
ah the completey luck based impossible. There used to be a guide in the top comments, but them kongies commented away. I think you should restart if you haven't reached madagascar before 30 days. Actually hard badge was harder.