Talk:Badge of Merit/@comment-165.91.13.77-20140504123551/@comment-200.164.50.222-20160422055034

No, the point is that this item is already useless at the time it can be acquired because the player will probably already have an idol (which means at least a 10% discount against the badge's 8%) by then and the effects do not stack.

It's a broken progression, basically.