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This. It's a world where Hamidon ravaged the population. There are bound to be a number of signature Primal characters that are just flat out dead, while there will also be a ton of original-to-Praetoria characters due to the differences in history.

If this were a set based around summoning mythical creatures, that'd be great. But it's not. Its about manipulating the shadows and creating darkness.

And honestly, I'm pretty sure the devs weren't trying to reference anything with this. It was just a case of "Hey, we invented a dog skeleton. Let's smush this into as many things as possible for the time being." If they invented Fire Control around this time I'm sure instead of Fire Imps we'd be getting Fire Beast, and he'd just be a typical dog that's on fire.

If I were playing a DBZ MMO that'd be great. But this isn't DBZ, and the entire trial just feels like it kind of happens, and that's it. You run in, beat up a couple guys, then Cole throws a tantrum and goes Super Cosmic. Compared to trials like the Underground or Keyes Island Reactor it just feels lacking.

It waaaaaas a joke. Because her writing lacks about as much substance as Diaboloique's form.

Thanks, fixed. Both are intangible characters, anyway.

The first half of Dark Astoria centers around the Talons of Vengeance, a group we first encounter in First Ward. They just hop over into our dimension and decide to become our enemies in a story about Dark Astoria. The second half involves us buddying up with Dominatrix and fighting Diabolique as she plots to use Mot. Mot and the Pantheon don't even really become relevant until the very end. And even then, the finale iTrial is all about Diabolique.

And the Sig Story Arc is nothing but a side adventure. I'll admit, it's nice that it doesn't revolve around anything Praetorian related, but comparing a monthly three mission arc to an entire issue's worth of content won't work.

Like I said, we've got a huge list of villains in our own dimension that haven't been touched in ages. Let's pick one and make an issue about them instead of dedicating resources to things like Night Ward and making even more enemy groups we'll only see once.

What's more practical and would be a better story that makes more sense would be relocating to another dimension and giving Hamidon Praetoria.

So that means what our dev team will end up doing is give us yet another iTrial that you have to farm to unlock the next iPower, letting us beat the Hamidon in an anticlimactic showdown so we can put the Praetorians back on their world and everything will be nice and happy in the end with no possible issues.

This. Let's see Recluse, Nemesis, Countess Crey, Requiem and his lieutenants, The Center, Malta, Circle of Thorns, Freakshow, Primal's Devouring Earth, Vanessa DeVore and her Carnival, Clockwork King, the Coralax and their Leviathan, Emil Marcone, King Midas, Rularuu, or the Skulls and Hellions be relevant and at the front of a story again.

Look at how long it took us to get legit backpacks.

He was a deus ex machina regardless of having an arc beforehand. He beat Statesman purely because he spent 20 years off screen studying States, and he showed zero intention of ever wanting him dead to begin with. He came out of nowhere, killed him, then left. And despite having an arc, no one actually cared about him before the SSA, either. Darrin really needs to at least be phased out if you've run SSA 5, 6, or 7.

Same could be said of States and Psyche. Why should anyone care if these two random heroes get killed if we never see them anywhere else in the game except for their cameos in the tutorial?

I thought what they said pretty much shot down that idea?

We're getting way more content, powers, costumes, and really everything else now than we ever got before. The money gained from the market gets funneled right back into things like Staff Fighting, Dark Control, or Water Blast, which would have taken years to design in the past. And the Rocket Board, Beast Mastery, extra costume slots, and a lot of other things people love would have never made it off the drawing board. Plus a subscription gets you 400 free points every month to get stuff on the market. 550 points if you're a tier 9 VIP. And VIPs still get free powers and costumes, as well. Personally, I love the free server transfers we get, since if you stack two you can use 'em as a free rename.

There's always the option of playing the game for absolutely free, if you can't/don't want to pay the sub or just sick of the game, though.


New forums rules define thread necroing as posting in a thread about a month or so old. If you necro, the thread gets locked. This is because info changes over time, and what was relevant in a thread a few months back may not be relevant now or may have been updated since then.

If the Pet Peeves thread was that important, it should've been stickied. That would protect it. But it's just a thread about complaining, and really shouldn't be the first thing anyone visiting our server's forums should see, tbh.