DarkGob

Why shouldn't he be? Your question doesn't really make any sense to me at all because it's completely meaningless.

You have to unlock it with Emyprean or Astral Merits from Empyrean Michael or Astral Christy, which means you need at least one Incarnate character (once unlocked it's available account-wide, though).

And by itself, it's not. Banished Pantheon will be reworked as Incarnate content next issue, and the Coming Storm/Battalion at some point after that (presumably once we take down Tyrant). Assuming Rularuu has nothing to do with the Coming Storm (which is how it looks at this point), you could also probably count on future Incarnate content (maybe even the end of the endgame?) revolving around him.

As for why Praetoria is Incarnate content in the first place? It's not just because the Praetorians are Incarnates, it's because Tyrant is THE Incarnate, the Well's chosen champion. I'd say that's rather deserving of being weaved into the Incarnate storyline, wouldn't you? (You will, of course, disagree, because the only response you can have to Praetoria is a rabid kneejerk reaction at its merest mention.)

Of course it seems far away, you've chosen not to fight on the front lines. The devs have had Praetorian zone invasions a few times, although since they're dev-hosted events and not triggered off completing content like Rikti invasions are, they occur less frequently. The Praetorians are also more powerful than the Rikti, so it's less likely that non-Incarnate heroes would be called into action.

(I'm actually not sure what the exact power name for the rocket board is so adjust this accordingly.)

toggles_on.txt
Where "COH_DIRECTORY" is the directory you have City of Heroes in, and "binds" is a subfolder in that directory containing the two bind files (the subfolder is not strictly necessary, you could just put the files in the main CoH folder and adjust the path accordingly).

Following from the above, type this slash command in-game:
Pressing F after this will activate the Rocket Board, then rebind F so that the next time you press it, it turns your toggles on.

BUT

I'm actually pretty sure it won't let you chain the two powexec_toggleon commands, so you may need to choose between Sprint and Combat Jumping.

EDIT: According to ParagonWiki it should work, although any more than 2 toggles probably wouldn't.

I don't believe any of the things you stated about the trials are true. The first two might be, but they can also be true for regular TF content, so really nothing has changed.

The really tragic thing is that I never even liked that particular meme.

The First Ward, with its exploration badges, history badge, and defeat badges, disagrees with you. So do the VIP/Destined One and Pocket D Gold Club Member badges.

Not saying that this precedent means they should start selling badges (because holy crap, please do not do that), I'm just saying that the precedent is wrong and also that Posi is full of it.

Considering the gate from Talos will be closed off, I suspect there will be another way to get to the zone that is accessible from either side.

Or milling around the Vanguard Base in RWZ and making Lady Grey uncomfortable. "Hi guys, are you here to take the fight directly to the Rikti?" "lol, noob. formin BAF."

not to mention MUSHROOM MUSHROOM

Collectible Card Game. See: Magic The Gathering.

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I actually have no idea what the hell you're talking about, so no.