Golden Girl

Watching the videos from the Player Summit works just as well.

Just like every TF?
What parts of the ITF, Kahn, LGTF and STF are more challenging than the Trials, and require more thought and teamwork?

And even if we get to that level of power there'll be enemies with even more power who we'll need to defeat with a team of Incarnates - we will never, ever be the most power people in the game, because then the game would lose any challenge.

A brand new player should use the Help channel if there's something that they don't understand.

Unless some responsse have been deleted, then the Facebook comments aren't really uncivil - the apparent knowledge gaps and misunderstandings in the review gave the impression that it hadn't been done to a very high standard, which caused some players to express surprise and/or annoyance, as CoH goes along quite quietly under the radar, so reviews don't come along that often.

The biggest problem with DA being the Trial staging zone is that the street mobs mightn't respawn fast enough to keep up with the frenzied packs of Incanrates thowing out Judgements in the downtime between Trials

I think that they were talking about it from a story angle

I'm not sue where you're getting this servant/slave thing from, when the game carefully spells out that the slow path to Incarnate power is the way to stay free from the Well's control - we're stealing its power - Tyrant's the one being given it in exchange for his free will.

The game already provides a few of those in the 1-50 level range.

This is the adjustment some people are having problems with
For the Trials to be challenging, they need to have a risk of failure which isn't really present in the non-Trial parts of the game, apart from some of the tougher TFs.

Accordning to the devs, Praetorian Nemesis died as "a happy old clock-maker" and never became a Villain, and Tyrant murdered Praetorian Stefan Richter at the Well of the Furies, and absorbed the power of Tartarus as well as Zeus - which would explain why he seems to have his dictatorship set up like a version of Arachnos, but with cleaner streets

I meet new players every time I log in - some of them will become VIPs, and to them, the Trials will be normal.
Staring with the Sewer Trial, the game is now teaching players the basic of Trials - and with more Trials being add to the LFG tab like the Halloween and Winter Trials, the whole Trial system will be as normal as running a story arc to all the the post-Freedom players.

There are plenty of new players

Something speaks to us

Incarnate debt?

If the next 5 slots have different types of IXP that are only available on new Trials, then players will play them - nothing can head that off

According to Prometheus, yes.

Also, the Well of the Furies has only recently "woken up" because it senses a threat to its very existence - to protect itself against this coming danger, it's chosen a champion to protect it - but because it's a mindless entity that only responds to power and the use of power, it's chosen Tyrant to be its champion - it doesn't care how he uses power - all that matters to it is that he's somene who will use its power when it's given to them, unlike Statesman and Recluse.
Becasue he's taken this massive amount of cosmic power all at once, he's now under the control of the Well - but again, unlike Statesman and Recluse, he's not trying to avoid its control, which is why he's become its champion.
We're just tapping into the Well a little at a time, which keeps us free of its control - we're basically fighting against the Well using its own power - but because its mindless, it doesn't care - whoever wins the Praetorian war will be the most powerful, and that's all that matters to it.
As to what danger the Well has sensed approaching, it seems likely that it's something that'd want to get hold of a cosmic power source in the same way that it devours worlds and burns Kheldians and fuel for its starships.

The Trials imply that the AVs are taken out in a pretty permanent way.