Golden Girl

The reward increases for Keyes and UG have made both of them more popular choices - while TPN and MoM having better rewards right form the start has also made them popular choices.

Ot showed that people were playing BAF and Lambda way mroe than Keyes or UG - which is why they made the changes to Keyes and UG.

It was mentioned once on UStream - although as it was whispered behind a hand while the sound was muted, we didn't really get much of an idea what it might be

That's what's so great about the Incarnate system - it's impossible to ever properly finish an avatar now - not only can they keep giving us more slots, they can also keep adding more trees to them - and level shifts for us and the NPCs means that there's no cap now on how high we can go - plus we've got a regular stream of new Trials giving us rolling multi-Issue cosmic-level storylines.
And with Incarnate content coming in each Issue, the Incarnate system is starting to evolve into a game within a game - once I22 is live, we'll have an Incarnate zone, several Incarnate story arcs, seveal repeatable Incarnate mission contacts, 2 Incarnate TFs and 7 Incarnate Trials - and still only 5 Incarnate slots open so far.
1-50 is now more like phase one of your career, and the Incarnate content is the open-ended phase two - it's endless endgame content.

Most missions can be auto-competed by talking to the contact - it can be done once every 3 days.

Well, they've already confirmed that DA will have repeatable contacts

We'll always have enemies that we'll struggle against, who'll need a lot of us combined to be able to defeat them.
One of the most frequent complaints about Superman is that he's "boring" because he's basically a god - Kryptonite is the only way to give him challenges - and the same rule applies for us - no matter how powerful we become, we're always going to come up against enemeis who are even more powerful.
Whn the Incarnate system started, we were getting thrown into fights at 50 against 54s - but then we got a level shift - then another, then another - we were now 53s fighting 54s - but along came the 54+1s and 54+2s, to keep up a high challenge level.
And if an altered Goliath War Walker is 54+1. and Mother Mayhem is 54+2, then there's a pretty good chance that Tyrant is going to be at least 54+3 - and then we'll be getting the Battalion, who are even more powerful than the loyalists - but there's also the next 5 slots to come, so we'll be growing in power too - but we'll never get to the point where there's no longer any challenging content for us - even if we get another couple fo level shifts in the next 5 slots to make us 50+5, we'll end up with 54+5 enemies.
The Incarnate system never ends - we'll always be chasing the next big thing, and we'll always have enemies who are more powerful than us.

The DA content is 50-54.

They are.

The devs won't make the solo path more attractive than the Trial path - they've already said that.
Plus, it's easy to add special unique rewards for the Trials, like costume part or temp powers tbhat wouldn't be available through the DA content.

Talk to Prometheus - he's the Incarnate Trial contact.

You'll need to repeat the DA content to unlock all your Incarnate abilities.

Tyrant empowers his loyalist henchpeoeple with some of his power from the Well.

It'll be slower than for teams.

There will be enough time-gating to make sure the solo progress is slower than the Trials, even with a very efficient team.

The devs like them too:

It won't change the Trials being the core content for the Incarnate system.

As easy as soloing the Hamidon

But wouldn't that still be a frustrating "gimmick"?

Although talking about it as a solo option is pretty silly - there's not going to be a solo version of the Praetorian Trials - lore-wise, Tyrant and the loyalists are too powerful for a single hero to take on by themselves - and the Battalion are even more powerful than the loyalists

He's quite confusing

Actually, I'm in upsate NY right now

There's more to come:

Whatever could these new challenges be?

Those are all out-of-game things - the story content for the Trials is all in-game.

The Avatar of Hamidon might be a bit rough for some solo ATs and builds