Golden Girl

It seems that as the Well is empowering Tyrant, and Tyrant is passing that power onto his armies, a shadow/reflection of these Incarnate-empowered enemies returns to the Well once they're defeated.

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http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=254147

There are currently 4 new slots available to see in the sneak peek - Judgemnent, Interface, Lore and Destiny.

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http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=254147

I'm not quote sure how you can come to that conclusion when the devs have gone out of their way to ramp up the story elements in several systems.
For example, look at the Radio missions with their one-off set-ups being linked to random villain groups, who use identical dialog, regardless of how suitable it is for them - like a Circle of Throns mage will say the same text as a Freakshow boss.

Now look at the similar Tip missions - they're also one-off set ups, but they're linked to specific groups, and each one has unique dialog for the mission - plus, there's an actual running storyline through several Tips, even though that can come out as rather mixed up if you get the Tips dropping in the wrong order - but it's still a big step up stroy-wise form the Radio missions.

In the build up to the launch of GR, Ghost Falcon and other devs were constantly emphasizing the RPG part of the side switing system - they kept talking about your "character's journey", rather than pointing out the actual gameplay aspects of being able to acces content from both sides of the game.

And then there are the Incarnate Trials, where rather than just adding alittle "?" button in the LFG window to get a a quick run-down of what each Trail is about, and then just leaving it up to palyers to use the nav window to follow the required objectives, they've actually gone out of their way to make sure everyone is able to follow the story, by adding "voice over" chat bubbles by Prometheus to brief everyone on the situation, and then adding cutscenes to each Trial to further reinforce the story elements - both of which remove one of the frequent problems of TFs and arcs where only the leader sees all the text.

They also cut out the Alpha slot from GR to give them time to add more lore-based content to it, including Ramiel's arc to unlock it rather than just buying it with merits as was the case in the GR beta - they actually cut one of the planned major features of GR just to add more story anmd gameplay depth to it.
And for the Incarnate components for the Alpha slot, they didn't make them random drops - they made sure they tied them to lore-related TFs.

And then there's the current meta-story of Tyrant and the Well of the Furies, and the multiverse-wide threat they're carrying - again, the devs are taking care to make sure that there are lore and story reasons tied to each step on the Incarnate path, rather than just offering a generic route to unlocking the new slots and powers.

Just because someone reads a book and doesn't like it, that doesn't automatically mean that the author has written a bad story.

Why would you do that?

On the new Lambda Trial, he has an epic new fist attack that seems to one-shot anyone

I was interested in Praetoria from the very first time I played the Portal Corp arcs - it was fun to see the signature Heroes I'd run into on my journey to 50 showing up as evil twins.

Because the pets are not "real" pets - they're the essence of defeated Incarnate-empowered enemies that you draw from the Well, so only Incarnate-empowered enemies would be available to you - and so far, the only Incarnate-empowered enemies we've fought have been the Praetorians.

You might eventually be able to customize your Kheldian to look like a Praetorian one.

He might find having Primal Earth heroes arriving in Praetoria to help the Resistance as a useful thing for his propaganda - sort of like the Hamidon is also useful for his propaganda

Actually, I see the darkness at heart of Praetoria - I'm just giving reasons why the stiff-armers could pretend they were on the right side

I don't think that'd happen very often - not only because there are only 20 levels of Praetoria before players travel to the main game world, but also because the setting isn't as familiar comicbook-wise as the Primal Earth one - if you buy CoH as a superhero game, then the superhero stuff only starts once you leave Praetoria.

The pets are the essence of defeated enmies that you draw from the Well - if the only essence that cna be drawn from the Well is from Incarnate powered enemies, then you're only going to get Praetorian options, as they're the only Incarnate powered enemies we've fought so far - unless you want a Statesman/Recluse/Reichsman pet too

That's probably why the loyalists are so keen on getting a bot of lebensraum to give them more space.

There's way more Praetorian stuff to come

I think you're moving a bit too quickly - you need to find out if he has feelings for you first, and then make your move

Just think of them as a special set of powers, like the epic/patron power pools

I think you're his favorite - in all capacities.

Yes, they'll sweep all complaints aside like a cosmically powered god-emperor sweeps aside all resistance - you must submit to the will of the devs, or be destroyed.
That's in the EULA, I think.

I think Tyrant's attempt to conquer the multiverse will stir up all kinds of things

You're failing to convince people that it's a badly written story

Talking of swans, Black Swan still hasn't made her appearance yet in the Incarnate content - along with several other members Praetorian Guard - I20 is just the start of Tyrantfest 2011

But what if it's lonely?

The pair of you might want to avoid any threads about the upcoming panel at PAX East, and you might also want to skip I21 and I22 - I20 is just the start of Tyrant's wacky antics

If Tyrant is using the Well to empower his forces, and you get the essence of defeated enemies via the Well, then maybe you can only get the essences of enemies who were linked to the Well?