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Ah, forgotten or repressed?

"Tah-Los Eye-Land"?

That's how I pronounce it, at least.

The Tyrant Personal Mission shows that you can play as someone else and even get their powers. So you could pick pregenerated characters and get it to work now.

I hope so, but really, my biggest gripe with the trials in general is that the lore gets lost in all the noise.

I do like trials, even though I thought I wouldn't, a multicolored swarm of superpowered characters doing superpowered stuff is inherently cool. But the "Why" gets lost really easily in the thunder and fury of the average trial. I mean, I know what the story is, I read up on it outside the game, but that's just the problem. "Outside the game." Even big blue Prometheus is kind of cryptic on the hows and whys.

Now, I know not everyone is as big on lore as I am, which is fine. Some people just want to farm BAF until their left mouse button falls off. Fair enough, it's one way to play. I'd have liked if each big trial had a companion small solo mission you unlock by having the completion badge, to show what happened and what effects the trial had. With the personal mission tech, they could even let us play a villain. Playing Mother Mayhem as she learns about the failure at BAF would be fun, for instance. But there are plenty of characters on both sides of the war that would be fun viewpoints for an aftermath mission.

Hm, this is turning into a suggestion thread now. Maybe I should let the idea crystallize and post a proper suggestion later.

Hopefully, yes. White with a light blue tint, and a curly purple mane and tail would also be acceptable.

Seriously, though, I hope for a Beam Rifle sale soon. The Mecha armor is out, and Retro Sci-Fi is coming soon. There's potential for a surge of Beam Rifle characters about now, I suggest they capitalize on it.

That and I want Beam Rifle, too, but I'm hoping for a sale.

I agree.

That said, ironic punishments are okay by me. So we'll have him watch as the Primal Incarnates rush in and beat up Praetorian Hamidon. In the "You could have just asked, you know..." Incarnate Trial.

Original Thor is fairly easy to set apart from Marvel's though.

First of all, red hair and a long beard. His armor is what you can get closest to 1000bc era viking armor. Basically, wait for the chainmail set and combine with with some Barbarian pieces.

His hammer, Mjølner, does not shoot lightning. It does always return when he throws it, though and it packs a mean punch. To create thunder and lightning, Thor rides his chariot pulled by two goats across the clouds. In other words, not really something you can make in the game.

He is incredibly tough and resilient, and a brave warrior. That's pretty much his role in the pantheon, the guy they send out to "settle" things. It's why he has those awesome tales.

So, if you wanted to make a vanilla Asa Tor for the game, I'd say you want an Invul/Mace (Hammer) Tanker. You'll lose the throwing of the hammer, but you still get tough warrior with a powerful hammer. Oh, and do not expect him to be friends with any Dark Control or Beast Mastry character over level 32. He is destined to die fighting Fenris, a giant wolf that will eat the sun at Ragnarok. So big unnatural looking wolves? He won't like that.

Of course, Thor in particular is a very dangerous ground to walk on, since Marvel's variant is one of their big characters.

Not forgetting her version of Darth Vader... as Bubbles.

All in all, it was awesome. Pity they didn't get any further into the film, but, hey, 80 minutes of awesome is good enough.

I got a fun one from my TA/Archery Defender from a few years back. I usually pride myself in knowing the exact limits of my character... this one was a bit unusual, though.

Full team, doing the old Shadowhunter mission, with the wolves and such. Anyway, the fight against Shadowhunter had gone bad, and people on the team started dying or getting hurt, running away... into wolves. I was flying, so wolves were not as dangerous to me, but I had to do something to give the team a chance to regroup so we could finish Shadowhunter. So I did the sensible thing and grabbed aggro from Shadowhunter, followed immediately by hitting Force of Nature.

Then came a team bleep.
Teammate: Hey, you have AV aggro.
Me: I know.

I told them to hurry and get back in the fight, and then I tanked Shadowhunter on my Defender, without team backup, for two minutes, knowing full well that when Force of Nature dropped, he'd kill me in seconds. The team, thankfully, recovered with a good 5-10 seconds to spare, and we beat him, but it was pretty fun to do something that any Defender really isn't built to do.

I know my characters. I wasn't 100% sure that would work, but what else could I do?