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Reminds me of someone's concept, "AliceinParagon", a riff on Alice in Wonderland. It was a great costume that was enhanced all the more with custom binds that enlarged and shrunk the toon when she said something like "why does this say 'Drink me'" and "this cake says 'eat me'".

I would disagree with them being a good beginning AT -- sneaky, yes, but as an intro to the game with aggro and end management, not so much. Teaming is often trickier and, thankfully, they are no longer restricted to red-side, which would consign most new players to a relatively lonely introductory experience.

It could just be the hands on the model -- they're weird looking ( ' ;

Their origins also have very explicit storylines, which makes sense.

I understand what you're saying, but that's not quite my logic chain. ( ' :

Marchand sends me/I choose to go to Primal Earth to prove all Praetorians aren't evil in the hope that it will stop the invasion and thus ultimately save the lives of Praetorians. I can be a hero and help there on Primal Earth (with the 'chaos' that is every villain group), but I shouldn't/do not want to have to attack Praetorian assets to do that (which is what must be done in the Incarnate Trials.....and what my Primal Earth toons are willing to do). This toon born of the reponsibility-arc values Praetorians more than Primals and reluctantly leaves Praetoria, only because it ultimately benefits Praetoria. (i love the pains of the responsibility arc -- it's a bittersweet and compelling story).

Meh, all of my incarnates do the same thing...to save Primal Earth ( ' ;

Sometimes writers may goof (inadvertantly), or change their mind, but sometimes writers actually put things out there intending the audience to make an assumption that isn't true in order to set up a bigger reveal (e.g. "Darth Vader killed your father" versus "that's the last time they ever saw Stu Redman").

Also, even if Mender Ramiel may not actually be an anagram for a nefarious plotting fiend in the 'verse, we've been warned by the letter writer not to trust the Menders and therefore it may not actually be "problematic" that he's giving out wrong information (although not originally intended when conceived).

I actually think people lose sight of the fact that CoH is not a comic book in the sense that it is both static and dynamic. A comic-book retcon starts from today's issue and goes forward; Because someone can effectively start the same H/V/P journey today that you started and completed 3 years ago, retcons are inevitable if we don't want the world to become stale. For our H/V/Ps that experience this retcon, it amounts to an altered reality that only a few of us share the memory/knowledge of and new H/V/Ps will never know (in-game, of course).

Minor tangent -- I'm another person who enjoys the Praetoria content and have a few toons that I would like to see play through to 50. I don't care for the fact that one of my "Responsibility" arc-based toons becomes a hero and effectively cannot carry on the ultimate task to protect Praetoria. It's also annoying that toons don't have some way to be identified as Primal or Praetorian in origin (va badge or internal flag)-- it makes Mistress Eva's comment about the world being bizaare and different out of place since...it was this toon's world. /rant off

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That's very Matrix-like actually, and it does work well.

Because, we want to talk about our feelings, but can't do that with girls around.... ( ' :

poop! ) ' :

Okay, so I'm not the only slow poke (2 level 50's since launch). Altitis and a bit of uber casual playing take its toll.

Grats to Voodoo Girl! ( ' :

I thought the same thing when I saw it. Should go nice with the Barbarian costume sets.

Edit - would be kind of nice if this were the first MM set to get customization....

Instead of summon wolves, make it summon canines.....instead of summon lions, summon big cats....and the let players customize. Maybe I want panthers or leopards....or dachshunds instead of wolves..... ( ' :