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Incarnate Trials have proven to be some of the most challenging -- and interesting -- endgame content in City of Heroes to date, and players who have enjoyed them are undoubtedly anxious for the latest one, Dilemma Diabolique, which is coming with Issue 22.

Senior Designer Chris Behrens wrote an informative dev diary in which he outlines five lessons the studio's learned from past Incarnate Trials and how these lessons will affect Dilemma Diabolique. These lessons include adding rest periods between fights, giving players clear information, keeping trash mobs from exhibiting super-powered (more so than usual) abilities, delivering attractive rewards, and tuning special mechanics so they don't overwhelm players.

Dilemma Diabolique looks to be a quicker trial than its brethren, although Behrens sees this as a virtue: "We feel that the faster pace of the trial for maxed Incarnates is reward in itself, since it makes accumulating Empyrean Merits for our most dedicated Incarnates a faster endeavor."

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You can imagine - once people heard that Onyxia was being retooled so that players could take her out and land themselves a shiny new pet - the frenzy was on. This image of insane amounts of Dragonkin carnage in World of Warcraft comes to us from Mr. P. who didn't send any other note along other than to explain it was from the PTRs outside of Ony's lair. That said, knowing World of Warcraft fiends like we do, we know someone out there with skinning is looking at this picture right now and twitching, just because there are so many skins to be had - and nobody is cleaning them up!

One Shots is in need of your screenshots, so while you're out getting your game time in, why not send us some of your images! It's easy to do. Just email them to oneshots AT massively DOT com along with your name, the name of the game, and a quick description. We'll post them out here and give you the credit - bonus points if you can make someone twitch!

Gallery: One Shots

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