[Zapmeister]

While I mentioned "feeling down", I didn't mean to imply it was the main reason for my view. I'm trying to say that losing the pretender is a big deal, enough to create an unbalancing problem in the game IMHO if certain pretender designs are much more vulnerable than others.

Yes, you can stay at home, for-going what used to be the main reason for mid-range astral magic (teleported attacks). Perhaps the changes to Gateway signal that this is what the devs intend.