[Squirrelloid]

I would love someone to point out how in the world that pretender is broken. Its got a thug alternate form with only misc gear slots... if you're using your pretender as a thug you're probably doing something wrong. And its a *bad* thug - it can't even kill independents. Any independents. It dies to militia. (Later in the game when you can cast soul vortex and phoenix pyre it might be pretty awesome. Of course, then you run into like 6 Dai Oni doing the same thing...).

Micah: it would still be bad in Vanilla. For its entrance cost you could make a vanilla sage better than it in almost every way, ignoring the thug alternate form (which is pretty ignorable, since it sucks).