Oh! Don't get me wrong, events and the like can take the place of fights or whatever. Plus, imma also chalk this up to unimaginativeness, because I've seen heroic chars find more interesting and unique ways of devving hiddens then villainous chars and their eat babies and gank (with a few exceptions).
The other thing is that the only time I've had an app denied (out of about twenty apps) was my Necromancy app for Ophelia with ~18 logs build over the course of their entire character's run. Reason: Not enough dangers. One utterly unrelated events later + the random gank of a child and the same app with those logs and bang I have the hidden. This 'advice' of you need dangers to get hiddens is actually the reason why they died cause i went to war with a non-combat character with a bad build, lost every fight, just to get stuff for Riftmancy dev.
Just arguing from personal experience so you know where I'm coming from.
The other thing is that the only time I've had an app denied (out of about twenty apps) was my Necromancy app for Ophelia with ~18 logs build over the course of their entire character's run. Reason: Not enough dangers. One utterly unrelated events later + the random gank of a child and the same app with those logs and bang I have the hidden. This 'advice' of you need dangers to get hiddens is actually the reason why they died cause i went to war with a non-combat character with a bad build, lost every fight, just to get stuff for Riftmancy dev.
Just arguing from personal experience so you know where I'm coming from.