Yeah...I've never really intended my Prestige Classes to be easy to enter though. It's my personal philosophy that the class should appeal to players on the merits of it being INTERESTING, mechanics be (more or less) damned. In short, it's not a case of "why would anyone not take this and/or take this with a character of X class," but rather a case of "can I make this interesting enough that someone will build a character around it? As such, no one is going to just discover that they happen to qualify for one of my PrCs. So the requirements sting a bit, but then again some of the abilities are QUITE good. I mean, a bunch of telekinesis spells helping you out? Dodging to another plane? Having an invincible, Constitution-draining sidekick? That's some rather serious punch there.