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This my update.
Defiance doesn't do anything for me. For the extra damage to be mesaurable....it needs to save me a shot. This is not happing. There are three reasons for this.
1. The significant protion of the buff starts too late. Just running around you'll get an SO out of it on avg. This is based point 2.
2. Between 40% and 30% health is decision time for the Blaster. Fight or heal up. Below 30% the next hit from a minon or LT can kill you. A dead blaster doesn't make damage.
3. A Blaster finishes a fight long before defiance can help or is never hit in the first place.
I'm done with defiance.
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Same here, and given the other broad, sweeping changes to controllers, tankers, defense and so forth, I'm not surprised to see so few of my SG have logged on in over a week. I'm spending a lot more time with another game now, same as my brother-in-law who was having fun with his controllers until I5 hit the test server. My wife eyes the cancel subscription button more often these days. Sad to say, we've all been big fans of CoH but have become pretty jaded, have lost enough faith that the devs understand what their players want and how we play the game that we've also lost our sense of attachment to our characters.
I've worked with Defiance on the test server, and as so many others before me have said, it isn't useful for my main lvl 50 Assault/Devices, the character I still like playing most though he can't progress further. Defiance won't solve any of the problems high level blasters are having, especially with watering down the few defenses we have and making changes to controllers and tankers that make it more difficult to keep aggro off of blasters in the first place.
