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Actually, this was Statesman not trying to confuse people with a *possible* implementation of ED when it hadn't been announced yet. He specifically stated that this is why he didn't mention it in his examples. He was aware that ED was possible and may have happened, but it had not gone "public" at that point.
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The problem with stating this is that in reality itÂ’s little more than an excuse for misleading the forum populace. Statesman "chose" to state that FF was now considered balanced due to the ability to six slot. He could instead have stated that they felt this change was needed and was working as intended. Would that have satisfied everyone, obviously not, however he would not have misled everyone.
While it may be true that ED was not "officially" approved yet, they did state that the I5 changes were balanced with ED in mind. From this it can only be concluded that it was never the intention of the developers to leave the amounts where they could get with 6 slotting. As such it stands to reason that had ED not gone through they would have done another global defense change in order to bring down to what they saw as "balanced".
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No other Defender set provides the level of Defense as a Force Field Defender. The built in Status Protection is invaluable, especially with Scrapper and Tankers Status Protections reduced.
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As I believe was stated above, this statement isn't entirely accurate, Radiation and Dark Miasma can both give a higher defense by debuffing the enemies ability to hit. Both unlike FF's both of these sets can also heal. Now, I do agree that FF don't need to be given a heal, but their defensive numbers should be increased at least to equal that of radiation and dark miasma. The resistance to status effects may help, but not really enough to compensate for the lack luster defense.
