So I've been reading some of these posts and heres my take on defiance. This is a good idea on paper, but it should have stayed there. I've been trying to use my defiance effectively and just cannot. I let a minion just hit me over and over to see how the defiance worked and it didnt kick in until I was between yellow and red. I could never get the defiance full since I would die. But even at 4 hp it still was not full. The increase in damage was really not that helpful since when it would get to the point of effectiveness, I would die. I have used this on a 32 blaster and been trying out the archer.
Instead of defiance I would much rather have more defense as a blaster. I'm tired of dying from one to two shots from a +1 lvl boss. I don't expect to be as defensive as a tanker or scrapper, but throw us something at the earlier lvls.