Vigilance

Vigilance is by far the weakest and most useless inherent in the game. Controllers bring as much to a team or more (unless the Defender sacrifices solo ability and goes full support) and is still a much stronger soloist than Defenders. At epic levels, this discrepancy is worsened as Controllers get access to AoE attacks turning them into the dreaded magetanks. Controllers awesome inherent basically doubles the damage they do. All other ATs get strong inherents that often define the AT. Defenders get stuck with an inherent that might as well not exist.

My suggestion would be to turn Vigilance into something similar to a reverse Kheldian Cosmic Balance. With this a Defender inherent would grant all team members, including him or herself, certain minor bonuses depending on what AT they are. For instance, Tankers would be given resistance/defense buffs, Blasters/Scrappers would gain accuracy/damage buff, Defenders would get recovery/regeneration buffs and debuff resistance, Controllers would get a recharge buff and status effect resistance. The bonuses would stack with each extra Defender in any given team. When solo, a Defender would retain only a single Defender bonus (Recovery/Regeneration and Debuff resistance) only.

This way, the inherent would be useful in both team and solo situations, thematically appropriate and well balanced. What do you guys think?

Actually, I'd say the VEAT inherent is -significantly- more useless.

I'll give you that. Like many people, I'm of the opinion that it should take the defender's own health into account.

That would be good, I'd be happier with the first 2 Primary powers being usable while mezzed and a slight reduction in the -end discount, but might be a bit much for some powersets.

Though I see your point I disagree that a Defender is "supposed" to keep its team healthy. Designed for it yes, but there are parts of the game that naturally you will end up soloing. Of course you don't have to solo, it just feels unfair to expect the entire AT to ALWAYS team. Some prefer to solo, but the powersets available to Defenders fit their character theme etc.

And...since when was playing this game a job? I play my Defender like a crazed squirrel, constantly obsessing over health/end bars, damage buffs, recharge speed, where my enemies are, and every few minutes I remember the team might want some buffing. Or not. Depends if they're in range...

Hello Luminara,

I understand what your saying. I dont expect this to happen seriously, and I also pointed out that the Devs would probably shuffle around the first 3 powers in our primary to make the first one acceptable to their 'balance' ideas.

very doubtful that we would get it, just that (to me) it would be nice.

Also I will have to admit that I have no experience with TA and Cold Dom.
So, I am sure you are correct in how that inherent would not benefit TA as much as say, Empathy.

The funniest thing is that if we *did* get +recharge/some way to use powers while mezzed etc, during low levels our endurance would be hurting, for most sets.

I take great umbrage with the assertion that Vigilance encourages a defender to kill off team members. Unless there's someone afk mooching on your team, it's a terrible idea to let someone's health go low in order to get endurance.