i put 3 defense slots in my empath slapped it on one of my fave firetanker mates, told team to make it so he is only one i need to heal, sent him in against +2 clockwork king spammed fort on him as soon as it recharged omg easy healing! +2 clockwork king was such a wuss!
He will honor his words; he will definitely carry out his actions. What he promises he will fulfill. He does not care about his bodily self, putting his life and death aside to come forward for another's troubled besiegement. He does not boast about his ability, or shamelessly extol his own virtues. - Sima Qian.
I've always slotted mine 3 Def, 3 Recharge and been extremely happy with it. Probably the best power in the set IMO.
I've never seen the need to increase the ToHit buff, it's pretty large anyway and players can always slot their attacks for more accuracy, but nobody can really cap their defense.
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I have it 2recharge, 1 def at the minute...but I've been sneaky with my empathy defender and respec'd out of the fort slots and put them in my attacks instead. Makes life a little easier for me, and no-one is any the wiser.
I found that if you give someone fort, they're not going to know whether you've got 3 +def in there or whatever, as long as they see the shiny red glow, they're happy enough! 
At some point I'm of course going to put the slots back, but in the meantime I've slotted up cosmic burst to great effect. Maybe at 40 or 42 I'll stick the fort slots back in there like it used to be, 2 rec, 2 def, 2 tohit.
Does that make me a bad person?
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Pretty much what Brit_Man said! (so if he's bad guess I must be too) 3 recharge rate is all I have in mine ATM. Got my Fortitude to that state pretty much as soon as I could so that I could use it as often as possible - THAT'S what the public seems to want.
Since the latest defence changes I'm somewhat sceptical about boosting defence. If and when more slots become available for Fort I may put some 'to hits' in, but realistically, as Brit_Man says, who's gonna know either way? 
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Since the latest defence changes I'm somewhat sceptical about boosting defence.
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Just out of curiosity - why?
Mine is :
- 3 recharge
- 3 defence
- 2 to hit buffs
... because I have a HO in it