Ok .. I just read through the whole thread.
My view on this is based on having 2 Blasters at the moment - Level 38 Fire/Fire and Level 29 EB/EM - as well as trying several other Blaster sets up to around Level 20.
The Defiance inherent power - in PvE - is not useless but is certainly far too situational to be of regular assistance when compared to most of the other inherents.
This is particularly relevant from level 20 up.
My vote for a change to Defiance would have to go to simply raising the point where Defiance kicks in and raise the Damage and Accuracy buff, so that it becomes useful without being almost dead.
The obvious change here is to include Accuracy as part of Defiance and to make it more user friendly more often.
The start point for Defiance to kick in and the revised scale would have to worked out but should work alright - with minimal change. This would allow Blasters to remain at a more reasonable lower Health level if they wanted to tap into their inherent.
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It does have its uses in some situations but on the whole I would agree that defiance is a pretty poor inherant.
To be honest I allways thought it would make more sense to have it on a melee character,perhaps linked to their taunt radius..The more they get hurt the angrier they get and the more attention they draw from the enemy as a result.
I would much rather have vigilance instead.