Defender Debate

Once upon a time, it used to be Defenders had more HPs than both Blasters and Controllers. At the time, Blasters were nevertheless somewhat overpowered due to various factors (mostly an out of whack Smoke Grenade). Once those factors were fixed, it turned out that Blasters were actually useless. So the Devs kept throwing stuff like more HP and a new Inherent at the AT in an effort to make it worthwhile.

The Defender Inherent was just added in to insult Defender players clamoring for an Inherent of their own after everyone else had gotten one. Essentially it's the Devs saying 'shut up and heal, n00b'. In other words, I wouldn't expect anything to come out of that. After all, Defenders are fine as they are, even with low HP and Negligence.

"If you're going through hell, keep going."
Winston Churchill

Yup I recall that time, that's when I used to exclusively play defenders.

For the longest the CoH website still stated defenders as having medium hitpoints even though they were reduced.

I still remember when they came out with the defender inherent, it was as if no thought or consideration at all went into it. Even after it came out and the defender boards were like "are you kidding us?" nothing was done to change it. I believe some of the other inherents have undergone tweaks since their release.

I guess ever cloud has a silver lining, due to the lack of defender "love" I switched over to playing scrappers, and man do I love scrappers!

They altered it a few issues back into an enemy targeted, moderate damage, AoE attack with knockdown instead of knockback.