Mezz Protection for All!

I don't really think that mez protection should be distributed out to more ATs. I would, however, like it if Defenders and Corruptors got some kind of universal proactive or reactive mez solution across the AT. Debuffs can be good solutions, but a number of the more potent ones are toggle-based, and will shut off when that first mez lands, leaving you undefended.

Mez solutions that aren't mez protection include the free use of your tier 1 and 2 Primaries and tier 1 Secondary on a Blaster under new Defiance, Mastermind pets that continue to fight and draw aggro from the Mastermind when the Mastermind is mezzed, or even the simple mez them first option that all Controllers and Dominators have available among their Primary set powers.

Some Defenders and Corruptors have mezzes in their attack sets, but not all do. Likewise, some Defenders and Corruptors have have genuine mez protection or a click debuff that matters in their buff/debuff sets, but not all do. I'm not sure what form an AT-wide mez solution should take for either, but it would be a nice thing to have, since the other ATs have a solution to the problem mezzer among the foes that they are facing. It's far from being a deal-breaker, since I really like playing Defenders, even as they are, but it just doesn't feel right to me that those 2 ATs don't have some kind of built-in solution to mez that is available to all combos within the AT.

Just my take on this topic.

Mez Protection is already over-proliferated as it is. Eight ATs (Scrappers, Tankers, both Kheldans, Arachnos Soldiers, Arachnos Widows, Brutes, and Stalkers) have access to all-the-time Mez Protection regardless of powerset, with everyone but the Kheldons and Soldiers requiring only endurance and possibly some very minor recharge slotting to keep it running (Kheldans need either specific teammates or specific forms. Soldiers don't even require endurance- it's all built-in) Another AT, Dominators, has access to Mez protection at least every so often, and can be perma'd.

Of the remaining ATs, all of them but Blasters have at least one powerset that offers mez protection to themselves, and multiple powersets available to Controllers, Corruptors, Masterminds, and Defenders can grant at least limited mez protection to a teammate, as can a pool power (Stimulant) that's a prerec anyways for one of the most popular pool powers in the game anyways. The last AT, Blasters, have an inherent that lets them keep fighting in limited capacity while Mez'd, so they're not at the same mercy everyone else is while held or stunned.

As it is, enemy mez is a very minor threat in the game anymore unless your team is entirely squish-based, facing an enemy faction where mez stacking is an issue (read: Tsoo or Malta) or facing an EB/AV that has a mez that cheats the system and just cuts through mez protection like butter (Ghost Widow.) Throwing mez protection to the few guys who still lack it built-in would make status induction so pointless that enemy mobs may as well have them removed and their other powers rebalanced to take advantage of it. And heck, one FF or Sonic player and mez is mostly a non-factor regardless of team makeup anyways, as can any powerset with a Clear Mind clone and a player dedicated to either keeping it up or really good at reacting to mez icons on the player bar.

As for soloing, I can't think of anything except boss-level enemies who are a serious issue with mezing. Damage classes can BU/Aim/whatever to murder a particularly nasty status inducer in an alpha of glory, and control classes can just mez them first. That leaves Defenders, which is the one time where I admit mez becomes an issue, especially for buff-oriented ones like Empathy, but most buff sets aren't particularly solo-friendly to begin with.

Just in case anyone decides to skim, here is my agreement with this solution, once again:

I agree the problem is the mobs that have minions and lts that can chain. Simple solution: reduce the chain mezzing ability of the lts and minions in those mobs: Malta, Carnies, and Tsoo and KoA to a limited degree.

Eh, I can kinda agree on some things. As far as giving squishies mez protection for pve content though? Nah.

How about mez resistance? Not anything too outrageous, squishies still get mezzed but not for 10 minutes after being hit with some mob's ZOMG mezzes. This would still keep squishies mezzable, but not OP'd, and still allow some AT's to solo a bit more without having to get a crutch (especially at early levels).

Ah, so what we should be doing is advocating that Scrappers, Tankers, Brutes and Stalkers all only have Mezz Protection on teams!

Perfect!

Still here, even after all this time!

Now isn't that strange. I bring up the idea that because anyone can solo without mezz protection, that no one solo needs to have mezz protection.

That way everyone can be 'challenged' quite equally (I'd call it annoyed the same way.)

An nary a reply or even an attempt to say 'it is not true.'

Still here, even after all this time!