Defender pride: All Defender ITF

Well I may not be an empath, but if you ever want a Rad/Rad on Virtue for all-defender awesomeness, look me up.

I'm sure you can try as best as you want, but you lack debuffs.

Empathy gives you pathetic amounts of damage. With properly built characters you don't need the accuracy from Fortitude, though it certainly is nice.

Defender damage cap is 300%. Roughly one fulcrum shift is enough to cap everyones damage if they stand close. At this point adding more damage is pointless, it does nothing to speed things up. The only thing to increase damage at this point are debuffs which dark/cold/rad/storm all have.

Going for a 30 minute run pretty much requires some seriously fast playing, something that empathy does not provide.

Further optimization would be to have everyone with Sonic blast secondary. You could probably get hits for about 1k+ with tier 1 attacks with that much debuffing.

You won't reach that level of carnage with 5 empaths though.

If you have 50s on the teams, why would you want to skip bosses/incarnate shard drops?

I am glad you had fun. Buff/debuff heavy teams are very potent, even without any kind of fancy inventions (or enhancements at all, really).

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Originally Posted by Doom_Diva Frankly, I've been on full teams, with tankers, that couldn't finish Rommie off so the fact that our defender team did it (even with 5 empaths) is a good thing.

Actually, it is not a surprise to most forum goers that all defender teams perform well. Running a TF with all defenders is making the game easier, not harder.

With a team make up like that did you at least get masters?


>_>

If you guys ever wander over to Pinnacle to do this I have a Rad/Sonic and a Dark/DP that would be interested in coming along.

Back in the Day, like Fall of 2004, there were many all-defender SGs. The Triumphant Defenders were one of the first on Triumph. I myself had been in one on Guardian when the SG members bolted to some new sure-to-fail MMO by Blizzard.

All-defender teams, supergroups are addictive. Just give them a try. Duplication doesn't matter much although more than 2 FF defenders is less than optimal. The 'formation' or attack style is like an irresistible amoeba steamrolling everything in its path. Stacking accelerated metabolism, speed boosts, even adrenaline boosts if you are lucky enough to get that, too, makes it very fast-paced. AoE controls and attacks melt spawns by the dozens. Nuking in waves just speeds up the fight with all the endurance replenishing tools.

Good luck to Green Machine. Kudos to Repeat Offenders. I hope old becomes new again and all defender teams or at least defender heavy teams aren't looked at as gimp but the way things work best.

Do all stormer ITF.. So much fun and chaos

but oh so easy!

Having done every AT through an all XXX ITF, I agree all defender ITF ranks up there on the easy street scale.

Ugh, I could shoot myself. I was logged in that night and was respec'ing my toon. After I came out of it, I saw the invite for the all defender ITF (I was on my FF/Dark/Psi). After reading this thread I'd be really interested in seeing if people here would be interested in starting an all defender SG. I know a few years back RO was was out and about but I haven't seen or heard from hobo healer in many many months. Let me know what you kids out there are thinking about this.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

I am not sure how many would leave their established supergroups. Perhaps we could create a new global channel for getting all-defender/defender-heavy activity going.

I like the idea of a Defender TF channel as well, any suggestions for names? I kinda like the idea of calling it "Fruitsalad" in honor of The Defender's Manifesto but that is somewhat wierd to anyone who isn't familiar with it.

Fruit Salad is a great name. I'd join that channel. Defenders are probably my favorite AT; it's the only one I've got multiple 50s of.