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Well they could take /dark blast and pick up Life Drain, so that would make a 4th healing power.

Then with the magic of the invention system, they could put entropic chaos chance to heal procs in their blasts giving them another 2-3 heals. And with the psi APP, they could take Mass Hypnosis and slot the Call of the Sandman heal proc and get even more heals.

And don't forget they could take the medicine pool and pick up Aid Self and Heal Ally, so that's 2 more heals.

Finally, they can go incarnate and snag the Destiny heal set and a lot of Lore pets have heals, too.

So it's not doom and gloom for the healer if they just work with the system.

If you have that many purples, you shouldn't need the break frees. Combine the insps you don't need into the ones you do.

Then you're doing something wrong. Every AT has a way to deal with mezzing opponents. Break frees are not the only answer, they're just the easiest.

Yes, every level 50 character has the capability to solo the standard content at the standard difficulty on SOs alone. This is not refutable, as it has been proven otherwise. Earth/FF, ice/emp trollers, Emp/psi and FF/nrg defenders have all completed the Mender Ramiel arc. Certainly not every player may have built intelligently enough to do so, I'm not arguing that. But every AT, every powerset combination, is capable of soloing. Especially at level 50.

I have gotten to be a real beyotch about this. I rarely play defenders (just not my thing) but its almost always obvious when you've got a refugee from some other MMO on your team. They call every Defender a "healer" and insist that someone tanks for the team. For whatever reason, its often a blaster who makes that comment...maybe because, to a blaster, healing is about the only thing they value from a buffer.

All ATs are going to be available on both sides, thanks to the new tutorial.

Unless I missed a new announcement (entirely possible, given the pace of posting today), Controllers and Masterminds will be gated archetypes, not available to F2P players unless paid for separately. I think that's what Amy_Amp was referring to.

Yes, they are. If one was to do a comparison and is forced to pick, you're damn right everyone in the world would pick empathy as the 'healer' class.

Everyone loves to avoid being forced to place that label on anything in this game, but if you have to, Empathy Defender would be it. Massive regen buffs are just heals over time, in a sense. The game actually considers heals hitting something with negative damage.

Hey, I'm with you on wanting to focus on other areas when it comes to defenders. I love my TA defender to death, for example, but come on, this argument is just tiring after all these years. Just shrug your shoulders and stop fighting it.