The devs are happy with defender damage and have said as much. It was a huge concession from them when they made vigilence give a damage boost when solo and on small teams but they pretty much had to do that since the defender was underpowered compared to corruptors and very few people would ever have rolled a defender again after GR came out.
That said the biggest problem with defenders is still that the DPE is way out of whack. Your damage powers cost too much blue when solo but they can cost virtually nothing if you play selfishly and essentially let your team down for the sake of you blasting with your low wattage secondary instead of buffing/debuffing. Vigilence is borked. It incentivizes poor play on the defenders part and punishes good play.
Defenders are sort of broken but they are broken in the way the devs want them to be broken.
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I may just not be familiar with how much damage the Lore pets can put out, but how much of that is something crazy like Neutrino Bolt slotted for procs?
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Originally Posted by Auroxis
Take a look at the video in my sig and say that again.
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Neutrino has 2 damage procs(one of them is purple), the achilles' -res proc and 66% damage slotting. Cosmic Burst has 1 damage proc and 102% damage slotting.|
Originally Posted by Midnight_Tempest
I may just not be familiar with how much damage the Lore pets can put out, but how much of that is something crazy like Neutrino Bolt slotted for procs?
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On my own I can do like 150 DPS tops, but my buffs and debuffs multiply the lore pets in a way no scrapper or blaster could, especially considering lore pets are affected by recharge buffs.
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Although I admit at most times I wish defenders would do the same proportional damage compared to blasters as the tank already does in comparison to scrappers, there is another aspect that would excite me even more. I would like to see the secondary effects of defender blasts be increased including better accuracy for archery and some way to feature more knockdown in energy blast. This would increase the desire for defenders to blast as much as increased damage.
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The inherit change to defender's damage pretty much kills any chance of defenders getting more damage.
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Originally Posted by Morgan78
Ok, So I may be the only on COH that feels the way I feel. I have always been fond of range toons. My favs being Dominators, Corruptors, Defenders. I know defenders role are to buff heal what have you, but there damage is way to low in my oppinion. I know there must be other post out there. I just wish that they would increase there damage output. No I am not say defenders should be blaster or scrappers damage out put, but just a little more would make me happy.
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A scaling damage buff that maxes out at 30% at level 20. You loose a third of that if you team with someone else and two thirds if you team with two people. Three or more and the buff goes bye bye.
Mind that's mostly to help a defender who's alone or on small teams. On larger teams your primary job is to buff and debuff and your secondary job is to blast away.
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Ok, So I may be the only on COH that feels the way I feel. I have always been fond of range toons. My favs being Dominators, Corruptors, Defenders. I know defenders role are to buff heal what have you, but there damage is way to low in my oppinion. I know there must be other post out there. I just wish that they would increase there damage output. No I am not say defenders should be blaster or scrappers damage out put, but just a little more would make me happy.
Please dont slam my post to much lol