Defenders Damage

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

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.

Take a look at the video in my sig and say that again.

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.

The inherit change to defender's damage pretty much kills any chance of defenders getting more damage.

What i dont like is that defenders have the same -res in all of their powers as other AT's sets. the few that dont (sonic blast and TA) dont have a big enough difference IMO.

I think they should have higher -res, so they debuff better, and that would also help with damage

I haven't been subbed for a while, but I took my Traps / Dark out yesterday.

I was able to drop 2 Pylons with the Lore pets out; on my way to the third, they despawned. And then I dropped a third Pylon for good measure.

That is, IME, a solid amount of damage with or without Lore pets.

I must admit I'm a little uncertain by what metric people measure defender damage as not being enough. Given that at least some defender builds have the capability to take down AVs I don't feel defenders are broken as an AT. Either solo or on teams. As for the whole vigilance giving incentive to bad play....I don't think I have ever seen anyone deliberately play badly for for the purpose of getting vigilance bonuses.

With the new Keyes trial though you can't help but get a huge amount of benefit from vigilance.