A New Defender Idea

Hey all while im not much of a fan for defenders since i started playing COH around 4 years ago, i must admit taking one on a stroll down the park seemed different and fun, i saw a recent thread that was discussing about possible buffs for defenders, well it went on from 2009 so i can see, and i got to thinking, i thought of an idea while playing a defender, the inherent power for defender is obviously vigilance which is ok, im not sure on the unmbers for the amount of discount of endurance you get for it while your team mates are injured and/or about to die, tbh it seems like a useless inherent power, a waste of the defenders potential, so i vote that we either come up with an idea nad maybe show it to the devs, or we could just discuss about it here, but im anxious to see your ideas, my personal idea is that a new inherent power called [Protection] where the more people you protect and apply shields to the more chance you have of dodging attacks and increasing your will of fury to give out more damage, additionally your health will go up aswell slightly, what do you guys think?
i really like the defenders now that im starting to take notice of them where as before i thought they were silly and weak, they are not weak, they are pretty decent if not very capable AT's.
Hope to hear some legimate responses on this and see where this goes.

Many thanks for your time guys.

Sypher V.

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vig·i·lance
noun

1. state or quality of being vigilant; watchfulness: Vigilance is required in the event of treachery.
2. Pathology . insomnia.

Synonyms
1. alertness, attention, heedfulness, concern, care.

The current vigilance mechanic has absolutely nothing to do with being vigilant since the defender that gets the largest endurance discount is the lax, inattentive, unheedful, unconcerned, careless buffer or the reactive, healing focused defender. None of which make good defenders and actually rewards poor play while penalizing good play.

Vigilance in it's simplest terms means being prepared. That means a proactive defender, buffing the team before a fight or surveying the field for the best places/targets for debuffs and applying them with aplomb.

A better mechanic (or one that would at least match the name given to the inherent) would be:

Each time a defender uses one of his/her primary powers they get a small self stacking boost to their global recharge that lasts for a moderate amount of time (a max of say 5, 5% boosts that last ~20 seconds). Additionally each time that a defender uses one of their secondary powers they get a small self stacking endurance discount (again a max of say 5, 5% global discounts that last ~20 seconds).

Viola' "vigilance" the proactive vigilant defender is rewarded, the negligent reactive defender is penalized.