Shield Defense: Active Defense

[Offendel]

I like Shield Defense, except for the Active Defense not being a toggle. Seems like all the other Tank defenses have a toggle to resist hold, immobilize, etc., except for Shield Defense. To me that makes it a weaker set.

[Likara]

I find it actually help the set. It not only gives mez protection, but also defense debuff resist. With enough recharge, you can have it perma-double-stacked. My shield tanker has around 85% def debuff resist because of that

[MunkiLord]

1 hour ago, Offendel said:

I like Shield Defense, except for the Active Defense not being a toggle. Seems like all the other Tank defenses have a toggle to resist hold, immobilize, etc., except for Shield Defense. To me that makes it a weaker set.

I disagree, that stacking DDR is amazing and it's what puts Shield Defense over the top.

 

There is good info in this thread   

 

Edited October 24, 2019 by MunkiLord

[GM Sijin]

Bit of a divisive topic among the community. Plenty of people prefer them either way, so it's pretty unlikely that the click powers are going to be changed into toggles.

 

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[Haijinx]

2 hours ago, Ritikesh said:

I find it actually help the set. It not only gives mez protection, but also defense debuff resist. With enough recharge, you can have it perma-double-stacked. My shield tanker has around 85% def debuff resist because of that

That could be a game changer against some groups.

 

 

[MunkiLord]

5 minutes ago, Haijinx said:

That could be a game changer against some groups.

 

 

ITF and soloing Silver Mantis are good examples. As far as I'm concerned, it's the reason SD is so good. 

[FDR's Think Tank]

There should be a defensive set that has more timer clicks and less toggles so you have more playstyles tankers can focus on.

 

If you were to totally swap out toggles and innate stat buffs for all timer abilities, you could have like a super-power cola based defense set.

 

I suppose they might need to work in some "Taunts" with the activation some of the defensive abilities, just to keep the taunt timing from not getting totally disrupted by the need to re-up on ones defensive abilities.

 

Of course, balancing a totally click based defense set might be a real hassle. I might put it below balancing the Toggle-Exclusive activation Stone Defense, which really needs a bit of work still, after all these years.