"I Need Healing" - A Beginner's Guide to Defenders

[Teklord]

Very true. FF revamp has given it -res debuffs and debuff resistance including defense debuf resistance. The stats on Trick Arrow -tohit for flash arrow have changed and it looks like the set had a rework. The tier list was garbage when it was written and is worse now. Mob reworks have also changed the priorities of what a defender wants to be able to do.

 

[Ringo]

Could probably unsticky this thread and replace it with a new and updated one

 

5 years of changes add up to a lot of irrelevant hot takes

[Hew]

On 4/30/2019 at 1:36 PM, Overclock said:

It seems like we're getting not just people who played CoH years ago but some new folks putting on the cape. Welcome!

 

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Hope this all helps!

 

I don't know if this person still visits, but we should update it to include the new powersets that have come out like storm, fish, and gunz.

[rksr9997]

Yeah does this really need to still be pinned? It's like 6 years old.

[legendaryjman]

I agree that Kinetics is the best defender set in the game, but on live Force Fields made me a believer. The J-Force and I ran a contest to see which of the known defenders on Freedom could keep us alive. We would run a task force and compare the deaths in the end. We had a rad, an empath, an kinetics. We would frustrate them to no end by running off and getting them killed. it was a great time.

 

Then a force field stepped up. No one in the J-Force played a FF. We lawled and lawled at the n00b thinking they could keep us alive. Then the mission started ... and we couldn't die. I had no idea the bubbles were so powerful. We tried. I TRIED everything I could to get killed and I couldn't. The force field defender won the contest handily. 

I became a believer that day. While Force Fields isn't the most sexy of the defender powers I think it is the strongest defender primary in the game.