Make Defense Great Again (?)

Ugh, sorry, the "defense" stat under our ship has never seemed to be great at all.

We have got quite a lot of blue items, shields for HP, turbo for speed, gear lube for turret agility and rudder for ship agility, but where's the "defense" item?

It is kinda sick to see defenders with 10k HP or even 15k HP on top of the ladder. The shields and the HP perks on them seems to be the must-have on defenders.

Of all ships, the defender has the highest base defense, but the tiny 60 (or something like it) isn't stopping any actual weapons at all.

Why couldn't we have a new blue item to add defense to our ships, to act as a possible replacement for shields? Kind of like it:

Shock absorber
A layer of coating that uses nanotechnology to reduce incoming impact.

To make it fair, I think it would add around 100 defense at epic lvl40 (without perks) and take 1 blue slot. The crew training should fall under Brock or Burnice, or somebody else, I don't really know.

The current defense perks should also be buffed from 5-7-9 to 5-9-12 since they are doing nothing right now.

What do you think?

 

I am getting goosebumps thinking about elitist, benjen and other top tier defenders. It is hard enough to kill them and you want to make it harder? Think about poor missiles and carronades which will suffer most from defense points. As far as I know, defense point is indirect way of nerfing multiple projectile weapons.

 

I like it, even though I like using missles

 

It is a solid blue item. With higher defense means less HP. It isn't harder to kill these defenders with good balancing.
Carronade and Missile may have to be buffed if this item is to be included.

 

I beg to defer since if your defense is greater than 22 atm you render Jingle Bells ABSOLUTELY useless

it comes in the form of perks and crew training... there are perks for shield that boost your defense and you can always train your crew to increase defense...

I'm not sure how many people would actually use this... sure it would nerf missiles and carronade tremendously but why would I care about 100 defense when I can have multiple shields that give me more health than I could ever justify trading for 100+ defense...