Do Defenders really have to be the worst at EVERYTHING to make up for tankiness?

Defender is in the very back of the background the one that is twice the height than the other ships. Tall, fat, and trailing in the back.

 

What an asinine comment. I don't actually have four shields, I have two shields. I also have a rudder, and a turbo. So, I'm juuuuust about as tanky as a tanky-built Shooter, still slower, with marginally better turning ability. And even with the rudder, I can still barely keep track with Speeders/Enforcers to hit them. And if I go full tank? Or even just two shields two turbos (tried that once)? I sacrifice the ability to EVER track a yellow boat running circles around me.

 

Exactly one of the major problems with defender. If we use the other blue slots to make the specs close to a shooter, we lose because it’s defender’s 3 red slots vs. shooter’s 5 red slots. This shows that defenders are completely under powered because there’s major problems with the value of blue slots. 1 or 2 hits from a big torp we can’t dodge brings our hp down to a shooter’s hp or less. While only having 3 red slots, worst movement, and a big ass hit box which is a torpedo magnet.

 

Hey can somebody explain this to me, while we are on the topic of defenders? My blast cannon damage is 748 exactly. One time, though, I hit a defender for 598 damage. I was surprised, because the damage reduction was 150 points. My knowledge was that the damage fluctuation for weapons were 10% up and down. If my weapon was -10%, the minimum, it would do ~673 damage. Minus 50, which I believe is the maximum defense score, it would be 623 at the minimum. Does anybody know what happened? Or did I just get my numbers wrong?

 

You know there are defense perks you can put on shields, right? Not just HP perks? They probably had a shield loaded up with a defense perk or three.

 

The maximum defense a defender can have is 50 though.

 

Wait, really? Even with perks? I didn't know that, never actually used defense perks.

 

Yeah I only use hp perks. I saw the limit on another thread somewhere

 

But, I have a Mk 5 defender, and it has 45 defense with not a single defense perk in sight. You're telling me if I put even one rare defense perk on a shield, I'd be overcapped? That's really surprising.

 

I think that's how it is, but you might wanna confirm with someone else cuz I have bad memory.

 

The defense points are capped at 100, not 50

 

Maybe burn’s DOT shouldn’t pierce defense. What is 100 when a torp or mine hits over 3000? Defense stat needs a much better incentive for anyone to use.

 

Good thing I switched to shooter main 2 weeks ago and didn't wait for the next update. Saved 2 weeks of shooter item upgrades. I'm officially done asking for defender buffs. I'm just gonna sit back, watch the defenders burn and grab some popcorn everytime someone makes a new defender thread.

Sure I'll probably come back to the boat after the buffs. But I'm pretty sure those are planned to come in 2020 for 20 of us still playing the game.