Best Denfensive Primary?

[Dominic Paine]

What's your opinion? Defiance, Invulnerbility, Force Field, Lightning Reflexes or Regeneration?

[Shax]

Defiance/Invulnerbility -> Lightning Reflexes/Regeneration -> Personal Force Field

[Hems]

It's a tie between Defiance and Invulnerability.

Defiance can give you a higher level of resistance than Invulnerability and has the nice added bonus of granting energy when you are hit. On the other hand, Invulnerability has the flat damage absorption which makes mobs do very little damage to you. Stack this with IDF and you have an extremely hard-to-kill Tank. The damage resistance granted from invulnerability is also high enough to comfortably main tank any content.


Lightning Reflexes is good IF you can get 100% dodge chance. If for example you are tanking a Cosmic and you can only hit say 95% then you are giving yourself a 5% chance per hit to get killed.

Regeneration is nice for general content and makes soloing a breeze (then again most passives do). However, the decreasing damage resistance is too low for it to be a viable main tank. I've seen people Off-Tank with Regeneration but it hasn't performed any better than if the Tank had Defiance or Invulnerability + some self heals.

As for Personal Force Field, this is possibly the worst passive in the game. It's nice to have a huge health pool, but once your shield goes down you are out. It's a shame as I do like the concept of this one.

[kage1822]

I have found both Regeneration and Personal Forcefield great for leveling, but once I hit around lvl 30 or so, I respec into something better

[Qube]

It depends on what you are building your character to do. Vs Cosmic level villains, Defiance is the best. Vs large numbers of enemies, invulnerability is better. If you don't have a healer backing you up, Regeneration and Lightning reflexes are both very good. PFF is undertuned right now, so I'd give it a pass. Hopefully the force powers will get an update soon(ish).