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Jack, unless people see a *visible* sign that you are helping, they don't realize the Defenders benefit.
As a high level defender, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt what I can do, but it's basically invisible to most people. They see a blob of green or black and don't relate that to the archvillian not hurting the entire team.
Unless you can turn on exactly what a lot of defenders do into some sort of visible phenomonia, your average player may not really understand.
I'd really like an option that would put a visible "blocked" or "$damage reduced" on peoples screens in a unique color. Then they'll realize that the defender *are* doing their job, even when the green numbers aren't flying above their heads.
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Amen to this! This might be a way to help with the perception problem!
First: no At should be needed, all ATs should be wanted.
I believe that with the exception of storm, the whole "high level defenders are not wanted" problem is totally a function of perception.
As to the preference of teams for controllers over defenders, I think that is also a perception problem, mostly on the part of some ignorant team members. We are significantly better than a controller employing our primary as their secondary and good teams know this! People who have defender and controller alts know this, others just havent learned it yet.
Remember people controllers suffer from this type of problem quite a bit too:
"Man, we're wasting our 8th spot on a controller?!?" is a fairly common sentiment I've run into on Infinity, though this did taper off around 32 (I wonder why).
