Excellent posts. Unfortunately, they are on record as saying that defense is "working as intended", even though it is effectively useless. The forum is about as unanimous as it can get that damage is too high relative to health.. and this was completely ignored in a patch that took 2 months.
I once played a MUD and when I started, like most people, I went to the chat channel and asked "what is a good class to play?" The response I got was "doesn't matter, they all have pros and cons, play what you like". And I was like "no, really, which are the more and less powerful types?" And every single person said the same thing: play whatever you think is fun, they are all about the same power. Not the same playstyles, not the same abilities, but roughly the same power.
That's the sign of a balanced game.
Someone with 15 7* characters should have a very tough decision to make whenever they put a squad together. They should be able to tinker and try new combinations and synergies. And these should include defensive options.
Sadly, right now what we have is "Galaxy of Poe+DPS". Even more sadly, people who have come from CG's other game say it is the same there, so this apparently is what they want: 71 characters, of which 1/6 are used a lot, 1/6 are used a little, 1/3 are used rarely and 1/3 are never seen.
