Defender

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While Humans enjoy their share of stealth, they can still also fight with unparalleled courage and resolve. This especially holds true when it comes to supporting their allies. The Defender path includes powerful group defense and healing skills; and, proving the adage that the best offense is a good defense, Defenders can even use their shields to stun and knock back opponents.

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Defenders are Human Melee Characters that have higher Armor Rating, stronger Shield abilities and a good capacity for self healing. They can take a lot of Melee Damage so they are usually played as TANKS. They build agro from mobs using shield attacks for extra perceived damage from the mobs, stuns and also use taunts to increase the agro rating. They also have some fellow buffs and a lot of target healings that help him stay alive.
SOLO PLAY: Defenders are easy to play solo due to the high survivability. They kill slow but they can solo mobs 5 to 10 levels above his own level.
GROUP PLAY: Defenders are wanted in groups to play TANKS, Off-Tanks and can sometimes be a support healer with low dps (never a group healer).

Skills

This is a list of Skills for all Defenders. Some may use a different set with small changes but the main stream of skills that makes a Defender is here. It starts with the base Melees tree, then the specially tree from Defender and ends with the Magic skills. Inside the Defender tree we will address normal and hero skills.

Melee

We will only list the skills that most Defenders use. All other skills in Melee tree can be learned and put to good use, but these are the most consensual ones:

- Melee Mastery, Melee Grandmaster and Melee Paragon - Chance to Hit with Melee Skills and Avoid Melee Damage
- Unpredictable Blow - Melee attack that ignores shields and adds damage when vulnerable.
- Begrudge - A Pure taunt (no damage) that lets the mob think the caster did up to 10% HP damage.
- Find Hole - A Weapon Melee Attack that ignores armor.
- Insult- A Pure taunt (no damage) that lets the mob think the caster did up to 20% HP damage.

Defender

These are the skills that define the Class. There are some different builds possible but we will list all skills in tree.

- Emblem of Might - The Shield Buff that raises defenders Shield AR.
- Defender Adept - Mastery for Defender Skills.
- Swipe - Shield attack with extra perceived damage from mobs.
- Bring Peace - Targeted Heal, medium size and low CD.
- Scourge - Weapon damage skill with bleed (DoT).
- Shield Wall - AR Buff for Defender and fellow.
- Interpose - Weapon damage skill that stuns the target.
- Smash - Shield damage skill that does increased damage after Swipe.
- Bash - Shield damage skill that stuns the target.
- Benevolent Leader - HoT Buff for Defender and Fellow.
- Bulwark - Damage High Avoidance CD skill for Defender.
- Expulse - Shield damage skill that knocks back and does increased damage after Smash.
- Lay Hands - Targeted Heal, Greatest size and high CD.
- Mighty Blow - Weapon damage skill that does high damage and some ignores armor.
- Righteous Fury - Weapon damage triple strike skill, needs to have bash effect on.

Defender Hero

These Skills are only available at lv 45+ and only after becoming a Hero.

- Hero Mastery - Increases chance to Hit and Avoid Melee, Magic and Missile attacks.
- Hero Passive Health - Defender's Hero Passive is an Health Bonus.
- Arcane Lore - Passive skill that allows players to equip better quality armor and weapons.
- Cragstone's Rebuke - A ranged shield attack that Stuns and taunts the monster.
- Aegis - A Buff that puts a spirit shield in front of every fellow member to reduce damage for a small amount of time and reflect some to attacker.
- Reprisal - A Shield Melee Attack that does damage and returns 50% of the damage as an Heal to all fellow members.