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<blockquote data-quote="Morgan_Scott82" data-source="post: 4631059" data-attributes="member: 79594">I usually wear the DM hat at our table, but I've recently gotten the chance to sit on the other side of the screen.&nbsp; The party I was joining needed a Defender, so that's what I played.&nbsp; Let me preface that by saying I have striker instincts.&nbsp;I had a very hard time adjusting to the defender paradigm.&nbsp; As the defender I saw it as a lose-lose situation: If I do my job poorly my friend gets stabbed in the face, and if I do my job well I get stabbed in the face.&nbsp; &nbsp;Intellectually I knew that my character had more HP and could better take the hit, but on some gut check level I couldn't get over the hurdle to believe that getting stabbed in the face was a reward for a job well done.&nbsp; It still doesn't sit right with me. I still do stupid things and employ subpar defender tactics, like hit and run, or mark and avoid, intentionally making it hard for my target to attack me.&nbsp; All because I can't wrap my head around the idea that getting attacked is a good thing.&nbsp; Now as a shielding swordmage that works out ok, I'm still protecting my party by mitigating damage, but were I playing any other defender this wouldn't fly.&nbsp;I suspect that the OP may have some similar mental blocks in instinctively supporting the defender role, getting attacked is bad, either the monster attacks the defender or his ally, either way someone got attacked, something bad happened, defender was ineffective.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Morgan_Scott82, post: 4631059, member: 79594"] I usually wear the DM hat at our table, but I've recently gotten the chance to sit on the other side of the screen. The party I was joining needed a Defender, so that's what I played. Let me preface that by saying I have striker instincts. I had a very hard time adjusting to the defender paradigm. As the defender I saw it as a lose-lose situation: If I do my job poorly my friend gets stabbed in the face, and if I do my job well [B]I[/B] get stabbed in the face. Intellectually I knew that my character had more HP and could better take the hit, but on some gut check level I couldn't get over the hurdle to believe that getting stabbed in the face was a reward for a job well done. It still doesn't sit right with me. I still do stupid things and employ subpar defender tactics, like hit and run, or mark and avoid, intentionally making it hard for my target to attack me. All because I can't wrap my head around the idea that getting attacked is a good thing. Now as a shielding swordmage that works out ok, I'm still protecting my party by mitigating damage, but were I playing any other defender this wouldn't fly. I suspect that the OP may have some similar mental blocks in instinctively supporting the defender role, getting attacked is bad, either the monster attacks the defender or his ally, either way someone got attacked, something bad happened, defender was ineffective. [/QUOTE]

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