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defence has to be changed. currently, defence is useless in pvp, because the majority of damage going around is force or tec. Currently, all tank gear is defence heavy. This is bad for all tank specs, and so they stack endurance instead. Defence/Immortal get of pretty good, cos they rely mostly on cooldowns anyway, but shield specialist/shield tec and kinetic combat/darkness come off alot worse, especially kinetic combat/darkness, as their cooldowns rely more on shield/absorb then the other tanks. Applying defence to all player damage would go a long way to fixing this problem.
Also, shield/absorb should apply to all damage. There are way to many auto-crits out there.