..if you had a defender that was NOT an empath no one would even look at you twice?
Ah, yes...this I remember very well, being something of a D3 specialist, even way back then. This was back when a D3 was perhaps the Best Kept Secret In Paragon City, capable of soloing AVs, turning nasty spawns into packs of half-drowned kittens, and generally being a ridiculous force multiplier on any team. And no one wanted us...
Well,
almost no one. One of my absolute favorite moments in 8+ years of playing was receiving an incoming /tell asking "what kind of Defender are you?"
I replied, "Dark/Dark," preparing myself for rejection, but desperately typing a follow-up reply along the lines of "I have a powerful AoE heal, a group rez that's an unresistible AoE stun, and..."
*incoming invite*
The first thing I heard in team Chat was "We got this. I found us a Dark Defender."
Oh, my God...someone
gets it! Took a while to wipe that ear-to-ear grin off my face...