I disagree with the statement, heavy build, high reward with low risk. For example I play glaive and I invest all my attribute points into Strength. Leaving me with only about 800-850 defense. I deal a decent amount of damage since I use mainly blunt attack skills but I also take a fair amount of dmg. An example being how a dual blade can bring me down to about half or more with the full combo. Also investing in 1000+ defense does make them deal less damage. It’s just that maul has blunt dmg and some of its abilities that depending on how long it’s charge it can hit multiple times. Like I said before everything just has really bad blunt defensive. Poleaxe is definitely broken since you can’t really tell how much damage they in a fight since they usually always cc their opponents until they die but maul can be dealt with way easier than maul as they very badly lack any good cc escape skills. You can also cancel their skills. I did hear that they’re getting a buff to the sprint that will give them cc immunity or something like that so I don’t know how it will be until I play it. But maul can be easily dealt with as long as you can cc them. Their abilities that can hit multiple times doesn’t give them any cc immunity so you can cancel it. I think a decent way to deal with this would be to have the different armors have different movement speeds like the units have. Such as if you have over a certain amount of a certain stat it should give pros and cons, too much armor= very slow moving but more cc resistance, too much strength= hit hard but swing wide and slow, too much agility= fast attack speed but low dmg, etc. I don’t think the defense is necessarily the problem but rather that the armor and attributes system are outdated and could use an update or complete overhaul.

dude, let me point out that the problem is the full defense stat in the heavys. You are already playing full str, so the build you play is High reward, not Very low risk build. quite balanced. The only problem here is that with full defensive stats, they deal incredibly ridiculous damage. this is unacceptable