The Corny CoB; Migrating Defenses & Block Chance

1) Add Block Chance to the game, or **fix it** rather. Instead of granting a ton of Defense, it Instead gives Block Chance.

What is Block Chance?
Well, my ideas for Block Chance were two fold. Block Chance as its base reduces the damage taken by 50%. However, my suggestion would be toalso add a statistic that improves this.

Hence...

What is Block Strength?
Block Strength is a statistic that improves the Strength of Blocking, increasing it from 50% up to 95% (cap). Certain classes would have Block Strength tied to their class trees. For example, Rifleman and Swordsman had increased Block Chance, which was really cool for their class.

Additionally, Toughness could also increase both Block Strength and Block Chance as the current statistic is rather underwhelming.

2) Completely gut the Defenses and spread them around classes. Currently (and this is a problem that affects Jedi too) the reason Breach for example completely deletes a Jedi is because all of their Melee and Ranged defense is tied to a single ability; it means when your Breached; all your defenses are gone and so are you. Cut CoB in half and make the Melee Defense and Ranged Defense of all the classes passively stronger.

This means instead of CoB granting 400 Defense, TKM should have +20 Ranged and Melee Defense (this is an example) added to the Balance Tree, and Meditation should get +Block Strength. This means that CoB can be more reasonable of a buff, rather then literally all your defense in one basket. This future proofs things too, incase Smuggler or BH gets a breach-type ability.

I am not saying to reduce how tanky TKM is, but to fix their counters and spread defense around so everyone who plays melee doesn't feel like they have to be a Teras Kazi Artist.

Well, I have several of them.

1). There are no true counters to dodging. Normally this would be abilities like "Warning Shot"; on paper this seems great, but the problem is that CoB and other similar abilities actually prevent these abilities from ever really landing, thus they counter their own supposed counter. This has another problem as it makes these abilities much better against people who don't use abilities like CoB.

This change, for example making it Block Chance; actually lets these abilities land and provides a counter to them. Why play the classes when the abilities are useless to the majority of players after-all? Even if they could Block 99% of the damage, the debuff now still lands.

2). It is more healthy for the game. For example if anyone ever gets a "breach"-like ability, and your defenses are not in one basket, you have a 'counter' but don't get instantly deleted.

3). Class Variation. Currently almost all melee, even ranged has to use CoB to survive. It is simply just that good compared to everything else. Honestly it shouldn't even work if you switch to ranged weapons but that is another thread and another day. I believe that this is overall more healthy for the game and allows people to delve into other classes without having to feel like they need x3xx TK to play the game. Mind you, I also feel like TK should be slightly compensated, like getting a small AOE attack on combo attack, but that is another story and another thread.