(Crossposted from the Test Server PFF thread)

Personally, I'd make PFF work off of how much of your Energy you currently have. I'm not going to address numbers, but I think you should get maximum benefit when your Energy bar is full, and no defense when your bar is empty.

You could also have absorbed incoming attacks reduce your Energy by a certain amount, based on the damage- absorb a huge hit, and you lose a lot of energy. This would synergize well with the Force Field block- you could rely on your PFF, but lose Energy... and then Block, to regenerate Energy.

This would make PFF function differently from all the other passive defenses. It would also allow the player to easily see, at any given time, just how much absorption he's got (since all he'd have to do is look at his Energy bar).

Whattaya think?

Interesting. But I don't agree with the "no defense when your bar is empty." as my energy for my PFF character is constantly going from full to empty and back again. Maybe instead of being disabled at no energy it only works at 5% of it's maximum so that you're not completely screwed after reaching 0 energy...for those characters who don't have high recovery. Other than that I think it's a great idea! Sure would beat the whole "respawn with 0 PFF".

Yeah, zero defense when out of Energy might be a bit too much. I'd forgotten how easy it is to drain all of your energy... especially with those damn smoke grenades.

The PFF could then be effectively turned into an actual damage mitigation ability and the Ego stat could function the same as STR is supposed to for Invuln...only the higher your energy the more it absorbs, just as the higher your energy the more PFF would resist.