Defender

Defender is a passive power avaliable to the Soldier class in Mass Effect 2. As with all of the other class powers, it focuses mainly on increasing the character's health and weapon damage. This power also upgrades the player's power recharge time. Also, as with all other class powers for Shepard, it also provides a bonus to Paragon and Renegade points.

Power Ranks

 * Rank 1
 * Health: +5.00%
 * Power Recharge Time: -5.00%
 * Paragon/Renegade: +20.00%


 * Rank 2
 * Health: +10.00%
 * Power Recharge Time: -10.00%
 * Paragon/Renegade: +40.00%


 * Rank 3
 * Health: +15.00%
 * Power Recharge Time: -15.00%
 * Paragon/Renegade: +70.00%

Rank 4

Select one of the following Mastery Specializations

Guardian

 * You excel under stress, reducing your recharge time as far as it will go, and your forceful personality takes your Paragon/Renegade scores to the maximum level.
 * Health: +20.00%
 * Power Recharge Time: -30.00%
 * Paragon/Renegade: +100.00%

Raider

 * You specialize in using your engineering and biotics as weapons, reducing recharge time a small amount further and giving a bonus to your powers' damage.
 * Health: +15.00%
 * Power Recharge Time: -20.00%
 * Paragon/Renegade: +70.00%
 * Power Damage: +15.00%