Fine-tunes your brain, making your powers more potent and efficient.

1 Squad Point

Defender Rank 1: A balance of mental conditioning and scientific know-how improves the recharge time of your powers and your Paragon and Renegade scores.

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


2 Squad Points

Defender Rank 2: A balance of mental conditioning and scientific know-how improves the recharge time of your powers and your Paragon and Renegade scores.

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


3 Squad Points

Defender Rank 3: A balance of mental conditioning and scientific know-how improves the recharge time of your powers and your Paragon and Renegade scores.

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


4 Squad Points

Evolve Defender (Guardian): You excel under stress, reducing your recharge time as far as it will go and your forceful personality takes your Paragon and Renegade scores to the maximum level.

Health: +20.00%
Power Recharge Time: -30.00%
Paragon/Renegade: +100.00%

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Evolve Defender (Raider): You specialize in using your engineering and biotics as weapons, reducing recharge time a small amount further and giving a bonus to your power damage.

Health: +15.00%
Power Recharge Time: -20.00%
Paragon/Renegade: +70.00%
Power Damage: +15.00%