I play many fighting games and i feel like For Honor just miss one important thing.

In for Honor if you good in defens you can parrying and deflecting with free damage. Also you build revenge meter, another mechanic of rewarding good defense.

And being good in defens not super hard in comparison to other fighting games.

But what we get if we play aggressively? nothing. Only chip damage from hard attacks. And i think this is the problem.