Having 35 defence is just an excuse for clans that suck to stay alive. Really, being a pure means you don't train your defence, if you get it by accident, oh well, nobody is going to kill you, but you don't "accidently" get 35 defence levels, you get like 2 or 3, and how often do you click the defense button?
If being a 1 def pure doesn't get you anywhere, then why have NME in the past like 6 months rose to one of the top f2p clans? and moving on in p2p?
Clans shouldn't have to rely on their defense to win the war, they should rely on what really matters, organization and skill. Having addy armour so you can sit there and not get hit isn't skill, its just stupid.
no top clans are running around in full addy, some of their members do, but lots of clans are taking that away, because it not only isn't pure, but it looks stupid to call yourself a pure if you can wear a full adamant set. I understand becoming turmoil pures, thats fine, but there are far to many people who have 32-35 defence and have like 52 prayer, if your going to get turmoil, why the hell don't you wait untill you can afford it instead of screwing your account up, because really if you go pking with 30 defence and no turm you just make yourself easier to kill by people with higher/better stats, or zerkers.
Clanning is about working together and winning, not sitting there blocking damage and hoping your clan recieves less random hits from jagex and doesn't run out of food.
I don't like turmoil, but i still don't mind it, because it isn't hard to kill it. But if you deleberately go and train past that because you want better defense bonus because you can't tank, thats silly.
35 defence is a way for clans that want to hold onto their position, to hold it, but in a non-pure way.
People used to become iniatiate pures because they messed up their 1 def pures so bad. But now people train defence to gain quick combats to try and intimidate, but it really shows.