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Giving back rage if you are blocked or deflected when your defensive are almost cut in half

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shuts off defensive passives for that attack

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if it is blocked or deflected there is no rage gain with it.

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Giving you the ability to gain rage even when you are raging because of a block or deflect in not only not logical

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but will overpower rage especially with those builds that rage quick which are strength builds more then others

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Yes thats true, rage and critical attacks ignore passive armors like Mineral armor but also Defence matrix and so on.

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Rage attacks are designed to ignore 45% of defense (and yes ... it can stack with reductions from Critical Strikes and skills like Cheap Shot). Because the Rage Meter was introduced as counter for tanking, the damage increase will naturally be most noticeable against players with highly-defensive builds. Rage attacks completely ignore the bonus from Hybrid Armor, Mineral Armor and Plasma Armor.
If ignoring 45% of defense and/or resistance gives a damage bonus of less than 10, the rage attack will instead add 10 damage.

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With rage you are already gaining something since you are ignoring their defenses and there defensive passives are getting shut down for that attack.(1) Being able to gain something back if it fails when you are already gaining defensive passives shutting down and have regular defenses cut in half would OP it as stated(2). The negatives wouldn't balance the positives.

Also it is logical to deflect a laser believe it or not so with that one you used a bad example. With aux's it only works with half logic. (3)

As for you last example only merc's with high support can pull off a rage 3 without blocks or deflections with max adrenaline. Otherwise it would be strength builds or build with both high strength and support(4).

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What if support increased the amount of defenses ignored with rage instead of increasing the speed in which you obtained Rage?

Normally, when you get blocked or deflected, you gain extra Rage points equal to the amount of damage blocked or deflected, as if the defender had enough defenses to actually negate so much damage.

My suggestion is to let it so there is the same affect on Rage. Not only will it make up for a blocked or deflected Rage (not really, but it will help), even normally, when you aren't blocked or deflected, I think you should still receive Rage points.

Example: You Rage Strike for 30 damage, but is blocked. Next turn, you Rage meter is up 30 points +the amount of damage still negated (like in the example below) instead of being reset at 0.
OR you are fighting a player with 40 defense. You Rage Strike (Physical Damage) for 20 damage+18 from the defense ignored=38 damage. Next turn, your Rage Meter is up 22 points, because the defender still negated 22 damage.

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So, here's how it works. If both players have equal support, the base Rage would be 45% ignore, like how it is currently.
With every support advantage of 5, your ability to ignore increases by +1% and the opposing players would decrease by 1%. The cap will be 30%-60% (in order to reach the cap, you need to have a 75 support advantage over the opponent)
That way, strength users, with less support, ignore less, and as a result are not so strong, while support players ignore more.

Example:
Player A: 40 support, 30 defenses.
Player B: 70 support, 30 defenses.

When Player A uses Rage on Player B, he/she will only ignore 39%=11.7 or 12 more damage.
When Player B does, he/he will ignore 51%= 15.3 or 16 (ED round-ups) or 16 more damage.