Please Improve Trickster's: Ghost Dance and Escape Artist

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ACGIFT a écrit :

but for some reason people seem to forget that grace and determination exist.

Most forum warriors just think that armour/evasion are crap lol.

Both this thread and the other one are interesting, but responding in this one since it’s less tied up with one specific fantasy rework of Trickster:

ES does not usually work well with armour or evasion. Trickster and Guardian are the only classes that somewhat alleviate the issue, although Guardian mostly just offers tons of extra ES and other defensive bonuses to steamroll over the problem.

Trickster does make es/ev at least viable. I can speak from experience with my own CI Trickster that stacks 7.5k ES and 30k+ evasion, plus a decent amount of dodge and spell dodge even without acro (gets phase acro from Perfect Form).

Clear is slow but only because I’m using Blight; replace that with something more meta and it’d be a pretty decent build by most people’s standards. Really, he doesn’t die at all during normal t12+ mapping.

But this build is probably more suitable for mapping than endgame bossing, and really required some specific gear to get going. The issue is life + defenses or pure ES are just SO much easier to build - I mean 7.5k is doable with life, so why am I using ES at all except to be special?

I made the mistake of trying to do a hybrid es/ar Inquisitor and es/ev low-life Assassin in the past. Despite recently sinking a ton of currency into attempts at fixing them, both are still really really bad (and the Assassin is a waste of a good Shav’s).

I do not recommend hybrid defenses with anyone other than Guardian/Trickster, and my stance is that hybrid defenses need added overall functionality not tied to specific classes.

I am planning to use EB which got modified in favor of Ghost Dance use.
(since ES recovery acts as regen - never gets interrupted, you get full uptime)
edit - i might be completely wrong about this one as there is the "recently"

Hybrid Chest - Cloak of Defiance for Escape Artist

unclear about other slots or even skill choice :)