The secret to balancing evasion

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AdrianBuster a écrit :

Okay.. I searched a little bit in the forums, after I got a warning, that Evasion is the worst possibility for Defense and found many threads and ppl who were explaining Evasion and so on, demending its quite good.

So just simply answer me the question with yes or no, to be sure:

Is Evasion (maybe with high HP) balanced with armor, or still a bad decision?

Thanks

If it's balanced with armour, yes it should be alright. Make sure to stack HP though, that's your priority. Also make sure you granite against the physical spell mobs

It mostly depends on ur build/skill/stuff. For a Melee, if u have a good way to have Blind up on ennemies most of the time then an Eva char is fine with some Endurance charges and some block. But as Invalesco said, HP stays ur first priority.

Okay, thanks, That answers help me alot (it makes me feel much better). Just little questions: What does "Blind up on enemies" and "granite" mean? I guess I would find out soon, but I am really new and I dont want to fuck up my char so very soon. Endurance and block are to find in the Tree when lvling I guess.

is applied on hit and reduce the hit chance of the enemy by 75%. For an evasion based character it's very powerfull.
Base number of endurance charge is 3, each one give a flat 4% physical damage reduction and 4% all res. U can get 3 more in the tree, 1 more with a quest , 2 more with uniques items. Block can be found on Shields and many nodes in the tree increase ur block chances. Dual Wielding also provide a 15% base block chance.
are flasks which improve ur armour score temporarily , usefull for every char but even more for a evasion based char as it's often the main source of armour.

That's why you get crit reduction from marauder and stack some block (~35% if you have a staff i think, more using a shield). With Ondars, those titty bitches have a hard time to get ride of my energy shield... and I have 2 ES xD

I don't know what to add to this thread. Honestly, I'm having a ton of fun on my pure eva bow ranger standing in melee range for Point Blank bonus and facetanking everything in the game except reflect mobs up to lvl 77 maps (haven't tried and 78 yet). Almost dead? Pop a 97% Jade Flask and continue face tanking.

Use also ( the quality bonus at higher level is huge ), this is very powerful with evasion.
Attacks won't ever crit on you again or so ( spell still will ).

You can use it with for more convenience also.

Pity that GGG does not release infographic on permaleagues or 4-month.
AR would win on HC by large margin, I'm sure...

The only reliable defenses in the game are HP/ES pool, AR, ele resistances, chaos resistance, and HP/ES regen.

They work even if you're disconnected, lagged or AFK.

Everything else is an illusion!!!
And regen is a joke, so...

Everything else is either flat probability (which _will_ fail you eventually) or EVA pseudo prop gimmicks.

Notice how EVA crit reduction is probabilistic as well, it does not guarantee crit will be reduced. Why would you trust in this on HC if you can take reliable 30% crit reduction from Mara tree?

Path of health nodes

STILL.