Arbiter of Ash: When Evasion Stops Meaning Anything

Why are Arbiter’s circle nukes effectively ignoring evasion now? With 70–72% evasion chance, getting clipped repeatedly isn’t “unlucky,” it’s a mechanic problem.

Yes, I know softcore traders can trivialize this fight within a day by brute-forcing it with gear and DPS. That doesn’t make the fight well-designed. What used to be a skill check has turned into a positioning trap with no good answers. The overlapping circle nukes are already bad, but when Arbiter chains them with the beam—especially the non-guaranteed multi-nuke version—the fight stops being about reacting well and becomes about praying there’s still somewhere to stand.

This isn’t “on-time dodging,” and it’s not about farming Ritual for an Omen of Resurgence to tank the guaranteed beam + single nuke. That part of the fight is fine. I’m explicitly talking about the random multi-nuke overlaps. At that point, the question isn’t “did I play well?”—it’s “where exactly am I supposed to go?”

Unless you’re running extreme DPS with ~1k life glass-cannon nonsense, the fight actively punishes defensive investment. Intentionally tanking mechanics with absurd life or ES also isn’t a real option here. That directly contradicts the constant messaging—and Jonathan’s own comments—about defenses mattering.

I don’t mind dying. I don’t mind rolling another boss killer and pushing it to level 95 with six-figure DPS in a day. What I do mind is being told defenses are important while a flagship boss fight invalidates evasion—a core defense that already scales other defenses down—and turns survival into a damage check instead of a skill test.

I used to like this fight. I’ve beaten Arbiter multiple times with 10–20k DPS, in 4–5 minute fights that actually rewarded clean play. The current version is worse than what it was—and worse in a way that does not reward mastery.

So… why was this changed?

Elaborate what you mean, I'm having a hard time getting the message across.

But... Evasion never meant anything. I realized that in 0.1 by level 30.

Since there's no source of flat DR. Evasion will never work. Esp when many hits ignore it.
Just run 12k ES on a 1.8s Recharge time until they learn how to design games.

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Xzorn#7046 a écrit :

But... Evasion never meant anything. I realized that in 0.1 by level 30.

Since there's no source of flat DR. Evasion will never work. Esp when many hits ignore it.
Just run 12k ES on a 1.8s Recharge time until they learn how to design games.

That is not entirely true. Evasion does usually kick in pretty hard after 60 or more chance to evade, especially now that there is deflection.

ES is superior only on league start. It usually involves severe problems against physical damage, which is most of the damage you are receiving anyway, unless you are a lich with eternal life and use some kind of ES bypass. Later on when you can get deflection for evasion or armor applies to ele res for armor things change drastically unless you got crazy amount of ES (18k or more). ES is not as gear dependent, you see... The more you have, the more it recharges, the heavier hit you can take. In this matter witch + bone storm + minions to block is far superior than anything else, since cast speed is way easier to obtain than attack speed for snipe/perfect strike or whatever high damage dealer other classes have. Anyway...

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Musano#5035 a écrit :

Elaborate what you mean, I'm having a hard time getting the message across.

Back to the topic on Arbiter - literally nothing except evasion works on the fire circles, but now that does not seem to be the case. I am not talking about running freely during the circle nukes here. That should not be the case even with capped evasion, which is nearly impossible to achieve anyway. Each defense HAS to be superior in certain cases to make them viable to use a specific one for it being the most optimal for certain content or scenarios. It seems to me that is no longer the case, hence my post here on this topic. I find this to be a huge problem, because build and ascendancy does not seem to matter anymore as long as you play some glass cannon softcore nonsense.

Again - this is a huge problem for balance and build, ascendancy/passives/gear choices and goals.