Pure evasion still feels bad

Playing a spear build and now having access to block and more evasion than previous builds from last league which were all 2h/bow and it still feels pretty bad.

Not having any way to scale hp, and not having any way to mitigate phys or degens otherwise and running around with 60%+ eva w/ acro, 40% block chance andd 2k hp just feels like a waiting game to get one shot by a big phys hit or insane degen pool on the ground, the phys ones from the new corrupted mobs are kinda insane.

I have no realistic path to increase my max hit, cant take HP nodes, can't get phy damage reduction anywhere but like 8% on shield? Can't lower DoT anyway. All things that were possible for eva builds in PoE1, just completely absent here.

Is it just another league where going hybrid ES/EVA is mandatory endgame and pure eva is just some cope you run when you are too poor for hybrid gear?

out of curiosity: and why not simply taking some other type of armour? i don't understand that. what is forcing you to go full evasion. i totally would hate that too since i don't like gambling.
currently running armour+evasion on my bleed ritualist, i had until recently blind on hit, so that synergized well. but i'm thinking for a while now to just get rid of eva (and thus blind).

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Naztrey#9177 wrote:

out of curiosity: and why not simply taking some other type of armour? i don't understand that. what is forcing you to go full evasion. i totally would hate that too since i don't like gambling.
currently running armour+evasion on my bleed ritualist, i had until recently blind on hit, so that synergized well. but i'm thinking for a while now to just get rid of eva (and thus blind).

Well the only other type of armor worth using is ES, just feels lame that evasion characters literally have to go hybrid ES.

Hybrid armor eva seems even worse than pure eva since it doesnt really do anything for the problem you have to solve endgame which is increasing the max hit you can take.

Yeah, I'm not looking forward to hitting maps with my DELA character.

In 0.1 I was playing an invoker monk so naturally I was eva/es hybrid and it worked really well. Had near 90% eva, 2.1k HP and 2.2k ES so even if I took a huge hit or didn't realize I was in a degen I had time to save myself.

I don't really want to have to hit maps and start crafting a way to keep my dmg but also work up to the monk part of the tree to pick up as many eva+es nodes as possible, but if that's what I have to do...

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yummysushipjs#7638 wrote:

Yeah, I'm not looking forward to hitting maps with my DELA character.

In 0.1 I was playing an invoker monk so naturally I was eva/es hybrid and it worked really well. Had near 90% eva, 2.1k HP and 2.2k ES so even if I took a huge hit or didn't realize I was in a degen I had time to save myself.

I don't really want to have to hit maps and start crafting a way to keep my dmg but also work up to the monk part of the tree to pick up as many eva+es nodes as possible, but if that's what I have to do...

My gear is pretty decent and im at 58% eva w/ acro, and 40% block, 2.2k HP. It doesn't matter how much you crank eva or stuff like acro your max hit is never going up, you take a 2k phy hit that goes through acro and block then you just die. Getting even like 2k energy shield basically doubles your effective hit pool. There is no realistic way for an eva character to come up with 2k more life without sacrificing 10x more than you would going ES, and even then im not its thats even possible after those uniques got nerfed this patch.

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BossOfThisGym#2062 wrote:

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Naztrey#9177 wrote:

out of curiosity: and why not simply taking some other type of armour? i don't understand that. what is forcing you to go full evasion. i totally would hate that too since i don't like gambling.
currently running armour+evasion on my bleed ritualist, i had until recently blind on hit, so that synergized well. but i'm thinking for a while now to just get rid of eva (and thus blind).

Well the only other type of armor worth using is ES, just feels lame that evasion characters literally have to go hybrid ES.

Hybrid armor eva seems even worse than pure eva since it doesnt really do anything for the problem you have to solve endgame which is increasing the max hit you can take.

pls read my post in the following thread in regards to light-stun. it might enlighten you and allow you to use armour+eva. not getting light-stunned all the time is super helpful if you're meleeing. dunno what you're playing tho.
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3754010

for what ever reason, this community forgets light-stun is a thing and can, in case of a horde of trash mobs, directly be countered with armour. i like that on top of the life-reg/leech-synergy :-)

Roa makes you light stun immune. Honestly tho later on esp when you only get 1 attempt at a boss having ~2k hp and even literal mirror teir pure eva gear would be not great unless you are a god gamer and know every moveset.