Armor and evasion armor type, bad again?

Obviously too early to tell but the addition of %armor applies to elemental hits and deflection for evasion is probably going to mean that you need to be either full armor or full evasion to really take advantage of these.

That on top of the way armor works where it's still top heavy and you still need a lot or don't even bother with it means mixing armor and evasion armor is going to be clearly worse than the other 3 options - pure evasion, pure armor or energy shield.

I know something needs to be the worse of the 4 but hoping I'm wrong and it's not another season of being way squishier for following the mainline merc designed nodes.

I feel it the same way. Both of that stats cant be scaled well together. Also, % armour to ele dmg is calculated BEFORE resists, so it means even less.

Probably it will be much better to go with pure evasion or armour to evasion conversion.

Otherwise EV + ES will scale even better than in 0.2...