Let's be honest... Why do we even need evasion again?

With the new changes to evasion, ok, "look guys, we added a new layer of evasion for you, aren't we nice?"

No, you aren't.
Because fundamentally we can't still evade all hits.

The trash mobs or even most of elites will be dead before offering you a real trouble.

If you have at least a somewhat solid build, you will be able to handle the basic mobs.

The real problem are the bosses. Its in their fights that we need a really good defense.
And what do we get?

"Nah, you can't evade everything, mate, we can't allow that. What do you want to be? Immortal?"

Well, yeah, I kinda want my character to be immortal. Isn't this the ultimate goal? Or be able to beat everything?

So why do we have a mechanic that doesn't allow us to endure anything the game throw on us?

So, to be more clear, my entire point with this is: Evasion sucks, because it doesn't matter how many layers you put, AT THE TIME YOU WILL REALLY NEED IT, IT DOESN'T HAVE ANY USE, i mean, in the big hits, in the red hits, in the slams, call it the way you want, but evasion won't help you when the big monkey or Xesht decide to slap your butt with the hand wild open.

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AT THE TIME YOU WILL REALLY NEED IT, IT DOESN'T HAVE ANY USE

Many people have said this including streamers, yet GGG hasn't really addressed it. I suspect GGG wants Energy shield to be the endgame defense. Hence the other defenses will never work on the type of things that kill you at endgame. Instead they will focus on making non-ES gear great pre-endgame.

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darrenrob82#3531 wrote:

Many people have said this including streamers, yet GGG hasn't really addressed it. I suspect GGG wants Energy shield to be the endgame defense. Hence the other defenses will never work on the type of things that kill you at endgame. Instead they will focus on making non-ES gear great pre-endgame.

I personally think this is a different thing.
They are doing the same with block too.

I think this is a fight against content creators.
To be more specific, a fight against those kind of guys who makes videos like "Look at my build tanking the Boss X" or "this build makes fighting X easy".

So its a fight for how the game is perceived and the middle guy, the regular guy, the average joe taking the hit too.

It wouldn't be strange to see in a future patch, energy shield taking some huge blow too. And there are so many ways to break energy shield... one being making hard to control the recharge.

Did you try Armour/ Evasion in compare to EvasioN?
Did you test a mix with Deflection and Armour as Elemental Defence?

I am Standing near bosses and take every Damage and sometimes evade 50%
and deflect hits for 38%

My armour rating is at 68% and Arm as element near 80%

so whats the point?
If u want to use pure Evasion , u need some other Pool of defense.
It always was like that.

Life - Evasion - Supress
Evasion - Supress - Block
Arm - Block - ES
ES - Block - Supress

a.s.o

In poe2 its kinda the same u need at least 2 main defences . And a defense if the other both dont work.

Pure evasion - Speed - Energy Shield/Life - there is a Dex to Life note, new in the passive tree ( as a buffer )