Armour/evasion hybrid needs some serious love

It's the worst kind of defense in the game. Other hybrids are being carried by how strong ES is, plus evasion synergizes with ES, and armour/es has some cool interaction in the tree and that aura which gives you armour from lost ES. In addition, you can grab armour applies to ele or deflection.

Amour/evasion has none of that. There are nodes which gives stun and elemental threshold (we got charms for that) and immunity to poison or bleeding, but that's it.

There's only two nodes which give armour from evasion and evasion from armour and the numbers are laughable. Yes, the sum of armour+evasion on gear is slightly bigger than on pure gear not by much. And then we can just convert it all to armour with a keystone.


There are no auras which synergizes with armour/evasion.

And after deflect and armour to ele got introduced, the hybrid got even worse in comparison because you can't fully invest in both. You may choose to invest in, say, armour applies to elemental, but since you don't have as much armour it's a poor investment.

It's so bad that nobody's even talking about it.

+1
but even that armour/ES looks to be on the radar to kill it dead in the water based on how its recently changed its description poe2db compared to launch.

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Tynatyna#5552 wrote:

+1
but even that armour/ES looks to be on the radar to kill it dead in the water based on how its recently changed its description poe2db compared to launch.

Well that kind of makes sense otherwise folks would just use it on pure ES builds. It's still very strong and armour/evasion got nothing even close to it.

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onetruelai#7327 wrote:

You may choose to invest in, say, armour applies to elemental, but since you don't have as much armour it's a poor investment.

If you want Armor/Evasion, instead of applying armor to elemental, go Pathfinder Warrior, take the ascendancy node that applies Evasion to elemental DR, and take nodes in the merc area that scale both armor and evasion.

Spec into blind to buff your evasion and deflection, and you'll be hard to kill.

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DistributedAutomaton#5739 wrote:

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onetruelai#7327 wrote:

You may choose to invest in, say, armour applies to elemental, but since you don't have as much armour it's a poor investment.

If you want Armor/Evasion, instead of applying armor to elemental, go Pathfinder Warrior, take the ascendancy node that applies Evasion to elemental DR, and take nodes in the merc area that scale both armor and evasion.

Spec into blind to buff your evasion and deflection, and you'll be hard to kill.

Why not just go full evasion then?

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onetruelai#7327 wrote:

Why not just go full evasion then?

I did that in 0.3. Build link in my signature. In 0.4, there's access to the Warrior, meaning access to armor nodes for physical damage reduction. That would improve on my 0.3 build, which had phys damage one-shots as the only weak point. I dealt with that by dodge rolling, but it would be nice to get a bit more support.