Armor, Energy Shield, or Evasion?

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AAlex12 wrote:

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rusher21 wrote:

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AAlex12 wrote:

HP+armour+high block. Evasion is too much unpredictable.
You need to stack way more HP with pure evasion to survive physical dmg spikes, that hit you (and they sometimes will).
With pure eva characters i feel like playing "russian roulette".

How is Evasion less predictable than armor! Spikes will hit as hard as with armour, which then only mitigates by a reduced amount "Tree hits armor". You might read the earlier comments talking about evasion entropy which eliminate the unpredictable factor, by for instance letting you evade every second attack a 100% when you have 50% evasion. Also you get life + evasion to avoid one-hits aswell as armour builds do it; your choice...

I think the thread becomes to mathematical, the best hint is how it will support your build. While math is just studying the balance of the game and trying to find abuses. (nothing against match, but the general direction helps the question more)

Let's presume, you have 50% evasion and you are going to get hit. Do you know, will you be hit or not? No, you don't. With armour you know, you going to get hit, and with some game expierence you know the approximate amount of HP you will lose. With armour your chances to get oneshot by physical dmg are lower.

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Dodgydave wrote:

With 50% evasion you don't know if the first hit will land but after that you do know if the next will hit or miss from there on.

That gives you some predictability.