Is pure evasion build still viable ?

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Gilhyan wrote:

Hello everyone!

... (I have drop acrobatics passive to use the full power of the flask and block)

This is probably a mistake. Pure evasion is weak, but you can always mix it with dodge, block, jade flask, grace, Lightning Coil and the new defensive melee buff(arctic armour and whirling blades help out as well). Taste of hate is also a very good addition to your defences, if you can afford it.

Basically, you need a hefty investment in your gear(enough resistances to be able to run Atziri's step + Lightning Coil, a high evasion shield with good resists), but you can become quite tough.

I did merciless Malachai with my ranger(evasion based) and I died only once. That one death was not the build's fault, since I had only 5-10fps and the input lag was horrible(tapping whirling blades to get out of his one-shot spell and the game registers 2 jumps - one that gets me to safety and a 2nd one that just gets me right back where his spell hits...).

Melee in warbands, 30% to evade,full acro, phase acro, AA, fortify, 25k dps aoe (5L, gear not done yet), 4k hp, occasional end charge.
Doing just fine. Use enfeeble on phys hard hitters.
Don't be a noob and it's good.

In regards of the first answers, I have switch my build for a more hybrid based on lioneye remorse. It is indeed very very tanky (not have died once since the switch, even when face tanking boss). As we might expect, I have lost a lot of dps in the process...

It seems that in order to make an evasion build work, I need a lot more currency than I currently have. Lightning coil or taste of hate are just out of my reach. Even reach 4k life is hard for me (with 160%life allocated on the tree)(at the start of the league, I don't have many level on my masters...)

I will maybe try again later on the league.

I still have a question : Is it possible to handle big hit in high level map (75+) with AA, fortify, enfeeble and 4k hp ?

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xMustard wrote:

as melee? maybe not.
if you can kite with ranged you can get by with even the bare minimum. i have 3800 hp and i think only 39% evasion (ondar's or w/e its called now makes it 19% vs melee 79% vs ranged), 40% dodge. im doing just fine. still only die to reflect.

that pisses me off too. why the $#*@ did they change the reflect symbol. stinkin' jerks

I'm pretty sure ondar is multiplicative, so with 39% evasion you get around 31% versus melee and 54% against ranged.

So what are casters doing these days for mitigation? Just going armor or taking Acrobatics and using eva gear? AS melee is seems obvious to go block/high armour, but the others not so much.

There are alot of big factors that make evasion less viable but doable.

1. Guile has been nerfed super hard core, now your not completely immune to ranged projectiles anymore and you have a drawback. This was a massive boon to evasion to begin with and a good reason why you would stack so much.

2. Much harder to stack hp on right side of the tree, and monsters hit harder now.

3. You never went pure evasion anyway (stacked multiple layers), you used lighting coil (nerfed), immortal call + cotd combo (nerf), block (nerf), ect.

4. You leeched back your health inbetween the hits that went through all of your layers you should have, leech super nerfed = harder to bring your health back to max before 2nd strike finishes you off.