Deflection - Yea, I don't see the point.

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LeFlesh#9979 wrote:

Deflection can be stacked to 100%, making you take a baseline -40% damage from all hits. Idk how high of an investment is needed, but with the new nodes and gear affixes that seems pretty nuts.

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Sadaukar#2191 wrote:

I gotta be honest, I'm not sure anymore what the point is u're trying to make in this Thread.

First u're saying it's lackluster and takes way too much investment.

I agree that it's not perfect, but people pointed out that it still has a usecase because attacks exist that cannot be evaded, but can be deflected.
Then I said that Deflection doesn't need that much investment. U can get alot of it from the tree if u want to or u can get alot from gear. Best is probably to mix both because some nodes on the tree are multiplicative, but it's up to u.

The only problem with deflection right now is that it's based on RNG and u cannot hit 100%. It's just like old Evasion/Dodge in PoE without additional layers of defense. U'd have 75% chance to dodge and 80% evasion and if both failed u'd die.

It is miles better than what we had before 0.3 for pure evasion characters. I played one in 0.1 and even tho it worked after u've gotten Acrobatics and ~10k evasion, it was still very squishy once u got hit.

PS: The Eva/Armour rework in PoE was very good, because it lowered the floor for affordable defenses in PoE. Armour was basically unusable before that and evasion only worked with additional gimmicks and huge investments in dodge, block and so on.
Now the scalability of both is better and u can still combine them with other forms of mitigation to get very very tanky. I don't think u need 1mil+ ehp, but even that most likely still exists.

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andreull#5435 wrote:

Check Conner's build that uses Evasion + ES + Deflection and you'll see the point.