Searcing Exarch evasion alter causes Ghost Dance to never allow ES gain even when Evasion is high

When choosing Searching Exarch -Armor/-Evasion (either at 3k or 6k), it doesn't matter how much evasion you have afterwards it will prevent any ES gain from leech from Ghost Reaver. I have a character that has over 10k ES and 41k Evasion. After selecting the altar my evasion drops to 12k, but I'm unable to leech any ES at all for the duration of that map, not at any kind of low threshold. It seems to set my evasion threshold to 0 despite having evasion?

I've seen this with and without Mageblood equipped, as soon as I unallocate Ghost Dance I can leech ES again.

*edit* Without my grace aura and flask buffs my evasion is 73. So if this is applying to the base before all the multipliers, then it would make sense, but seems poorly worded/implemented if that is the case.

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LightningFst#3199 wrote:

*edit* Without my grace aura and flask buffs my evasion is 73. So if this is applying to the base before all the multipliers, then it would make sense, but seems poorly worded/implemented if that is the case.

This is correct, and yes, the wording has been ambiguous since they were first added almost 4 years ago. I'd almost wager we're more likely to see altars removed for new mechanics before the wording/equation is changed.

Even still though - wouldn't my character evasion be 0 if that was the way it was being calculated?

It's super weird to have 12k evasion and 10k ES and not be able to regain any at all.

What I mean is if you have 8k base evasion, and 100% increased, the reduced evasion is against the base evasion, not the after. Character stats should be correct.

Maybe you ran a map with no leech and it was recharge without Ghost Reaver?
Maybe you had extra evasion from a temporary buff?
Or lower evasion from a debuff like Blind that ran out when you unspecced Reaver?
Maybe you ran more than 1 lower evasion altar? Without importing into PoB, if you only have like 6020 base evasion, and subtract 6000 base, that might be what is triggering the 73 total evasion and there is no undoing that, even with Reaver. But getting a temporary buff that increases evasion might.

There's a few scenarios that can adjust your evasion, but it takes the combination of Exarch Altar + other stuff to go lower evasion than your 10k ES. And Ghost Reaver doesn't prevent ES recovery (just recharge), but Ghost Dance prevents all ES recovery if evasion is lower than ES.. including leech, on hit, recharge, regen, etc.

I filter out any maps with the no leech mod - I used a regret to deallocate Ghost Dance and I would be able to leech ES again.

Character defense tab showed having more evasion than my max ES.