Evasion or Armor on Duelist

Im new to the game should i be going for armor pieces of evasion on my duelist i play to duel wield

It's good to go hybrid.
Right now Evasion is not as viable as Armor or Energy Shield.
This is going to be fixed soon though.

For now go with either both, or Armor only.

It's okay too if you have just a bunch of life and high evasion.
As long as you not only rely on evasion.

Evading attack is good and fine, but as soon as you get hit by that 1% chance or w/e you shouldn't be dying instantly.

I believe Chris said in a podcast recently that Evasion would be getting fixed or maybe it has already been fixed? Either way at this time I am guessing it would be better to go with without evasion until it is very clear that it has been fixed in a way.

There's an interesting skill in the tree that change all the evasion in Armour so that if you wear something with 200 evasion it will be counted as 200 Armour.

A Jacket with 100 armout and 100 evasion will be 200 Armour.

Obviously with no evasion whatsoever.

You can find the skill


I'm trying it on my first duelist build: level 36, 1558 armour unbuffed (1754 with Determination Aura), 56% damage reduction. Seems honest but haven't checked other duelist with same level... if someone has this stats could be interesting to compare).

edit: added damage reduction

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Herner wrote:

I believe Chris said in a podcast recently that Evasion would be getting fixed or maybe it has already been fixed? Either way at this time I am guessing it would be better to go with without evasion until it is very clear that it has been fixed in a way.

I am playing an all evasion ranger at the moment, with no issues. The nerf to rhoas has done a lot.

I feel evasion is much better now, than back in 0.5.

This new character has actually convinced me to never go for iron reflexes in a dps build again.