Some Hybrid Gear Theorycrafting (wall of text + spreadsheet)

I'm fully in favour of a hybrid + defences mod. It's intuitive. If the pure armour types get pure upgrade mods then hybrid armour should get hybrid mods that benefit the armour as a whole, not just one stat which is half of its effectiveness.

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Hexaste wrote:

The armor you are talking about has 5 prefixes ; this isnt D3, you can only have 3 prefixes in PoE (which is a thing I'd like to keep, it makes more sense) ; so yeah its impossible to craft this one, you'd have to choose 3 prefixes between the 4 you linked (since %eva and %armor is the same prefixe merged into an hybrid one).

However the point with hybrid gear behind sub-optimal still stands.

Please GGG, take a look at this post :(
Would be glad to hear your thought about a new flat +stat1/+stat2 hybrid mod.

Yeah, thanks for correcting me. I wasn't thinking straight again.

One suggestion I have is to give all hybrid armor an additional implicit attribute.

Armor/Evasion = +X% chance to evade attacks (this is different than evasion rating)
Armor/ES = +flat armor while energy shield is up / down
Evasion/ES = X% reduced energy shield delay

Reasoning: It may be too hard to balance hybrid gear for 'best case' scenarios. Which results in the mediocrity that we have right now. Adding an implicit modifier to hybrid gear empowers hybrids and gives pure classes a reason to use hybrid armor. Not just to diversify their defenses, but to diversify the other stats they have.

at the moment, wearing one pure ES chest and one pure EV boots for instance gives higher ES/EV values than both ES/EV chest and boots together, even if ES/EV have all 3 prefixes: +ES, +EV and %ES/EV. That's one downside.

The other downside is that it is downright difficult to craft the 3 prefix mods on hybrid pieces. You have to end up hoping for a lucky exalted to give you one of those prefixes as you can only attain 2 through a regal, as compared with pure counterparts that can attain their 2 neccessary prefixes thru a regal.

Also, once you get those 3 prefixes on the hybrid gears you cannot get the additional block and stun recovery and %es/ev prefix mod.

One of the advantages of hybrid defence gear at least is that it is easier to roll a wider range of colours on hybrid gears as compared to their pure attributes counterparts.

However, I feel that that still requires abit more improvement on the hybrid side of things to make them more appealing to use.

Perhaps creating a specific set of mods that have +Evasion and +ES might help? or just giving hybrid gears a more desirable implicit mod that can counter their disadvantages, such as how spell shields have %spell damage on them.

On that note, reflect physical damage on ES/EV shields is downright useless. Would be nice if we could get a more useful implicit mod on those.

lottery win also :P