Dexterity Vs Strength

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Modchristian89 wrote:

why does dexterity not increase crit chance like it does in every other game to make up for it's shortcomings ?

You better go read the mechanics. You will learn so much from it.

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KalHirol wrote:

if you use armor you can still combinate it with blind support gem and be much safer

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/069/9/9/nope_jpg_by_rooren_chan-d3bbcgo.png

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Blind_%28support_gem%29

#1, If you have unwavering stance blind does NOTHING for you. (You cant evade)
#2, Blind isnt a static 75% chance to miss, It reduces the attackers chance to hit. So if you had 50% evasion (They have 50% chance to hit), then they have a 12.5% chance to hit when blinded.

If your using armor, without unwavering, then while it is shockingly effective (If you have a 95% chance to be hit, blind reduces that to %23.75) It doesnt really diminish the value very much (Your still getting hit about half as often, or less with acrobatics, with evasion vs armor, as well as acrobatics giving spell dodge, and ondar's guile being what it is)

Also, the two by far more common ways to apply blind (There's a wand called moon sorrow that gives blind on hit) are Blind and Smoke Mine, Both of which are in most cases only possible to apply to small groups, and hence the value of evasion and its special passives (Ondar's guile, good luck applying blind to those machine gun girls in lunaris while killing the hordes of melee mobs)

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Veta321 wrote:

I always liked the idea of adding a visual indicator of entropy, say a yellow one on the mana orb opposite the energy shield. Then you could manage entropy like you manage any other defensive mechanic.

You could take it further renaming entropy to something like 'balance' and allowing it to regenerate according to how much dexterity you have.

And I always say to you that's a ridiculously broken concept.

@OP: Evasion isn't RNG. Go read mechanics.

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ciel289 wrote:

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KalHirol wrote:

Pure Evasion is the strongest Defencse right now in the game mixed with Dodge and you call it "luck based".

Learn about the game before you say something like this.
Its not Evasion like in Diablo 3, its a guaranteed Evasion Chance!

If you have 50% Evasion, and you are hit 2 times, you will evade the third hit (its VERY unlikely you wont), because the Evasion Chance adds up if you dont evade (generally speaking).

So all your points are pretty much bullshit and your build is really ridiculously weak.

So stop complaining.

you call a 16,6% (assuming you have 50% evasion low?
even at the cap of 75%
you have a chance of 1,5% of getting hit 3 times in a row (which is low,but a dominus fight can be long)

another thing is there are many things that deal physical dmg where armor works and eva doesnt bear traps,spells,bleedings and RT user (2 of the rouge exiles are using RT by the way)
and if you are using RT or Lioneyes Glare you cant evade your reflect dmg

if you use armor you can still combinate it with blind support gem and be much safer

Well, both offer advantages, but I think you listed more for armor then there currently are.

Bear trap is one single mob in the entire game...sure you could say pvp, but let's be honest, very few will really care about that...

Bleed is a concern, but you also dodge a large portion of them, same with viper strikes, etc so you'll probably take less damage over time.

Armor doesn't mitigate spells at all...but evasion does (in the form of phase acrobatics).

Also, most eva users are going into guile so they'll take significantly less (nearly 0) damage from projectile attacks.

In the end, they both have their good points...and only by playing both can you actually see them.

Well, in my opinion he is kinda right about dexterity vs. strength and the boni these two stats give. But the same also applies to the int-energy shield bonus.

It just doesn't do enough (mostly nothing) for those not specialised in this kind of defense.
Unlike strength, which will just not affect those using CI.
The strength damage bonus can be easily applied to other skills via support gems, if wanted/needed.
But a character with armor or energy shield as main defense has almost nothing from dex save for a grace aura from a party member.
An energy shield based spellcaster witch with a dex node does get absolutely nothing out of that node. Well, there are alot of good support gems which need dex, but the passive boni of the stats themself are just non existent for this kind of character.

Besides:
The accuracy rating isn't really good either. It is nice to have, but on a level 50+ char with 260+ dexterity you might think, they would have a higher hit rating than 85% without additional accuracy nodes.

Strength passive boni just seem so much better in general.