How to play evasion build
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After playing 3 evasion characters, I have come up with a perfect evasion build that Jonathan uses.
Stack evasion so you can evade playing the game and tell people what is a good game :-) Sorry, don't mean to start a a flame. Just wanted to share my thoughts that Evasion stat is not much of a use. Last bumped on May 22, 2025, 8:09:12 AM
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" I'm not sure I understand what you mean. I almost always play pure evasion except sometimes for the helmet for Subterfuge Mask and don't really have any problems |
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Evasion is not meant to be used by itself.
Neither is Armour. Neither is Block. Neither is Energy Shield. It is a combination of all of these that make defences work. Evasion is entropic. 75% evasion means 1 out of every 4 hits will land. It also has no defensive attribute with spells, so you have to stack max resists (and + to maximum resists) to negate it. Not to mention physical hits so some armour or block to assist those hits that get through. Armour by itself isn't enough. It needs resists too, and likely block if you are in that area of the tree or can get a high block shield and jewels to help. Block by itself is capped at 75% without items that extend it beyond. So that needs something for the 1 in 4 hits that will land, and it needs block recovery. Energy shield isn't enough by itself, and needs resists (and chaos does 2x damage to ES so overcapping that helps or using Chaos Innoculation). The game requires thought, not presumption. |
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" What Deadeye + Wind Dancer and you easily hit 90% eva without even trying if you want to go pure evasion even if it's not worth when pure ES is so strong, almost nothing hits you. If you really want to facetank evertyhing then just add a subterfuge mask and ES amulet, that's more than enough The rest of the builds can just stack ES and cap res, that's it, no need to care about anything else. Maybe some stun res since it's annoying now Last edited by iHiems#0168 on May 2, 2025, 7:23:10 PM
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Evasion is weak af standalone, even if you stack it for over 90% with Acrobatics (been there, done that). You still die pretty often.
Evasion also have some direct vulnerabilities like - not working on spells/aoe without Acro. Energy Shield as the only def layer is good, just because you can stack it into the state where nothing can 1 shot you. Armour also can be stacked like that, but it requires investment of over half of available passive points and you still get yoinked by elemental/chaos dmg. From my analysis, the best would be Armour + ES or pure ES for Ranged classes and ES + Evasion or Armour + Evasion for melee. Since we cannot realistically stack life, ES option is just better. Also ES/Eva nodes are decent. |
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Using Evasion by itself is fine, you just need a lot of it and the nerf to Acrobatic and Wind Dance didn't help at all. Also, having access to more HP would help the cause.
Tech guy Last edited by Warrax#2850 on May 22, 2025, 8:10:35 AM
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