I'd like to see that helm on a build designed around melee, high blocking (either shield or dual wield), and Iron Reflexes without Unwavering Stance. The loss of chest armour definitely hurts, but if you can make good use of all those bonuses...
Actually with Iron Reflexes you'll still have the increased mana cost from blind, but i don't think you'll get any benefit from it if you can't evade...
Blind has no increased mana cost, and you have a base 5% chance to evade attacks as long as you are capable of evading (so you haven't taken Unwavering Stance). Also, because Blind impacts chance to hit rather than evasion (yes chance to hit is also a stat) it still benefits players with IR (I remember seeing one calculation that said you had ~76.25% chance to evade a blinded enemy with IR, but yeah, could easily be off).
I'd like to see that helm on a build designed around melee, high blocking (either shield or dual wield), and Iron Reflexes without Unwavering Stance. The loss of chest armour definitely hurts, but if you can make good use of all those bonuses...
Actually with Iron Reflexes you'll still have the increased mana cost from blind, but i don't think you'll get any benefit from it if you can't evade...
Blind has no increased mana cost, and you have a base 5% chance to evade attacks as long as you are capable of evading (so you haven't taken Unwavering Stance). Also, because Blind impacts chance to hit rather than evasion (yes chance to hit is also a stat) it still benefits players with IR (I remember seeing one calculation that said you had ~76.25% chance to evade a blinded enemy with IR, but yeah, could easily be off).
o, i should have checked the support gem first :D I stand corrected about it (though the 76% seems kinda off...).
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I'd like to see that helm on a build designed around melee, high blocking (either shield or dual wield), and Iron Reflexes without Unwavering Stance. The loss of chest armour definitely hurts, but if you can make good use of all those bonuses...
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Actually with Iron Reflexes you'll still have the increased mana cost from blind, but i don't think you'll get any benefit from it if you can't evade...
Blind has no increased mana cost, and you have a base 5% chance to evade attacks as long as you are capable of evading (so you haven't taken Unwavering Stance). Also, because Blind impacts chance to hit rather than evasion (yes chance to hit is also a stat) it still benefits players with IR (I remember seeing one calculation that said you had ~76.25% chance to evade a blinded enemy with IR, but yeah, could easily be off).
o, i should have checked the support gem first :D I stand corrected about it (though the 76% seems kinda off...).
I think it works out like:
With IR you have a base chance to evade (CTE) of 5%. This means the enemy chance to hit (CTH) is 95%. Blind reduced that by 75%.
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Well made unique. Also will go well with these monstrosities:
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it's seperate and additive. If you had no block, you now have 15%. If you had block, you now have +15%
If this is true, we can get 100% Block + ~85% Spellblock + Unwavering Stance(instant blocking, no block animation).
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