Unwavering stance - should I take it?

Hi all,

I'm a full-block life-based melee toon. I've a choice now to spec into unwavering and save a passive point (currently using heart of oak). As I don't have experience with unwavering, I'm wondering if I should go for it.

Unwavering Stance is incredible if you don't have any evasion. You might underestimate how many of the scary situations in this game are caused by stuns until you realise that you can now stand in Fire Fury rain or stare down charging rhoas with no issues. Definitely take it.

This thing is so good for melee characters that I do not see ever taking unwavering unless CI.

If you're full block lifebased, you probably have lots of armor and little evasion. Totally worth it unless you have Aegis Aurora (you have 50% chance to evade stuns if you have energy shield on, combined with Heart of Oak it's almost full stun immunity anyway).

Bear in mind that you can get stunned by hits you block. Besides, it's one point only - you can always try with and without and see what you like more.

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Mannoth wrote:

This thing is so good for melee characters that I do not see ever taking unwavering unless CI.

gotta agree with that, ever since Ascendancy hit and brought stibnites, I'm extremely reluctant to go unwavering. Even if I go iron reflexes, i still don't go unwavering because ir alone still lets me benefit from blind. (also, at least vs bosses, ancestral protector + blind is pretty good too).


Besides that, unwavering can be somewhat irrelevant based on your build, in particular if you're using cyclone.

I can't think of a single boss who uses attack skills and is threatening enough to care about blind, to be honest. Maybe Shrine Piety but she runs around too much to be able to effectively blind her each time. The spells are usually the problem.

if you don't have evasion, you need at least 30% avoid stun or unwavering stance

if you have 30%+evasion and 30%+block with 6-7k hp then stun isn't a big problem

i am CI with 9,5k es 33%block and 35% evasion with zero stun and i dont have any problem at all with stun, and i dont even use any defensive flask like rumi or stun recovery


if you allready have heart of the oak with full block and maybe evasion it should be enough, it depends how many points you need to traver untill unwavering stance

personally i think unwavering stance it's worth only if you dont have any evasion and have 30% or less block

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InAshesTheyShallReap wrote:

i am CI with 9,5k es 33%block and 35% evasion with zero stun and i dont have any problem at all with stun, and i dont even use any defensive flask like rumi or stun recovery

That's strange, I was playing CI cyclone and got an Eye of Chayula after dying a few times to stunlock when out of cyclone. So, from my perspective, it was worth it to sacrifice an entire amulet slot for stun immunity with a build which is stun immune 90% of the time. Didn't die once after I got the Chauyla. Perhaps it depends on the difficulty of the content you're doing? Or maybe you were playing ranged? Melee builds are in the thick of it and generally receive much more damage.

Thanks for the replies chaps. I switched to US and have found the gameplay smoother for me. I guess while I didn't see the stuns I certainly felt it previously. Also helps that vengeance-riposte-reckoning plus the bleed explosion from gratuitous violence are essentially my AOE (heavy strike is my main skill).

Aegis-Anvil combination with 18K armour and 6200 eHP.