Does evasion even work at all?

Just as title sais im having doubts that evation is even working in poe2.

I started playng ranger recently , had my suspicions earlier, but assumed that on attacks it is jsut hard to see. Can't be even sure what is attack, and what isn't.

BUUUT... today i took acrobatics.

I have to yet see first time when i fail to dodgeroll or avoid ANYTHINg and see hit not land .It is especially obvious on bosses.everything always lands.

So my fist question : is evasion really implemented at all?

And second: how in hell am i supposed to build defenses on ranger if odds of evasion are so low.I don't see any other defensive mechanic in reasonable range of my passive tree, and plausible becouse of dexterity focus for bows really .

Evasion is weak to slams as they can't be avoided. Going pure eva and acrobatics is just bad really. The best defense as evasion ranger is playing deadeye for tailwind stacks. I would personally recommend trying to run the Bulwark keystone as pure evasion, but it's quite a far way to travel to.

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Kashou#2868 wrote:

Evasion is weak to slams as they can't be avoided. Going pure eva and acrobatics is just bad really. The best defense as evasion ranger is playing deadeye for tailwind stacks. I would personally recommend trying to run the Bulwark keystone as pure evasion, but it's quite a far way to travel to.

I started ranger to specifically play poisons with decompose on boots, so playing deadaye is out of quesation.

I really don't know how to build defenses, with witch i could convert my mana to defend m yhealth, i could get grim feast to double my energy shield...and with inteligence gear i could get es to begin with.

On ranger with no life nodes and only evasion defensive nodes...when evasion is so weak seems really really bad.

Bulwark is absurdly far and opposite way to poisons/crit.

Yeah. Going acrobatics is not the solution, it's just going to make you die more in an attempt to die less to big boss hits. With Bulwark you can still just evasion dodge projectiles and normal hits but it will let you have 30% damage reduction to slams as well when dodge rolling them. The only real option otherwise is trying to get a bit of ES or something if your evasion is really high. ES/Eva makes a lot more sense than pure eva because you can get slightly higher "total life" for slams.

But yeah I agree evasion is kind of archaic and it doesn't make a whole lot of sense within the game IMO. Tailwind DR stacks should be baseline how evasion works, allowing you to survive a big hit but losing it after getting hit.

There are also a lot of relevant nodes on the way to Bulwark, like two-handed damage, stun, and increased ailment chance.

If you want to go up to the upper right then consider playing hybrid es/eva.

Check the passives and spec into "Marks apply 50% increased blind effect"

You want to blind enemies at mass and mostly all of the adds will barely hit you.

Focusing on casters/magic/rare mobs is the priority, survival is aided through maximum life and energy shield. The defensive portion of this game requires you to spec into 2 defenses (armor/evasion + energy shield), unless ofc you are a specialized ascendancy or heavy specialized passives + gear.

For simple spec evasion users, you want to have your chest piece over 1000 evasion rating and spec into a passive to boost chest piece evasion by 100% and rely on that alone while focusing on energy shield and elemental defensive's through other gear.

how's acrobatics not a solution? im at 70% with acrobatics specced, with no tailwind and lvled to 93 with no issues. it did slow down a bit now though. blind sources are also good additional layer, u can have it on wind dancer for example or as someone else mentioned on some mark skills. only thing is if ur not a deadeye, u do have to invest in a decent amount of life on gear in order to tank some hits u will inevitably take.

Evasion gets pretty strong with Acrobatics and >10k Evasion. U'll still have to manually dodge stuff, just in case of an unlucky roll tho. The life pool of rangers unfortunately doesn't allow for alot of hits taken.

I'd like GGG to buff life a bit, but that doesn't mean evasion is bad.

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Sadaukar#2191 wrote:

Evasion gets pretty strong with Acrobatics and >10k Evasion. U'll still have to manually dodge stuff, just in case of an unlucky roll tho. The life pool of rangers unfortunately doesn't allow for alot of hits taken.

I'd like GGG to buff life a bit, but that doesn't mean evasion is bad.

Well.. the thing is i HONESTLy don;t see my character ever evading anything.
Im really not sure if it is working at all.
I'm not talking " not working" as being weak.I mean it as bugged.

Not really sure what to tell u. Do u mean there's no animation u notice? Because there is none. U just don't take damage.

Other than that, I'm playing an evasion character and I can tell that I'm evading alot. Did Trialmaster and Olroth yesterday and I should have gotten hit by some of their attacks because I didn't dodge them properly, but nothing happened.
Also in maps u see that projectiles fly towards u but don't do any damage.

Maybe ur evasion rating is just too low? No idea what level u are and how much evasion u have. And as someone else stated, evasion without acrobatics doesn't work against slams and spells, so they will hit u regardless.