Should Pure Evasion be buffed?

Im playing lightning spear amazon and currently I have pure evasion gear, but I have noticed many top players switching to evasion/energy shield hybrid.

And rightfully so because its much more tanky than pure evasion.

But what I dont like about this is the int requirements when switching to this build. All my skill gems require 180+ dex, and now I need the same amount of int to add energy shield to my build because pure evasion is not good enough.

Why are pure energy shield builds tanky, but pure evasion is not?

So now I need about 200 dex and 200 int while capping res and getting max life, while having 1-2 uniques equipped that dont give res. I just find this frustrating tbh and it makes me not want to continue.

What do you think, am I just big n00b and this isnt actually a problem, or do you think evasion needs a buff?

Hopefully a developer could respond to this lol

Hi I am a developer at Grinding Gear Games. I'm glad we have successfully grinded your gears. RIP bozo

In all seriousness though:

Everything including good gear, passives from skill tree, and skill/spirit gems all got nerfed into oblivion. Basically got nerfed beyond the space time continuum. Acrobatics got nerfed, grim feast got deleted, you get the idea.
It's going to take you a lot of hard thinking and respeccing to create a new viable build, although I don't know if you have the currency or gold to make that possible! I wish you good luck, as I have decided to step away from the game until it's balanced to a more acceptable place for players

I agree the different defences need some balancing, but not necessarily pure evasion. Armour seems a more likely candidate for buffs seeing how it (still) falls off in the endgame.

That being said, POE has always been about layering defences (it was true for POE 1 and it's still true for POE 2). So going pure evasion is never a good idea as you progress into higher tier waystones, just like pure energy shield is not as strong as you make it out to be (it is a bit stronger because of the love it gets on the tree, I'll admit). If the INT is a barrier, find another defensive line to combine with evasion.

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SirShlumminck#2426 wrote:

I agree the different defences need some balancing, but not necessarily pure evasion. Armour seems a more likely candidate for buffs seeing how it (still) falls off in the endgame.

That being said, POE has always been about layering defences (it was true for POE 1 and it's still true for POE 2). So going pure evasion is never a good idea as you progress into higher tier waystones, just like pure energy shield is not as strong as you make it out to be (it is a bit stronger because of the love it gets on the tree, I'll admit). If the INT is a barrier, find another defensive line to combine with evasion.

I agree with you on everything except for your thoughts on pure evasion. Pure evasion was already mediocre in 0.1.0
After that they decided to nerf Acrobatics and hard nerf Wind Dancer spirit gem? Like really? But oh well I guess they just decided to nerf everything and ask for forgiveness later.

oof

It comes down to this: when you get hit, you either die, or you don't die. EHP determines if you 'die' or 'not die', so we try and increase this. Life is difficult to get, while ES is easier to get. Therefore, we go Evasion + ES.

I don't know about a pure strait buff, but I do think the baseline mechanic is a little wonky. I have a post talking about how it could use some adjusting:
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3694268