Is evasion worth it? Does it even work?

30000 evasion and every fifth melee attack lands. What am I doing wrong?




With acrobatics I drop to 8850 (about 70% on UI). And it feels even worse to play. Did I waste all my time going the evasion route? Does it get better or that's all.

you need a little of ES to mitigate hits like that

PoE has always been about 1-shotting or getting 1-shotted. Evasion may be a waste of time when you could've invested all of those tree points into more damage.

Although I believe there is an ascendancy class that scales damage reduction with evasion?

I would avoid acrobatics. Most of the aoe attacks can be avoided with positioning. Id much rather have +80% normal evasion than acrobatics.

80% evasion and 5k life+energy shield makes me feel pretty safe in t15s. Think your hit pool is the issue here.

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HwtChirino#2462 wrote:

PoE has always been about 1-shotting or getting 1-shotted. Evasion may be a waste of time when you could've invested all of those tree points into more damage.

Although I believe there is an ascendancy class that scales damage reduction with evasion?

Probably because in PoE1 evasion works with others forms of mitigation... Evasion works best when you can pair it with something, 80% evasion means 20% of attacks hit you and you will have to mitigate...At start 80% evasion means nothing because anything can kill you, one attack that goes through kills you...But in the end game evasion is powerful, if you can mitigate that 1-2 attacks that hit you.

In PoE1 evasion is paired with a chunk of resistances, and a decent amount of armour, to make that 1 hit that actually pass feel mitigated..

In PoE2 armor is useless and it's useless because you cannot stack armor + evasion and a good chunk of life to make it worth while...

Just perspective if a hit has 20 000 damage , let's say half is elemental 10 000 is elemental it get's reduced by maximum elemental resistance 75%, the rest you take it as damage, the rest 10 000 is physical, which you either avoid or mitigate, if you avoid that portion is useless if you mitigate, you either have armor witch mitigates it or a good chunk of life to take it like a chump...Life you cannot scale in poe2 (outside of life on gear, you don't have modifiers like %life) and armor cannot be paired with evasion poe2 (you either amour up or go full "don't hit me please"....In Poe1 you can aura up determination + evasion aura, but in poe2 you cannot because they don't even exist. (outside the aura that gives you evasion)

What I am trying to say is that evasion is a powerful mechanic, but since it cannot be 100% bullet proof, that one attack that hit's you needs to be mitigated somehow...and in PoE2 that attack might one shot you, because you cannot be full glass cannon, cannot mitigate full phys and cannot mitigate full elemental