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RE: Iron Reflexes

I don't think it is terribly weird to see it in any hardcore game setting let alone a race.

1) Gear options: As stated Iron Reflexes greatly widens gear options available to you, so for races you are much less dependent on pure armor gear.

2) Armor is a much safer choice over evasion in hardcore play. Taking a guaranteed smaller hit every time versus an occasional sonic boom that has the potential to one shot is tremendously one sided. Most would choose the safest option when death means you start over.

3) There is no evasion equivalent to IR. Pure evasion set-ups lower level are not tremendously easy and coupled with gearing problems of only having pure evasion as the available armor choice it can be hard to set up till later in ones play.

4) Crit builds (usually shadows) need phys mitigation for reflect or they will kill themselves quite often. Shadows are specifically far from any strength gains for wearing pure armor gear and in getting the nodes greatly detract from the builds themselves.

5) Evasion gear has higher values than armor. So, if you wore pure evasion armor you can reach a higher phys reduction with IR than pure armor gear.

My proposed fix for this would be an adjustment to the IR keystone and/or a similar keystone for evasion being made.

Changing IR to be you receive a percentage of the evasion as armor rather than all of it such as 60% and then 3 nodes only available after you obtain it that raise that 5% each to a cap of 75% (Percentage due to change depending on balance needs of course). This would require more points to make it effective and reduce some from taking it to save points for other things.

Making a similar node to IR for Evasion would be a nice additive as well. However here I would make the nodes afterword affect things like dodge chance, spell dodge chance, etc.

Also, you could make IR only affect evasion on gear. Therefor, evasion flasks would not be able to be used in tandem with granite flasks to double stack the armor bonuses.

Finally, something regarding phys reflect and phys damage spells seems like it would need addressing for pure evasion chars. Like a keystone that does -50% phys reflect damage taken +50% elemental reflect damage taken that is behind phase acrobatics. Or a conversion of phys damage taken to elemental damage taken. Maybe even Phys damage conversion to chaos damage with the stipulation that it cannot be taken in conjunction with CI.

RE: Chaos Inoculation

Again, how CI is implemented currently, it is not surprising to not see this as prevalently in the race. A good CI char is really meant for at least a second character.

1) CI is not a possibility from the beginning. Meaning you will need to spec into life to survive only to have to reset those passives later. If you mess up, you will need regret orbs.

2) Good CI pieces are rare to find and, consequently, quite expensive. Leading a person to either farm for the gear or the money to buy it from others.

3) It makes the player extremely vulnerable to any ailments (I.E. freeze/shock/ignite/stun) do to them being still based of the characters now 1hp. Creating long durations for these ailments.

My proposed fix would be an adjustment to ES equipment and a keystone.

Adjust ES only equipment (NOT Armor/ES or Eva/ES) to increase the base ES available an item can have, but lower the max possible roll of +ES an item can obtain. Resulting in the same possible high outcomes but with medium rolls more available to beginners.

A keystone behind CI at the end of the 12% more energy shield node that does all status effects are based off 65% of energy shield instead of life to help with stun/freeze/shock/ignite.