Evasion vs Resistance buffs

WildRaptorX · February 2018

Is there any point in using evasion that increases dodge chance and a skill like volatile armour that increases physical and spell resistance. What’s the point in buffing if you dodge? Would you say it’s a waste of a skill slot? Because I feel like I have to choose one or another. And if anyone uses these two or similar skills let me know how they perform (PVP)

Sixty5 · February 2018

It's about stacking mitigation.

I run Shuffle on my Stam Sorc with capped resistances, along with Minor Maim from Heroic Slash.

Shuffle means I am going to avoid 15% of incoming hits right off the bat. So I have reduced the damage I am getting tagged with by 15%.
Capped resistances also mean I have 50% damage reduction, so between those two factors I am only taking 42% of the raw damage that my opponent is putting out.
Adding Minor Maim into the mix is going to reduce an opponents damage output by 15%, meaning that I am only taking 36% of the raw damage an opponent is dishing out.

So yeah, I'd say it is definitely worth it to stack up defensive buffs.

brandonv516 · February 2018

Major evasion is very good but you won't always dodge attacks. Shuffle serves another purpose though as it removes snares.

When you take damage, resistances help. Many people have a lot of penetration. For a DK I would try to find a way to slot it.

John_1999 · February 2018

you cant dodge aoe damage, so you need both kinda.

DemonDruaga · February 2018

well if you passive dodge 15% of the incoming hits, you'll still get hit the other 85% of it, so reducing the dmg you take during these makes sense.
then you can't choose which attacks are going to be dodged, so maybe you'll just passive dodge some light attacks and eat up the whole heavy hitting burst combination-> wan't to reduce that as much as you can right.
Additionaly the skills that give you the major resistance buffs often trigger some neat class passives, so you really don't want to miss out on them.(in the therms of dk you can even use the morph with aoe, to help detecting nightblades, neclecting their chance to recover in stealth)

and as mentioned the main purpose of shuffle is to remove snares, since high movement(-speed) let's you mitigate a lot of dmg.
so if you can manage to use both, do it! everything else would be madness.

(if you don't have the bar space to use shuffle to purge snares, you might want to consider running a heavy armor setup with a 2H weapon. then you can use forward momentum for a hot and to purge snares, leaving you with one more skill to use.
personaly i like the medium armor dk with shuffe + volatile + rally burstheal more than a heavy armor setup, atleast in no cp pvp)

Ragnarock41 · February 2018

you'll understand why you need resistances when you eat a 10k hit to the face.

Spikes are a must. Use it.

kaithuzar · February 2018

Just build for dodge roll & mitigate all incoming damage. Well fitted ftw

Sixty5 · February 2018

kaithuzar wrote: »

Just build for dodge roll & mitigate all incoming damage. Well fitted ftw

And then you get tagged with a Dawnbreaker and evaporate.

kaithuzar · February 2018

Sixty5 wrote: »

kaithuzar wrote: »

Just build for dodge roll & mitigate all incoming damage. Well fitted ftw

And then you get tagged with a Dawnbreaker and evaporate.

Not if you are properly assigning your champion points and using impregnable 5 piece & keeping your hots up