Penetration stacking, and insignificance of defensive stats.

ThevoicestHeVoIcEs

It's easy with certain builds to stack penetration, to the point you are getting into over-penetration area where any armour you we are wearing is essentially nullified as a source of defensive stats. What's the point of wearing armour, if I can just stack penetration from all different sources, like weapon upgrades to make it null.

Also, I have yet to see also the evasion stat working at all. On bard you can apply 50% evasion to a friendly target for 8 or so seconds. I have never seen that effect trigger. If an idea of a evasion based defensive playstyle is supposed to be a thing, this feels like another area to be looked at.

Zarenno

Evasion not working is probably why rogue isnt in yet.

Dezmerizing

I am fairly certain I've seen attacks "miss" even when not actively dodging them - I always assumed this was due to evasion.

Are we sure that bards get 50 percent evasion, and not 50 evasion rating (which might be much less than 50%)?

Pham

50 evasion rating is definitely much less than 50%. Probably more like 0.5%

ThevoicestHeVoIcEs

Dezmerizing wrote: »

I am fairly certain I've seen attacks "miss" even when not actively dodging them - I always assumed this was due to evasion.

Are we sure that bards get 50 percent evasion, and not 50 evasion rating (which might be much less than 50%)?

Good point, it might be just wording of the tooltip, or my misunderstanding.