Turtle Charm and Acrobatics
With bucklers coming adding a new pure evasion shield option I am wondering how well a full evasion block warbringer build would work. What does the math of of max block turtle charm blocking all hits and acrobatics blocking all hits look like?
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Ive thought about this quite a lot. Turtle charm and Acrobatics achieve the same result, mostly. The investment required to get both is probably not worth it. However, i do think that the Keystone Glancing Blows, while not good on a Armour/Block setup, is really great on an Evasion/Block setup. This is because you already have avoidance with Evasion, so it could be worth the 50% damage taken purely as a damage reduction layer. Whereas for Armour, which does not have avoidance, this keystone becomes a lot worse.
Hard to know until patch notes. They were talking about major changes to evasion, so we'll need to see how that pans out.
If Evasion gets nerfed hard, Turtle Charm could be one of the strongest defensive layers in the game
They simply scale multiplicatively. 50% block + 50% evasion = 75% chance to not get hit, 75% block + 50% evasion = 87.5% chance to not get hit, etc.
Getting both high block and high evasion with Turtle Charm / Acro takes massive investment.
The issue with investing this much into avoidance is that your dps and max hit suffer a lot to the point of making your character significantly weaker, it's not really synergistic. If you have to cut your dps in half to double your avoidance, bosses don't really get easier for example.