Evade Spiritborn, why vital strikes over adaptive stance?

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Vital Strikes gives you x100% vulnerable damage every other hit because it consumes vulnerable. Adaptive stance doubles all your core stats. For spiritborn, their core stat is dex and core stats are multiplicative. You are easily getting over 300% more skill damage from dex. Yet every guide, every streamer, every youtuber is using vital strikes. Why vital strikes? It’s not even 100% uptime on the damage. Please explain.

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You can use Adaptive Stance instead of Vital Strikes if you don’t need the healing for Jacinth Shell’s drain life effect or you don’t mind staying at very low life for even more damage from A Beast Cornered seasonal power.

Just make sure you switch back to Gorilla’s DR 30% buff as much as possible by always casting Armored Hide immediately after The Seeker.

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  1. Some of these streamers are probably just regurgitate builds from other or copying pasting the trend
  2. It might be legit strong for their build
  3. They are ignorant of Adaptive Stance

I tried both and equally are good but I think Adaptive Stance is slight better for my build. Plus the fact it’s not the streamers’s favorite flavor also makes it great as I am not fan of following the meta.

If my build becomes a meta or matches an existing one that I am not aware is existing, that’s good because I put the thought on it myself.

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It can’t just be because of the healing effect. People will have perma barrier uptime anyways so the healing is pointless. It still doesn’t make sense to me, DPS wise, because in my testing, adaptive stance is just straight up more consistent damage with only upsides versus the downsides of vital strikes only working every other hit.

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You need the healing for Jacinth Shell to work because its effect stops if you’re at 10% life.

I used Adaptive Stance on my Evade Spiritborn last season since I didn’t use Jacinth Shell, and it made reaching 100% crit chance, 5k armor and resistance cap much easier.

Adaptive Stance is perfectly fine, just ignore the guides and use what you prefer.

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They re using a beast cornered in their setup combined with marred guard. Using any skill with vigor cost reduces like. Vital strikes is used to counter balance that one.
Your alternative can be played with keep off + brrawns over brains combo.

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