Now I know a lot of people will like it but for me 90% of the time it seemed pointless, And here is why . Now for a ranged attack coming your way it can be nice and help get you out of harms way most of the time. But the problem at least for me began when I would get engaged in a melee with charging mobs. Evade seemed like a nice option but the range on it is very very limited so in most cases you move a fraction from the mob but it is right back on top of you or you end up evading into another mob . Not to mention the very limited number and the cool down that seemed to take forever.
At some point I got an item with Dash on it and found that much much better at moving out of danger mostly because of the distance it put between you and the attacker/s even with the cool down it just seemed to feel more like evade should have been .
The evasion for each class should definitely be more thematic, there is a legendary affix with Sorcerer that turns your evasion into the teleport spell, which it should of been to begin with. Also evasion kinda sucks when you have the hitbox of a large barn, e.g. the big Cleaver goatmen lol, they never miss. I kinda wish we had some of the thief mechanics from other games like Guild Wars 2 where you can use blind to increase melee range evasion, I am still fiddling with rogue so maybe there is or will be that type of ability with paragons or passives down the line.
Honestly, The best use for evade for me was when a mob is on top of me I dropped a smoke bomb at my feet stunning htem all and hitting evade. The range is so limited but the stun kept the mob from instantly being right on top of me as I came out of the evade. Other than that I kind of avoided using it because as I said 90% of the time it was pointless.
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Evade needs to make you immune for the duration of the evade. I don’t know if that’s 0.5 sec or 1.0 sec or whatever, but when you evade…and get hit while evading, that feels wrong.
I had an item that gave me a sprint after evading as well as another that dropped bombs, but even before that I was chaining that and dashing to get from A to B a little faster. It’s fine, just use it for omni avoidance, don’t count on it to get you out of melee range of a horde.
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Not sure if you are getting hit during or right at the end of the action because it is so fast and the range is so limited. It does not help though that it seems you have a hit box the size of Montana in regard’s to some of the monsters attacks .
Personally, I’m really not a fan of having to have two different keybinds for “get out of the way”. Should just be one, and a more effective cool down. Talents (like teleport does if you spec it) should just alter your base evade skill.