Has anyone noticed a change w/ bushido since the last publish in terms of the evasion skill. Why did they make those changes? I have a bushido character and he was not by any means uber in PvP or PvM. I dropped tactics to have more skillpoints to play. Now tactics seems to play a role in evasion. Then shouldn't it have to also play a role in parrying as well for a regular warrior w/o bushido or any type of combat whatsoever? You need tactics to get parry and evasion bonus but a reg warrior can use a dumb shield w/ HCI to help hit better better go figure. Sorry about the griping, but thought I would add my 2 cents.

All these requirements were added in by the dev team to cater to the complaining of the pvp crowd who wanted to get rid of Evade mages, without screwing over the dexxers. Evade is a skill meant for dexxers to handle mages, but people were putting bushido on mage to create a near unstoppable pvp character.

The reason they threw in GM anatomy and GM tactics to get the full potential out of evasion, was that these were two skills mages don't usually have but dexxers do. Also, you now need atleast 80 dex to get any type of parry bonus, which also screws over mages again with evade. Their reasoning for this was that mages would have to not only sacrifice atleast 440 skill points to get full evade chances, but also atleast 80 dex, that it would get rid of evade mages for good, which it probably will.

Hopefully now all those complainers will shut up, but you know they'll just find something else to complain about later. It never ends.

AH ok. Thanks for the info. I use Bushido on my warrior but dropped tactics since you can hit the damage cap fast w/o it. Now I have to figure out what to drop to put tactics back so i can get full use of the evade skill. Just seems like if I do this them my warrior becomes more of a PvM character than a PvP character. I never put bushido on mage since i thought it was sooo gimpy. hehehehe

drop magic resist.

120 bushido
120 parry
120 weapon skill
100 tactics
100 anatomy
100 healing
60 chiv

You'll do fine without magic resist, cause you'll be able to evade a lot still, and as long as you have 70's across the board. Also if you got 140+ dex, 4 second heals/pots will keep you alive easyily in pvp.

I dropped tactics and bascially have the template you mentioned (i have new account so cap is 700)

105 busido (115 w/ jewels)
120 wep
120 parry
100 anat
90 healing
80 poisoning
85 tactics

Should I drop poisoning and go w/ chiv and raise Bushido? Thought template was going good until the changein bushido. now I have no idea what to do.

If you want to get the most out of evade you need gm tactics. You will probly just need to get some jewels.

Quick answer YES! They Nerfed Evasion =( Right after I made my gimp mage=(



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* Pub 43 fixed Evasion parry modifier will scale with your Bushido skill. Range is 16-40%, with a 10% bonus if your bushido is above GM and both tactics and anatomy are GM or better