[2020] Questions Thread - February 17, 2020 | Path of Exile Dev Tracker

Originally posted by raikaria2

How does 'Increased Defenses from Equipped Shield' interact with 'Increased Armour/Evasion/ES'.

I assume it's probably additive. [EG: 1000 EV Shield; 300% increased Defenses; 200% Increased Evasion -> 5000 EV] but I want to make sure because I'm thinking of trying Willowgift [Fortify -and Mistwall [Over 1,100 Evasion Shield].

Also; if you convert damage taken to an element, and have a means of avoiding elemental damage [ie: Soul of Arrakali] does that work? Because you can actually stack up a fair amount of Elemental Avoidance and I'm wondering how well that could work as a defensive layer.

1) Additive - they're both "increased" modifiers which are applying to the same value. 2) No. If you avoid damage you never take it - thus avoidance has to happen before things that modify damage taken, including what type you take it as. As a side note, this is explicitly not a conversion, which matters for some mechanics.

[2020] Questions Thread - February 17, 2020

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