For leveling I find that a good AC, coupled with miss chance (Blur, Shadow Fade, Displace, Ghostly, basically whatever stacks) is your best bet. When I'm zerging I see a lot more misses than I see dodges, and early to mid levels you won't have a high dodge anyway. On top of that, melee hits aren't that bad, it's the spammy spell damage you need to worry about.

I'm currently level 9 and sitting at 54AC or 56 or something like that. Add in a great Reflex and I can keep myself up easily with CSW pots. I never even run Shadow Fade and don't have a Blurry item. I've been using most of my slots for stat or DPS increasers.

Dodge isn't really needed until the hits start to get bigger. Every bit helps, but if you kill an enemy 10% faster then ideally you're taking 10% less damage, right? Gotta find a good balance.

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Ugg the Unwise wrote on Jun 1^st, 2014 at 12:09pm:


What he said, apsolutely pointless thread

Mhm, dodge is definitely something to have a decent amount of, but you shouldnt be sacrificing too much dps, if any at all for a max'd amount of it.