The Evade build in Diablo 4 has been nerfed and is now significantly slower. While some players move to stronger builds, others still find it worthwhile.
The Evade build for Spiritborn relies entirely on the escape ability, i.e. the evasion button. The thunder spike skill is designed so that it triggers as soon as you escape. A bug allowed players to cancel the escape animation and thus simply spam it.
Why was the build nerfed? As a player, you raced around the map while escaping, constantly dealing damage and slaughtering everything that stood around you. However, this caused disruption to other players and their gaming experience. Because the Evade build only worked due to a bug, Blizzard nerfed it on October 17th.
Players are currently discussing the nerf on Reddit. Some find that the Evade build is still a strong choice – just slower than before. But that is exactly the problem for many.
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What do fans say about the nerf? In a post on Reddit, “PM_ME_HUGE_CRITS” shows a 30-second clip of himself slashing through the level 65 pit with the Evade build. In the title of the post he writes: “After the patch, Evade is still strong, but noticeably slower.”
Users discuss the topic in the comments. utterbbq2 jokes: “Great, now this build is only 2x better than any other build in the other classes. Before it was about 10 times better.”
Endgame3213 says the developers could have increased the damage and it would still have been a good, playable build. However, others find that the damage or strength wasn’t the reason why they played the Evade build. It was primarily about speed. In the comment, Old-Supermarket8413 writes that that’s a pretty big contrast. “From The Flash to a Sunday walk,” he says.
reanima writes: “Yes, [der Evade-Build] is now about as fast as a Spike Volley build. [Der] was already stronger than Evade, and now Evade no longer even has speed as an advantage.” The Spike Volley build is currently one of the strongest builds in the endgame of Diablo 4.
Some players simply don’t enjoy the Evade build anymore. Many mention other builds that they now seem to want to switch to. However, Pullumpkin already sees the next problem: the only way to have two builds without having to reskill a lot is to have a second character. The collected Paragon points are transferred, but it is still too cumbersome. With loadouts you would have had an alternative build ready for a long time, he writes.
The skill loadouts allow you to save combinations of skills and items and easily retrieve them again. In fact, Blizzard recently commented on loadouts, or armories. You can find out more about this here: Diablo 4: “Is in development” – Blizzard promises one of the features that fans have been demanding since its release