The context for the kb/kd issue is being in ground zero. If you aren’t “there” to get hit then it’s not an issue. My problem with eva now stems from mainly 2 things: there is no partial evade and it’s not “possible” to evade the damage that kills your.
There is no partial evade. You either do or you don’t. It’s either full damage or no damage. From experience (not a “rule” but rather observation) what you can evade, you can survive without evasion. Melee damage can be “avoided” by “not being there” when the hit lands (with or without evasion). Ranged damage is mostly homing so you can’t move out of the way. Add to this the high accuracy most ranged monsters have … you get the idea.
Def on the other hand reduces physical damage “all the time”. Further more, you have control over how much damage you reduce. The exchange for such power is still being susceptible to status effects. A fair trade given how powerful it is to only take 1 damage.
In [burrow]‘s case you just have to be out of the way. If you are taking aoes, that’s you positioning error. More often than not it is your teams’ positioning error (cuz they don’t what [burrow] is and what it looks like). It took me a while to realize what it actually looks like from someone else’s perspective because you don’t see rogue 3’s that often. To us as users we look like we are underground, to team members we look faded.
I’ve used [burrow] enough times (solo and party play) to know how far I have to be to stay safe. Even with evasion, as you can not guarantee 100% evasion, you will still get hit and if that hit kills you, what then?
The only thing in siauliai that can (and when I say “can” I mean “has the ability to”) hit you is the mole jump. I’ve actually tried to get hit by all of them just to see what would happen.
Falling spines can’t track you to fall on your location (if you have a pet beside you it could happen). Linear falling spines can’t track you. Mole claw attack can’t reach (or hit) you.
Poata’s shout can’t hit you. His claw attack can reach (or hit) you.
Treant’s “shout” can’t hit you. The fruits can’t track you therefore 1 won’t get tossed your way. The tornado thing can’t track you so 1 won’t be sent your way.
The golem has nothing to hit you with even if you were burrowed right below it.
You are more likely to get hit by something when someone is standing on top of you that bad stuff gets thrown in your way. In which case you wouldn’t be burrowed in the 1st place.
The whole point to [burrow] is cheesing something in solo play.