After several Monk playthroughs, it's unavoidable.

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karsey#2995 написал:

I'm sorry that your gear is bad and you're having trouble balancing resistances. It is the case that you need to find these rolls on gear and hunt down supplementing runes. There is some resistances you can opt into from various campaign quest buffs so if you haven't taken advantage of those, I recommend looking into that, but otherwise you're just going to have to bite the bullet and Grind for Gear in the Game. I suppose it is unfortunate that there was no way for you to know this would be the case.

If you're playing a melee monk I hope you are also using energy shield along with your evasion, and if so, the ghost dance reservation buff - it does as lot of heavy lifting in terms of making monk feel "tanky" in the endgame even if you have a lot of energy shield.

Try not to worry so much about the percentage value displayed to you in the character sheet, it's better to be more concerned with the actual numerical value.

My personal opinion is you should have at least 3.5k es on top of a life pool and ~15-17k evasion with ghost dance to feel good as a melee quarterstaff monk as a bare minimum for late endgame maps. I usually hit these values by getting ~300% evasion on the tree and somewhere in between 200-300% increased ES as well after farming a bit for some gear and working up to those numbers. I play ssf and I've never needed to go into t1 waystones feeling unprepared gear-wise as long as I didn't rush progression through the campaign.

I also recommend the "meditate" ascendancy if you are playing as an invoker - it is a great way to recoup ES in any downtime moments and also pump up your ES to above it's baseline before a dangerous encounter. With enough evasion as well as running ghost dance, you can use it while engaged in combat like a life pot usually because the recharge only stops when you take damage - which won't happen if you're evading, or have enough evasion that a hit + ghost dance proc causes you to gain es rather than take damage.

It might be wise to also look into deflection - I find this to be a much more complementary affix for monks that lean harder into evasion than ES. You can get it on the tree but it makes a big difference if you have some good rolls on your gear as well.

There's also a quarterstaff base type that offers some block chance which can be enhanced by tree nodes, including if you anoint them on your amulet if you are not near those nodes in the tree, and the ascendancy point for Monk that turns half of your evasion into armour. You will lose some evasion, which means that something like ghost dance will restore less es on hit, but the hits will be smaller anyways - this is a balancing act between how you want to manage your defences. If you are light on ES, it might be useful to have some armour to mitigate physical damage, or to have it complement your deflection, as armour works better the smaller the hit is it's trying to mitigate.

Don't discount the value of things like freeze, stun, blind, electrocute - you need some form of crowd control. Skills like frozen locus can be prepped before you do things like pop a breach or open an essence to make the initial mobs instantly freeze (or maybe even explode) and can give you room to maneuver.

And finally - don't forget to dodge roll, stay out of the fire and other ground effects that you didn't put there, and don't get hit :)