BDO 2025 - Should You Swap to Evasion? Breakpoints Explained

#bdo #evasion #pvp
This is a question I get quite often while streaming and in my discord. All builds featured in this are my opinion so as always take the information with a grain of salt! I am happy to answer any questions or hear feedback down below.
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[@Travesty]

Next video will probably be kharazad vs sovereign weapon silver per ap gains Update 2/7/25: Khara vs Sov Silver per Ap Analysis: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJu1Z4CPotVqbLMsi=vZpYvA_rwBxOvAF0

[@ImDevs]

that will actually be a huge video, ive been wondering which upgrade takes priority.

[@Travesty]

@ yeah I think I’ll do a few different assumptions. 1) you only care about one spec 2) you care about both specs 3) you think you will hit pity

[@chaosRonin]

Great, informative vid Trav. Keep up the good work :)

[@Travesty]

thanks ronin

[@ImDevs]

this is why youre the goat. amazing video keep up the great work!

[@Travesty]

@@ImDevs thanks dev 🙏

[@Wushuhawaiian]

Thanks for the breakdown 💪

[@Travesty]

@@Wushuhawaiian thanks for the support brother. Ready for your next video xd

[@ken5040]

For me, it took 1250 EVA exactly to start to feel tanky now I will add. I am on Console and I used one EVA minus accuracy add on however by reaching this amount, a good portion of the player base cannot kill me a higher portion combo all while I am still able to kill just about anyone besides either high or DR meme builds siege I get great value from the build and open world and guild versus guild. I do great Love these type of videos I always watch them multiple times when they come out and then do my own testing since consul is currently a lot different than PC

[@Travesty]

@@ken5040 yeah console is an entirely different beast. Glad to hear 1250 evasion seems to be the breakpoint for your I’m curious what class do you use?

[@ken5040]

currently main succ ninja but I also play awaken. I use Mystic or Lahn tags We currently have a tag event going until the end of April so it only cost one fuel been experimenting with different classes because of this, but I consider Mystic and lawn to be like secondary main characters and I have a whole bunch of gear boxes, costumes, etc. just waiting on dead eye release I’ve been working on a full set of DR gear for her, but I’m interested to see how she does as EVA

[@Travesty]

@ gotcha gotcha. Yeah mystic/striker I believe can get away with a little bit less evasion due to our passive whereas ninja has more base evasion (I think about pen sicil worth more melee evasion) baked into your base stats so that would make sense for me that your minimum breakpoint is higher. Keep me posted on your mystic journey!

[@tookie5978]

Nice video. I’ve been making spreadsheets to calc out cost per AP as well to guide progress. Interested in your opinion - after the 332 - 426 starting point for the swap your video jumps straight from 758 GS to 780. Lots of progress is needed to jump between those two sets of gear - I’ve been telling myself to pump the AP to 337, maybe even 342 bracket before considering the tet armors. Thoughts? Also fwiw your gear path matches what I came up with up to the 758 GS build. Then I looked into average cost of ear upgrades from pen or upgrades to ring belt to get to 337/342. I think it might be cheaper, assuming average RNG, to just sit at V Kharazad ears and buy V Debo ears to swap to NOV. if I remember right my numbers showed Nov Neck, oct rings, sep belt cheapest to hit 337 bracket. But then pen Debo swap being part of cheapest route to 342. Not entirely sure but might be a path after 337 bracket to avoid some potentially bad RNG. Either way thanks for the vid 😊

[@Travesty]

It depends on your main goal. I'd say more pve focused means focusing down AP. More pvp focused means around 342 maybe getting tet fallen gods. Tbh i prob swapped the tet fallen gods earlier then most people would push them. AP is really king so I'd maybe hold off on tet fallen gods unless you are running into survivability issues.

[@Aejion]

Brother what is the most good build for sorc? can eva do a lot of damage same as DR or not?

[@Travesty]

I don't play sorc so I really couldn't tell you the best in slot build for the class. What I can tell you is that most of the sorcs that I run into use DR build. DR build on average is going to have 13 more sheet AP then an evasion build. That's 2-3 AP brackets more than your evasion build. For example when I compare my 362 (358 ap bracket) full ap evasion build vs my 375 ap bracket DR build (364,369,and 375 ap brackets gained) it's a difference of 21 total ap. In addition, a good sorc doesn't build to survive getting cc'ed because let's be honest -- a good sorc typically does not get cc'ed often. They really care more about surviving chip damage in the rare occasions that they want to commit to dmg and have to exit the perma rotation they can do. That being said there are like 1 or 2 sorcs I've seen that run evasion. Typically though they have been at the end of the gear curve -- above the middle-level gear path and close if not already at the high-level gear path. They do damage but aren't trading people down in SA unless they heavily outgear. That being said if they do get caught and the person isn't running accuracy there is a good chance that you will get to try again without having to V (maybe have to tendon though since sorc is squishier than most)

[@aviioz813]

Sep to oct sove, 34/75 vendor crons cause if it was from outfits i would get this amount of crons at the end of 2030.. so yea 34/75 229b gone still didnt get it

[@Travesty]

@@aviioz813 Sadge hope you get it soon

[@ПавелКаратыгин-у9п]

got mine oct sov mhw on 3ed click with 248 fs...blessed as hell. P.S. minus of this situation - i got my RTX 1070 brocken....

[@Travesty]

@ aww sorry to hear man! Hope you have a back up laptop!

[@f3nixfire]

So youre only running 1200 to 1268 evasion? That doesnt seem to be enough considering how much accuracy is in the game these days, right?

[@Travesty]

So it really depends on the class. Other classes will have higher base evasion (musa for example) and will use evasion offhand in an evasion build. This gives them access to 100 more evasion having their evasion builds sit around 1270+ evasion (1350 w/ eva offhand). I go over all the endgame builds here kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqqmY5Vrp9qSiMk When it comes to evasion and when you can run it, nowadays it's not really how much evasion you have it's how much AP you have while running evasion. So while 1200-1278 might seem low to you, you gotta understand the goal of evasion has always been 1) do more damage to the opponent then they do to me 2) survive a combo 3) kill them in a combo

[@Travesty]

I also forgot to mention that each of these builds you can either 1) Run DR boots (dropping your evasion even lower) 2) Run Centaurus Belt Swap -- why would you drop your evasion below 1200? Because once you are high enough gear you start having a good amount of DR with your evasion. When your opponent doesn't know if you are full eva or hybrid it'll be like chess for them to figure out if they are 1) running too much accuracy and getting DR checked (or doing less dmg due to lower AP via running alot of accuracy) or 2) running too much AP and getting eva checked

[@f3nixfire]

Ya I get its a balancing act.

[@hichemslimani3409]

Hi do you think a dr build can work for striker ?pvp

[@Travesty]

@@hichemslimani3409 Dr works on every class. This video just shows the break points where you may want to consider evasion. That being said when you compare mystic and striker, striker is a little bit more favorable in a DR build so it’s definitely something you can run

[@Travesty]

@@hichemslimani3409 short answer yes most definitely. I’d say unless your 780 gs+ as the middle level build is, Dr prob is gonna work better in most situations

[@hichemslimani3409]

@@Travesty am now 347/426 planing to go 351ap (only 2nov from Oct + pen and hex sov)then push full tet armor am still grinding artifact it’s 150 dehkia frags right now I still confused what build to pick the big issue is avg gear in my region is too high due to cheap pearl(mena) am fear using Eva build then they can easily kill me and I do not dmg them in same time that why I asked if dr is good in this situation it’s like ur not surviving atleast make dmg

[@hichemslimani3409]

@@Travesty all that based on logic I don’t know how it is maybe am wrong asff

[@Travesty]

@@hichemslimani3409 so in your specific case you might feel better in DR more then you would in evasion. However the dmg and tankiness trade off is likely going to be in evasions favor. But let’s say you are only doing 80% of a person hp in a combo with evasion but 100% of a person hp with DR. If you can survive a combo in the DR build your better off in DR. But let’s say they can one combo you as well then it’s first to cc. Evasion really works when you can do more damage then you take

[@armandosj4078]

Bro calls full build "early"

[@Travesty]

for evasion you need alot of gear

[@2woe777]

why does runnin dr give you more dmg?

[@Travesty]

running DR uses Nouver which is 13 Sheet AP at C15+ vs C15+ Kutum. Thats 13 AP + however many AP brackets are gained