PoE Elusive

Elusive is a powerful buff in Path of Exile that can significantly boost your survivability and mobility. Here's a breakdown of its effects:

What it does:

  • Grants a 15% chance to avoid all damage from hits at its peak effectiveness (100%). This essentially means you have a 15% chance to completely dodge any incoming attack that would deal damage.
  • Increases your movement speed by 30% at its peak effectiveness. This can be a huge boon for dodging attacks, repositioning in combat, and overall map traversal.

How it works:

  • Elusive starts at 100% effectiveness and decays over time at a rate of 20% per second. This means the chance to avoid damage and the movement speed bonus gradually decrease until they reach 0%.
  • Once Elusive reaches 0%, it completely disappears, and you need to wait for its cooldown to end before reapplying it.
  • The cooldown is not a specific duration, but rather the time it takes for the buff to reach 100% effectiveness again. This cooldown effectively depends on how quickly you can trigger Elusive and how much "increased effect of Elusive" you have.

How to get it:

  • Several skills and ascendancy passives can grant Elusive, such as:
    • Withering Step (Assassin Ascendancy): Grants Elusive on movement skill use.
    • Smoke Mine: Throws a smoke mine that grants Elusive when triggered.
    • Phase Dash: Grants Elusive while dashing.
    • Trickster Ascendancy: Has several passives that grant Elusive on specific conditions.
  • Support gems like Increased Effect of Elusive can boost the overall power of the buff.

Tips for using Elusive:

  • Trigger it frequently: Since Elusive's effectiveness decays over time, the key is to reapply it as often as possible to maintain its benefits. This might involve using skills like Withering Step or Smoke Mine regularly, or relying on Ascendancy passives that trigger it automatically.
  • Combine it with other defensive layers: Elusive is a great defensive tool, but it shouldn't be your only line of defense. Layer it with other defensive mechanics like block, evasion, and energy shield to create a robust defense against incoming damage.
  • Use "increased effect of Elusive" modifiers: These can significantly boost the chance to avoid damage and movement speed bonus, making Elusive even more powerful.

Overall, Elusive is a versatile and powerful buff that can greatly enhance your character's survivability and mobility. By understanding how it works and how to trigger it effectively, you can leverage its full potential to overcome challenging encounters in Path of Exile.

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I hope this information is helpful!

PoE Elusive Guide Elusive Skill Gems Passives Elusive Mods & Items

10% chance to gain Elusive on Critical Strike

Elusive initially grants 15% chance to Avoid All Damage from Hits, and 30% increased Movement Speed. The buff reduces its effect over time, removing itself at 0% effect. If you already have an Elusive buff, you cannot gain Elusive

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PoE 3.20: Withering Step can no longer be used while already Elusive. This change shouldn't affect builds that don't have ways to gain Elusive outside of Withering Step.

PoE 3.16 changes: Change Elusive to provide 15% chance to Avoid Damage from Hits, instead of it's old Dodge-related stats.

Elusive is a buff which grants bonus movement speed and a chance to avoid damage from hits. It grants a large amount of avoid chance and movement speed when it is first applied, and the effectiveness of it decays over time. In most cases, you must wait for Elusive to expire before you can re-apply it at full strength.

Elusive, by default, starts at 100% effectiveness. At 100%, it grants the following:

  • 15% chance to Avoid All Damage from Hits
  • 30% increased Movement Speed

Unlike most other effects, Elusive loses its effectiveness over time, at a rate of 20% per second, and lasts until it decays to 0% effectiveness. This causes Elusive to have its duration be based on its buff effect. Modifiers to skill effect duration will not affect the duration of Elusive, but buff effects, and x% increased Effect of Elusive, will.

You cannot refresh the effectiveness of Elusive by reapplying it. You must wait until Elusive expires to be able to reapply Elusive again. The only exception to this is Withering Step.

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Elusive Skill Gems

  1. Withering Step is a movement skill that applies Elusive and Phasing on use. Enemies that get near you while you have Elusive receive multiple stacks of Withered, causing them to take increased chaos damage. Using any skill ends Withering Step's effects and removes all buffs.
  2. Nightblade Support is a support skill gem. It causes the supported attack skill to grant Elusive status icon.pngElusive on critical strike, with increased buff effect and causes Elusive to also grant the skill bonus critical strike chance and multiplier. It causes the supported skill to be restricted to claws and daggers.

Passives

Name Category Stats
Elusive Ascendancy Name: Assassin
  • Gain Elusive on Critical Strike
  • 50% increased Elusive Effect
  • You take no Extra Damage from Critical Strikes while Elusive
  • (Elusive initially grants 15% chance to Avoid All Damage from Hits, and 30% increased Movement Speed. The buff reduces its effect over time, removing itself at 0% effect. If you already have an Elusive buff, you cannot gain Elusive)
Critical Strike Chance, Elusive Effect Ascendancy Name: Assassin
  • 10% increased Elusive Effect
  • 15% increased Critical Strike Chance
  • (Elusive initially grants 15% chance to Avoid All Damage from Hits, and 30% increased Movement Speed. The buff reduces its effect over time, removing itself at 0% effect. If you already have an Elusive buff, you cannot gain Elusive)
Assassin Ascendancy Name: Ascendant
  • +0.75% to Critical Strike Chance
  • 10% chance to gain a Power Charge on Critical Strike
  • 10% chance to gain Elusive on Critical Strike
  • Damage from your Critical Strikes cannot be Reflected
  • (Elusive initially grants 15% chance to Avoid All Damage from Hits, and 30% increased Movement Speed. The buff reduces its effect over time, removing itself at 0% effect. If you already have an Elusive buff, you cannot gain Elusive)
  • (You can only take one of the three Shadow Ascendancy passives)
From the Shadows Notable
  • 12% increased Attack Speed with Daggers
  • 40% increased Elusive Effect
  • (Rune Daggers are considered Daggers)
  • (Elusive initially grants 15% chance to Avoid All Damage from Hits, and 30% increased Movement Speed. The buff reduces its effect over time, removing itself at 0% effect. If you already have an Elusive buff, you cannot gain Elusive)
No Witnesses Notable
  • 10% chance to gain Elusive on Kill
  • 25% increased Elusive Effect
  • (Elusive initially grants 15% chance to Avoid All Damage from Hits, and 30% increased Movement Speed. The buff reduces its effect over time, removing itself at 0% effect. If you already have an Elusive buff, you cannot gain Elusive)
Dual Wielding Mastery Mastery
  • +15% Chance to Block Spell Damage while Dual Wielding", "Dual Wielding does not inherently grant chance to Block Attack Damage
  • +1% to Off Hand Critical Strike Chance while Dual Wielding
  • 60% increased Damage while wielding two different Weapon Types
  • 20% chance to gain Elusive when you Block while Dual Wielding
  • +15% Chance to Block Attack Damage if you have not Blocked Recently
  • 20% chance to Maim Enemies with Main Hand Hits", "20% chance to Blind Enemies with Off Hand Hits
Dagger Mastery Mastery
  • +100% to Critical Strike Multiplier against Enemies that are on Full Life
  • Critical Strikes have Culling Strike
  • +8% chance to Suppress Spell Damage for each Dagger you're Wielding
  • 8% more Damage with Hits and Ailments against Enemies affected by at least 5 Poisons
  • 15% more Maximum Physical Attack Damage with Daggers
  • Elusive also grants +40% to Critical Strike Multiplier for Skills Supported by Nightblade
Claw Mastery Mastery
  • 1% of Attack Damage Leeched as Life", "1% of Attack Damage Leeched as Mana
  • 20% chance to Blind Enemies on Critical Strike
  • +10 Life gained for each Enemy hit by your Attacks", "+5 Mana gained for each Enemy hit by your Attacks
  • 6% chance to gain a Frenzy Charge and a Power Charge on Kill
  • Enemies Poisoned by you cannot deal Critical Strikes
  • Skills Supported by Nightblade have 40% increased Effect of Elusive

Elusive Mods & Items

Mods Category Item Search
#% chance to gain Elusive on Critical Strike Explicit Search
#% chance to lose a Power Charge when you gain Elusive Explicit Search
#% increased Effect of Elusive on you per Power Charge Explicit Search
#% increased Elusive Effect Explicit Search
#% chance to Avoid Elemental Ailments while you have Elusive Explicit Search
Socketed Vaal Skills grant Elusive when Used Explicit Search
#% chance to Avoid Elemental Ailments while you have Elusive Fractured Search
Withering Step has #% increased Elusive Effect Enchant Search
#% chance to Avoid Elemental Ailments while you have Elusive Enchant Search
#% increased Elusive Effect Scourge Search

PoE 3.20 Changes: Withering Step and Elusive

Problem:
Withering Step could be used to keep up a far stronger Elusive effect on average, especially in combination with the Nightblade Support. Normally you have to wait for Elusive to gradually lose effectiveness and fall off before you can gain Elusive again, but with Withering Step you could replace the existing Elusive buff with that of Withering Step's and then use any skill to lose Elusive again.

Solution:
Withering Step can no longer be used while already Elusive. This change shouldn't affect builds that don't have ways to gain Elusive outside of Withering Step.

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