New Balance Update: more adjustments and a new spell (phase 7)

[bois]

I remain cautiously hopeful.

Ao1 needs a second look. Maybe a variable time from 10-30 seconds and a reconsideration of mana cost. I would not mind losing protection coverage to gain some time on this spell.

Rigorous preparation + awareness is not a viable option. Considering I cannot increase my evasion rate in any meaningful way (knight) to help with the evasion %, challenge (2) remains as a much more viable alternative.
Tanking with this spell which basically moves my evasion % from an average of 14% to about %17 with barbs, and considering crash(1) could almost nullify it, makes this spell less that desirable.
Also, powers cannot be evaded. As far as I know they can be blocked and resisted .
Rigorous prep deals with normal hits and the low rate of ~20% evasion for 290 mana does not seem to be useful. Even paired up with challenge (5) my calculations suggest I can get up to 37% evasion versus a single opponent(decent). Adding crash to the equation makes this spell look rather dull again. In a RvR sense it is the equivalent of a paper shield.

Right now resists are a knight's best friend. Blocking second and evade a distant third. I can't even see Miss in the distance.

A spell that registers a miss every ~20 hits is also less than desirable. (tested).
I also found it funny when I matched Intimidating threat (debuff one opponent) versus Awareness (self buff) . what does +10 miss chance equate to in % miss chance?

Artec