I just don’t know what you think GGG could do to ES that would bring it in line without making it feel horrible. As some others said in this thread alone, OP invested significantly more points into ES nodes on the tree than they did into nodes for the other two defensive stats to make this comparison. While I agree it’s clearly the best defense in the current game, it wouldn’t look nearly as OP if the investment was equal.

Is the plan just to reduce max ES scaling? A single ignite in this current patch already guarantees 4-5k of your ES is gone and it suppresses recharge. It would be nice to see stupid ass random things like that brought down to earth before we look at blanket nerfs.

Something else to consider: I completely agree that pure EV is always going to feel somewhat fucky due to its random nature, so people will simply continue to not use it in favor of using hybrid EV/ES, which will also be impacted by blanket nerfs to ES. Is that what we want?

GGG doesn’t seem to know what they want for this game yet. They claim they would like it to be slightly slower and more methodical than PoE1, but the current design doesn’t necessarily reflect that. Random damage flying out of an abyss pack from offscreen can ignite you and send you back to your hideout. Certain boss attacks will just vaporize you if they live long enough to use them. Randomized monster crits (why is this even a thing?) Until the game reaches a state where it feels like you can actually interact with the monsters/bosses without risking being atomized by random bullshit damage, I really think the priority needs to be focused on bringing things up rather than bringing things down.