Initial Ranger reactions to 11.2

[Chesspiece_face]

So far I've noticed a large increase in both my survivability and damage. I gained a good 4% crit chance from somewhere, I'm not sure where it came from yet but for my build it's a massive upgrade.

I don't see the upgrades to Evasion strong enough to go straight evasion at the moment. They did make it much easier to get the needed Health pool without sacrificing quite as much, but there are still a lot of sacrifices that are required just based on equipment.

I'm still very skeptical of the ability to balance these two types of defenses for Rangers so that Evasion is a choice that isn't sub-par. This creates a big problem where Rangers are either still wasting a lot of their development time racing to another section of the tree or they invest in the obvious options earlier and then regret their choices later. In the second instance it is now many times more difficult to evolve your character away from Evasion if you invest in it early than it was previously.

Edit: This is the tree I am looking at now. Any extra points will end up going into the accessible ES or Crit nodes.