[Poruku]

Yeah every half competent evade maxes out their evade, and +5 can definitely help with that. Only rogue and archer can cap out evade on its own, so any evade buff on other classes is great. I mean this argument doesn't make much sense, might as well say that any evade buff become a base buff because "evade builds already got it capped".

Even for a solid evade build, any kind of evade buff is always useful, especially one that doesn't require any momentum. But generally speaking, evade demon hunters are either rogue or magic gunner. So you're either casting fortune wind and capping it instantly with sarasha gi, or you're rogue MC with like spirited RoP and Southern Wind. Sure, those builds can cap evade without needing +5, but that doesn't mean the +5 is useless. In some cases, +5 will allow you to reach cap, and if you aren't yet capped it's also great of course. For instance if you're a ST that has RoP and southern wind, both spirited, that's like 44 evade. +5 is 49, perfect!

I think cobra stance being a buff is really not an "issue". The "issue" here is that demon hunter cannot play evade on its own, or with less generous evade classes. For instance you might wanna play monk demon hunter. Sounds pretty evasive but nope, not enough evade so the build is dead. Kensei DH? Nope, not enough evade so you can't play that. Maybe a wind mage dh? Nope, no evade buffs.

So I really just don't think giving the already good DH builds a buff to base evade would be a great move. DH needs some evade buffs so that it can make proper evade builds without relying on fortune wind, and so it can play more than 2 class combos.