[Autumn]

My opinion on it being a dr bypass is simple

Arbalest is physical evoker

Arbalest has buster cannon

Ephemeral insight should accomplish a similar level of bypass

I don't get the logic here, aside from Arbalest being a physical Evoker being very blatantly just wrong, Buster Cannon was also regarded as being way too strong at removing people's defenses and was promptly changed because it was unfair to play against and only generally targeted people attempting to get by on raw DEF well enough to be considered using.

This is not the case anymore, if you're trying to tank on just DEF or RES atm then you're going to be considered rather squishy because the amount of damage creep the game has seen has skyrocketed in recent times with only nerfs to DEF and RES and not the classes that actually need to be changed with access to absolutely massive swathes of DR such as Solblader, Ghost, BK, and even minor-playing DR stacking with Weathered Body and various parries, especially those of the kind that block spells.

Arbalest's Buster Cannon was worse than protection ignoring infact, because removing someone's DEF didn't remove their outward DRs, so they would gain more inherent value from those DRs by having their DEF reduced to 0, it would still kind of suck and your EHP was still reduced for the duration, but I mean there's a huge difference between attacking a hexer with 0% DEF and attacking a BK with 0% DEF but Bulwark/Indomitable/Wraithguard etc. to pad out their DR anyway.

DR is currently imbalanced as hell and the whole system revolving around how people survive encounters needs a huge overhaul as bereft as I am to suggest it.

From a balance standpoint, Evoker should be concerned about the ability to punch through elemental resists, not through magic DR.