New skill gain system, but has it changed much?

[SedoSan]

and honestly, all you have to do is make parry/guard check Before evasion, not after... apparently this is incredibly difficult?

Not sure about that, for parry maybe its a good idea, however for guard, i'd rather to totally avoid getting hit than get hit even for 10 dmg while guarding. though, for skilling up at very low levels where your evasion is very high then it might be the case.