hmmm,

after reading the lengthy investigation into def/vit relationship i wonder if evasion is the same way.

I believe it was announced that DEX does not effect acc. but does it effect evasion? how about crit? if not which stat does?

did you stack DEX when along with the evasion? it may work like the VIT/DEF and damage floor. you may need an excessive amount of DEX to make your evasion mean something against the R50+ mobs. seeing as almost no mnks are stacking DEX i can see why evasion is pretty worthless. you'd need 1k+ eva to have any chance of dodging. the same is true of DRG. having primary stats of STR and PIE means DEX is all but ignored in builds. no wonder you can't crit, you're not building for it. if i had to guess, they probably made the crit formula less reliant on dex (assuming that's the primary stat that effects it)

You could probably check easily enough by putting on a bunch of dex and seeing if your evasion increases at all. if it does, might want to try s tacking dex when EVA tanking. you'll be doing so at the cost of damage though.

This is also the primary reason i think WAR can tank so well. VIT increases their damage, but it also greatly improves their defense capabilities. in a perfect world PLD would probably be MND/VIT to allow them to really be meat walls and do damage for hate purposes. i'm just guessing, and correlation does not imply causation. WAR also has many good hate tools.