There is no "evade" message now, only "Miss" and you cant color it, but its bery easy to see, you just look for "MISS" letters coming out from your character.
Like others allready said, the window to use your counters is huge, you can use 2 counters (maybe 3) on every miss, thats how big it is.

Theres a topic about abilities from other classes, 1.19 brings very little changes, you mostly need defence and heal buffs fron Conjurer, Defender and Bloodlust from Marauder, attack buffs from archer and Invigorate from Lancer