Quote Originally Posted by Akk View Post
Against Ifrit (regarding evades/misses):

I've tried to get an evade off of his frontal claw attack 20 times all with +22 evasion, Light Strike, Featherfoot II, and Diversion (at the same time) with no success. So I wish people would stop claiming how easy it is to get an evade/miss for Simian Thrash in every encounter. Though, after 20 attempts to evade/miss failed, I stopped trying - at least until I can get additional +30 evasion. Shame on me, I know.

Even if we were able to evade/miss Ifrit's attacks 50% of the time, there's still a high amount of risk for taking damage from failing to evade/miss, getting an Eruption cast on you while you're near the tank (and subsequently making the tank take extra damage). Not to mention the long animation sequence of Simian Thrash (if we were able to use it) and not being able to manually dodge an AE, which is even more dangerous since we have to be right next to Ifrit to be within range.
big problem is our gear, the gear change has made evasion a lot harder to get on gear, used to be picking the right gear and getting hq gears gave you more evasion, now you basically have to get it from materia.

Also, im curious, do you have an evasion gear set? aka earrings, felt kecks, moccasins (highest evasion stats) and materia on the feet and body? I havent, and probably never will get to test my evasion on ifrit, but basically i think right now, in order to be an evasion build, pugilist has to get 2x materia evasion peices on body and feet.

Also if they had a high level shirt that would probably be a help, but since they dont, a harness with materia is probably your best evasion body.

as far as the taking dmg, one thing pugilist has over others is a better chakra, and a large one hit dmg move for bloodweapon, pugilist can actually afford to take a large hit to hp, and heal themselves better than the other DDs i think.