My understanding is that the "natural" evasion cap is 324, which is fairly easily reached by a 75 thf or nin (including 4 eva merits). However, if you then add "eva skill" items, such as the evasion torque, prefectus gloves or the evasion earring, will these allow you to, in effect, move the cap up? I.e., with those 3 items, would my thf cap then be 339? I believe that is the case but do not have any real data to back it up -- lol, that would be natural eva cap for A+ skill at level 87 or 88...
My understanding is that the "natural" evasion cap is 324, which is fairly easily reached by a 75 thf or nin (including 4 eva merits). However, if you then add "eva skill" items, such as the evasion torque, prefectus gloves or the evasion earring, will these allow you to, in effect, move the cap up? I.e., with those 3 items, would my thf cap then be 339? I believe that is the case but do not have any real data to back it up.
For those of you that conflict between evasion and evasion skill, evasion is the rate at which you evade at your current level, whereas evasion skill is how much you can evade. Its a very hard concept to explain in words as a definition, so here's an example.
If you have equips that total +30 evasion, you will dodge more with your current level, but still have the same skill level. If you have equips that total +30 evasion skill, you be able to evade attacks like a job 10 levels higher (10 depending on your level and natural evasion skill raise rate per lvl).
The reason this is, depending on job's evasion type and your lvl, you usually get +3 evasion skill added to your cap each lvl. so +30 skill would be having the skill of being 10 levels higher, where just evasion +30 keeps you at the same level but evades more.
As I said, a bit complex to grasp. But from what I explained above, what would evade more?
A lvl 30 with +30 evasion, or a lvl 30 with +30 eva skill, or in essence, a lvl "40"?
This is how I view it, and realistically, is purely speculation. But I hope this helps people understand the difference of it a bit more, since there are so many arguments between it.