[Sawrock]

I have a 223 evade statscreen build. I had Southern Wind and Eastern Wind (not that the latter does much) stacked. A build that was made to-hit had 90% hit on me due to various hit buffs. This is only one moment out of many others where evasion can block others or is completely useless, or entirely in between.

But as it is right now, the super-tanks you're talking about already exist. Just stacking DEF, RES, VIT and having an autohit move with an appropriate fourth-scaling stat can be highly efficient; there's no variety to the damage you take since you're not relying on chance. You always miss your evasion proc, you always get evasion proc'd, you might even get critically hit a bunch but with consistent damage, damage reduction, and correct equipment you're flat-out reliable. Less of a swiss army knife and more of a swiss army sword.

With this proposed change, not only will people have to take CEL- which with the only scaling weapons off of it also use either STR, WIL, or GUI- you'll have to take SKI and LUC to negate the other evasion buffed characters and to dodge properly, as LUC is also needed for evade. So that requires four stats. Then you count in DEF, RES, VIT, which is seven stats, so then you'll have to manage your spread...

It'll basically make the current tanking still the same true method, but it'll buff CEL, to-hit builds (as they'll need SKI AND LUC to hit through the buff), while not making anyone incapable of dealing damage (as it caps at scaled CEL).