Dodge or Drone?

[ffxiextreme]

Hey, I was just wondering what people have to say about evasion and agility (dodge earrings and drone earrings)...Currently I'm leveling my WAR/NIN to get to 37, as a sub for 75 PLD. I was using Drone Earrings which are +3 AGI. Then I saw that I had enough gil to buy Dodge which are Evasion +3. I sold my Drone and only use Dodge. Soon I will be leveling PLD again. Before I buy my Pigeon Earrings, I need to use either Drone or Dodge. After I hit 60 with PLD, I will be leveling THF/NIN. So...which earrings are best for each combo?

Warrior/Ninja- +3 Evasion or +3 Agility
Paladin/Warrior- +3 Evasion or +3 Agility
Theif/Ninja- +3 Evasion or +3 Agility

Please answer this, it is really important for me. And also, can someone add in how many Agility's equal how many Evasions...thank you in advance! Later

[Pai Pai Master]

I'm not certain about the actual calculation of Agility into Evasion, but Agility is a much broader statistic which also influences things like Ranged Attack Accuracy and frequency of Critical Hits against you.

Personally, I would take Evasion+3 over Agility+3 simply because as a tank, I'd find it better to focus on just one thing and make that strong instead of trying to spread armor slots among broader statistics.

Using both of those earrings to get Evasion +6 makes a massive difference in your tanking, from what I've seen.

Of course, there's probably plenty of people who could say otherwise, but I say go with the Dodge Earrings for tanking and Drone Earrings for DD. However, if you're using a damage-dealing job, I'd say go with ATK+ or ACC+ earrings instead of AGI+.

[Jei]

For levelling groups, I would reccomend +AGI. Taking less critical hits mean a lot to both Nin or Pld tank. For farming tho you'll be dodging a lot already, adding more evasion bonus will really have a great impact there.

[Alontier]

http://ffxionline.com/forums/showthr...threadid=52204

I've been looking through JP pages and the most accepted hypothesis seems to be:

Skill less or equal 200↓
Accuracy=WeaponSkill+(Dex/2)
Evasion=EvasionSkill+(Agi/2)

Skill over 201↓
Accuracy=200+(WeaponSkill-200)*0.9)+Dex/2
Evasion=200+(EvasionSkill-200)*0.9+Agi/2

Now if this is correct then you'd benefit more from raising Accuracy/Evasion after reaching 200 Skill rather than the Skill itself.