Originally Posted by
Zeromus_X ^ Can anyone explain how raising evasion works in this game? From what I've heard before, having a high shield level is supposed to help- is evasion supposed to increase whenever you successfully dodge an attack? I've equipped my party members with two shields in the hopes it'll level up faster, but I haven't checked to see if this actually helps.
The number of evasions possible naturally increases like your base stat as you avoid attacks. Unlike stats it has a very low chance to increase per battle, something like 1 in 64. If you keep avoiding attacks during battles your evasion should go up. Magic evasion works in the same way, except it goes up for any kind of magic attack. An effective way of levelling it up early is to head far north of Phin until you reach the area where Wizards are. They hit you with magically attacks almost exclusively. Using this area I've managed to get my characters up to 8 or 9 magic evasion, covering them for most of the rest of the game.