QUOTE(marcho @ Jun 4 2013, 06:49)

with 20% evade you should still take 80% of attacks to the face. Also, chaos upgraded mobs have anti-evade (evade reduced by up to 20%).
Evade is more of a bonus than a primary stat to aim for, its not reliable enough.
No, it can be a primary stat to aim for. It is for me and I can faceroll IWBTH arenas in my shade set (with an estoc now, lol). At his level it's not something to aim for though. I'm not sure what good evade would be at his level, I could probably tell if I could see the rolls on each individual piece of gear. I'd say once you get into the 40-50% range it becomes something to forge and build on, at my level with decent rolls and some forging it can get to 50-55% rather easily. Combine this with SV and good PMI and endurance/agility rolls on your shade and you can have some of the best armor as far as surviving goes in the game today (seriously, it works better than my heavy armor now).