Evasion and facing a mob

[Ravenlokk]

AFAIK, the only defensive skill that matter on engaging are shield, parry and guarding.

Evasion rate stay constant regardless of direction, it just seem that it suffers drastically because odds are the mob that you are running away from is more than capable to kick your ass.

You don't need to be engaged to block with your shield.

Definately true, lol, I used to lvl my shield skill as RDM/WAR with tacos/defender etc letting mnk coffer mobs beat on me while i was resting and watching TV lol... phalanx + defender 0 dmg hits without stoneskin XD...

As for Guard, you dont need to be engaged on the mob that is hitting you- but you need to have your weapons out. This can be used when holding a NM in dynamis (something you dont want to feed tp)- engage a different mob, and do provoke/ninjutsu on the mob youre trying to hold so that you dont actually hit it(and have weapons drawn on a distant mob), but you can parry(or guard).

[Stilgar]

Don't quote me on it, but I think I read somewhere official (as in from an SE interview or announcement or one of the SE world report guides) that mobs crit you more if you're back is to them. I don't feel like trying to hunt that down though, so take it with a grain of salt.

[Septimus]

Moved.