2013-05-07, 12:26 PM
From my experience, dodging an abnormal status inflicting attack won't do you any good, whether the status is inflicted or not is still based on your status resistance. If you miss it instead, the miss being based on your avoidability stat and not from a dodge, the abnormal status infliction will fail. I've heard of someone testing this with a Phantom at Eckhart, if his web skill misses, you won't get stunned, but if you dodge it with Mist Mask/Flash and Flee, there's still a chance you will get stunned. This is just skill based dodging, though, I'm not sure about guarding.