I, too, remember hearing that Evade doesn't really matter and MagicEvade determines both stats in its place. I could be confusing the two; it may have been that MagicEvade was the stat that didn't matter. But I don't believe so.

We should also note that Darkness doesn't actually do anything to characters' hit accuracy, so the old adage that "the goggles do nothing" is actually true in this game.