Arena Resilience Gear

[phil]

Is it viable to use any of this as tanking gear? How great a benefit/detriment is resilience on armor?

[Thels]

Resilience, like Defense, reduces the chance you get critted. It even works better on it, as you only need 40 Resilience Rating to have it reduced by 1%, while you need 60 Defense Rating. In addition:

- Resilience also works against spells! However, spells from mobs never crit, so this is a useless addition.

- Resilience also reduces the damage you get when critted! However, you probably want to be crit immune anyhow.

Defense however also gives +Miss, +Dodge, +Parry and +Block. Resilience does nothing after making you crit immune. Defense is therefor a lot more useful.

Conclusion, when considering items that have Resilience on them, consider them as if they had 0 Resiliense Rating.

If, besides that, you still equip Resilience gear (Gladiator's Gavel for example), then for every 1.6 Resilience you have, you can have your Defense 1 point below 490 (if you can find more Dodge than Defense for example).

[phil]

Awesome! Thanks for the help!

[Lore]

Resilience is in fact a quicker and cheaper way to reach uncrittable if that's all you're after, but keep in mind that 490 defense also adds 5.6% Dodge, Parry, Block, and Miss. That's a total benefit of 22.4% on the way to being uncrushable. Much more worthwhile than just stacking Resilience.