World of Warcraft

Resilience to counter DoT effects

Eyonix made a post on the WoW forums last night about an upcoming change to add additional functionality to the Resilience mechanic. It will now reduce damage from damage-over-time spells as well as its current functionality.

In the next major content patch, the combat rating, resilience, will also reduce the damage dealt by damage over time (DoT) effects. As it currently stands, each new tier of equipment adds to the amount of damage DoT abilities have, yet that damage is not mitigated through combat ratings found on typical equipment. This change will help ensure that DoT effects do not scale too well compared to other damage mechanics.

The amount of damage reduced will be equal to the critical chance reduction effect that resilience grants.

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  • Abyss111 said 
    Wed, Jul 11 2007 3:30 PM ()

    The basically keeps warlocks, and shadow priests in checks since they completely bypass resilence while every other class in the game has to deal with it fully.

  • Guysun said 
    Wed, Jul 11 2007 3:30 PM ()

    Yeah, it will certainly scale back the two classes it was meant to nerf - warlocks and priests. But it may also have spillover effect into many other classes. It will almost certainly affect Fire mage DoT effects, which are already modified by resistances. Will it modify Bleed effect DoTs from warriors, one of which (Deep Wounds) is already affected by Resilience? Will it affect rogue poisons, druid moonfires, or hunter DoTs? I don't think any of those were particularly in need of an adjustment, and afaik not all of those were scaling up with better gear (rogue poisons, for example).

  • Wed, Jul 11 2007 3:30 PM ()

    you guys are forgetting pallys Seal of Vengence effect....but no one ever counts pallys when they consider anything in the game...

  • Wed, Jul 11 2007 3:30 PM ()

    Lacks details, but looks like a good change Shadow Priests and Locks were slightly overpowered in the 2v2 and 3v3 brackets, with their dot stacks ignoring resilience.

  • Kody said 
    Wed, Jul 11 2007 3:30 PM ()

    The thing people are overlooking here is this actually benefits warlocks as well. Imagine how difficult a warlock is going to be to kill now with a ton of resilience + soul link.

  • Jasil7th said 
    Wed, Jul 11 2007 3:30 PM ()

    Sure other classes along with warlock have been dealing with Resilience since it's inception. It was designed to deal with Burst damage, ie crits. From a warlocks pov this came from out Shadow Bolts or Searing Pain type spells.

    Melee dealt with resilience in the form of Crits also it has never effected there White damage. there basic attacks.

    Now your saying that not only will it effect Crits but non crit damage. So yes if this is the case it should also effect Melee White damage and Shadow Bolt, Fireball, Frostbolt, Moonfire and so on.

    OR.... Give Dots the chance to crit each tick, so then the resilience has the same effect for us all.

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