When participating in player versus player competition too often players undervalue stats that keep you alive (such as resilience and stamina) and overvalue stats that get you big crits (crit rating, Attack Power, or Spell Damage). Now obviously players still must maintain the ability to damage their opponent, and be able to do it rapidly enough to kill them. You also have to realize that if you’re dead then you can’t kill anyone! It’s really tough trying to PvP with less than 10,000 health these days, and if you are just starting out and you don’t have any gear at all you may be down around the 7,000 health mark. Also remember that players that live longer tend to get more honor per game and per hour. If you stay alive longer you receive more honor since you are around for more kills. The next part of this blog will tell you how to get your gear up so you can compete in arenas and battlegrounds, today let’s talk about what stats to look for when gearing your character.
Resilience - What it means to You in PvP Resilience accomplishes three different things currently in World of Warcraft and with the coming of Patch 2.4 will accomplish four things. Reduces the chance you are critically hit by all attacks. For level 70 players, 39.4 resilience is a 1% decreased chance you are critically hit by any attacker. Resilience reduces the damage of all critical strikes against you by double the amount of critical strike chance reduction. So for every 39.4 resilience critical strike damage will be reduced by 2%. also reduces the amount of damage you take from Damage over Time effects. DoT effects are reduced by the same amount as the decreased critical strike chance. So 39.4 resilience will decrease DoT effects by 1%. NEW in 2.4 - Resilience will also decrease mana drain effects by the same amount it reduces critical strike damage. So 39.4 resilience will decrease mana drain effects by 2%. As you can see, resilience is an extremely powerful stat for all PvP players. It not only decreases the chance you are hit with a critical strike but also the damage from critical strikes and DoT effects.
