Uncritable thingFollow

How much defense I need to become uncritable?

When I go to Character info/Defense,it says 400..

Am I close?

At 415 defense I am always uncritable?

I mean,the boss level doesn't affect my uncritable status?

As I can see,I will become uncritable in 2 minutes,cause I just finished UB and got Exalted with CE!

From what I understand, there is no such thing as 100% uncritable. I have heard of warriors in the 520-530 Def range who will still get the very rare crit against them.

However as has been stated -- having 3/3 Survival of the Fittest and 415 Def is the "magic uncritable" mark to shoot for.

its 415+ defence for the cap with survival of the fittest. Reduces your chance of being crit to .oo1%.

So technically you still have a chance to be crit.

I've also heard the rumor of being crit'd once every millenium even with the magic Defense number. Never actually seen it and wouldn't bother thinking about it. Healers should be able to deal with it anyway unless it's part of a *crush* -> *crit* -> *crush* series of blows.

But yeah... once every millenium...

what you probably saw was a CRUSHING blow, looks like its a crit but is actually not and i believe that is always going to be possible regaurdless of your defense level. also to add, resilience can also be used to reduce your chance to be crit on, and since PvP/Arena gear is some of the best for druids, it is quite easy to get enough resillience to become crit immune from mobs.

Don't forget resilance also stacks for becoming uncritable. as long as they equal 2.6 with the SotF talent(3/3)

Yes, you are crit immune.
If you have Survival of the Fittest, you only need another 2.6% reduced chance to receive a critical hit. This can be done with defence and or resilence.
The "problem" with resilence however is that this stat is rather expensive on itembudget.

Correct me if I am wrong please, but I think I disagree strongly on this one...
Defense is the one that is expensive on the budget, because in addition to
reducing the chance of being crit, it also adds dodge, parry and block, and increases
the chance to be missed. Resilience only reduces the chance to be crit and
critical strike damage (which becomes meaningless in PvE once you are crit immune).

The reason defense is more expensive on the budget, is that it is a better stat,
unfortunately some of it's effects are wasted on us druids, namingly parry and
block.

The "problem" with resilience is that it does not add any mitigation like
defense does, so replacing all your defense with resilience will lower your
overall mitigation.

On the other hand, since resilience is cheaper than defense, you will find that
on pieces with resilience, usually PvP gear, there will be more of another stat,
like for example agility, that gives you dodge.

Druids get a lot more dodge from agility than from defense, and you also get
more crit chance. Apart from critting being just plain fun, it also adds damage
for threat, it gives more rage from the attack, and you get rage back from
Primal Fury.

Resilience is not bad for tanking, just keep in mind that you should make up for
it with agility. The reasoning above should show why druids tank well in PvP
gear, and warriors don't. Defense is also kinda hard to come by with leather
gear and once you go looking for upgrades for Heavy Clefthoof-set, you might find
yourself defense-starved.

My current plan is to stack defense from neck, cloak, rings, enchants and
(for now at least) Earthwarden, then fill the gap with resilience.

Just make sure that when you mouse over your defense stat and resilience stat
on your character sheet, the "reduces chance of being critically hit by" adds up
to at least 2.6%. Any point beyond that is a waste :)

Edited, Nov 29th 2007 10:10pm by Kefas