Resilience and tanking questionFollow

'Resilience will count as 0 tankpoints in all items that have it in this guide since the baseline is always over the 490 defense mark, but it does have a useful benefit. If you are trading off some tanking gear for aggro generating gear, you usually try to remain crit-immune. If some of your gear has resilience, the defense cap is actually lowered. For example, if you have the Gladiator's Shield Wall, then your defense cap is actually 472.'
From: http://www.tankspot.com/forums/gear-lists-rankings/32083-berg-s-tank-gear-rankings-03-19-2008-wow-2-4-a.html

Not sure what this works out to for def-->resilience translation (mostly cause I have a dentist appt in 5 mins), but that should head you in the right dir.

Cheers!
Tiq

Since one point of resilience will reduce your chance to getting critically hit by 1%. it should be easy to figure out right? each point of resilience should reduce your defense cap with 5.



Or am i way wrong here?

Edited, May 9th 2008 9:59am by Nikkelmand

I looked it up on WOWWIKI:
1% of res ---> 1% less chance to be critted.
39.4 res rating at 70 = 1% of res.

+25 def = 1% less chance to be critted.

So +39.4 res = +25 def skill

Or am I ******** something up...
(man I hate math).

Cheers!
Tiq

no it doesnt increase your other tanking stats, which is part of the reason res isnt preferred.

res lowers crits taken, and crit damage taken. if your already uncrittable, then the -crit damage taken is useless. it takes more res than defense to lower your crit rate, and that only effects crits, while defense will help your avoidance stats a little.

all in all, only take res if you have nothing else better to use really. while you can be uncrittable, if your avoiding less attacks you will be taking more damage.

If you are doing heroics only you only need 485 defense. the 490 defense is aimed at raid bosses (level 73) and i am 95% sure the highest level boss in any heroic is 72.