Comments on: Some clarification on Season 2 gear

By: Dinedan

Dinedan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:48:59 +0000

tkc – just bear in mind that along with uncrittability, Defense also gives you added Dodge/Miss. (.04 per point of Defense – or per 2.4 Defense Rating)

By: Kal

Kal — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:30:25 +0000

tkc – not only are you going to be crit immune with that, you’ll have 70 points of resilience that are extra and wasted that way. The VG chest and helm are both excellent pieces in that regard, though they’re a bit low on armor.

Still blow away what’s available pre-Kara.

To make sure you know: you need a total of 2.6% crit reduction to be crit immune with SotF. That is either 156 defense or 103 resilience, or any combination of the two that makes up that 2.6% crit immunity. For the most part that means resilience pieces are going to be the way to go, since each point of resilience is 1.5x as good at giving you crit immunity relative to defense and the pieces with resilience are well-itemized for feral tanking.

By: tkc

tkc — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:16:27 +0000

Wow, the things you can learn on the web. I’m stacking waaaayyyyy too much defense how it is. My defense is 419. My resilience is 147. Either of those alone is enough to be crit immune (I have 3/3 SofF).
My current resilience is 147. That is enough to be crit immune. If I switch to the S3 chest my resilience rises to 173 and I’m still crit immune. Sure, I lose 24 def rating (actually 32 due to gems in my current piece) but my current resilience more than makes up for it. All the other stats are gravy.
The S3 gives me more armor, +30str, +31agi, +9stam, +22int (who cares), and +4 crit. I lose 4 dodge but I can get that back easy with a gem. And I still remain crit immune.

Did I get that right?

By: tkc

tkc — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:03:26 +0000

Hi. A bit off topic. I tried to send this question via the contact link but it didn’t work. So I’ll ask here.
What do you think of the S3 arena chest (Vengeful Gladiator’s Dragonhide Tunic) versus the Heavy Clefthoof Vest?

I’m not sure how the loss of the def on the clefthoof piece will be worth the gain in resilience on the arena piece. Does resilience help you become crit-imune in PvE? If so, how much.
Right now, my def is 419 so I can’t take -24 def drop and still be a viable tank.

By: Ruelle

Ruelle — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:30:25 +0000

Season 1 will still be available with T4 token turnins with the SSO

By: Felkan

Felkan — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:40:43 +0000

I don’t do Arena’s (well I did it for 4 weeks get some nice gloves), but I have to say I really like the changes being made which make it harder to get free purples. The per-item personal ratings, team rating changes, new match-up rules, etc.