Ghostcrawler Clarifies 3.2 Resilience Changes

One of the most controversially-discussed changes coming for World of Warcraft in patch 3.2 is the redesign of some major PvP mechanics. Specifically, the changes to the "resilience" stat has left many people on opposing sides of the fence; some seeing it as a well-needed fix to a broken part of the game, while others feel it has the potential to break the game itself.

The changes we'll be seeing to resilience in 3.2 have been slowly trickling in over the past few days, ever since the patch notes "floodgate" opened. People have been trying to make sense of the changes, especially those who apparently lacked clarification regarding some of the finer details. One of the biggest changes? "The change to resilience affects ALL player damage," Ghostcrawler (aka Greg Street) clarified in a recent post on the official forums.

You'll actually find a wealth of information about the changes to resilience in this post, aside from GC's most recent clarification. Generally speaking, the stat is being homogenized across the board, in an effort to slow PvP combat down. Warlocks and Shadow priests will be happy to find out that their DoTs won't be quite as useless vs. resilience as they previously were, while classes like tanks might not be quite as thrilled to learn that resilience won't offer the same benefits as a PvE stat that it did before.

But among all the changes to the stat, the fact that it will now mitigate all player damage might just be the most important of them all. Ghostcrawler says that it will help decrease the "burst damage" problem many players have issue with, and provide an overall benefit of improving Battleground and Arena play. If there's one thing we know, it's that PvP tends to draw fire from the community almost more so than any other topic. What do you think of the new stat changes?

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clarification
# Jun 23 2009 at 9:35 AM Rating: Default
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I'd much rather Mr. Ghost Crawler clarified why they can't seem to keep the servers in the Retaliation battlegroup up and functional. This is like, what, 7th or 8th time in the last month that the whole thing goes down?

Edited, Jun 23rd 2009 2:13pm by capcanuk
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