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Ebene
08-26-2007, 09:03 AM
The cap on crit damage reduction through resilience is 25%, or about 494 resilience. Resto druids that pvp generally pick up natural perfection, which is a flat 10% reduction on crit damage to melee and ranged attacks. The bonuses from natural perfection and resilience stack additively (I've tested this), so at 297 resilience a druid would have 15% from resil + 10% from nat. perf., for a total of 25%.

I haven't been able to test whether natural perfection will let you exceed the 25% cap, but from what I have read it doesn't (Can anyone verify this). So for a resto druid, the resilience cap would only be 297 for ranged and melee, and anything over that would be wasted. This implies that a well geared druid should either swap in some pvp pieces for pve gear, or respec to take out points in natural perfection.
JarL
08-26-2007, 11:06 AM
It is not "wasted" because you have not capped out the reduced chance to score a critical.
Adunazon
08-26-2007, 12:06 PM
It is not "wasted" because you have not capped out the reduced chance to score a critical.

I agree it's not wasted, but it doesn't reduce critical, it increases your chance to score a critical with all spells while reducing the enemies' critical strike damage dealt to you the second part of which is negated past 492.5 resilience at level 70.
Innate
08-26-2007, 09:30 PM
It is not "wasted" because you have not capped out the reduced chance to score a critical.

I agree it's not wasted, but it doesn't reduce critical, it increases your chance to score a critical with all spells while reducing the enemies' critical strike damage dealt to you the second part of which is negated past 492.5 resilience at level 70.

Your first post is correct if i read it properly. I'm actually running only one point in this talent now since I'm generally around 400 resiliance. Once you hit 493 resil (or 494, whatever the cap is) this talent does nothing besides the 3% spell crit... which we know is not very useful.

This is still a great talent until you max out, but yes, it is not worth the points once you hit the resil cap.

Edit: Imo I would still pick up the resiliance gear, and drop the talent instead. The resiliance is still great for spell crits and the crit reduction %, but yea the melee portion does not stack past 25%.