5 Ways to Combine Resilience and Defense

One of the most common things I’m asked is how good is resilience for a tank? The reality is that if you have 490 Defense Resilience is completely worthless. This list is if you don’t have that, but still want to be immune to critical hits.

  • [item]Merciless Gladiator's Shield Wall[/item]
  • 31 Resilience + 471 Defense = Immune to Crit.

  • [item]Gauntlets of the Iron Tower[/item]
  • 26 Resilience + 474 Defense = Immune to Crit.

  • [item]Merciless Gladiator's Plate Chestpiece[/item]
  • 24 Resilience + 475 Defense = Immune to Crit.

  • [item]Helm of the Stalwart Defender[/item]
  • 23 Resilience + 476 Defense = Immune to Crit.

  • [item]Merciless Gladiator's Plate Shoulders[/item]
  • 20 Resilience + 478 Defense = Immune to Crit.

Note: 39.4 Resilience = 60 Defense Rating = 25 Defense Skill = 1% less chance of being Crit.

18 Responses to “5 Ways to Combine Resilience and Defense”

  1. Fubar Says:

    thanks for this… I was wondering how in the world I could carry both of my trinkets and remain 490. I have the helm, so it this should do it! Appreciate the site,
    Fubar, Antonidas

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  2. Tara Says:

    I was just thinking about that actually… I have my Merc Glad Shield and chest and my Def is down to 497, but my resilience is 55. I’ve been wanting to replace any gems with def with solid stars, but I’d be ashamed to have my def drop below 490…but in reality I’d be fine cause of my resilience. /is a slave to the numbers…

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  3. admin Says:

    55 Resilience + 456 Defense = Immune to Crit.

    In case you wanted to know Tara… :D

    (that being said lowering your defense does result in a loss in avoidance)

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  4. Kavtor Says:

    -The reality is that if you have 490 Defense it

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  5. admin Says:

    I’ve done a better job of clarifying my point in the post. I was talking about Resilience in regards to being completely worthless once someone obtains 490 defense.

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  6. Reiyuka Says:

    In particular, Resilience is very useful against Hydross and his adds. The [item]Merciless Gladiator’s Shield Wall[/item] is particularly excellent.

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  7. Reiyuka Says:

    The much-maligned [item]Elixir of Ironskin[/item] is something worth considering for resist fights.

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  8. Phule Says:

    Is it really worthless ? Does not resilience also reduce the amount of damage taken via a critical hit that it stops ? Of course, if you’re over 490 defense,
    with some resilience gear as well, there’s no easy way to determine whether the critical hit that was ’stopped’ was because of the 490 defense, or the resilience gear.

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  9. admin Says:

    Resilience is worthless once you are 490 Defense. This is because you become immune to Critical hits at this point.

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  10. Grimgorr Says:

    Resilience only mitigates damage from a critical hit IF you are critically hit. If you have 490 defense, you will never be critically hit; therefore, any +resilience you have mitigates zero damage from any critical hits…. since you’re NEVER getting critically hit. Not sure how else to say it.

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  11. DaddyGamer Says:

    Really nice to see this compilation. I asked that very same question ovet at Tankspot.com and didn’t get a response this good!

    I am about to get Helmet of the Stalwart Defender and Merciless Gladiator’s Shield Wall. That would get me to only need 357 in defence to make me uncrittable. Nice!

    But I do shudder to explain it to the n00bs that wonder if I reached the uncrittable cap…

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  12. Tara Says:

    “But I do shudder to explain it to the n00bs that wonder if I reached the uncrittable cap

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  13. Belak Says:

    Don’t forget that when 2.2 eventually comes out, resilience WILL reduce the damage done by DoTs. So not COMPLETELY useless, then, but still not something I’m going to itemize for.

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  14. Dryang Says:

    I have a question - does 490 defense reduce the chance to be critically hit by spells?

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  15. Thoroko Says:

    Spells in PVE from mobs cannot crit… ever. There’s no need to worry about that :)

    I currently use the merciless gladiator’s shield and shoulders while tanking, but I still don’t like to drop down too far in defense due to the loss in mitigation. :(

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  16. Kennetco Says:

    Does Res stack? In context, does 490 def = 350 Res = ‘non-critable’? Does 410 def and 100 res (res coming from various items) combine enough to become non-crittable?

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  17. Deliciouss Says:

    Resilience is worthless for stopping crit if you have 490 defense, but is it also worthless for fights with periodic damage?

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  18. RAGED1 Says:

    Here’s a question? If you’re at 490 defense and have 90 resilience, would it have any effect on the amount of rage generated. I used to be at 490 and had resilience of about 10-15 and it seemed that I generated much more rage than I do now.

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