Resilience

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Resilience is a character attribute that reduces all damage taken from players and their pets or minions. This is the bread and butter PvP stat. The reduction has no effect on the damage taken from mobs. It was replaced by PvP Resilience in the Mists of Pandaria expansion.

Characters have no innate resilience. It can only be gained through external sources, e.g. equipment, elixirs, enchantments, and gems. Many items and recipes that grant resilience rating are PvP rewards.

History

Resilience was introduced with The Burning Crusade as part of the new combat rating system. Previously, no such resilience mechanic existed — as a result, resilience rating only appears on items available to players over level 60, with some rare exceptions. Formerly, resilience reduced the damage taken from critical strikes and spell critical strikes, reduced the chance of suffering a critical strike, and reduced the effect of mana drain spells. Each point of resilience would give a player about 1% less chance to be critically struck.

Simplification

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Just before the release of Cataclysm, Patch 4.0.1 made a dramatic change to resilience. Resilience no longer reduced the chance to receive a critical strike. Each point of resilience provides about 0.01% damage reduction against all damage done by players and their pets or minions.

Removal

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Resilience as a general combat mechanic and gear stat bonus was removed with the Mists of Pandaria expansion. It remained for PvP as PvP Resilience until it was removed in Warlords of Draenor.

Formula

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The resilience formula was changed in Patch 4.1. Resilience was made not linear and no longer offered increasing returns.

And the formula for Patch 4.1 was:

 y = 1 - 0.99 ^ ( x / 79.12785 )

Prior to Patch 4.1, Resilience followed a linear return. Where y represented the damage reduction percentage, and x represented the amount of resilience, the linear formulas was as followed:

 y = 0.01050120510299x + 0.000605956904 

For example, damage was reduced by 15.75% when 1500 resilience was equipped:

 15.75241361 = 0.01050120510299(1500) + 0.000605956904

Resilience Cap

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The resilience cap was 9523. Equipping 9523 resilience would provide 100% damage reduction. Having more than 9523 resilience equipped was overkill and provided absolutely no benefit. However, equipping this amount of resilience was impossible. In Patch 4.1.0, diminishing returns on resilience would provide an effective resilience cap.

Enhancements

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Leg Slot

• [Earthen Leg Armor]: Permanently adds 28 stamina and 40 resilience rating to a leg slot item.

Head Slot

• [Arcanum of Vicious Agility]: Permanently adds 60 agility and 35 resilience rating to a head slot item.
• [Arcanum of Vicious Intellect]: Permanently adds 60 intellect and 35 resilience rating to a head slot item.
• [Arcanum of Vicious Strength]: Permanently adds 60 strength and 35 resilience rating to a head slot item.
• [Arcanum of the Savage Gladiator]: Permanently adds 30 stamina and 25 resilience rating to a head slot item.
• [Arcanum of Dominance]: Permanently adds 29 spell power and 20 resilience rating to a head slot item.
• [Arcanum of Triumph]: Permanently adds 50 attack power and 20 resilience rating to a head slot item.
• [Arcanum of the Gladiator]: Permanently adds 18 Stamina and 20 resilience rating to a head slot item.

Shoulder Slot

• [Greater Inscription of Vicious Agility]: Permanently adds 50 agility and 25 resilience rating to a shoulder slot item.
• [Greater Inscription of Vicious Intellect]: Permanently adds 50 intellect and 25 resilience rating to a shoulder slot item.
• [Greater Inscription of Vicious Strength]: Permanently adds 50 Strength and 25 resilience rating to a shoulder slot item.
• [Greater Inscription of the Gladiator]: Permanently adds 30 Stamina and 15 resilience rating to a shoulder slot item.
• [Inscription of Dominance]: Permanently adds 23 spell power and 15 resilience rating to a shoulder slot item.
• [Inscription of Triumph]: Permanently adds 40 attack power and 15 resilience rating to a shoulder slot item.

Elixirs

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• [Elixir of Ironskin]: Increases Resilience Rating by 30 for 60 min.

Flasks

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• [Lesser Flask of Toughness]: Increases Resilience Rating by 50 for 60 min.

Enchantments

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Chest enchants

• [Enchant Chest - Mighty Resilience]: Permanently enchant chest armor to increase resilience rating by 40.
• [Enchant Chest - Exceptional Resilience]: Permanently enchant chest armor to increase resilience rating by 20.
• [Enchant Chest - Major Resilience]: Permanently enchant a piece of chest armor to grant 15 resilience rating.

Shield enchants

• [Enchant Shield - Resilience]: Permanently enchant a shield to grant 12 resilience rating.

Gems

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Color	Name	Effect(s)		Source
Jewelers Gem	[Mystic Dragon's Eye]	+34 Resilience		Craft
Yellow	[Mystic Amberjewel]	+40 Resilience		Vendor
	[Perfect Mystic alicite]	+35 Resilience		Gem Perfection
	[Mystic alicite]	+30 Resilience		Trainer
	[Kharmaa's Grace]	+20 Resilience		Vendor
	[Mystic King's Amber]	+20 Resilience		Craft
	[Mystic Autumn's Glow]	+16 Resilience		Craft
	[Perfect Mystic Sun Crystal]	+14 Resilience		Craft
	[Mystic Sun Crystal]	+12 Resilience		Craft
	[Mystic Lionseye]	+10 Resilience		Craft
	[Sublime Mystic Dawnstone]	+10 Resilience		Vendor
	[Mystic Dawnstone]	+8 Resilience		Craft
Orange	[Lucent Ember Topaz]	+20 Resilience	+20 Agility	Vendor
	[Willful Ember Topaz]	+20 Resilience	+20 Intellect	Vendor
	[Resplendent Ember Topaz]	+20 Resilience	+20 Strength	Vendor
	[Durable Ametrine]	+10 Resilience	+12 Spell Power	Craft
	[Empowered Ametrine]	+10 Resilience	+20 Attack Power	Craft
	[Resplendent Ametrine]	+10 Resilience	+10 Strength	Craft
	[Lucent Ametrine]	+10 Resilience	+10 Agility	Craft
	[Durable Monarch Topaz]	+8 Resilience	+9 Spell Power	Craft
	[Empowered Monarch Topaz]	+8 Resilience	+16 Attack Power	Craft
	[Resplendent Monarch Topaz]	+8 Resilience	+8 Strength	Craft
	[Lucent Monarch Topaz]	+8 Resilience	+8 Agility	Craft
	[Perfect Durable Huge Citrine]	+7 Resilience	+8 Spell Power	Craft
	[Perfect Empowered Huge Citrine]	+7 Resilience	+14 Attack Power	Craft
	[Perfect Lucent Huge Citrine]	+7 Resilience	+7 Agility	Craft
	[Durable Huge Citrine]	+6 Resilience	+7 Spell Power	Craft
	[Empowered Huge Citrine]	+6 Resilience	+12 Attack Power	Craft
	[Lucent Huge Citrine]	+6 Resilience	+6 Agility	Craft
	[Beaming Fire Opal]	+4 Resilience	+5 Dodge	Drop
	[Durable Fire Opal]	+4 Resilience	+6 Spell Power	Drop
	[Empowered Fire Opal]	+5 Resilience	+8 Attack Power	Drop
	[Resplendent Fire Opal]	+4 Resilience	+5 Strength	Drop
	[Splendid Fire Opal]	+4 Resilience	+5 Parry	Drop
Green	[Steady Dream Emerald]	+20 Resilience	+30 Stamina	Vendor
	[Perfect Steady Jasper]	+18 Resilience	+26 Stamina	Gem Perfection
	[Steady Jasper]	+15 Resilience	+23 Stamina	Drop
	[Opaque Eye of Zul]	+10 Resilience	+5 MP5	Craft
	[Steady Eye of Zul]	+10 Resilience	+15 Stamina	Craft
	[Turbid Eye of Zul]	+10 Resilience	+10 Spirit	Craft
	[Opaque Forest Emerald]	+8 Resilience	+3 MP5	Craft
	[Steady Forest Emerald]	+8 Resilience	+12 Stamina	Craft
	[Turbid Forest Emerald]	+8 Resilience	+8 Spirit	Craft
	[Perfect Opaque Dark Jade]	+7 Resilience	+3 MP5	Craft
	[Opaque Dark Jade]	+6 Resilience	+2 MP5	Craft
	[Steady Chrysoprase]	+5 Resilience	+6 Stamina	Drop
	[Steady Seaspray Emerald]	+5 Resilience	+7 Stamina	Craft
	[Steady Talasite]	+4 Resilience	+6 Stamina	Craft

Patch changes

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• β Patch 5.0.1 (Beta): Resilience replaced by PvP Resilience.
  
• Patch 4.1.0 (26-Apr-2011): Resilience formula made non-linear.
  
• / Patch 4.0.1 (12-Oct-2010): Resilience no longer reduces the chance a player will be critically hit by an opponent.
  
•  Hotfix (2010-01-20): Resilience damage reduction doubled. So depending on their current amount of resilience, characters might experience a 10 to 20% decrease in damage taken from other players.
  
• Patch 3.2.0 (04-Aug-2009): No longer reduces the amount of damage done by damage-over-time spells, but instead reduces the amount of all damage done by players by the same proportion. In addition, the amount of resilience needed to reduce critical strike chance, critical strike damage and overall damage has been increased by 15%.
  
• Patch 3.0.3 (04-Nov-2008): The damage reduction component of resilience has been increased from 2 times the critical strike chance reduction to 2.2 times the critical strike chance reduction. In addition, the maximum damage reduction to a critical strike from resilience has been increased from 30% to 33%.
  
• Patch 2.4.0 (25-Mar-2008): Now reduces the magnitude of mana draining effects by the same amount that it reduces critical strike damage. The Tooltip has been revised to reflect this.
  

See also

• Armor
• PvP Power
• PvP Resilience
• Resistance
• Combat Rating System

External links

WoW Insider WoW Rookie: Why you need resilience by Michael Gray Sep 15th 2011 at 3:00PM