Eldacar at Battlemasters: Hello everyone, I have written this guide to provide the player base with an in-depth understanding of how the new PVP Power and revised PVP Resilience stats work for level 90 players in Mists of Pandaria. This guide is very in depth and as a result is quite long. It is broken down into sections for easier reading, and I have included a brief summary for those that want it. To make things easier to understand both stats will first be looked at and explained independently, and then we will look at how they interact and scale with each other.
****NOTE – This guide was written for level 90 players, many of the concepts will still apply at 85 and other levels but the numbers and scaling will be different!****
Summary
- PVP Resilience has slightly increasing returns.
- You can get a significant increase in PVP Resilience through gemming.
- PVP Power does not “cancel out” a target’s PVP Resilience but it will still help you hit them harder.
- PVP Power has linear returns (+265 PVP Power gives you +1% damage/healing in PVP)
- I do not definitively know if PVP Power is better than the primary stats for every class and spec, it will require theory crafting by players who really know each class.
Table of Contents:
- Section 1 – PVP Resilience
- 1A – The Exponential Returns of Damage Reduction
- 1B – The Diminishing Returns of PVP Resilience Rating
- 1C – Baseline Damage Reduction
- 1D – Effective Health
- 1E – Resilience Graphs and Independent Scaling
- Section 2 – PVP Power, Stat Interaction, and Combined Scaling
- 2A – The Absolute vs Relative Returns of PVP Power
- 2B – PVP Power’s Interaction with PVP Resilience
- 2C – PVP Power Vs Baseline Damage Reduction
- 2D – PVP Power Vs Full PVP Gear
- 2E – PVP Power Vs Max Resilience
- 2F – Combined Stat Scaling of PVP Power and PVP Resilience
- Section 3 – PVP Stat vs Primary Stat Gemming
- 3A – Strength, Agility & Intellect vs PVP Power
- 3B – Stamina vs Resilience
- Section 4 – Closing Thoughts and Remarks
- Section 5 – Appendix
- Appendix A – Valuation and Frame of Reference
- Appendix B – Extended PVP Power Range vs Full PVP Gear
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Very detailed write up. The math I’ve done supports his conclusion that due to the interaction between pvp power and agil that it depends on how much we already have of each as to which one is more valuable for that particular character at that time. We’ll need to feed info into a sim to find what the optimal setup is for each character in that character’s gear.
I hate to dump more work on Zeherah’s shoulders as she does so much for our community already but it would be awesome if her site could model this in some form or fashion.