Metamorfos said:
I reckon you mean Lifebloom for druids. Because it is quite a good thing to have some form of dispell protection for your HoTs, not to mention an extra HoT.
In addition, you can get ~30% dmg reduction from resilience at 64 (for druid atleast), while still maintaining high HP, decent SP and mana. However your mana costs for spells will be higher.
No i have not see a druid doing anything like that but then again I specifically mentioned a particular DK. Just thought about the new changes and realized Gift of the naru being non dispellable and healing 20% of your health coupled with Lifebloom would also be pretty sweet as a paladin or DK to go along with your other self heals. might make a space goat to test it and throw them into a macro for luls. Try that for absurd self healing.
Resil stacking doesn't work that well to be honest with the fact that if you are stacking as much of it as you can then you are loosing out in other departments for stats. That is just like any other gem toon who stacks resil, they end up always lacking elsewhere and in the end most of them realise the stat scaling does not work as well as they thought.
for example lets say you have 7k health and 30% reduction from resil. My Ret as of yesterday after I did some testing hits for 5200 damage with exorcism from an art of war proc.
5200 * .3 = 1560
5200 -1560 = 3640
that is still half your health and no counting what else you have been hit with.
Plenty of players have tested resil stacking and have found it not worth doing due to the fact that burst damage is so high its as if the resil does not really matter because health pools are too low for the damage.
To give you an example of why resil would not save you anymore than stam stacking does think of it in a situation. Lets say you an I meet on the FOS in AV. I am playing my ret or rogue and you are anything other than a druid or frost mage. Resto Druids dont die and lol frost mage will kite me to death.
In any given turn of events if i get some kind of uptime within a very short burst i can front load 10k+ damage VERY quickly. If you do not have 7k+ health to go with that resilience you are dead. This is obviously worst case scenario for you with me having rng smile on me and giving me procs or huge crits very early in the attack.
Its the nature of the bracket to be honest. The bit about lifebloom is very good info indeed but a lot of us have visited resil stacking and still find it not as favorable as we hoped it would be.