Strange I tested it last year in a duel using a moonfire dot and it was actually significant damage reduction.
Can't remember exactly but I think it went from 150ish per tick to around 85ish per tick.
I will have to check numbers again but it is definitely still active even tho it dose not show up on any stat trackers.
If you’re or anyone else is on alliance, we could test it and post the numbers. Anecdotal evidence always drives me crazy. Just like how people were saying 78>79 and I had to level two separate toons to test it myself. If it comes to it, I’ll level something on my other account to figure this out.
Edit - Okay, situation is this. Character has 392 PVP resilience, assuming I'm not counting wrong. Only toon I could really use to test this was a level 91 paladin on my other account. My guess is this inflates the numbers in some way because how ilvl works in World PvP currently, but I'm not sure. And it really shouldn't matter as long as I'm comparing the same character each time.
Anyways, here's the numbers:
Without Resil (Naked): 400 hit, 600 crit
With 392 Resil: 234 hit, 350 crit
So definitely not insignificant. 41.66% here. But I do wonder if the levels affect how much % a higher level is actually penalized. I'm kind of thinking old school stats where your weapon ratings would be less effective per point if someone is higher level than you, so it could be interesting to see if there is a difference with equal level toons.
Anyways, I'll probably try to see what this armor even looks like on bfa beta, since that's where this matters. But I don't think I'll be able to test resil numbers there.
Edit - With bfa beta, resilience gems take the biggest hit of all going from 10 to 6, otherwise the rest of the gear drops anywhere from 0-2 points of resilience a piece.
Oh, I guess I had resilience flask buff on my pally- I didn't realize that. Add 24 resilience to my tests then...416 resilience.
Edit- Okay, so some more testing makes things a bit more baffling.
79 Hunter with 49 resilience provides about 9% damage reduction from level 91 Paladin
70 Paladin with 48 resilience provides about 3% damage reduction from level 91 Paladin
At first I thought this was due to item level making a difference, but with hunter being naked and then putting on 303 average Ilevel gear, this only mitigated about 2-3 damage from consecration when equipping it. If it were item level, lowering it by equipping brutal gladiator gear wouldn't have increased damage mitigation by 9%.
This then makes me think it's character level making a difference. Perhaps this is documented somewhere, or maybe I'm mis-remembering the past, because I thought, say 40% damage reduction from resilience always meant 40% even against higher level enemies. Maybe it always had a lesser effect from higher level opponents. Or perhaps they changed it somewhere along the way? Either way, resilience could potentially make a comeback in bfa if 41.66% is a reduced effect against a higher level enemy, that means I may even be more resilient against other 70s.
