I am trying to bring attention to this issue, so I am cross-posting it on a few forums.
Summary: Resilience is affecting skills that add additional damage on crits more than would seem intended, such as +100% critical strike damage for all frost spells in the case of a frost mage. As an ap/frost mage, 433 resilience was found to reduce my crits by a factor of 35% during brief testing (37% in calculations provided by Werdner) instead of the 22% reduction indicated by the 433 resilience tool tip. Other classes will not see the 167% increase in reduction, but a 150% increase is very common in other classes/builds -- see Werdner's post for details.
We did a brief test where my base ice lance hits a naked target for ~825 with a crit for ~1865. I have the spell power (2/2) and ice shards talents (5/5).
Against a target with 22% reduced dmg to crit from resilience (433 resilience rating,) my crit ice lances were ~1220 damage, yielding a ~35% crit reduction from resilience. My sample size is very small, but 35% is nowhere near 22%.
We tested it with frostbolt with similar findings.
Am I missing something here, or is resilience not working correctly?
Update: It seems to be confirmed that resilience is impacting abilities that use crit damage bonus talents more severely than displayed in the tool tip. In the case of my talent build, it actually reduces crit damage by ~37% instead of the displayed 22% for that amount of resilience.
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Here are the relevant threads:
My original post:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...616839&sid=1#0
Werdner's excellent elaboration of the "bug" on the bug reports forum:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...630017&sid=1#0
Some additional discussion:
http://www.worldofming.com/forums/vi...er=asc&start=0