Many people complain about resilience not affecting DoTs and other non-crit damage. Some argue that resilience is just to stop spike damage in the form of crits, while others argue it's supposed to slow down PvP combat in general.

I think a very real solution to the "problem" is just to rework resilience to be equal to the paladin talent Blessed Life (which is a 10% chance to reduce damage taken by 50%).

Converted it could look like this:
Old: 1% reduced chance to be crit, 2% reduced damage from crits.
New: 1% chance to take 48% damage from an attack. (That covers both aspects, the increased mitigation when it occurs and the proc rate/occurence).

Old: 5% reduced chance to be crit, 10% reduced damage from crits.
New: 5% chance to take 40% damage from an attack.

Old: 10% reduced chance to be crit, 20% reduced damage from crits.
New: 10% chance to take 30% damage from an attack.

In regards to DoTs it could perform the check per tick of the DoT (I believe resistance works like this currently for partial resists). If the check was done at the start of the DoT and persisted through it, the DoT class could simply recast the DoT as soon as they saw it was a reduced damage DoT. Performing the check on each tick means that this wouldn't occur.

Also the effect could be calculated after all other modifiers, so if an attack would have crit, and this new resilience went into effect, it would effectively cancel out the previous crit plus a little extra.

What are other thoughts/opinions?

Part of the major attraction of resilience is it's consistency. The % reduction to being crit isn't nearly as important as the passive reduction to crit damage. The current system dramatically reduces "lucky" spike damage. By not only reducing your chance to be crit, but if you are crit you will always take x% less damage from that crit.

The system you are suggesting would leave room for "luck" in the form of crits getting through completely unmitigated and thus 1 or 2 shotting someone even with 10k health.

Initially I was going to post with it having the chance to take half damage (Similar to canceling out a crit, but would also work on non-crit attacks) and having the permanent crit reduction bonus, however I felt that this would still give the people who feel that it's imbalanced against DoT's another footing to stand on in their complaints about DoT inequality.

Although, it could be:
10% chance to take half damage, 20% damage reduced from all attacks.

Although that seems sorta over powered.

Resilience imbalance is very real and the people who think this is an unintended consequence of the system are fooling themselves. It must be intended that resilience impact certain classes more than others, as it was obvious from day one what spells/classes this stat would affect most, that's why they aren't really scaling it up further in season 2. Ice mages and rogues, without the presence of resilience to significantly impact those classes, are brutally overpowered. Resilience has reached a point of balance, what's left is the potential for individual class re-balancing and tweaking. What sucks is that pve-ers without resilience gear are getting a less balanced version of the game than top-geared players are, but if given the option I'd prefer balancing for the high end rather than the low end, which we seem to have pretty close at the moment.

I'd shape resilience in a more general fashion to counteract other classes' forms of damage.

Something along the lines of:
100 resilience - Any damage taken over 6000 (or other arbitrary value) in a period of 3 seconds after the first hit (or other arbitrary value) is ignored.

The numbers are interchangeable. But you see what I'm getting at, don't you?

I'm fine with the current form of resilience minus the DoT issues, would rather see them make it either ineffective to stack to 350+, or make it so in order to reach the higher numbers, you have to actually lose something in the process.

Making it a percentage chance to reduce damage or making it only work after X damage within Y seconds would be a rather silly change, all you'd end up with is classes that purposely delay damage for the effect to wear off, or you get unlucky and it doesn't proc 5 times in a row.

Vontre, let me clarify your argument in more general terms. You're saying that since burst-damage is more overpowered in PvP than elsewhere, that a stat, resilience, was introduced specifically to artificially reduce the power of classes that have high burst damage (e.g. rogues, mages, warriors.) You're arguing that resilience not mitigating DoTs and so on is 100% intended and a good design choice, since resilience is designed to balance out the inherent advantage that a burst-damage class has over a non-burst damage class in PvP. Right?

There is no other sustained non-crit damage in the game though.

Unless you count poisons and bleed effects.

Which are all dots, is there really anything you can compare this to as I really can't think of anything that can't crit that isn't some type of dot.

Consistancy, good.

Getting !@#$ed over by bad luck, bad.