In my recent article, I already mentioned that the unlimited resist event changed the balance in Wartune. People are full of level 9 resist gems, some even lvl 10 ones - and the resist reduce level is nowhere close to that.
As you know, resist gives a modifier to damage: The multiplier is
(1 + (your resist reduce - opponent's resist)/833)
As long as resist and reducers were in par, this meant a +-20% damage. But let's check what happens when I have an 1500 dark resist, and your resist reduce is 900:
(1+(900-1500)/833)= 0,28.
So you will deal only 28% of your normal damage. That's pretty tough.
We just had a Class Wars. I'm not a big casher, but it seems with determination and time I start swimming with the big fish (but only as their food). Now again I made it into top16. I did 5 dark dimensions to pump up my dark resist to 1500. Also had 1100 wind and light resist (and yes, this means I went against reason, and did even some lvl 10 resist gems, and now I can bang my head into wall, with lvl 9 resist coming tomorrow).
Out of 15 rounds, I got only 5 players who dared to use dark sylph. All big names, very far above my BR, much stronger than me: still, I could beat 4 of them. 72% damage reducting is a real killer. The other 10 players, they used all sylph except for electro: there was fire, water, wind and light too. I used wind sylph, that was my other orange PATK sylph who could use the equipment of my temporarily retired Aegis. My final result was 8:7 which I think is pretty unrealistic for my BR (and the amount of money I spent), the usual 14:2 would have been more reasonable.
But the current resist mess made the pvp game a pretty stone-scissors-paper game. Which is fun, everyone have a chance to win, and you need a heavy mind-game trying to figure out who is going to use what, and which 3 resist should you use. But I'm sure the majority of players - especially heavy spenders - wont like this. It is rumored dimension resist bonuses were reduced due to whale's pleas, and I'm sure we are getting another resist nerf soon.
Until then, enjoy it: complete sky trial, purgatory, narrenda, farm people in battleground: and dread the day when the nerf finally comes; when all the tendonitis you collected from doing dimension 3 hours each day becames meaningless.
Hey guys, I think Wartune offers a really cool series of events, people can be happy. This is the third day of their 7-day (?) series, each day with a different sale, different mini-"bug"-spender, and different hot event.
The first day was about mount hoofs and whips. The sale was still too expensive, and these items have limited use, so it was unwise to buy anything. Still, you could use your hoarded hoofs to get some bonus.
On second day, they added a dream-event, unlimited gem synthesis up to level 10. I collected 58 lvl 10 gems and 1100 soul seals, so I was very happy with that.
Today is the third day, again a great event, a clothing synthesis which again rewards from level 3, so it's good for newer characters, and it gives free chests! So I finally got my frost leopard. I had a level 6 hat and armor saved up from previous cloth event, so I combined them with the ones I was wearing, and could claim immediately rewards for lvl 3-6, a nice hoard of treasure. With good luck charms anf fashion cores free from wild shop, I did not have to spend anything here either.
Tomorrow is a resist crystal day. Will and resist crystals for sale, and resist synthesise event. Actually, this one is pretty interesting. Because, as you should be aware, resist crystals are pretty useless now. Even if you have 5 lvl 5 resist crystals, and you have the proper sylph equipped, you will take maximum damage from the same sylph, not to mention others. This is because will crystals are easier now to upgrade than resist crystal, and even dimensions give a heavy bonus on them. So the only use of resist crystals is in pve situations (god's descent, sky trial etc) and in dimensions, where they reduce movement cost.
For this reason, you probably don't really need 3 separate resist sets, so you are free to combine your complete collection into a lvl 7 resist crystal, a lvl 6 and some lvl 5.
There are 3 reasons against this:
1.) The reward is not THAT great.
2.) There might be future resist events (even unlimited ones!!) where you will regret not having plenty of material towork with.
3.) The resist decrease in movement at higher resist is neglectable. The more is your resist, the less is the effect of extra resist. That is, if you make an extra lvl 7 resist crystal to replace a lvl 5, you gain 1 additional movement in dimensions.
I have a lot of will crystals (3 x lvl 5, and 53 lvl 1), for me maybe it's better not ruin my resist crystals, and just combine will crystals. If you don't have much will crystal, you can make resist crystals, just keep in mind the above. (Please note that the final reward is impossible, you can't make lvl 8 resist crystals).
Please note that in Holy Set Fragments exchange - if you have a lot like me - after the cloth, the best exchange now is prolly the resist crystals, can be useful in this event.
So again, after 4 days, still nothing I can spend balen on, but I'm not particularly worried :) And I'm very grateful for these evens, now Wartune really have some good events. I miss only a useful SC exchange (100 SC and 10 whip for 3 SS was not a good one).
In the last days, I expect a mahra/sepulcrum event, maybe something with runestones, and let's hope some mount sale too :)
I promised a while ago that I will make you a Wartune resist calculator. It's complete now, you can try it on tis link, or just click "Resist calculator" in the top menu.
You don't need to collect a large amount of data and do tests. Just do one simple attack, write down the numbers, and you will know exactly how much is your opponent's resistance. Great for sky trials, God's descent, and any other place where you want to see how the combat works.
Some fun facts about resistance:
- You need at least 167 more resist reduce than your opponent's resistance to have maximum damage.
- Players can now increase their reduce resist faster than their resists, so for veteran players in pvp resist only matters when you fight your own element.
- Looks like since patch 3.1, resist and resist reduce has changed seriously when you are not in awakened form. Play around with the resist calculator, and you will see.
