ESO - Is Critical Resistance Useless Now?

[@scottmartini3239]

i’ve been running a full crit / crit damage magplar spec for range damage and melting people. the lack of impen opens up opportunities to spec heavily into crit

[@FPRich]

Completely agree, I would drop it all together if there were better options. 4 well fitted and 1 sturdy is plenty. They need to sort out invigorating or infused!

[@realdhop]

The fact that nightblades exist means impenetrable armor trait is still very valuable.

[@joelhodoborgas]

Yeas, theres always an invisible cunt.

[@flanker4718]

Not only exist but are absolutely everywhere, are stupidly op and use a guaranteed crit as part of their burst.

[@phelan8369]

I get 2 nightblades timing their full combo on me while I'm Xing and they don't kill me. I'm wearing zero impen. To put it as simple as possible ill use rounded numbers. If they hit me for 2k dmg and have the max 125% crit dmg, they are not going to magically hit me for 10k+

[@Vesgir]

@@phelan8369 you can also hear incap coming from a mile away

[@AllThingsFascinate]

​@@phelan8369they hit for 10-16k incaps and spec bows

[@teranyan]

I was looking at trying out my stamsorc again and one thing you haven't mentioned that really broke crit builds knees is the fact that medium armor DOES NOT even give crit chance anymore! Imo that put the final nail in the coffin for non-nb crit in pvp. There is no way to get a decent crit chance anymore without making sacrifices like you mentioned.. you need thief/shadow mundus.. you probably will need to run precise and slot camo or use crit pots.. it's just too much effort compared to slapping malacath on and getting crazy damage from it

[@wherestheoptoutoptionmfs]

And also the amount of crit you'd get by switching to light armour instead, is laughable.

[@phelan8369]

I believe they made this change in order to set a balance. In a way its similar to how they didnt want a player to be able to tank 20+ ppl and still be able to nuked them all like a bomber. Med armour gives dmg as we all know and most heals are base on dmg so to have high crit chance means their healing power would go through the roof, leaving light armour close to worthless. Currently (in my opinion) I see light armour is squishy and their main advantages are dodge roll, crit chance, and penn. Medium i see are fairly tanky, high dmg, and no armour penalties. Heavy i see ALOT of tankyness and resource sustain. So I personally believe this was done to ensure there is no 1 clear way to build and to create diversity/creativity (again, just my opinion).

[@sk8legendz]

7 well fitted. roll dodge and Los are all we need.

[@tehallanaz]

I’m definitely going to try that

[@sk8legendz]

@tehallanaz recommend for sure High damage high healing and blocking ult burst and heavy hitting attacks all you really need

[@bovrar2nd861]

Very informative, thank you. Now I'll have some room to use reinforced.

[@yiflux5124]

I have 8,300wd fully buffed. 33% crit chance. 100% crit damage. 28k stam. 1,750 stam recov with rally. All on stamplar. I could have 9k+ wd easily but the eso build editor shows that if I spec into crit chance and crit damage, the theoretical wd is higher. Crit is not dead at all. Building into it is actually the best thing to do rn. Edit: on some classes. Stamplar, stamblade.

[@quatron9561]

I was always thinking about the Crit Resistance if it is worth obtaining, all we can agree is unless they are completely making a crit build it is not worth having, but it will save you from being instantly killed when you are targeted by a glass canon one-shot Nightblade.

[@phelan8369]

If u are squishy then yes, some crit resist is useful. If u are atleast fairly tanky then there are better things u could use. Think of it like this, a % of a small number is still a small number. But yes, if their hitting big numbers then that % is also a big number

[@Gromst3rr]

Thank you for the rundown man! Was very insightful and helpful. Thinking of either reinforced or bloodthirsty for my sets now if more tsnky or divines for more sustain.

[@cor5313]

I would say that most of the time what kills me is chained crits. Unless you are outnumbered, crit leap, shalk, db, spectral bow, incap. Those are what kill me.

[@TonyGunz916]

As you explained, NBs, Sorcs, Monster sets. PC NA those are all extremely popular. Especially NB, and they are massive zergs 24/7. 2 reinforced, 1 well fitted, rest Impen. Good vid. 👍🏽

[@TheRealGodzilla]

Yeah just my perspective for sure

[@seipher_8334]

Also another thing to take into consideration zilla is how much more expensive break free, roll dodge and blocking is now! You almost have to drop impen or you will burn through everything so fast!

[@maddskil]

Liked the video plus subscribed you kept a balance perspective on both

[@MarcosPic1982]

I remember when I played this game two years ago critical resistance was a must. Not everybody is playing critical builds but that was not the reason. The reason to go critical resistance is to not be one shot. Normal damage can be handled, one shots not. And for that reason you go critical resistance and not Normal armor.

[@phelan8369]

To use rounded numbers: if someone hits me for 2k dmg and they have the max 125% (our new crit cap) they will not magically hit for 10k+. If i can lower the base dmg someone deals to me I am also lowering their crit dmg. So if a player is squishy, yes I recommend SOME crit resist but if they are fairly tanky I recommend other things like sturdy, well fit, divines, etc.

[@LoL-dz3jp]

This was an excellent video to stumble upon, thanks for the information keep it up! :)

[@TheRealGodzilla]

Glad it was helpful!

[@mryoshi4762]

Excellent explanation.

[@mmouser2800]

That’s why I run full well fitted exception to reinforced heavy pieces

[@cw893]

Thank you for this video. I look forward to deleting people who are not wearing any impen.

[@eldenmox5525]

Wonder if it could be changed to give 1% flat mitigation and 5% crit mitigation per piece, or is that over kill.

[@TheRealGodzilla]

Probably overkill lol

[@Darkregen9545]

With crit resistances being nerfed ever since the Greymore patch. I find it funny we have people suggesting to not run full impenetrable. The reinforced trait isn't all that great for medium armour but of course the well fitted trait is nice though. Laughing in cloak as the nightblades get garunteed crits. When you do crit not using malacath you will get hit so hard due to running no crit resistances. Proc damage sets critting oof oh boy. In context he still brings up great points and actual situations where people use malacath, also crit rate is so hard to come by with dagger and medium armour change. However in actual situations its all crit resistances except maybe reinforced on heavy head piece and or chest piece due to nightblades mainly but crits can still happen outside of a nightblade people can get 27 to 35 percent crit rate easily and do they hurt more than a non crit even at 3k crit resistances when the enemy crits they nearly double their damage as they sit at 50% crit damage bonus on adv stat sheet.

[@phelan8369]

Well said. U can lead a horse to water but u can't make them drink lol. I stopped running impen when the armour trait was nerfed and started wearing reinforced on heavier pieces (body of course and sometimes helm, shoulder, legs, feet depending on armour weights and what i felt the build needed) and small pieces like belt and gloves I always recommend things like well fit, sturdy, divines, etc. Been playing my dk for a few years now (way before these dk buffs) and im open to constructive criticism if ur around for it but I do have a set im using that I don't want made public for a while because as usual someone will complain and it will get changed. I believe in a way that we could open each other's eyes to see things in a different way and come up with some out of the triangle ideas. Lmk what ya think

[@SamGrey]

Personally I like crit resistance, it stops those desync builds 😅. It also helps with those proc sets that can crit now too

[@ryanmitchell1265]

But are proc sets critting? If someone has a 12.6% crit rate then their procs will also have a 12.6% crit rate.

[@SamGrey]

@@ryanmitchell1265 so 12.6% of the time you get an irregularly high amount of damage (the crit), I prefer to mitigate those outlying numbers since the rest usually fall under a standard distribution but to each their own 🤷🏻‍♂️👍

[@tehallanaz]

Ngl the fact i don’t have to repair as often for 90 percent of content impenetrable is dope. I wear impen in pve

[@The_Forseti]

It's all a meta for a reason. The more people run malacath and less impene, the more reward people get for speccing into crit damage modifiers, khajiit, shadow, mechanical acuity, etc.

[@blaq-pantha9503]

he want that everbody reduce crit resisstance that he can hit harder na im joking good video

[@TheRealGodzilla]

😂

[@OaksieDoaksie]

It's not useless. It's not as useful as it used to be. This was a good video with a brief yet in-depth look at how things are working right now. Thanks Zilla.

[@SmartAss4123]

So just run percentage reduction modifiers like ironblood and call it a day. Crit or no crit that hits getting reduced lol

[@xx_steezy_xx9496]

Well said Bro👌💪

[@doriangray7129]

One build with high crit is calurion build and its it, everyone play in brawler or tank builds with low crit rate. Like cause of cloak guaranties crit crit res is ok vs nightblade but u gimping yourself against everyone else.

[@aaronmarkham4424]

So is it better to run straight Penetration rather than Crit damage

[@wherestheoptoutoptionmfs]

This is totally the wrong way to do it but, when I make a build I decide between well fitted and impen based on whether or not I can be arsed/can afford to gold out that piece of gear, because the difference between purple and gold for impen is minimal but for well fitted I'm gonna want the full 6% so I'll gold it.. So basically, if I'm feeling cheap, it's all impen baby.

[@Sirkento]

Nothing wrong with this at all LOL you shouldn't have to grind your life away in the game to afford gold gear if it's not what you enjoy XD you can crack plenty of skulls with purple gear and whatever traits you can afford at the time, your skill and understanding of your opponent are way more important than your own build as long as you have a decent toolkit to work with.

[@vladorules99]

Ya tripping if u think impen is not best in slot. Throw on full reinforced. First crit build you come into will give you the works.

[@TheRealGodzilla]

😂

[@unknownmlg4041]

Can’t help but feel like that meme isthereno1else posted was directly aimed at you 😂😂😂😂😂

[@TheRealGodzilla]

😂 I mean to each their own, I thought the meme was funny. But there is more to it than "just put on critical resistance"😂

[@unknownmlg4041]

@@TheRealGodzilla it was hilarious lol but the second I saw it I instantly thought of your channel and the poll you made before asking if crit resist was pointless 😂😂

[@unknownmlg4041]

@@TheRealGodzilla and no I know bro you make a valid point for sure and the numbers make sense. But I’ll always have a baseline of around 1800-2k crit resist 🤷🏻 Way back I used to run a off meta nb build it was twice born, impregnable and bloodspawn and I went all divines with the lover and warrior mundus. It wasn’t op by any means but it was solid stats across the board and hit very hard

[@anthonylobo6146]

What is your build please

[@mamess7185]

So say you’re building a dot DK crit with MC, what do you like for a second set to try with it?

[@TheRealGodzilla]

Idk probably burning spellweave or dardric trickery

[@snakeops7291]

Dude buy impen to save you... I'm bomblade and for this patch I'm coming with : Spell Pen : 90,34% (29811) Spell Crit Dmg : 99,20% (124%) Spell Crit Chance : 97,43% in 3 sec (97,43%) 37K Max Mag More than 5k Spell Dmg

[@teranyan]

only a problem for zerglings

[@snakeops7291]

@@teranyan Indeed!

[@MegasAlx]

I just wanna play.

[@Strix2810]

Well said.

[@linaleahgarcia1516]

Yo Zilla, time for truth. You vs You. StamDK vs MagDK. Who wins?

[@TheRealGodzilla]

1v1 probably magic dk

[@runkorko]

And then it comes NB with 50% crit chanse/ 60% crit dmg and 8k wep/spell dmg. With 100% crit out of stealth.

[@MB-wp2px]

Is nirhoned a viable replacement for the smaller pieces now? Or still to be avoided

[@TheRealGodzilla]

On light armor nirnhoned provides more mitigation than reinforced. If that's what ur wanting, but I want reduce cost of roll dodge or sturdy. But it's preference what you want On medium armor I believe the belt and hands are better with nirnhoned, but everything else is better with reinforced

[@bluesapphirefoundation3737]

They just say that so people drop it than they can have easier time in pvp. Tamriellionaire mindset

[@therealpinkstarr1263]

Thank u ❤

[@TheRealGodzilla]

🥰

[@JohnnWiller]

Zilla can u says me the 7 traits are u running in this vídeo?

[@TheRealGodzilla]

3 impen 3 well fit 1 reinforced

[@JohnnWiller]

@@TheRealGodzilla thank u

[@feldlordofdaclem4346]

11:20 did this man just say diminishing returns?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[@1848revolt]

Crit resist isnt as important as it once was because crit damage cap is much lower.

[@Thatnativeson]

Mech acuity is pretty op on range bomber with the destro ulti, and dot aoe’s. Loving it with Vicious death.

[@hvdiv17]

pretty much its useless you die just as fast with or with out it.

[@silver1surfer69]

Im sry to say this my friend and my intention is not to contradict you but to get the truth through. Resistance in itself is additive. When counting resistance into mitigation it is multiplicative. This does make a difference. I can provide you with the math. The video you refer to is also not 100% correct so you repeat the error in this case.

[@dracuhl8342]

Thumbnail is of a WoW Demon Hunter but game is about ESO.

[@unknownmlg4041]

You guys thinking that you need no crit resist are the reason 1vx is a thing lmao. YA NEED SOME CRIT RESIST MY GUY MAYBE NOT 3k like back in the day BUT YOU NEED SOME

[@TheRealGodzilla]

Yes you need some, I said 2-3 is perfectly fine😂 but no more imo

[@unknownmlg4041]

@@TheRealGodzilla yeah I agree with you lol I was referring to the people that will see this and think they can forego all impen and be totally fine running reinforced.. and then there’s also the pve kids who just never knew impen was really a thing in the first place 😂🥲

[@IBeTehNinja]

7 well fitted gang

[@odin8809]

Heavy chest reinforced, 6 well-fitted-gang

[@Fazuchon]

7 reinforced gang

[@aycaramba1773]

@@Fazuchon chips gang

[@Kronosxviii1]

When you use the word rate it triggers me as you're talking about critical damage and not crit frequency, the terminology is just wrong. :/

[@mrperson6963]

why ESo thought it was good to treat the word resistance like the "f" word. and not define it one way... i mean idk yearly bonus donated the next five years... to purchasing dictionaries so they can see the importance of defining a word and not leaving it as ambiguous as an f word. the day 50+1% go to cyrodil with out it is the day the night blade makes everyone remember why they ran it but until then optimize it till your alliance gets stopped by said night blades. its essentially the same outcome as a mid year mayhem event, once the masses play in to said night blade build strengths... thats the "meta" build. the joy of pvp is the meta on any given night can depend on what the opponent is running. there is no true "meta" its all conditional it all has a counter and tradeoff on said given day.

[@melydleaps9221]

I just go reinforced

[@iratezombiemann]

magsorc >>>> crit resistance

[@TheRealGodzilla]

😂😂😂

[@ivandawd1]

Even magsorcs is not a big issue no more

[@sealevel1951]

Interesting info, but the footage of you picking off AD while we are in a flag fight with a large group of DC wasn't really that impressive. In case people don't know a lot of our builds aren't setup for stopping backside ganks by solo players who aren't in the actual fight. Thanks.

[@TheRealGodzilla]

It's background footage...😂

[@albundy7991]

what a zerglord 🤣🤣🤣

[@sealevel1951]

@@TheRealGodzilla Yes, background footage that I seem to show up in a lot lol...

[@thecasual1011]

@@sealevel1951 You’re a zergling that automatically makes anything you say redundant

[@albundy7991]

🤣🤣🤣

[@duckyoutube6318]

Whats the point? Zeno doesnt care about the pvp community. Eso is all about the pve. You know, the shit you can do in every rpg ever made, except in mmos you can pve with 'friends'. And by friends i mean guilds that will kick you if you dont do what they want you to do like pay guild dues and keep listings at 30/30, participate in events, ect.... So done with this game.

[@justadudeonacarpet]

The game is officially useless now.