PvP Gearing - stats explanation, plz

Tobylator

So basically I cant find a good ressource were pvp gearing is explained. I know that rss stamina/magicka actually also give dmg. Please leave proc sets out of this.

I know, that Armor is the counterpart to penetration, but their issent really any magical armor. Crit is the counterpart to spell/crit resistance.
Depending on how much dmg or tanky you wanne be, you choose either one of them and stack it?

How do stats like magicka/stamina and spell/weapon dmg play into this?

I know pvp builds are highly personall, so lets stick to the theory here.

Beardimus

Not really sure of the ask mate.
- Stan goes with wep damage
- Magika with spell damage
- Crit resists are the protection you have against crit attacks. Stock is a 50% modifier. Say you have 30% crit resists when someone crits against you they only get 20% extra damage.
- 'magika' armour is light armour look at the passives for light / medium / heavy and you can work it out

For a decent build you need a balance of
- defence (armour, wards, healing, 2nd mitigation like roll dodge etc)
- offence (killing folks, burst)
- resources (not running out of juice, bigger pools or regen stats or skills to recover)

Go heavy in one direction, work on the delta to find a mid point in your setup.

Waffennacht

10.5 (iirc) stam/mag is the equivalent of 1 spell damage / weapon damage

Example. A build 20,000 max mag and 200 spell damage will have the same tooltip as a build with 10,000 max mag and 1152 spell damage.

Spell resistance is mitigation against fire, shock, frost, magic type damage. Physicial resistance mitigates physical, poison, disease, bleed etc type damage

660 resistance = 1% damage mitigation. Soft cap is 33,000. Penetration starts reducing from the total mitigation even if its above the soft cap. So 43,000 resistance against 10,000 penetration means 33,000 resistance remaining so full soft cap is mitigated (50%)

66 impenetrable = 1% crit damage mitigation