How much crit resistance is necessary or considered tanky in 2022?

spongebobmovieticket · June 2022

With the new rallying cry meta, how much crit resistance are y’all running? I’ve heard 1800 is good, but with everyone raving over rc I gotta assume a lot of people are over 2k. Is it worth the investment? I’m at 1900 without cp. Personally I’m wondering 10% damage mitigation (duelist rebuff/ironclad) vs. 2600 crit resistance (resilience)

fred4 · June 2022

Now that Ironclad has been nerfed, the crit resist CP is worth considering. Thanks for reminding me of that. That said, my main is a nightblade. Using zero added crit resist and Exploiter CP instead.

Rallying Cry is single-barred and stat-dense. Makes a lot of sense to run that set, simply because of that. That said, my philosophy is: If I die, I have to learn how to move better. There is something about experienced duellers (I'm not one) whereby they become hard to hit via their movement alone, yet they always seem in the right place to hit you. This carries over into 1vX / AvA and your use of LoS in those situations. Depends on your playstyle, I suppose. Yeah, I'm a nightblade main, but I play a few other classes too.

I tend to run Well-Fitted armor. The problem with crit resist is selecting stat-efficient sources. People like me gave up on Impen in part because it was nerfed and Well-Fitted buffed some time ago. Give me a stat-efficient source like Rallying Cry and maybe actually that CP node, and I'll use it. You got to wonder why you don't see the Transmutation set much anymore, but I think the difference is that the Rallying Cry proc lasts longer, making the set single-barrable.

WoppaBoem · June 2022

spongebobmovieticket wrote: »

With the new rallying cry meta, how much crit resistance are y’all running? I’ve heard 1800 is good, but with everyone raving over rc I gotta assume a lot of people are over 2k. Is it worth the investment? I’m at 1900 without cp. Personally I’m wondering 10% damage mitigation (duelist rebuff/ironclad) vs. 2600 crit resistance (resilience)

Good players are investing more and more in crit multiplier it destroys people. However what are you playing? like the guy above on movement or brawler. As for brawler I would recommend rally cry it does a lot. For movement characters other stats are more important than crit resist your aim is not to 'survive sustained dmg' but not getting caught.

Thecompton73 · June 2022

WoppaBoem wrote: »

spongebobmovieticket wrote: »

With the new rallying cry meta, how much crit resistance are y’all running? I’ve heard 1800 is good, but with everyone raving over rc I gotta assume a lot of people are over 2k. Is it worth the investment? I’m at 1900 without cp. Personally I’m wondering 10% damage mitigation (duelist rebuff/ironclad) vs. 2600 crit resistance (resilience)

Good players are investing more and more in crit multiplier it destroys people. However what are you playing? like the guy above on movement or brawler. As for brawler I would recommend rally cry it does a lot. For movement characters other stats are more important than crit resist your aim is not to 'survive sustained dmg' but not getting caught.

I agree. Even at 2600 crit resist you take 11% more damage from someone with no bonus crit damage multiplier, still a bigger damage boost than most 5 piece set bonuses will give someone. Now consider it's pretty easy to tack on another 10-30% crit damage boost and even someone with that 2600 is going to take between 21-41% more damage from crits. It's brutal on a class like NB that can come out of nowhere and hit you with a guaranteed crit on Incap or Dawnbreaker.
I changed my build to having 31K health 20K physical resist and 2600 crit resist but there were still a few times last night a NB, presumably wearing Oakensoul for major force, came out of stealth and hit me with 15K+ incaps and if Cuullarion's or either of the other skills they cast before I broke free was a crit I was dead.