Impenetrable trait - PvP only?

Potenza · August 2014

This question came up in another thread with no response and I really need an answer so I can properly set the traits on my armor.

It was said that PvE mobs cannot critically hit you, which would make using the impenetrable trait useless for PvE. If this is true the trait is then PvP only and it should state that in the tooltips.
I thought heavy hits from PvE mobs were critical hits that the Impenetrable trait mitigated. Am I wrong?

Circuitous · August 2014

Never been critically hit by a mob, ever.

traigusb14_ESO2 · August 2014

Someone did a test in beta and right after release. He said there were crits and they mostly happened when mobs were doing heavies, especially bosses.

Supposedly devs have said all mobs have a chance to crit, and bosses are more likely to do so.

The guy who did the tests said that 200 pts of invulnerable would pretty much cover you in PVE (which was only VR10 at that point) and probably not worth taking if you weren't a tank... tanking boss mobs. I have kept~200 points since on my Heavy armor templar.

Nobody seems to know where it is now, and I don't use addons. I have seen death recaps on my alts where a skill will show up multiple times with say 550 damage and 1 time with 1k... I'm assuming those are crits .

It is very popular in PVP recently .

Potenza · August 2014

@ traigusb14_ESO2 Thank you for your reply. Where in the stats does it reflect how many points you have in it? Or is it just based on the amount of pieces of armor you used the trait on?

Oberstein · December 2018

trait itself intented to use it on PVP first place.

Jameliel · December 2018

I heard that if you farm mobs for gold, wearing impen makes you more gold than the old gold making trait did. Something about it saving on armor repair. Haven't seen the math to back it up.

ZOS_RikardD · December 2018

Greetings,

We're closing this thread because it is an old topic and the information may no longer be relevant.

Thank you for your understanding.