There are 2 key statements there; reduces chance to be critically hit and reduces critical strike damage. So at level 70, every 39.4 resilience equals 1% chance to avoid being critically hit and 2% reduction in cricital strike damage. So my mage is sitting at 112 resilience, meaning he has reduced his chance of being criticall hit by 2.84% and reduced the damage taken from critical strikes by 5.68%.

Now let us look at how someone with equal resilience can hinder my stacking spell crit. My mage has 18% spell crit with Molten Armor active. So now 112 resilience almost completely cancels my Molten Armor (3%). So now I’m back to 15.16% spell crit from my gear. Personally, I wouldn’t try to stack spell crit for PvP as most people can easily have 100+ resilience.

So what stats do I focus on for my mage in PvP?

First is always resilience, no better way to ruin someones day then to resist their critical strikes. Secondly, stamina and more stamina, because a dead mage does no damage. Lastly is spell damage, pssshaw you say. Well if critting them has now has lost its umph then straight damage is the only way to burn down those pesky foes.

Here is a good situation for you, this actually happened in my last foray into AV. I was attacking a NELF MS Warrior, I had my 18% crit and a pally putting Seal of Crusader on him. So all in all 21% crit chance, I landed maybe 2 crits on him during his 3 attempts at my tower. My crits we hitting him for right at 2k and my normal damage was hitting for around 1.4k. After seeing this happen during the first attempt at my tower I made a mental note, so-and-so has resilience gear change armors when he’s around.

So when he came back for another go at my tower I was focusing on him again. This time Frost Armor was up to slow him down when he attacked me, again the survival aspect. Since I knew he had resilience gear adding that extra crit from my armor was pointless. It was time to swap to a new tactic to help slow their attempt on the tower.

So by reducing my chance to be critically hit, reducing the critical damage and increasing my HP allows me to continue nuking them from orbit. Well taking up a tactical postition will give you a few mroe seconds of DPS time before they figure out how to get to you.