Paladin Magic resistances Tactics
Magic resistances
After the first check based on opponents level there’s a roll based on your resistance against that kind of spell damage. Magic branch in wow are: fire, frost, arcane, shadow, nature and holy. You can raise resistance with items and auras. Dwarven paladins benefits from racial abilities +10 frost resistance also.
Your resistances to magic damage (except holy) can be seen in your character sheet in game. Holy is not represented because every player has zero resistance to holy damage and there isn’t any item in game that can raise it. Only defence in game against holy damage is an alchemist potion that absorbs a fixed amount of it. Notice that some mobs have holy resistance (especially bosses).
The paladin class spells deals holy damage so they are not influenced by resistences. However resistences counts when the enemy spell hits us so here’s the explanation:
%Resistance = (Target's Resistance / (Caster's Level * 5)) * 0.75
The cap to spell resistance is 75%. To reach the cap versus a level 60 caster spell requires 300 resist in that school. A paladin resistance aura (60 resist) grants 15% to avoid the spell vs a lvl 60 caster.
For spells that don't cause immediate damage, you'll either totally take the hit or totally avoid the hit. The % resistance is the chance you'll totally avoid the hit. Against direct-damage spells (spells that deliver their full damage upon impact, such as Fireball, Mind Blast, and Earth Shock), this resistance is the percentage of damage you will resist on average.
When you are hit by a direct-damage spell, you have a chance to resist 100%, 75%, 50%, 25%, or 0% of the spell's damage, depending on your resistance score in relation to the level of the attacking caster. Your average percentage of damage resisted is the weighted average of your resistance percentages for each level of damage resistance (100%, 75%, 50%, 25%, and 0%).
+ x%Crit and +x%Spell Crit
Base chances of a crit are as follows:
Spells = [5 + INT/X*]%
Melee = [5 + AGI/18]%
X* should be a number in the 27,5 - 29,5 range
So crit chances are directly related to intellect and agility stats. They can also be increased with items with +X% crit o +X% spell crit or also with talents (holy power for spells and conviction for melee).
Melee crits are 200% normal damage while spells crits are 150% normal damage.
Important: your weapon skill affect crit chances. If your weapon skill is under your level cap (5 * level, 300 at level 60) subtracts 0.04% every point under the cap. Also if your weaponskill is higher than your level cap (from items or racial abilities) your crit chance is raised 0.04% every point. So i.e. if you are a human paladin you’re guaranteed +5 weaponskill in swords and maces that means a +0.2% to crit (if you have your weaponskill capped).
You can see your melee %crit in game calling your spellbook (p key) and going with mouse over the attack icon.
Critical hits can't be blocked, dodged or parried.
+ healing and + spell damage
These items add a bonus to heals or damage spells. However the number advertised on the item doesn’t represent reality. Only a fraction of the total bonus is added on the spell depending on factor like casting time, etc.
From patch 1.10 we have this coefficients :
10% Seal of Righteousness with 1 handed weapon
12,5% Seal of Righteousness with 2 handed weapon
50% Judgement of Righteousness
20% Seal of Command
29% Seal of Command (only with +holy damage bonuses)
43% Judgement of Command
33% Consecration
43% Holy Shock
43% Hammer of Wrath
43% Exorcism
19% Holy Wrath
00% Blessing of Sanctuary ;_;
20% Holy Shield
00% Retribution Aura ;_;
71% Holy Light
43% Flash of Light
100% Eye for an Eye
This means for example that if you have +100 healing from items your holy light spell will get an increase of 71 hitpoints healed.
