why not classic resists?

[heartbrand]

Cool. Here's my thoughts, can't speak for others. Right now for cold/fire, the return on your money for stacking one of those just doesn't seem worth it in many situations. If I'm sacrificing all my gear to get 180+ CR/FR, I want to see actual resists, not partials of 50-70%. I don't think that by any means marginalizes a class, wizards who realize a player is stacking cold can switch to fire, mages can use shock of swords instead, druids can use ice, etc. In mass PVP, it doesn't really pay to stack CR or FR because you won't get full resists and you may as well just wear HP gear since you can't really effectively keep both stacked unless you're in a bard group or haven't been pell bombed.

That being said, the real issue to me, and to others, is MR. CC spells are incredibly lame in any PVP game when they last longer than 4-5 seconds. Being bard mezzed or chanter mezzed at 300+ MR where you get to stand there immobile for perhaps upwards of a minute is just dumb for a PVP game.

In short, outside of getting to that sweet spot zone for MR to basically become root immune, resists don't really seem worth stacking at the sacrifice of HP gear for mass pvp, unless you're one of thew few who have the Blue Diamond gear which was supposed to be patched out four months ago for diamonds.