Celestial Guard

With the massive inflation, and continuous increase of stats, a counter has been made to balance things out. At the moment, each mob from the Planes of Prophecy expansion, from solo overland creatures to raid bosses, has a buff called Celestial Guard. This buff essentially strips you of certain stats and negates them by certain amount.



In this screenshot is the Celestial Guard utilized by a T1 raid boss. It states that the Doublecast Avoidance of the creature is 80. What it means is that casting hostile spells on the mob will decrease your roll on Doublecast by 80. So if you have 100 Doublecast and are fighting this mob, you essentially have 20 Doublecast when casting spells. To deal with this, you would have to increase your Doublecast stat. Now, the Doublecast stat caps at 100%, and nothing is gained from having more then 100% (as in, it won’t "triple-cast"). However, to have an actual 100% Doublecast against that mob, you would need to match it’s avoidance + 100 Doublecast. For this specific T1 mob, you would need 180 Doublecast, to have an actual 100% Doublecast rate. Various mobs and raid bosses have different avoidance values. As you can see from the photo, additional stats are also avoided, like Flurry, Ability Doublecast and Multi Attack.

Boss encounters will also have a Resolve stat, which is reflected in the Celestial Guard ability. Resolve functions similarly to the other Avoidance stats. When fighting a mob that has the Resolve stat, your own Resolve will define how much damage you will do to the mob and how much of the incoming damage you will receive. For example, when fighting a mob with 200 Resolve, and you have 190 Resolve, you will do 10% less damage to that mob, and will receive 10% more damage from it. If your Resolve is equal to that of the mob, then you will do regular amount of damage and receive regular amount of damage (although this is still defined by your mitigation, block and avoidance stats). If your Resolve is higher then that of the mob, there are no benefits from it.

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