Certain classes such as crusaders, bards, druids, and predators have previously had to try to collect different stats like STR, INT, WIS, rather than focusing on one stat. With the changes in Sentinel’s Fate, each class has just one statistic to focus on. While STR helps with carrying weight, WIS helps with resists, and INT will give critical mitigation to priests, in the grand scheme of things, this is a fundamental shift in how gear is itemized and characters will select gear.

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Apologies for not having these described in detail in the patch notes with the expansion. We'd like to take some time to describe the various changes that are potentially confusing.

This will be a post under construction. If there is anything that changed that we have not included, please let me know in the thread. I'll update this initial post in order to include as much useful infos as we can!

BASE STATS

Stat Needs

* Each class had their primary role-stats condensed. For all damage and healing and melee and ranged attacks, your effectiveness is drawn from your primary stat: STR - Fighters, AGI - Scouts, WIS - Priests, INT - Mages
* For some, such as Guardians, this does not change much. However for hybrid classes such as Crusaders and Bards and Druids, this is a very big change. No longer will you need to build multiple sets of gear for different roles, or need to gather copious amounts of ALL stats, etc.

Primary Stat Caps

* Each class' primary stat detailed above is no longer capped! From 0 -> ~1300 it works the same as always. However, after that it hits a slowly diminishing curve that has no upper limit. You will continue to gain a benefit from your primary stat beyond the cap.
* This does NOT affect your other stats. As a fighter, for example, STR is uncapped but STA and AGI and WIS still are.

Resist Consolidation

* Resists have been simplified from 10 to 4: Elemental, Arcane, Noxious, and Physical
* All of your buffs and gear should have been switched over to these new types automatically. Anything that has not is a bug, please let us know! =)
* Attacks and Spells can still be all 10 types--so your Ice Comet still does cold damage. This change only affects the damage resistance side of things.

BLUE STAT CONSOLIDATION AND RENAMING

-Crit has been consolidated. An item that gives +1 crit gives +1 to ALL crit types.

-Crit Bonus has been consolidated and uncapped. It should continue giving a linear bonus as you stack more and more of it.

-Ability Modifier - used to be 'spell damage', 'combat art damage', 'heal amount', 'taunt amount', etc. This still works exactly the same and has been only consolidated and renamed. It adds a flat amount to the effectiveness of that ability. This flat adder is still capped at 50% of that ability's base.

* For example: Say Bob's Ice Comet hits for 100 damage. If he equips 5000 Ability Mod, the damage would only increase to 150. However, if he equips INT gear or potency gear and increases his base damage from 100 to 200 then equipping 5000 Ability Mod would raise the damage from 200 to 300

-Potency - used to be 'base damage', 'base healing', etc. This increases the base percent for any ability you use. These effects have been consolidated, so potency is now a % increase to the effectiveness of all of your abilities.

-Toughness and Critical Mitigation

* Toughness ONLY affect PvP combat - it does two things: 1) reduces damage received from players by a flat % and 2) gives 1.5x that percent to the player as pvp-only critical mitigation. The conversion works like a skill: players require an amount of toughness skill per % reduced based on the person attacking you. At level 90 this is about a 15skill == 1% reduction ratio
* Critical Mitigation now ONLY affects PvE combat - it no longer affects the incoming damage from other players. This change was made in order to more clearly differentiate between PvP-centric gear obtained from Battlegrounds and PvE-centric gear obtained from raids and heroic dungeons