Resilence to Affect DOTs....In Other News, Massive Crack Stash Found in Kalgan's Desk

Blizz is about to screw up arena gear. Kalgan says that DOTs will be affected by resilience in the future.

This makes no sense. Resilience protects you from critical hits. DOTs can't crit.

Supporters of this change say that the introduction of resilience affects burst-damage dependent classes but not classes that rely on damage-over-time spells, thereby overpowering us vs. burst damage classes. I can see that point of view. However, I offer the following rebuttals to support my feeling that DOT damage mitigation via resilience is not appropriate:

• DOTs can't crit, unlike burst damage.
• DOTs can be dispelled, unlike burst damage, meaning that you're not even guaranteed the smallest possible base damage listed in the spell description in exchange for your mana expenditure.
• DOTs can be healed through, unlike burst damage, giving groups with healers an advantage vs. a DOT-based class.

I don't see an indication that DOTs will now be given a chance to crit. So that means that resilience will become a strange hybrid anti-crit/damage reduction stat. Basically, it becomes your non-Stamina Stamina. In addition, for warlocks, we'll get hit twice by resilience: in our DOTs and in our direct damage spells ('bolts, etc.).

For a better explanation, this guy has a nice critique (a mage, no less).

In this thread, Archon has an interesting suggestion: drop resilience completely, and use the item point budget freed up to just up the Stamina bonuses. Makes sense to me.