Defense

Understand Defense, Dodge, Parry, Block, Resilience, and more for tanking in World of Warcraft: Midnight. Learn how stats affect your character.

Defense Stats Explained:

• Dodge: A chance to completely avoid melee attacks, but it does not affect ranged attacks.
• Parry: A chance to parry a melee attack, effectively turning a successful hit into a failed attack.
• Block: A chance to block either a melee or ranged attack using a shield. This reduces some of the incoming damage, but does not negate it entirely.
• Block Value: This stat increases the amount of damage that is reduced by a successful block.
• Defense Rating: Accumulating Defense Rating increases your overall defense skill. Think of Defense Rating as similar to Attack Power, while defense itself is akin to weapon damage.
• Defense: This stat directly increases your defense skill.
• Armor: Reduces the amount of physical damage you take.
• Resistance: Decreases magic damage of a specific type. You can view your resistances next to your character's profile on the character window.
• Resilience: This stat is primarily found on PvP gear and is exclusive to PvP. It decreases the chance of critical strikes hitting you and also reduces all overall damage taken.
• Health Regen: This determines how much health is restored over time, both in and out of combat. Health regeneration is significantly higher when out of combat.