Resolve

You misunderstand me. First, I did correct myself. The fact is that resolve doesn't decay until the effect ends. If you are at the threshold for immunity, however, it decays.

My comment about avoiding CC in every scenario was in response to your point about the breaker needing a shorter cooldown. I don't think it does, but there's nothing to be debated here. It's simply a matter of opinion. I feel that the occassional breaker combined with the resolve mechanic keeps CC manageable while you think that the breaker should be available anytime you're CC'd (or at least every 30 seconds).

It actually has to be decaying, but since you can only view 800/1000+ resolve its hard to tell when it actually starts to go down. I also understood that, should you be at 999 resolve and a SW/JK uses the AoE stun that adds 800, you will go up to 1799 resolve. Once the bar begins to decay you are now CC immune. You will be CC immune until the bar is gone, but not before it begins to decay. They bar begins to decay once your are free of all CC and the bar X>1000.

You may not see the bar decaying, but it needs to be doing so. However, for the simplicity of argument, just because the bar looks solid; this does not indicate you are immune yet, rather you are above 800 resolve.

That's correct. For the 25 resolve decay, it starts after the CC effect. So a 2 second stun would generate 400 resolve, and start to decay at 25/sec after the stun wears off.

It's the same in every game, so I don't see what you are trying to say here.

Furthermore, saying mezzs and stuns are the same thing is really misguided. They aren't. They fill decidedly different, if SIMILAR, functions, and server different purposes. In combat it would be unwise for me to use Whirlwind because it actually results in you having a full Resolve bar pretty much right off the bat, especially if you take damage.

Resolve wasn't meant to neutralize CC as a factor. It is meant to manage CC as a factor. For some reason, people have this idea that Bioware programmed a game with CC, and then re-programmed a system to remove it as a factor... that would be hilarious.

Ah! So...because we haven't studied up on it as much as you and know the durations of every possible combo and the length of every stun, root, dizzy, knock down, knock back, choke, tea bag and twirl by it's icon, you think we should all just suck it up and study?

I play this game far more than I should - I spend most of my online time PvPing and I will say that Resolve is the biggest pain in the **edit** for me. I'll admit...I DO NOT GET IT!

I don't understand why half the **edit** that happens to me DOESN'T fill it!!! I'll be fully immobilized and resolve won't budge. I can get knocked back half way across the map by THREE knockbacks (or possibly pushes) in a row and STILL didn't have a full resolve bar...what the eff?!

It honestly shouldn't be this freaking complex! It's not fun...it's frustrating as **edit**!

I'm impressed some of you find it so simple to understand...but I don't. IMO, Resolve blows and fails to do what it's supposed to do over half the damn time. If it's working flawlessly for some of you, great...but that doesn't make it a good system. The current way Resolve works is horrible and NEEDS a revamp.

Oh, ok. Well why are you isolating it in this way? If you want to debate the effectiveness of the mechanic, does it make sense to ignore the context of the group and things breaking on damage or not?

Resolve is not a single-player mechanic. It's that simple. Resolve is not an ability to use to your advantage when you need it. Resolve is a match-wide system designed to reduce CC dominance over a range of time and players. It isn't a button you push that is there for you to be a winner. It is a pure balance mechanic working over an entire range... resolve is not your friend. It has nothing to do with you. It isn't there to help you. It has nothing to do with helping individual players.

You are immune to CC from 1799 Resolve. If you break the CC at 1699 Resolve, you are still immune to CC all the way down to 0.

For example, an 8-second mez followed by a 4-second stun gives 2000 Resolve, which will drain in 20 seconds whether you sit through the entire stun or break out of it immediately.

The white bar merely indicates 1000 Resolve. That's it.

I think we are arguing the same thing. One caveat to note, you can only see 800 resolve, no more. Once the bar goes over 800 you view it as solid, but it may still not be X>1000. So even though it is solid you may technically not be immune at that time.