Does anyone actually think that Resolve is actually a working system?

I find it absolutely insane that Bioware thinks people understand how resolve works because they stickied a terribly flawed "guide" post that doesn't even explain the actual mechanics of the system.

The system has all sorts of hidden nonsense associated with it but they have no official or technically detailed explanations of the it anywhere. Unbelievable.

I'll double-check again today, but when I was watching it last night (the first time I actually realized where the resolve bar was) it was not lasting anywhere near 16 seconds. It shows up as like blue bars as it fills up, then turns completely white once full, right? What I was seeing was I would get stunned and eat it. That would fill up more than half of the bar. Then I would get stunned and break it and the bar would turn completely white. Then it would immediately start to decay. It didn't stay full for any period of time, but started to immediately wear off taking about 2-3 seconds to go empty.

Does it decay immediately if you get killed? Maybe that's what I was seeing. I know one time that I was paying close attention I got chain stunned by 2 assassins and my break was on cd. They killed me in the span of those two stuns, but I was watching my resolve bar really closely since there wasn't much else to do and it definitely did not last. I was thinking, "This thing would be fine if it just lasted longer."

Or... and I know this is a crazy idea here,

but try Diminishing Returns!

I can hear the crys/jeers now "*Gasp* he mentioned using a system that WoW uses, how dare he"

Grow up.

It works, it's tested, tried and true. It's stable, guaranteed, predictable and reliable and there is nothing better than that especially in the PVP environment.

I'm not stupid, I know the difference between stuns, snares, immunities and all of that crap and I assure you, multiple times, while having a full resolve bar, or even a bar that was ticking down to empty (meaning it's still basically full) I have been gripped by BH/Troopers and grappled into fire traps, I have been choked by Sith warriors... etc

I have been effected by CC's at multiple times where I shouldn't have been due to the level of resolve and yet I still was.

If you look at 2:49-2:50 his resolve bar fills. His resolve bar doesn't begin decaying until 2:53. His resolve bar is completely empty at 3:01 going into 3:02. If we use the normally accepted -100 resolve/second that supporters keep throwing out, under the 1000/resolve bar, it should take 10 seconds for the bar to begin showing decay to reach empty. In the video it took 8 seconds, maybe bordering on 9. Not 10 seconds, which is what would be necessary for -100/second.

Viewing the video at the time you specified, his resolve bar fills at 3:20. It doesn't begin decaying until 3:25. It's empty by 3:34. This is a solid 9 seconds this time, but still not the 10 seconds necessary for it to work under the assumption of -100 resolve/second.


In one situation, he enjoyed 12, maybe 13s of CC freedom. In the second situation, he enjoyed a solid 14s of CC freedom. If resolve was a working system, those two numbers would be identical.

Do you understand why BioWare needs to actually offer up the numbers and details of the system now? Or are you still going to argue the system works fine when the video you're using as a source shows CC immunity lasting two different lengths of time at two different spots in the video?

Sure, official info about how much ressolve each exact skill gives would be nice, but it is not neccessary to state that system is working...more or less

Official info about which CCs effect Resolve, and which do not (and possibly why) seems kind of necessary to state that the system is working as intended.

Otherwise, it's just an assumption, as there is no actual statement of intent outside of "It stops you from being CC'd", to which a sane person would reply "I was just rooted for 6 seconds w/ full Resolve, that's not working..."

There's not even an explanation of what is considered a crowd control ability and what isn't.

The general consensus is that any ability that completely removes control of your character is considered a CC as far as Resolve goes, which I agree w/. But that's not actually stated anywhere by Bioware, that's something that players discerned. I honestly thought that this would all be explained somewhere, like the player tutorials, but it's not documented at all.

So in reality, it's working as players think Bioware intended.