Resilience Change: One Stat to Rule Them All

So, WoW PvP is not fun right now.  This is probably blog 1,000,000,001 on the issue and the only thing that's changed since post zero has been the dissipation of all hope as it becomes painfully clear that Blizzard cannot or will not fix it in the forseeable future. 

Ok, so WHY is Blizzard having so much trouble making arena playable?  I'd say either:

1) They do not give a **** because they've determined that the opportunity cost of figuring this **** out and implementing the appropriate changes would be too great.

or

2) They are apprehensive about making significant changes because of the butterfly effects that result.  So they wait and see how things pan out... which equates to us playing a game that is utter hooker ****.  And me spending my free time playing a terrible game is not a solution to anything.

If it's 1, then well... ****.

But if it's 2, then what do they need to do to mitigate these unwanted ripple effects? (because this wait and see **** is unacceptable)  Isolate the mother******* variables. 

It's a reoccuring theme of failure in this game, they have proven time and again that they can not balance the game for multiple things at once.  PvE scaling ***** up PvP, warlock nerfs **** all over shadow priests, etc etc etc...  Resilience is the newest and most significant example of this, which brings me to the point of this blog.  Blizzard has put all their eggs into one basket with regards to PvP balance and that basket is resilience. 

Now how the **** are they going to balance the game by tuning one stat that affects each class differently?  To me, it is pretty obvious that they aren't.  Classes are different from each other and the value of resilience varies a lot depending on what you play.  Instead of trying to find some imaginary "sweet spot" they need to acknowledge and embrace the fundamental class differences that keep such a sweet spot from being possible.  Resilience needs to affect each class differently for the value to be equal.

This is the only realistic way to fix the game through resilience. (which is still a copout from actually balancing the game, but they seem to want to do it this way and I'll take what I can get) Universal changes to the stat won't do because once those changes are filtered through each class' cooldowns, stats, and abilities, the outcomes are very different. 

They already took a step in the right direction with the cheat death change, they just need to expand on that idea.  Having resilience affect all defensive cooldowns seems like a good place to start, right?  Wrong.  Resilience was implemented as a defensive stat for a number of reasons, but the most important was that it wouldn't affect PvE and changes to certain defensive abilities would.  Defensive effects still may end up being the best way to go about things, but let's not pigeon hole ourselves for no reason.  Resilience needs to be a dynamic stat that separates PvP from PvE for each class regardless of whether that's through offense, defense or utility. 

Now I will give a few examples of class-specific resilience changes.  But only a few, because the reason I wrote this blog was to (hopefully) spark your ideas about the possibilities this approach would open up.

Rogues:
Shadowstep has a 0-100% chance to break snares based on resilience

Mage:
Iceblock duration based on resilience
Hypothermia reduces movement speed by 30-0% based on resilience

Paladin:
Bubble duration based on resilience

Hunter:
Movement speed during TBW reduced by 30-0% based on resilience
Scattershot cooldown lowered by resilience


There are virtually limitless possibilities for tweaking with this approach, I'd like to see what you guys can come up with.  Isolate the mother****in' variables.  And before you write this off as a bad idea because of the 0 resilience game up until lvl 70, please realize how easy it would be to implement resilience honor gear at each level bracket.  You can't make a ****ty game good without changing anything.

Note: If you like this idea, go support it on the official suggestion forums