Resilience is giving a card an immunity to a type of attack, today only ranged resilience and hermiticists resilience are in the game.
In my opinion it is not good that units can be totally immune to a source of damage even if coming from hero/Guardians which are supposed to be the best cards possible.
I see 2 ways to adapt Resilience while still keeping the tanking part.
1/ Resilience is changed from immune to flat damage reduction
2/ Resilience gived immune is attack is below a value
In both ways, it allows resilient unit to go face tank weaker units but becomes vulnerable to heavy hitters forcing to be careful in position of Resilient units.
What are your thoughts about the whole Resilient mechanic?
I don't necessarily think that resilience is a bad design for abilities. Like Timber just said above, the problem for me is that some, if not all of them, cards that have resilience, including Volgar and the Naphas' one that ignore ranged attack, have really good states. I think both of them have 8/8/2/1, plus a situational but powerful (when it works) ability , while Lasthella has only some mediocre states (6/7/2/1) with some genetic ability (gain time when slaying).
I do find out a lite odd that although resilience can ignore direct damage or assassination, they still take damage from AOE. Alnarasz Eph can not damage Volgar directly, but the latter will suffer from 2 AOE attack in the right situation. Shouldn't it be more consistence that they also neglect this damage?
Thanks for the ideas!
I think for masters a resilience to a whole battle class is ok. Because masters have always abilities and some masters have more impactful abilities or generally more attractive core values than resilience cards.
Nevertheless I agree that in case of Volgar for example there needs to be a slight change. There will be a big patch incoming soon with many changes btw. For Volgar we think lowering his defense just a bit solves the problem. Because currently it's hard to overcome his defense with stacked warrior troops or pioneers which are non-hermetic.
Let's see how that turns out. We are very confident it will be just the right adjustment.