The Geershas Campaign finished (GOA statement inside)

[Sajko]

Read up: http://camelot-europe.goa.com/news/newsarticle.php3?id_article=1311

Apparently it's indeed finished, so far only on Excalibur and Prydwen (retard Germans/French ;P )

First, let's go over some basics regarding magical resistance. Each player will have, against a given spell :
his natural racial resistance (up to 5%)
the resistance from the items he is currently wearing (up to 26% at level 50)
the resistance from the spells (also up to 26%)
the resistance added from the realm abilities you may have.

These four resistance types are cumulative unless stated otherwise and do respect the limitations based on their resistance types (26% from items for example).

Let's see about the magical armours dropped during the event and their 50% group resistance buffs. First, the information displayed on the spell description (shift - I) was not correct as the users of these armours found out. The buff only works on the armour carrier, not the group. We are going to change the display in order to avoid any further confusion. The other point is that these armours have "reactive procs", which means that you need to be hit on this part of your armour in order to have a chance to actually trigger the buff. Technically you have around 40% to be hit in the torso for example and, if hit in the torso, you have a bit less than 10% of chances to have the buff actually trigger. Do the math and you will see that basing your RvR survivability on this item only will not help you much. Finally, since the "buff" is actually considered as a spell, it will follow the "spell resistance bonus" limitations explained above. For example if you already have some resistance buffing spells on you, this will only "overwrite them" and give you the maximum of +26%.

Why marking the spell as giving 50% in a resistance while you only get 26% you might ask ? Simply to be sure that this buff will overwrite all the spells since this one is giving the best possible.