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Resistance gear is the major source of the Resistance stat. It has next to no general usefulness, and is usually used only in a raiding environment. Several bosses simply cannot be beaten without sufficient resistance of the appropriate type.
Resistance gear quality[]
While leveling, resistance gear is usually not needed. There are some rare instances where it might be useful, but there hardly exists any low-level items with resistance. Prior to BC, the Molten Core was the first place which required high amounts of a resistance (Fire). Nearly every raid instance since then had one or more bosses which required some type of resistance - sometimes only on certain players (like the tank), sometimes on the whole raid.
Resistance equipment frequently has only two stats - a resistance and a high amount of stamina. In a wider sense, stamina can be interpreted as "resistance to all". In another sense, extra stamina while prolonging the time to die, does not mitigate damage as armor does. Using increased stamina in magic heavy fights, goes hand in hand with an increased healing requirement.
The problems with resistance gear are that it's rarely used, hard to find or manufacture, and wearing it increases survivability in a certain environment, but gimps most other character functions.
Some advantages of resistance gear are, the ability to ignore some encounter mechanics. During the air phase of the Sindragosa fight, hiding behind the ice tombs becomes less important with enough frost resistance, allowing more time to dps and heal, leading to more total damage or total healing. In some 10 player encounters, enough raid resistance will allow using 2 healers instead of 3, perhaps increasing raid dps. Resistance gear can lead to greater raid flexibility when a less that optimum mix of classes are in a raid.
This tradeoff, survivability vs. efficiency, always needs thorough consideration when choosing resistance gear. Use the best items available. Low-quality gear (like the green random BoE drops) is not really useful. It's much better to wear just one blue (or purple) item instead of a collection of greens. A similar example are warrior tanks using mail or leather resistance items instead of plate. Even in the most resistance intensive fights there is almost always some physical damage, and tanks should not nerf their physical mitigation too greatly. If there's no other choice such a measure might do the job, but the instances are designed such that good gear is available when a certain resistance is needed.
Farming marks (like [Badges of Justice]) or materials (e.g. [Heart of Darkness]) for appropriate resistance gear may still be an unavoidable part of raid progression.
Resistance gear by resistance type[]
- Arcane resistance spell and gear info
- Fire resistance spell and gear info
- Frost resistance spell and gear info
- Holy resistance spell and gear info (although there really isn't any gear)
- Nature resistance spell and gear info
- Shadow resistance spell and gear info
Resistance & instances[]
5-Man[]
- Fire Resistance is helpful for Nazan in heroic Hellfire Ramparts
- Fire Resistance is helpful for all group members at the Nethermancer Sepethrea in Mechanar.
- Fire Resistance is helpful for all group members at the Wrath-Scryer Soccothrates in Arcatraz.
- Shadow Resistance is helpful on the tank for heroic Omor the Unscarred in Hellfire Ramparts.
- Shadow Resistance is helpful on the tank for heroic Zereketh the Unbound in Arcatraz.
- Shadow Resistance is helpful on the tank for heroic Pandemonius in Mana-Tombs.
- Arcane Resistance is helpful on the tank for Vexallus in Magisters' Terrace.
Raids[]
- Princess Huhuran requires 15 melees with high nature resistance ("NR soaks") to mitigate her poison bolts at 30% health.
- Some fire resistance (mainly for the adds tank) is useful (but not required) for Jan'alai in Zul'Aman.
- Some shadow resistance is useful (but not required) for Hex Lord Malacrass in Zul'Aman.
- Nature resistance is helpful but not strictly necessary for the tanks of Kiggler the Crazed during High King Maulgar fight.
- Hydross the Unstable in Serpentshrine Cavern requires one maxed out frost resistance tank and one maxed nature resistance tank.
- Leotheras the Blind in Serpentshrine Cavern requires you to have a tank or warlock in high fire resistance gear for tanking the demon phase.
- Several bosses in Mount Hyjal (Kaz'rogal in particular) are much easier with some shadow resistance spread over the raid.
- Mother Shahraz in Black Temple requires the whole raid to be kitted in maximum shadow resist gear.
- On several other bosses in the Black Temple, some amount of shadow resistance is useful too.
- Illidan Stormrage requires a warlock with capped shadow resistance.
- Sapphiron requires the whole raid to have frost resist when first gearing up. As gear gets better, a paladin aura or shaman totem should suffice. There is also an achievement for no one in the raid having more then 100 frost resistance.
[The Hundred Club (10 player)] [The Hundred Club (25 player)]
- Hodir requires the whole raid to have frost resist when at gear level of this instance. As gear gets better, a paladin aura or shaman totem should suffice.
- It is unknown whether this raid will require frost resist as of the release of the Plagueworks.
- Sindragosa does not require frost resist, but it is very helpful for the tanks.
Resistance & PvP[]
In theory, resistance could be quite useful in PvP. Unfortunately, most experienced PvP opponents wear large amounts of Spell penetration gear, which negates resistance. Therefore it's usually not a good idea to wear large amounts of resistance gear in PvP.
Knowing this, one might consider buffing stamina instead of resistance since stamina provides you with more hitpoints, therefore allowing you to soak more damage from both magical and physical attacks.
External links[]
- Shadow Panther - Rogue Fire Resist Gear
- Shadow Panther - Rogue Nature Resist Gear
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