Post by ZoraLink
If blistering cold is taking you out, try getting a lock/rogue(if you have one) to use curse of tongues/mind numbing poisen.
I highly doubt that Curse of Tongues or Mind Numbing would have any affect.
I've experimented with our tanks on it on every difficulty (10, 10H, 25, 25H) and in none of them was there a benefit to it, more frequently it hurts. As I said, bear in mind in particular that the 25% buff also means the more stamina you have in the first place, you'll have EVEN MORE due to the buff. This isn't something that can be ignored. Perhaps if you're in 232s to 245s you might gain a benefit from the frost gear, but at the OP's gear level, it will hurt far more.
The fact remains that frost damage is about 60% of the damage the tank sees, and full Frost Resist gear will cut that number by about 50%. So by switching in three pieces of frost resistance gear you can cut the overall damage you take by about 30%.
In additional, melee swings are going to be a consistant 10-15k every 1.8 seconds, and frost breath (without FR) is a burst of up to ~40k, before factoring in the Phase 2 debuff.
Dropping my three 277 items for the three 213 FR items, I end up losing 136 Stamina and 2374 Armor.
Compare. I also lose about 7.5% avoidance and 422 Strength. I gain 287 Frost Resistance. The 136 Stamina is worth 1630 Health, or a little over 2000 health with the 25% zone buff.
So like I said, you lose about 2000 armor, 2000 health, and gain 50% damage reduction on 60% of the damage you take. With full frost resistance gear it is possible to fully resist a frost breath, which isn't possible with only the aura/mark.
I recommend to everyone doing 10, 10H, or 25 Sindragosa to use all three pieces of Frost Resistance gear, and use the Frost Resist ring from Onyxia if you have it too. For 25H, on the other hand, I've had better luck keeping the armor and health since the melee/cleave damage is MUCH higher.
I think we're going to have to agree to disagree :)
At least we both agree that you don't use the frost resist gear on 25H!
EDIT: "a gree" What are gree's?