[sibyll]

[Inferno Forged Hauberk] - G'eras - 30 Badges [Inferno Forged Leggings] - G'eras - 30 Badges [Inferno Forged Boots] - G'eras - 20 Badges [Inferno Forged Gloves] - G'eras - 20 Badges Reputation

These items linked are the mail FR pieces. The plate FR pieces are:
inferno tempered - Wowhead Search

[Ciderhelm]

Source: sibyll These items linked are the mail FR pieces. The plate FR pieces are: inferno tempered - Wowhead Search

I blame Temig for failing me on vent last night. Thanks.

[Rampart]

Arcane Resist is helpful for the Kalecgos fight. But you don't need obscene amounts of it. From what a friend has told me, the tanks used [Violet Badge], and everyone else used [Cloak of Arcane Evasion] along with the +15 AR enchant as well.

[Thugs]

Just quick note on the Fire Res Gear set. Don't forget to add the fire resistance on cloak enchant to the list. It's called "Enchant Cloak - Greater Fire Resistance" and gives 15 FR to the back-piece which I think is the best you get get for that slott in a fire resistance set.

Secondly, having the [Battleworn Tuskguard] is quite awesome with the FR enchant nice it's changes in Patch 2.4. Comparing this helm with the [Flamebane Helm]:

Gain
+ 425 Armor
+ 41 Stam
+ 40 Def. rating
+ 23 Dodge rating
+ 51 BV

Lose
- 40 Fire resistance

Both offer high flexibility with the three gem slots so I'll disregard that here. I would probably place the +6 stamina bonus you can get from the Tuskguard higher than +4 hit rating however.

The 40FR is of course a very valuable stat, but still, on Illidan you want to achieve crit. immunity against the mobs there. Even at the FR and crit cap you will take a beating. Stamina is also very welcome to have. This put's very high demands on your remaining gear to compensate for these lost stats.

Two items I've found post killing illidan are:

1. [Signet of Eternal Life]
2. [Cloak of Blade Turning]

These give you a total of 59 resilience rating and lower the defence cap needed to 453. This equals 90 defence rating for the pure "crit immunity", yet will of course offer zero avoidance. Still, the items are of high level and also have high stamina witch is good for the Illidan fight.

Basically you want to look at the given slot and what is best for that one. Chest - 150 HP, 15 defence or 8 FR. Well since you can compare this to say the cloak where only can get 12 defence yet 15 FR, having FR on the chest is quite a stupid move to make. Here I'd choose defence or HP if you can reach the defence cap in another manner.

Puzzling the pieces right for you set makes quite a difference. I've got around 20K HP buffed in my FR gear which is more than needed, but it helps. I would personally avoid the [Flamebane Helm] since I get see it fit in very well with out gimping other stats.

In my current set, swapping that and this chaning gear around to compensate for what I loose and gain with it I'd be seeing:

Gains
+ 2 dodge
+ 2 FR
+ 41 hit

Loses
- 425 Armor
- 27 stam
- 7 def
- 51 BV

Probably more threat but less survivability, thus nothing really I'd want to do.

Edit: Seems you forgot to mention the [Amulet of the Torn-heart]. It's a quest reward I think where there also is a JC cratable one very much like the ones used for Nature and Frost resistance. Also killing Maggie gives you the [Phoenix-fire Band] which is very useful also. Someone else pointed that out but it's worth repeating.

The epic resistance shield [The Fel Barrier] I think has little use in the FR set seing a piece like [Kaz'rogal's Hardened Heart] bring much more stats to the given slott. This became quite a long note

[Bruizer]

For Fire Resistance, you might also want to consider the relatively easily accessible [Wyrmcultist's Cloak] which you can purchase from the Wyrmcult Provisioner in the cave in Blade's Edge Mountains (32, 33) once you've gathered 5 costume scraps to create an Overseer Disguise.

[Bodasafa]

I heard you need over 450 arcane resist for the solar fight in TK as the MT. Due to a debuff.

I have a set built that allows for 490 arcane resistance. It has all the scryer blacksmith crafted enchanted adamantite peices, plus some other stuff.

[Thist]

Puzzling the pieces right for you set makes quite a difference. I've got around 20K HP unbuffed in my FR gear which is more than needed, but it helps. I would personally avoid the [Flambane Heml] since I get see it fit in very well with out gimping other stats.

Wow! I have just got 14k health in mine - please can you link the whole thing?

[Hypatia]

Source: Bodasafa I heard you need over 450 arcane resist for the solar fight in TK as the MT. Due to a debuff. I have a set built that allows for 490 arcane resistance. It has all the scryer blacksmith crafted enchanted adamantite peices, plus some other stuff.

This is extremely old information, on a different version of the fight. It is no longer true.

[Negation]

So just how important is having 365 resistance versus 364? I've never really seen an effective calculator for resistance, and haven't seen the difference explained well. Some sources say the last point is the difference between 50% reduction and 75%, and others say the single-point difference is negligible, and scales on a curve similar to armor.

My guild is going to make our first attempts at Hydross tonight, and as the frost tank, I've been looking for information to finally figure out the difference. I currently sit at 364 Frost resist buffed (once I get my final shield enchant), and have a frost kit left over. If I put the last frost kit on my gloves, I'll be way over the cap, so I could do one of two things:

1) Wear my regular tank shoulders instead of my special resist shoulders, and keep my legs/gloves with the frost kits, putting me at exactly 365, or
2) Put a Nethercleft Armor Kit on my legs, and the last frost kit on my gloves, and sit at 364.

Is there any reason not to do the second option? The Nethercleft seems too good to pass up, unless of course the very last point is as important as some people say it is.

[Thugs]

Source: Thist Wow! I have just got 14k health in mine - please can you link the whole thing?

I noticed a typo in my reply. I of course have around 20K HP fully buffed it the flight

My items include:
[Battleworn Tuskguard] +20FR
[Amulet of the Torn-heart]
[Onslaught Shoulderguards] +15 def, +10 dodge
[Slikk's Cloak of Placation] +15 FR
[Inferno Tempered Chestguard] +15 def
[Eternium Shell Bracers] +12 stam
[Inferno Tempered Gauntlets] +8 FR
[Girdle of Stability]
[Inferno Tempered Leggings] +40 stam, +12 agi
[Inferno Tempered Boots] +12 stam
[Band of the Eternal Defender]
[Phoenix-fire Band]
[Scarab of Displacement]
[Commendation of Kael'thas]
[The Brutalizer] +Mongoose
[Kaz'rogal's Hardened Heart] +18 stam
[Rifle of the Stoic Guardian]

In terms of gems I almost only use +15 stam except for the head which has a [Regal Nightseye], [Enduring Seaspray Emerald] and a [Solid Star of Elune]. This takes me to the defence cap with a flask and gives me the socket bonus of 6 stamina.

Unbuffed I'm at 15.4K HP, 297FR and 488 defence which is good enough, but could be improved a bit if I got around to shift a few items around. For instance putting in [Signet of Eternal Life] and [Cloak of Blade Turning] would give me about 600 more HP but my avoidance would drop to 38% instead of just below 44% like I have now. I'm not sure what serves best in this fight, I know avoidance helps for sure.

Source: Negation My guild is going to make our first attempts at Hydross tonight…

There is a huge difference between the Hydross and Illidan fight in terms of requirements. I've never and I mean never killed Hydross resistance OR defence capped. I've been the realm of 300 Nature resistance and about 485 defence and had no issues tanking him or seeing insane burst damage. I'd opt. for high survivality through stamina rather than 8 resistance to be honest.

Last time we killed him I think the other MT had like 465 defence or something cause he forgot a trinket. He might have been lucky but I saw no crits in the recount report and to my knowledge he doesn't do that anymore (crit nor crush). On a few attempts we've had off-tanks with out res-gear all together. It works quite fine as long as they are a little careful with the amount of mobs they pick up and that they are at a T4/T5 gear level.

My experience from Hydross is perhaps the fact I never did him before he got hugely nerfed (or so it seems at least). Other resistance fights are however not to be take as lightly.