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Preparing for Sapphiron
Amava Knows Aggro — Saturday night's raid is planned to hit up Sapphiron. One of the Guild Officers puts post on the forum saying we all need to show up with frost resist gear, along with a list of recommendations for each armor type. Oky-doky, lets get to it. Icy Scale Belt, Boots and Chestguard. Lots of frost resist (duh, that's why you're getting them), and lots of stamina. Not so much on the other stats, but I suppose the fight is more about surviving. Dead toons do no DPS. Which, as a side note, I haven't died in a WotLK raid yet ...

Preparing for Naxx: Your Sapphiron Frost Resist Set
The Hunter's Mark — ... And last but not least, we have the Icy Scale Chestguard. This chestguard provides 115 Frost Resist in addition to 169 Stamina, and red, yellow and blue sockets (with an additional 12 Stamina as a socket bonus). ...

Gemming for Success
The Hunter's Mark — ... of Crit to keep your pet focus-fed, but there are many cases where it’s worth eschewing the socket bonus for the additional DPS of a red/yellow/orange gem.  Just remember to check that you don’t need a blue to fill your socket requirements for your Meta gem before you cross-socket for a different gem. The only time I would recommend using a gem that has Stamina is for PvP or PvE sets where survivability is the main goal. Sticking some extra Stamina in the Icy Scale set for killing Saphiron can help the healers out a bit, but it’s really ...

General The Myth of Frost Resist Gear
TankSpot — ... than tanks specifically. Please point out any flaws in my reasoning you can find.) 1. The ice cream cake is a lie! There are a number of ilvl 213 items craftable by several professions that are known as Frost Resistance gear. These items, listed below, are identifyable by their high levels of Stamina and Frost Resistance (hence the name), and their numerous gem sockets. Chest: Icebane Chestguard / Icy Scale Chestguard / Polar Vest / ...

Frost Resistance for Hunters
The Hunter's Mark — ... are the three pieces and the mats that they require. Icy Scale Belt 8x Heavy Borean Leather 2x Eternal Fire 2x Eternal Water 4x Icy Dragonscale 1x Frozen Orb Icy Scale Boots 8x Heavy Borean Leather 2x Eternal Fire 2x Eternal Water 4x Icy Dragonscale 1x Frozen Orb Icy Scale Chestguard 10x Heavy Borean Leather 3x Eternal ...