The 4 Tiers of FR

[Necrobommer]

Tier 1- 76 FR- Fair: Casters and Ranged (Priests, Warlocks, Shamans, Mages, Hunters) should have this much

Tier 2- 151- Good: Melee (Rogues, DPS warriors, and maybe meleeing shamans if any?) should aim for this much.

Tier 3- 226- Very Good: Melee If your fighting some boss that deals a lot of fire damage I.E. Ragnoros then you should shoot for this amount.

Tier 4- 300 or 301?- Status?: Tanks usually have this amount.

Hope this is helpful and correct me if I have any mistakes. =)

[sayomara]

Granted if you can find good FR gear that doesn't hurt your stats Ie Dragon rider boots for caster and other items Go for it every little bit helps Keep in mind once you start getting past 150 fr for non tanks you really start gimping yourself for a fight so while FR is important being effective is also important.

[Necrobommer]

just remember 150 and 151 make a HUGE difference.. its the change of resistance status from good to very good =). As well as 75 and 76, 225 and 226, 300 and 301.

[elini]

To back up Sayomara's point of view, I thought I'd post this, which is a point of view of a good friend of mine, which he posted on another guild forum.

Neck: Drakefire Amulet = +15FR
Wrist: Incendic Bracers = +14FR
Ring: Tidal Loop = +15FR

I have more FR gear than this, but this is what I plan to wear on ragnaros.

I'd like to point out that in using all of my FR gear, I would lose nearly 1500 Stamina and 1600ish mana. Now the only thing I should be getting hit with on ragnaros are the random explosions (and even then if we are properly spread out that should only be a couple of times). Those explosions do 1000 damage. +150 FR gear will only reduce that incoming damage by 300. That means I will still be getting hit for 700. It doesn't seem logical to me to give up 1500 life to nerf 300 incoming damage. That's 5 more hits I could take with the extra stamina.

As it is with the gear I listed, I'm giving up 350 life and 150 mana to wear it. Now I know that it won't even come close to nerfing 350 incoming damage, but I give up 350 life. Hmmmmm.

I propose that mages only wear minimal FR gear while maintaining as much stamina and mana as possible. That's what I listed here for my character. I'd hate to see gimped mages dying anyways and not even being able to do damage due to their castrated mana pool.

I, as someone who plays both a priest and a mage am quite familiar with FR and Attempting to mitigate damage via resistance. However, in MOST raid boss situations, FR is unnecessary for ranged dps, with the major exceptions that come to mind being Firemaw and Flamegor in BWL. In the ragnaros fight, a mage can stack fire ward with greater fire protection potions, as well as ice barrier, if specc'd for it, and mitigate tons of the lava splash damage via those means. Priests can self shield and use GFPP's. For those two classes, more mana, +spell damage / healing, mp5 is preferable, IMO, than FR.

[thraka]

Dark Iron is too damn expensive though.

[cowl]

If you think getting the DI pieces made takes a lot of gold, don't forget about how much DI/cores/core leather was used up to get that Revered and Exalted rep with Thorium Bros.

www.wowwiki.com/Thorium_Brotherhood#Reputation

[arbs]

I can currently make Dark Iron Shoulders, Helm and bracers. As well as fiery chain girdle.
I can also make a few green fr and nr items if ur willing to take a hit on some stats.
I have lots of mats and im more than willing to craft for any guildie so pst or mail me if u want some stuff and we can work something out.

[romprstompr]

Ok, bored at work today, so I found this page on wowwiki that gets into the calculations of how resists work. The way I'm reading it, it's not so important to hit the 'tiers' (76, 151, 226, 301), because the amount of FR you have is calculated into a weighted average of the total amount of damage you will resist given a long enough period of exposure time (max of 75% damage resisted). So the more FR you have, even 1 point more, brings that average percentage up, and increases your chance of resisting. Who knows tho, I could be reading it wrong, or the site could be wrong (pretty sure it's written by humans and not genius aliens or anything). Here's the site, go ahead and flame away and insult my sub-par intellect Whorhay. ;-p

www.wowwiki.com/Formulas:Magical_resistance