Originally Posted by Mideci
Playing a healer and a damage sponge, this one confuses me a bit -- and I have tried the carry resistance pots trick on Illidan btw. The resistance pot needs to be up ahead of time and absorbs damage that could easily be healed through in most / many cases. It then puts you on health pot CD for 2 mins too. The health pot allows on-demand healing (albeit a bit less, but you can actually use it when you need it, i.e. when no healer is nearby).
I have tried to understand why I should use the resist pot or encourage my raid to when healing, and other than buying raid-wide early relief on a phase transition (like when we were learning Reliquary for example), they seem very useless.
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Resistant pots are much better than heal pots for two reasons. One, if you know the damage is coming you can use them early and thus start the pot CD earlier (e.g. RoS nature damage at the beginning of P3-if you use the pot with 10 to 20 sec left in P2 the CD is up in time to pot again during P3. Two, resist pots block a lot more than heal pots heal, off the top of my head it's somewhere between 2 and 3 times as much damage.
Edit: That being said, they aren't useful all the time or in all fights. RoS is a good time for them, we've never really used them much in Illidan. I think we've used FR pots just for some extra insurance at the end of P2 if it looks like it's going well.