Originally Posted by Macblade
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.
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So I get it Mac, and I understand the mechanics. I just don't buy that they're actually useful. You can certainly do it on RoS for the start of P3. But that damage at the beginning of phase 3 was going to be healed easily by your healers. So yes, they saved a bit of mana, but were they going OOM? And no, it's not 2-3x as much damage. It's 1500-2500 vs. 2800-4000.
I made an initial push to use them on Illidan, but it just doesn't serve any real purpose I can come up with. And really it doesn't on RoS either. The resist pots stops damage that could well have been healed anyway. The healing pot heals you when you aren't getting healed. I can't see putting the latter on cooldown for the former. If your guild is rich, sure, use them on the early phase transition on RoS for some breathing space, but that space just isn't really required.