SSC, THe Eye and Resistance Gear

The Red Dragon’s now have Gruul’s Lair on Farm and we are ready to explore some new content. Since the Eye and SSC are next on our list, I decided to get my Resist Gear.
After a good deal of reading through forums, I found most people recommended picking up a set of Greens of Protection as there is no craftable Resistance leather available. Now maybe I am a bit of an item snob or maybe I just have to be a little off beat, but I decided to try something different. I figured I would use my Void Crystals (that’s 24) to make Void Spheres and use them in my Old Tanking Gear and see how I went. Since I have yet to upgrade my Heavy Clefthoof Vest I just had another one crafted. This is what I did:

Syrannis' Mystic Sheen
+12 Arcane Resistance
+12 Fire Resistance
+12 Nature Resistance
+12 Frost Resistance
+12 Shadow Resistance
+5 All Resistances

Wastewalker Gloves
183 Armor
+32 Agility
+33 Stamina
+4 Resist All
+4 Resist All

Heavy Clefthoof Vest
500 Armor
+45 Stamina
+4 Resist All
+4 Resist All
+4 Resist All
Socket Bonus: +4 Dodge Rating (.21%)
Equip: Increases defense rating by 24 (10 @ L70).

Heavy Clefthoof Leggings
503 Armor
+33 Stamina
+4 Resist All
+4 Resist All
+4 Resist All
Socket Bonus: +4 Dodge Rating (.21%)
Equip: Increases defense rating by 29 (12 @ L70).

Heavy Clefthoof Boots
394 Armor
+30 Stamina
+4 Resist All
+4 Resist All
Socket Bonus: +3 Dodge Rating (.16%)
Equip: Increases defense rating by 21 (8.88 @ L70).

Shoulderpads of Assassination
219 Armor
+25 Agility
+25 Stamina
+7 Resist All Glyph
+4 Resist All
+4 Resist All
Socket Bonus: +4 Stamina

Here we have what I will call the Core Resistance Set. This gives us 72 Resistance. We can also use LW Resist patches (+8 * 4). Since I want to primarily build this for Nature/Frost, I will use 2 of each. So we are at 92 FrR & NR. We can add to this a Green Level 70 Helm of NR or FrR (+37) with a +20 Resist Glyph from faction rewards. You can either balance these, i.e. give the NR helm a FrR Glyph or you can Stack them. I chose to stack them. This gives us 92/149. From here we can then add a Natural Ward Ring (JC) for another 35 NR Resist (There is a Frost one as well), bringing us to 92/184. Finally we can add a Pendant of Withering for 30 Nature Resist (there is a frost as well). Now we have 92/214. If you collect both rings and both necks, you can easily balance out your resistances so you are on 150+ for both NR and FrR.
As an added bonus, if you collect the other resistance gear as well, Shadow, Arcane and Fire, you can use it for other encounters as well. I know it’s not required but it can help in a few situations.

Razor

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