An Apology to the Thursday Raid Group

[Kevin]

I knew that the greaters absorbed damage up to their limit.  If resistance works to mitigate rather than give a chance to ignore, the question involves a couple factors - what percent of damage does 50 points represent and at what rate do the baddies do their fire damage.  The potions have a cooldown so there is a window where another can't be used that the resistance can help cover.  I think it would be good to have them stacked then.  I don't have much whisker but I often sell stacks of purple lotus because I have filled their bank slots and need to clean house.  I can bring some next time, depending on whisker I can get my hands on, and we can see how that helps the tanks survive.
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The other weakness of the resistance pots versus the protection pots is the length of duration. This is a factor because those pots share a cooldown with your mana and health pots. I know I've drunk health pots while tanking in raids on the big bosses. The resistance pots pretty much last as long as the cooldown is, so you have resistance or your have an emergency heal for yourself. Since the protection pots last an hour, you can quaff them early and not have timer interferance.

Resistance has a chance to both mitigate and to completely avoid damage. It's an oddball sliding scale. There is an example chart on this blizzard page. As you can see you have a chance to resist all the damage, 75% of the damage, etc. So yeah a pot that gets you 50 more over the 27 that you get from MotW may put you in the range of only taking full damage about 33% of the time against a spell/attack from the Molten Core mobs. That's a guess.

So yeah they help, just have to weigh them against other things.