Quote Originally Posted by Whoopzz
That is unless you got your dirty little hands on the Obsidian Greathelm, in which case you'd use the gloves.
Which i have.

And even before, once raid buffed the 25-man t7 gloves still look very good in rawr and redcapes spreadsheet.

The only gloves that are better are the frost adroit gloves from maylgos. And with an extra 16str gem from blacksmithing it's a no brainer.