#6 - Jan. 2, 2010, 4:20 a.m.
The gear requirements are very generous. They are there more to make sure that somebody who has no idea what they are doing (say someone's first character who doesn't even know the dungeon names) doesn't get into one of the harder instances until they have a little more than quest blues.
If you're sophisticated enough to be posting on these forums, then you're sophisticated enough to know what tanking an Icecrown dungeon requires and whether you're up to the task.