I recently tried to go down to .12's from my normal .013 - .056 D'Addario EJ17's for the same reason you mention, but I really didn't like the tone anymore......it became very thin and plinky.
I tried the Nickel Bronze strings from D'Addario in .013 - .056 and found that the lower tension allowed me to play and bend much more easily than the EJ17s, and the tone is pretty good to boot.
Not as warm sounding as the phosphor bronze, but they lend themselves well to the metallic tone of a resonator IME.
YMMV.
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