Random Ramble

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The 2.4 badge loot has now been fully disclosed via a vendor over in Sunwell Island. As expected, it does in fact cost more badges to buy BT level gear than the SSC/TK/ZA gear released in 2.3. At this point I'm really questioning what the point is. Blizzard already made it clear that the next expansion was most likely going to hit the shelves this year. As soon as that hits we're looking at yet another gear reset, thus nulling the gear you collect badges for.

Now if you only do heroics for badges, I don't think you'll be getting any of this gear any time soon. The people who raid might be looking at an upgrade every 3-5 weeks. The kicker of course is that you'd be raiding t4 content yet again. Now I've done Karazhan. It is long and filled with quite a bit of very boring trash. The concept of farming entry level content long past it's original date of clearing seems wrong to me. Back at level 60 people dreaded farming a boring trash filled place known as Molten Core, but they did it for almost two years for their T2 legs and Thunderfury drops. Sound similar?

I'm really not a fan of the time sinks for gear that Blizzard keeps churning out. So long as I've got the gear to handle the expansion's entry level zone I'm set. Why bother getting any more for PvE if you never raid past Kara and Zul'Aman? Maybe this one's beyond my understanding. Does anyone out there have any insight?