Ok, Kao, here's my 2 cents.
What do you think is going to happen when they lift the attunements? The same thing that happened when they dropped TK/SSC's attunements. Undergeared people are going to wipe like crazy and be stuck there, like they still are. I'm referring to those people who refused to gear up to where they could handle Mag without dying from frenzy or beating Gruuls without being 1 shot or getting reverred with the appropriate factions to being attuned in the first place. No, they are going to wipe in there until they get enough members that are geared enough to piggyback them just like what happened when they lifted this attunement. You won't see casuals in BT gear for another long while.
As for the casuals getting some 150 badge crossbow, do you have any idea how long it's going to take me to grind up 150 badges? I work during our servers peak raid times, and I refuse to transfer to a server that fits my play times. So considering I played 8 hours a day and average 4-5 heroics a day (not even considering the time it would take to set up a pug, so it would be more like 2-3 being realistic), even if I did dailies, it would take me months of playing 8 hours a day every day farming heroics and nothing else. Wait a second, 8 hours a day, you call that casual? No, I don't consider that very casual, I consider that someone who just loves the server they are on but can't be online during peak hours due to real life. Not even a social life. Do I deserve an epic for that much grinding? Like hell I do. It will be the hardest epic I've ever ****ing worked for.
As far as those people who actually clear Kara and ZA once a week for badges, do I think they deserve the gear? Hell yes. Blizzard isn't gearing that to casuals so to speak, they are just trying to give everyone in the game at least a shot not to catch up, but to see the content before it's obsolete.
I don't know why you are so upset about people being equally geared as you, It's going to take a lot of work for anyone to save up 150 badges. Just for a bow no less. And even if after all that saving up they did manage to save over 300 badges to get a few pieces of badge gear, that's not going to compensate for the fact that they don't understand how to play their class. Do you think some scrub hunter that just followed instructions and/or was piggybacked all the way to getting their gear is going to outDPS you? No, it's not going to happen, gear will only take you so far without skill. These people are only going to experience the content, they aren't going to be able to farm it like Dark Entropy has, or Rage has, etc. So what do I think about people getting BT quality gear for doing Kara? More power to them. You get about 20 badges from Kara and 20 badges from ZA a week. 40 badges a week for those who are actually raiding hardcore, but are just behind. Blizz is speeding things up. They still don't have the bragging rights of seeing Illidan months before anyone else, little less beating them.
