Toned, you have some good points. The first two bullets here are actually good, and I'm glad we can get more JP gear faster even in the normals. For teams that don't have 333/346 gear yet, this is great.

However, it doesn't take long to get maxxed out on 346 level gear. At that point, since raid content is difficult to box (though Pinot and I are trying and have had some success), the only real chance for upgrades through killing content is getting Valor Points from the daily heroic. The third bullet will make getting these a ton harder.

Kedash, your method for queueing for more than one random heroic every 15 minutes is a fabulous find and should be at least a partial work-around if it continues to work. I'll definitley be trying that to get around Blizzard's "random" dungeon finder mechanic (which is not at all random and actually translates into ensuring that you primarily get the dungeons you like least).

So for a recently 85 team, these changes should get a but for a mostly 346 ilvl team (I have two teams in that state) it still gets a

The sky isn't falling and I'm having lots of fun with the game, but this will just make it harder to continue to progress and tilts my thinking in the direction of crowdx - like boxers have to sit out on current content until Blizzard downgrades it - basically living life experiencing content from the last major patch because we can't down the current highest level content (which is a perfectly acceptable way to play the game and leads to much less frustration in playing).

I just have a tendency to fight against that.