Not meaning to hijack this thread but I think the discussion is headed in a very good direction. I see that many folks gear up their toons via BG's. Why not farm regular instance runs for drops? Great way to build faction on top of decent gear. Sure it is not as good as most honor items but with the right mix should be good enough for heroics. I have not even begun to do the research on my shamans regarding high level gear so perhaps I am misguided.

I want to avoid the 70 blues (no pun intended). Every 70 I have leveled had that point of "God why am I doing this" I would hate to think how bad it gets times 5 :)