Emblems of Heroism

[Multibocks]

Anyone else find these mildy usefull to almost useless? Much of the gear that can be had for my tankadin is a sidegrade to stuff I crafted or a drop from a heroic instance. I'm really underwhelmed with my choices. Why can't I get t7 for like 150 badges per peice? Anyways with all the badges I have saved up I plan on buying Bind on Account shoulders and weps for my 3 other groups of characters I plan on leveling.
1 group of DKs
1 group of druids (balance ftw!)
1 group of priest, warlockx4

so.... in order to spare myself lots of farming I am trying to minimize the badge cost. So the shoulders, I'm guessing the spell power CLOTH shoulders would be best. Why? Well I can pass it around and every character on each account can use them. Also they are extremely important for the +10% exp buff. Weaps I guess I will have to farm up 2h axes for the DKs and then +spellpower staves for the other 2 groups oh and if I'm feeling froggy the +haste trinket(gives +mana or health after kills.) For each account that comes up to 105 badges (+50 if I want the trinket). Not too bad considering I already have 60ish saved up on each of my 80s team. Also Stone Keeper's Shards can reduce some of the cost, however they cost like 200 just for the shoulders and 350 for the weapons. I'm not sure I can hit that since horde sucks on my server and rarely wins wintergrasp. Anyways, thoughts? Comments? Feel free to provide insight!

[maxel]

I kind of thought that there should be a conversion like 1 Emblem of Valor for 10 or so Emblem of Heroism. It would go a long way towards fixing what your mentioning and give those of us without top raid ability, an ability to eventually get the top level stuff.

[Aradar]

Why can't I get t7 for like 150 badges per peice?

You can get the gloves for 60 and the chest for 80. The T7.0 anyways.

My hope is that as people progress, they will add more items like when the big patch that introduced the Isle for TBC happened.

[Kromtor]

I got the shoulders for my level 37 mage group and I was thrilled about 60 to 80 being 10% faster then I ran out of RAF at level 40 =/
But ya the shoulders are awesome... the trinket probably not worth all that heroic farming.

[Multibocks]

Sorry I meant t8, the valorous stuff.

[welwyn]

you mean you want items for grinding away pointlessly on easy content that would give you the same gear as the guy who dedicates time and effort into raiding top end content?
or put it this way.. wotlk isnt the complete welfare epixs expansion that tbc was sorry bout that.

[algol]

you mean you want items for grinding away pointlessly on easy content that would give you the same gear as the guy who dedicates time and effort into raiding top end content?

No. But it would be cool to get access to top-end gear while 5-boxing given sufficient effort. You know, similar to how badges functioned month before last.

It would also be nice if arguments to the contrary were framed in a way that makes them sound like the speaker has any experience with raiding whatsoever. GG with the "grinding away pointlessly" comment, since this is exactly what historically makes many raiders get bloody tired of it and decide to favor small-group content. 25-man raids are somewhat better than 40-man runs were, but it's still hardly such a sainted expression of incomparable skill that your comment as framed would be warranted.

[welwyn]

remember when tbc first came out? people was saying the same things like why are the badge gear not any good? then the new isle came out and lo and behold people pugged black temple.
wotlk hasnt been out all that long, wait for the full content before asking for gear to counter it.

[algol]

remember when tbc first came out? people was saying the same things like why are the badge gear not any good? then the new isle came out and lo and behold people pugged black temple.
wotlk hasnt been out all that long, wait for the full content before asking for gear to counter it.

WoW has been out a bloody long time. Why would I make excuses for it over it having been patched recently?

That argument sounds good on the surface, but it's actually pretty bad. It's saying that it's good not to learn from experience. Also, it sounded better the first time I heard it than it did the next N times someone repeated it...

[welwyn]

so you are saying you dont want to wait for free epix? you want them handed to you before even the players who do top end raids get them? do you also want a /kill mob button for end game bosses if you dont want to wait for the raid to dps him down? sometimes it feels good to work for things than pure pew pew all the time. after all the game is a mmoRPG. by all means have your free epix but let others who want to acheive them through normal means have a chance to do so before you steamroll in and collect them at the dole line.