I think you're on the right track with this instance on normal.

To be honest, I have the normal mode pretty much on farm (I do lose team members some times on the third fight or through some dumb mistake earlier in the battle.) I've pretty much upgraded a lot of what I can. Still need the tank trinket from the last fight but that's the biggest upgrade left for me.

So, for a fresh 80 team this would be a great place to gear up IF it can be handled by a fresh 80 team in mostly blues. I'm not sure that's a given. Hard for most of us to gauge simply because many of the teams here were already geared beyond "fresh 80" status when 3.2 came out.