Eh.. the patch is okay, but WoW is more of a grind today that it ever was.
You have two choices:
An honor grind for easy epics.
A badge/emblem grind for easy epics.

If a proper dungeon finder system were created back in vanilla WoW, there never would have been a need for badges/emblems. You could find a group at any time to run content you needed drops from. Remove the cooldown on raid content for using the dungeon find system, and remove badges/emblems entirely. People who need gear can run dungeons with others and roll on it.. the whole emblem system just for showing up is ridiculous, especially when emblem gear is better than the gear you'd find as drops in the instances you're farming for emblems! Emblem gear should be there to fill holes of truly shitty gear you haven't found an upgrade for, not to deck out your entire character in the best non-raid gear.

Add in the dailies grind for easy gold.. with each expansion & patch, all they seem to do is dumb this game down to the lowest common denominator. I'm ready for WoW2 - start from the beginning again and hopefully learn from their mistakes. I can't wait for a new game by someone other than Blizzard that actually is better than WoW.. too many hopeful attempts have been failures over the years to really be better: AoC, LotRO, Warhammer, Aion..