Quote Originally Posted by Ualaa View Post
Cata heroics are a lot closer to BC heroics.
At least from forum comments.
Haven't done the PvE end of Cata at all, aside from leveling.

I loved the challenge of the BC heroics.
And hated that Wrath heroics were essentially the same as Wrath normals, in that TONS of people got the achievement for both at the same time; there was no chance in hell of someone in BC running a heroic with leveling up gear and getting the achievement for heroic and regular Shattered Halls in the same run.
I haven't done a single normal in cata; did my first hc as soon as I dinged 85; and got both normal & hc achievements at the same time, for all completed dungeons. Leveling speed from questing > normal instances. And call my cocky, but I outdps'd the players in 333/346 gear when I ran my first couple of hc's in quest gear. And we never really struggled with that group; meaning that while they don't play their class the way they could, we still made it. Hell, one can easily do the first raid bosses in hc gear. People now make it sound like you need to be fully hc geared to run the hc dungeons.