Quote Originally Posted by Apatheist View Post
This could cause problems. The PvP rewards from 1.12 were significantly stronger than raid gear right up until Naxx. Particularly the rank 14 weapons. If people have access to this stuff through BWL and AQ it'll have a pretty significant impact on progression difficulty.
They know....
In the third phase, we’ll introduce the first Battlegrounds: Alterac Valley (version 1.12) and Warsong Gulch, alongside with their associated vendors. One thing to note is that there were a couple of updates to these vendors over the course of the original patch releases, so some items won’t be available right away. For example, the Spell Penetration trinkets available from the Warsong Gulch vendor weren’t introduced until Patch 1.9, so we’re currently thinking that we’ll add these in phase 5.