I don’t like the new gearing design, locking things behind reps makes it more work and more effort than I think should be required. I’m happy for vendor VP gear to be lower ilvls than raiding, but it shouldn’t be so time consuming to achieve. I thought abut gearing up a healer as an alternative for my raid group, but it is just too much work given the other commitments I have on top of trying to keep my main properly geared.

They have moved back to forcing you through every hoop and I think it will work out badly for them. I’m not someone who wants their alts geared tot he top raiding level, I generally raid on one toon and the others are for fun and frolics. But we have guildies trying to maintain alts to keep our raid group viable and it’s just a mess. It’s burning them out because someone at Blizzard decided that catching up gearwise would invalidate other people’s time.