We're actually working on restoring the epic feeling to epic items in Cataclysm. Epic loot should be epic, and something to be very proud of. Our plan is to try and get the Heroic -> Blue Gear and Raid -> Purple Gear balance back. (Source)

Remember back to vanilla WoW. Remember the Wildheart Set? It was a dungeon set that really showed that you had invested in your character. And then this wondrous thing happened. An extensive quest line to upgrade to tier 0.5! Blizzard introduced the Feralheart set. A hybrid rare/epic loot set. And that gear felt Epic. I did the quest line even though I had better gear out of raids because I absolutely loved the fact that the gear was truly epic. People noticed it. And when you inspected someone that was fully in purples, you were blown away.

It's sort of like The Incredible's: When everyone is special, it means that no one is. When everyone has epic gear, then the gear really isn't epic anymore. It's common. I don't see the logistics between allowing everyone access to the content (and therefore gear) and making epic items feel epic again, but I sure am glad this made their radar. I've been hoping Epics would become Epic once more. How about you?

The new tier 10 sets were datamined recently so I will provide a link to mmo so that you can check em out!

Tier 10 Druid!

I couldn't be happier with the itemization of the pieces. Notice the distinct lack of spirit on the gear. Since, in the world of itemization, spirit was taking up the place of a better offensive stat, we are looking at gear that is better tuned to our unique dietary gear needs. It's like moonkin baby formula! Two of the pieces contain hit and I'm guessing that given the solid nature of the three non-hit pieces, we may just pick up a fourth (or fifth) piece for the set bonuses. I'm not prepared to offer an analysis of the set bonuses yet, but I will say that I currently feel that the 4 piece is relatively weak, but that may be part of a progressive nerf to set bonuses as a whole (which I think is needed).

Did I mention the sockets? All red sockets except for two yellow. I must say, I'd be infinitely happier if the two yellows were both blues, single handedly offering us our metagem activation and the socket bonus, but I dream big dreams. Oh, and on the topic of socket bonuses, these are not that great. Most are the outdated 5 SP socket bonus, which was decent when we had blue gems, but now that we are in Epic gems, 5 SP for a socket bonus is a joke. Luckily, those are all red sockets so we will get them regardless. The two double socket pieces offer +7, making it possible to consider putting in something other than a Runed Cardinal Ruby.

Food for thought, no?

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I'd also like to give a shout out to Smo, who posted a great little tidbit on how to set up PowerAuras for the Anub fight, but even more than that, how to create logic statements and multiple conditionals through it. Godd job Smo, and keep it up!