A Small Bit of Happy-Happy Joy Joy

I've only played WoW once in the last three weeks. That's a pretty long time for me (and most WoW players, particularly raiders), but I did see this piece of happy news: heroic badges will drop in Karazhan and Zul'Aman. Yay!

Heroic badges are great because they provide, with some effort, epic gear with some great bonuses. I love the healing on my Gavel of Pure Light (though I do wish the Maiden of Virtue would, some day, drop her Shard of the Virtuous for me). The problem is, you have to run heroic dungeons which are a) pretty tough and b) take a good chunk of time to run. I'm short on time and would rather spend my in-game time doing guild raids or catching up on some PvP action (or, heaven forbid, farming for mats for potions), so I don't get to do heroics very often. And they just aren't as fun as the 10-person raids. So heroics now dropping from KZ (which already drops epics left and right) is really great.

I'm not a crafter, so I don't miss the Primal Nethers like crafters will (and so crafters will need to continue to run heroics for those). Instead, I'll have more and better loot options for the work I'm already doing. That's a win-win.