What? Hell no, I didn't give a crap about that. I'll go further and say I actually laughed at all the hardcore players that whined about it. Mainly because I was smart enough not to raid every week after details from BC finally were made official. I left the game and after I came back, between my new Armorsmith gear, and socketed blues, by level 65 I was completely vindicated by my decision. I actually had better weapons @ lvl 63 (Fury spec war dual weilding Axe of the Legion X2) And going from 60 to 65 was pretty much a cake walk, and didn't take long either.
I made mention of it in my last post because virtually every hardcore raider that I played with, that whined about the new BC gear, has decided to bail on the game till the new Xpac comes this time around. Seems many don't want to sacrifice all their free time to raid only to have better stuff waiting for them at lvl 75 or whenever. I actually don't give a crap if it takes lvl 80 epic rep gear to surpass the good BC raid (or PVP) stuff.
Again, I hated the raiding schedule, I was more into turning up the music, grabbing a drink, and soloing rep, or helping guild lowbies with instance runs. And of coarse grouping with my close friends that I've been playing with for the last few years. If all my old buddies don't get back into wow after Lich King arrives, I doubt I'll stick around long. The best part of the game was hooking up with them to quest, and run 5 mans and stuff. When I played in Feb. and only 1 the old gang (now a PVPer) was still playing, It took alot of the fun out of it, for myself anyway. I'm sure they'll jump back into the game though.