Originally Posted by
poepinjehoofd
Braindead much? TBC was designed with great items in early content because it would make people with good gear still run low tier content (think Gruul, Mag, BM and SP HC for example). That way people with worse gear could tag along with better geared people and get geared more quickly. This was TBCs catch-up mechanic. The cash shop interferes with this. Take DST for example, due to this item there would be tons of Gruul pugs because even T5 and T6 geared people would find it an upgrade. Now you can just buy it in the cash shop. You're saying this isn't going to affect the number of Gruul pugs hosted?