The gear shop is delayed all right, too delayed.
The main issue here is lack of time. The attunaments and reputation requirements are just the obvious factors pulling out the symptoms of this.
The irony is that the "best" gear is not even out on the realm or the store yet. That gear is the SWP gear. What the shop manages to do is to hurt certain players' egos and that's about it. But it does not matter, and why is that? Because we need the shop to have our server. The funds needed for it will not come from the void, and that is not Warmane's fault.
If you want to strike out at the root of the shop problem, then head to Blizzard HQ and yell them in the face about how you dislike their decision of not hosting their own TBC servers. Period.

