I think this is meant to fulfill the place of a legendary item.
I think this is meant to fulfill the place of a legendary item.
It's only a huge boost if you are referring to World PvP. Arena's/BG's/Rated BG's the item will become a 496, so exactly what is the issue here? It is not forcing you to do it to stay competitive or anything. If you want to do World PvP then just do Siege of Orgrimmar when it comes out and get gear that way. No point in complaining about something so trivial in terms of PvP.
While stats on this cloak may look insane compared to current cloaks available, it is comparable with 5.0 and 5.1 upgrades to sha touched weapons.
They were giving you +660 primary stats on the weapon, if you compare stats between 600 cloak and your regular raiding cloak it will be almost the same diffrence in primary stats and slight gain to secondary stat budget too.
The problem with 5.0 rewards was fucking loot RNG, preventing me from using this +660 agility for 3 months (or 1 month after second step) because no sha touched weapon shown up for me, despite running normal, raid finder and 3 coins every week. This time they made it a lot more convenient, as the item is quest reward. There is gating RNG on the way (11/12 clear, won 1 tablet woooo) but after you're done with those quests you get the upgrade.