Originally Posted by
rohoz
Okay, but we know some truths with one being that people didn't raid. World content in wotlk didn't scale, you effectively overgeared all casual content in 2-3 days of grinding badges.
5 mans were the end-game, and you were able to grind past all difficulty in under a week (232 gear was about 40 levels higher than what launch dungeons were tuned for)
That's why people loved the badge vendor in wotlk. Yes, getting random 251/264 pieces were great on top of it, but really, if you didn't raid, you were mad strong for the content that was available to you.
which also explains why a lot of people back then would insta-leave icc 5mans, because they were tuned at 232, and were noticeably more difficult. People didn't like halls of reflection because they couldn't steamroll it the same way they could steamroll nexus or azjol-nerub.