Originally Posted by
straws
Not really different from what you could do before 5.4, I managed to get my druid alt to 496 ilvl by 2 days of spamming arena as it was the fastest means to get good gear for pve thanks to conquest catchup. Now with isle you can get pve gear by doing pve (exploring and clicking is pve i guess :P).
Isle is not really different from whatever catchup was available before , when throne of thunder was current it was dropping 522 loot and next best and easiest to get gear was the honor gear by jp>hp conversion from dungeon farm and it was 476 , approximately 50 ilvls behind. Now its not a convoluted and complex route, just plonk your main/alt on isle and participate in group activities.
Another plus side is , it has encouraged altoholics like me to get the alts stuck at <90 lvls to 90 and start raiding on them , as i know now i can hit 90 , get 496 set and queue for SoO lfr or do ToT pugs.