Or have no reputation requirement for the gear at all. That design is obnoxious and unnecessary and once again not very casual friendly. I still have yet to hear a good argument why the wotlk valor vendors were a problem. The currency issue was solved in ICC and the system was perfect at that point. It not only made catch up insanely good, it offset rng really well and basically made any activity that granted valour worth doing. Granted at the time not much gave you valour but imagine the valour systems in wotlk with the ability to get valour through daily quests or dungeons or raids or hell fishing or tailoring or whatever you want to do in game.