Originally Posted by
Rixis
Meh, always been the case that their equivalent was bop, just in tbc/wrath/cata they eventually made them boe, in mop they gave quicker methods of acquiring them, as well as practically making them obsolete in later patches (much as the older expansion ones became obsolete too).
Given the ease of getting gear through lfr, I don't see the problem with alts, other than in the initial stages of the expansion, where gear to get high enough ilevel for LFR was gated behind rep vendors, the stages of the expansion where people tend to work on mains, not alts anyway.
Now with the welfare timeless isle gear too, I don't really see this expansion having a much more negative effect on alts than any other.