Ding

I've hit 80 now, and run my first heroic at 80 in Violet Hold, netting myself some Epic Pants into the bargain, along with a Frozen Orb and some emblems(lack of badger jokes makes me cry). The run was fairly smooth, with only one death because of an overzealous ele shammy blapping the wrong target at the wrong time and getting nigh-oneshotted, despite my fairly shite gear, including two greens.

This has two sides to it; 1, I can get straight into heroics without thinking "But is my gear enough?"
2, obviously, is that it's too easy. That run was challenging for the healer, but for me? Utter piss; despite being colossally outgeared (already) by our DPS, I held aggro for most of the run without breaking a sweat. I worry that this extends to raids; I don't want every man (or woman) and his dog (or bitch) to be able to clear all the content. I loved pre-TBC raiding; not alot of folks raided, not everyone PvPed, and as a result most of the player population was wearing blues with maybe an epic or two, if they had been hugely lucky, had lots of gold or had managed to get into an MC raid. That meant it was -fantastic- when you got your first epic, because it felt like you were entering some sort of elite; getting my first 80 epic today was more "Cool, I got a drop." I want to be ecstatic at epix! They should be hard to get!

Of course, I can't say much about arenas yet - there's no arena gear just yet. Suckers!