Tobold's Blog Tuesday, September 01, 2009 Towards a token reward
system  After some difficulties your group finally did it: The
last boss of the heroic dungeon is dead. With the previous
bosses just having dropped blue gear, you'll finally get an epic
reward. Hmmm, it's plate with +int and +spellpower bonus. There
is no paladin in your group. Disenchant, and get a shard which
isn't even worth much any more nowadays. Fortunately this was
the daily heroic, so you also get 2 Emblem of Triumph, and you
picked up Emblems of Conquest and maybe some stone keeper's
shards as well if your faction controls Wintergrasp. Sure, the
handful of tokens you get from one run won't buy you anything
yet. But ultimately the gear you will be able to buy with the
tokens is even better than the potential epic loot drop. To the
point that even people who couldn't possibly find a gear upgrade
in a heroic dungeon are still doing heroics for the tokens. Is
World of Warcraft moving towards a reward system which is more
and more dominated