Was surprised to see an announcement this morning. Next week blizzard is increasing ilvl on drops from BRF by 5 across the board. As well as top tier crafted and apexis crystal gear. Keep this in mind before junking any BRF gear in favour of higher tier Highmaul gear.
This also somewhat alters the time/reward balance behind the choice to stop clearing Normal BRF. It might be worth reconsidering now that Normal gear will hit 670. Most notably, tier gear that was really iffy before (downgrade 5 ilvl to pick up a set bonus?) is now a clear improvement.
I know it just made pugging a normal clear a big priority for me this weekend.
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/364755-blackrock-foundry-item-level-c...
Oh, also for us hunters, they are Nerfing Tranq shot HARD. Will probably make the free/nowhasacd glyph for it a viable option now.
I saw both of those and I'm SO annoyed by the Tranq Shot nerf! >.< The non-glyphed version will be practically unusable.
The ilevel boost is fairly minor, but nice. Except, as you point out, that Normal mode gear gets notably more useful. More Normal clears does seem like a good idea. Sets are a great thing!
For Science!
Oh! Worth a look if you think you might have deleted something you can use in the past few months.
https://us.battle.net/support/en/restoration
Very easy process, takes 30 seconds to see what BRF items you've deleted, see if you want any of them back now that they will be stronger.