Badges! Part 2

From Razorbaxftw:
"Yep, that's right, the Armoury on Medivh has finally been completed. When I logged out last night I logged out right where they will appear. Which btw we were up to 99% when I had to log out for the night and head to bed. /sigh Anyway, I have 105 Badges now so I can grab my chest as soon as I log on. Though it looks like I'll need to change some Gems/Enchants to pick up the 10 defense I will lose. WTB Tank Itemization... Razorbax"

Silly druid, there is tank itemization. It's just that it may not be exactly what you want. I had 200 badges last night and picked up the plate chest and legs, now I would like more stamina on these pieces, but Ill settle for the expertise, defense, and dodge on the legs, and the block value, dodge, and defense on the chest. Im really just glad to be mostly rid of ZA bamboo armor though.
Also badge gear tends to be have it's stat distribution a little skewed even though it is a high iLvl. So because it is badge gear it may be designed not just for bear, but for hybrid use on both cat and bear. Yes it may not look like it, but people use all sorts of gear for crazy purposes (like using the http://www.wowhead.com/?item=28485 for tanking :( )

Now quite a bit of the 2.4 vendor gear is awesome compared to what people had available to them but it is still only badge gear, and is inferior to similar iLvl raid gear. Not all specs get a good amount of gear from the badges, but that is why sockets are there. Now it does suck that there are no exclusively tank bear gear though, I would have liked to have seen at least one with +defense.