You don't see people demanding it though. They just get their gear through LFR/Flex/Normal. For example,
Merlin's Robes were pretty amazing and in good demand back in Wrath during the tier content.
When new tiers of crafting recipes are up with the new tier, you rarely see people rocking crafted gear or even looking for it to be made.
Was sorta in demand when you could actually first make them, but it's fallen off quite a bit since then.
If you were doing Normal at the time 5.4 came out, then yeah, there was hardly any point.
I do get what you're saying though; why waste mats on crafted gear that's likely to be outclassed or made redundant by a regular boss drop?
(I guess it might help if you're just having some horrendous luck, but still...)
I'm talking about 575-600, that alone makes this the hardest to level cooking by far.
It's not really so much hard as it is time-consuming.
If you got alts with the full farm unlocked, it's a little easier.
I kinda sorta should do that, but I'm not particularly motivated to do so.
Pet battle levelling is ONLY a grind the first time, due to the way the system works once you have a team at 25 it actually becomes a joke to power level anything else you need. It's reasonably fun but it is exactly what it appears on the surface: Pokemon battles to waste time in. Doopy wasn't too hard, took me a few tries but I barely have any 25 pets so my team was SUPER unoptimized. Archaeology brawlers guild took me FOREVER. Blingtron also, that was my last one. I think it took me like 3 months to get Blingtron to drop.
Doopy took me a couple of tries, but that was with an unoptimized team.
(The worst was when I did manage to kill him, but lost because I got hit with something after he died and killed my last pet.)
I've gotten quite a few of the Blingtron quest items; too bad you can't sell or trade them. :\
Darkmoon was just a crapshoot; if you got alts, do the dalies on them and send the bag to your char trying to get it.
