Spooncraft

Looking at the new weapons available for heroic badges and you wonder where are the swords, the maces, the bows? Looking at the weapons available you can see that they aren’t really designed to fill out every spot and with good reason. What I don’t like (although an intelligent answer) is Blizzard’s response to the argument.

The idea behind the weapons on the badge vendors was to cater more towards some of the less desirable specs, if you will - as a way to encourage players to use those specs; such as daggers for rogues, axes for warriors, etc.  (src)

Why not just work on the class itself? I understand that WOTLK is around the corner. You have to jaded as hell or just plain dumb to not see all the signs pointing towards Wrath of the Lich King hitting Beta over the summer. So with the expansion they will in one crushing blow, fix all the problems we have now, and create more later (which isn’t that bad really) at least with this new gear there will be something for the less desired specs to work with until they get their change.