Emblem of Heroism (itemlvl 200) drops from Heroics and 10-person tier 1 instances, Emblem of Valor (itemlvl 213) drops from 25-person tier 1 instances.  More items coming as we update the news!

Cloaks (Emblem of Valor)

Hammerhead Sharkskin Cloak (Physical DPS)
Platinum Mesh Cloak (Tank)
Disguise of the Kumiho (Spell)
Cloak of Kea Feathers (Spell)

Amulets

Emblem of Heroism Amulets

Rings

Emblem of Valor [...]

The developers and community managers have been very busy lately answering questions and giving out pretty solid details on feedback in the official WotLK Beta Forums. Here’s a bunch of the more general posts that aren’t about class changes and such. I’ll be going into detail on anything vague in orange text after the quote.
Azjol-Nerub [...]

Why should the 25 man raids, which are no more difficult, except in terms of logistics, be rewarded BETTER QUALITY of gear as opposed to GREATER QUANTITY of gear?
The 25 person raid dungeons are likely to have more difficult encounters, on top of the logistical aspect, because with more players available there will be more [...]

Another real quick upgrade for the T6 raiders out there.
We recently pushed a hotfix through and you should once again get those nice green glowing infernals to deal with. (src)

So with all the disclosure from the previosu weekend settling in we have a lot of information to sift through. A lot really isn’t debateable and comes across as very self explanatory. It’s the little details now that are going to be scrutinized and with good reason.
Right now pretty much all raid dungeons (with the [...]

It’s pretty much common knowledge at this point that Naxxramas is going to be moved to Northrend and will be an end game raid in Wrath of the Lich King. A lot of players (myself included) consider it to be the crowning glory of the raid game since it was the best designed originally and [...]

First I’ll get a little into the argument about 25-man raids vs 10-man raids in the expansion. See here’s the one thing that people can’t seem to wrap their minds around. Raids scale in difficulty as they progress when Kara first came out it was considered hard and today people are complaining that Kara easy-mode [...]

I don’t know why people keep asking for this. I understand that the nostalgia of hitting a big grand army of 40 people seems so wonderful and truly epic. But as soon as you hit it you’ll lose the desire and remember how fucking terribad it was. Perfect example you can try for yourself. Remember [...]

Neth was gracious enough to give us what little insight is currently available by any means on the Arthas encounter. There is very little known about the event right now outside the hallowed doors of Blizzard dev. meetings but here’s what we know so far. (src)
When it comes to whether or not Arthas will be [...]

I really can’t get a solid stance on this. Frankly I think it was an awesome instance and I love the fact that there is little to no trash, whereas Karazhan and the 25-man dungeons (barring Magtheridon and Gruul) have hours upon hours of trash. I know it’s a pacing mechanic but it’s fucking annoying. [...]

It’s a really well placed argument and it deserves a look. This sort of thing was answered partially in the Blizzcast where Kaplan spoke about how Heroic Badges in the expansion are going to be probably (not set in stone) broken down by Tier. So that you will get different badges for the different levels [...]

I saw this today on the WOR forums and thought to myself “So that’s why I died.” For the longest time I would blame otherwise amazing healers for me instantly getting KO’d by bosses knowing full well that it shouldn’t have happened. Here’s a blurb form the download page. I would advise any and all [...]

People are (with good reason) wanting some more details pronto on the redone Naxxramus. A lot of us (I did a little bit) got to experience Naxxramus before Burning Crusade and even some that have for the first time at Lv. 70 just to see it. For a long time (I’d say even now) players [...]

We’ve been discussing this a lot. The PVP aspect of the game is a big lure for me but more than that I enjoy this universe and the lore as well as the raids and dungeons. It’s just appealing to me. With that said right now we’re engrossed in some major discussions about the raiding [...]

The raiding community has been buzzing with the release of the news that in Wrath of the Lich King all raids will be available in either a 10 or 25 man version. In other words (logically speaking from a developer standpoint) they would have to build the instance from the 10-man perspective first and then [...]

You maniacs need to stop crashing my site seriously lol. Nah I just need to yell at server people for screwing me and mine up left and right.
So hey mmo-champions and WoR got a pretty solid list of the loot that’s going to drop off Kil’jaden. There are a few choice pieces on there I [...]

Death Wish has been giving a few attempts at the Kil’jaden encounter and have these screenshots to share. Any bets on how long until he’s downed?

The race for World first Kil’jaden kills, Legendary Bow drop, and US first is on!

Well like I said before it’s not really 100% official until Blizzard decides to put it up on their site. Lo and Behold. (src)
We’ve just updated the official Wrath of the Lich King web site with new information about the upcoming expansion. Visit the new death knight class page to learn more about the [...]

Yesterday, Death & Taxes officially disbanded after getting 16 US First Kills. They also pulled off 13 world first kills (6 in The Burning Crusade) and were heralded as the best guild in the US. I’d say this is another sign of the end of an Era. It’s happening across a lot of servers and [...]

As some of you may know, Chinese provider The9 forcefully opened the gates and accelerated the Sunwell progression as far as Phases with the SSO event on Chinese servers as they got access MUCH later than we did. As much as some of us disagree with this, it’s not something we can change at all, [...]

In Wyrmrest Temple there’s a raid instance similar to Onyxia’s Lair where it’s a small raid instance with a single encounter in the Chamber of Aspects. We plan to put a raid encounter in there and let you take part in that and initially we plan to go with one raid encounter, but if we [...]

A lot of what’s in the interview has already been posted by me earlier today but here are some high points I don’t believe I covered. It’s A LOT of information to process today.

Karazhan showed Blizzard that 10-man raids could work, and were good for more casual players/small guilds; on the other hand, more hardcore [...]

This information is what really gets me going about the expansion. We got information on how Northrend raiding and dungeons are going to work!

All 5-man dungeons will have a Heroic mode. Yay!
Heroic dungeons will have a separate loot table than non-Heroics. Yay x2!
A new token system will be used, similar to the Badge of Justice [...]

Go get em tiger! M’uru is now open and available. All guilds who managed to defeat the Eredar Twins will be able to access the next to last boss of Sunwell Plateau known as M’uru. This boss had very little testing on PTR and no guilds managed to bring him down (not even close to [...]

I brought this up a while ago, that if you defeat the Eredar Twins boss encounter in the Sunwell Plateau using a reverse kill order, then you’re rewarded with more loot. This is a good thing. Obviously the fight becomes more difficult but the payoff of more Sunmotes and some more epics sweetens the deal. [...]

I’m not sure if this is intended by Blizzard or just a fluke. But Vodka found out that a reverse kill order (Sacrolash first then Alythess) would make the Eredar Twins drop an extra epic item and 4 more sunmotes. Hopefully this is not a bug and works exactly as it should, the encounter [...]

There’s more to read here than just the statement. Players asked if in WOTLK we will get 10-man content like we did in Burning Crusade. The reality that 10-man content is easier to access than 25-man simply due to the logistics of it is what has made BC raiding so successful. Pretty much anybody can [...]

Before BC came out we had 40-man raids vanish from the face of the game and were replaced with 25-man content being the new pinnacle of the raid scene. Blizzard is happy with this and intends to follow it through into the expansion.
Q u o t e:
Does this mean that it’s the first 25 man [...]