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We've slowly been moving to a badge and token system since ZG.
Ony and BWL - just head quests, more of a prestige thing.
ZG - token system for most bosses.
AQ20/AQ40 - tokens becoming more important, notably t2.5 and elementium weapons.
Naxx - tokens for the 'real' tier set! A lot of rejoice about this across the raiding scene, after dealing with t2 drop rates.
T4+T5+T6 raids - continuation from Naxx, all sets tokens. Plus a few 'Ony head' items (Kael and recently Mag).
And now Sunwell - tokens for t6 still. But all the other 'random non-set loot' is now less random, with the option to trade. It's effectively made most armor items a token, but more of them and a more narrow use.
Overall it seems like a growing trend to reduce the randomness of long term loot acquisition, but to keep the loot tables themselves still a random drop chance.
The only backwards step in this whole thing is the massive failure that is the Warglaives (and apparently Legendary Bow) system, after coming from Ateish. And by 'system' I mean praying to the gods and changing religion each week.
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