This is honestly a huge letdown for me personally. This was the best chance, possibly the only chance, to once again bring back the iconic, memorable, highly sought after Undead Slaying sets and instead it we are just getting slightly recolored Warfront gear.
Heck, at least the Alliance Plate, maybe cloth, slightly fits the Argent Dawn color themes but the Horde stuff just looks like more red Horde stuff. Nothing about it says “Argent Dawn” at all to me.
Like, I am not expecting entirely new sets from scratch (Though that is what we got for the Legion Pre-Patch) but this would have been a good chance to at the least bring back the old Undead Slaying sets and give them a bit of a modern touch up like how Tomb of Sargeras had Updated versions of Tier 6. Unlike those ToS sets though, 12 classes, 4 difficulties, a total of 48 sets (albeit Raid Finder through Heroic are just recolors so really its more along the lines of 24 different armor sets) they would only need to do 4 separate sets of gear, one for each armor type.
Yeah, I get armor does not just come from nowhere and it would take some time, work, and resources on their end to make updated versions of the Undead Slaying sets however I really believe that it would be worth it to do something.
As of right now, these rewards feel so… meh… Compare them to Legion which had 4 entirely new, unique, sets for their catchup gear for their pre-patch.
I am really hoping these are still placeholders and Blizzard is going to pull out a surprise last minute because they are kinda let downs compared to other pre-expansion events.