Why do you desperately need the gear? You’re not walking into the first raid with that gear like you could with Naxx gear into Kara or sunwell gear into Naxx. This had happened with every prepatch in classic so far, people complain about honor gains. Maybe you should have done a little preparation if you wanted the weapon so bad.
Its just fun gearing up characters on prepatch and playing around with all the new stuff in BGs. I had a blast doing this on wotlk prepatch and full geared 3 toons, just for fun. Current honor gains to cost ratio is way distorted vs the wotlk prepatch, and is just not reasonable. No reason not to let the players have fun w/ the gear for a few weeks.
I think they need to re-evaluate the cost of honor and JP gear or give us a huge boost to how fast we gain both currencies. Even if this was what things cost in real Cata, CataC is on a very accelerated path, so faster currency gain would make sense. Or at least give a temporary bonus until launch to make the pre-patch feel less absurd since the time investment to get certain items is actually probably longer than you’ll use it for.
Also things like heirlooms seem way off. You used to be able to buy them for 40 emblems. Now they cost over 2k justice points. 40 emblems would have converted into 464 justice points.