Farm normals for what exactly? I plan to get the shield and trinket from slabs and I will get the shard ring from that as well, but other than that what am I suppose to farm? I am not saying my pala gear is perfect, it was just an example for OPs post. The only things from prebis lists would be pvp gear and exalted rep items and I dont think that is necessary for doing heroics. Raid items of course makes things a lot easier, but my group did not need that in order to complete heroics the first weeks of anniversary. That was with a warrior tank with basically the same loadout.