Older Tier Sets in CataclysmFollow

Has anyone heard any rumours of what Blizzard will be doing with the old-world Azeroth Tier armour? Will they be replacing them with new versions or keeping the old ones?

Given that past/future class changes will have affected the stats desirable for various classes (ie. off the top of my head neither hunters or druids would particularly value their old tier sets) I imagine they will look to revise the stats - but hopefully Blizzard will leave the look of the armour unchanged.

Or perhaps having the 'original' Tier gear will become a Feat of Strength?

Well we're returning to BWL so it's possible they might pull a T7 with the T2 (especially because most people bum that tier, especially paladins), but I'd prefer new looking sets of gear.

I think your question is what will happen to the existing old tier gear. The closest I've heard to an answer is that all of the old armor stats will be updated to match the new stat models and that gear with screwed up stats will be fixed to have more useful stats. So, my guess is that existing old armor (both tier and regular) will be updated with new stats, procs, bonuses but will otherwise look the same as it always did.

Whether or not the tier pieces will still be obtainable has not been addressed but since they said they weren't changing any of the old instances (like they did with Ony) I would assume that it all would still be dropping from the same old places. The only exception might be the dungeon set two which has to be quested for because it's possible the chain might get irrepairably broken from the drastic changes that will happen in Azeroth since many parts of that chain are done outside of instances.

I haven't actually seen anything official saying that they were removing any of the old instances. What I remember from Blizzcon is that they said that rather than rework the old Blackrock instances they were going to add more instances to the area. It really didn't sound like we were going to lose BRS or BRD but just gain another raid and some 5 mans and they made a big deal over showing how the 5 mans will be accessed from the outdoor version of Nefarian's balcony.

Of course I haven't seen anything official saying they were not going to remove any so it's all really just conjecture at this point.

Actually, I don't remember where I heard it, but I thought I heard they were going to keep the old dungeons but modify them to be multiple segments more designed for the quicker runs people do now instead of the 3 hour runs people used to do. So maybe they'll do something like turn BRD into a three dungeon hub, one of the slave pits and arena and such, one of Shadowforge City, and one of the castle of Thaurissan, or some other split.

I remember somewhere hearing that for BRD and Mauradon, but don't quote me on it, might have been wishful thinking!