All gear from Blackrock Foundry, as well as the new Apexis gear and crafted upgrades are getting a 5-item level buff in an upcoming hotfix.
Blizzard says that they feel BRF hasn't been rewarding significant-enough upgrades and so they're increasing the item level of every piece of gear that drops in the raid by 5, and so that crafted and Apexis gear doesn't suddenly become irrelevant, they will also be getting equivalent buffs (though I believe only at the new, BRF-like level.)
While I don't think this goes so far as to make the two raids feel like fully separate tiers, the main takeaway is that we're all going to get a pretty decent buff.
So, to lay it out: Blackrock Foundry gear will now be 655/670/685/700.
The seriously profound consequence of this is that LFR Blackrock Foundry gear will now be fully equivalent to Highmaul Normal gear - especially given that Highmaul does not have any set pieces. Thus, there will be far less incentive to run Highmaul on Normal. Basically, the two that I can think of (beyond the fact that running with a guild is more enjoyable than doing LFR) is that the gear looks better, and you'll need to take down Mar'gok on Normal in order to start getting heroic quality gear from Highmaul Caches.
Indeed, it looks like gear from BRF will essentially be equivalent to the next higher difficulty in Highmaul, so likewise, gear from Normal BRF will be equal to Heroic HM, and Heroic BRF will be equal to Mythic HM.
Beyond making BRF a bit easier, I suspect this will really diminish Highmaul's continued relevance.
One thing remains slightly ambiguous, which is the LFR tier sets. I'd assume that these would get the same 5-level boost, making them 660, but they were not specifically mentioned in the announcement.
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