Patch 4.2 Hotfixes: Firelands Trash Nerfs and Reduced Drop Rates for ilvl378 BOE Epics/Recipes

Along with various trash nerfs in the Firelands raid, Blizzard also reduced drop rates for BOE epics, recipes, and gold.

• Unbound Blazing Elementals now have a greatly reduced chance to drop epic items and crafting recipes. They also drop less gold.
• The rate at which crafting recipes drop has been greatly reduced.

Creatures

• Cinderweb Spiderlings no longer drop any loot and their health is restored to full after players exit combat.
• The Flame Archon range of Fiery Torment has dramatically increased.
• Flamewaker Subjugator, Flamewaker Animator, and Unstable Magma health has been reduced. Flamewaker Subjugator damage has been increased for 25-player raids.
• The damage-over-time effect from the Hell Hound ability Rend Flesh now stacks up to 5 times, down from 10.
• Molten Flamefathers had too much health in 10-player mode, and too little health in 25-player mode. This has been corrected.
• Surger damage dealt by Surge has been reduced.
• Unbound Pyrelords can properly target banished/cycloned Smoldering Elementals with Ignite Elemental. In addition, Ignite Elemental cannot be interrupted.
• Unbound Pyrelord health has increased, while Unbound Smoldering Elemental health has decreased.
• Neither the Sulfuron Span nor Shatterstone volcano are able to be affected by the siege damage done by a Saronite Bomb. (Source)

We thought the drop rates were a bit high. Trash runs are an easy way to make gold with recipes/epics as well as earn reputation farily easily up until honored for the ilevel378 cloak and belt.