"I just wanted to point out that all savage gladiator gear is available for massive amounts of honor points in stormwind. 50-60k per is expensive but not impossible. Could you guys here at WoWInsider please make a post explicitly stating this? I don't think many people know about it."

If the above is true, I have no problem. However, all the research I have done contradicts this. For example:

http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41949

The Savage Gladiator mage set requires, according to wowhead, and everywhere else I've checked, either honor and arena points, or Emblems of Heroism, which only drop off Heroics and raids.

I am in a casual guild of my friends from real life. We occasionally will run an instance together if we happen to have 3-5 people together online in the same level range, but that is by no means commonplace.

I'm often more motivated than my casual friends, but don't want to quit the guild to join a group of strangers, which is why I was always glad Blizzard had a set that I could get by hard work I put in alone.

If I can grind honor in the BGs and get a set, I'm completely happy with that. I don't care if it takes me 20 times longer to do than it would in a dedicated raiding guild or arena team. But if what I'm reading is true, it seems impossible for the solo player to gear up.