In the fantastic world of Warcraft, there are many things for us to develop. Each surprise we get is stunning, finishing tasks, making a team, getting wow gold and so on. One of the reasons I found Zul'Gurub and Zul'Aman so uninspiring after running them to gear up my main before raiding was that they were the dead end of non-raiding content. The gear was a half-step below Blackwing Descent, Bastion of Twilight and Throne of the Four Winds, the three raids available at the time, setting the dungeons up as clearly places to go to fill slots where you just hadn't gotten lucky on a drop. They were also used to grind up valor points to buy set pieces and other epics from the vendors, which did give you a chance at pieces as good as raid gear. Once you'd run them enough, clearly you'd no longer need valor points or gear from those dungeons. Worse, because the ZA/ZG gear wasn't really as good as then-valor and now-justice point gear, you quickly only farmed those instances for valor points and sharded everything that dropped. Simply put, sharding gear isn't fun. It may be inevitable, but when even undergeared alts pass on stuff because they know they'll be buying better in a day or two, it's a problem.

With each dungeon being fairly long, with up to seven bosses in ZG if you hit the two optional ones, and six in ZA, running them for your weekly valor fix became repetitive. Worse, doing it on multiple alts became mind numbing. Once I'd run a third alt through them to the point where he could no longer benefit from gear from the dungeons themselves or from JP/VP gear, there was no interest in gearing up another alt. Even with the shaman, who wanted different gear from them, and needed gear for bother enhancement and resto, it got to the point where I could predict exactly what was going to happen in each group the second I zoned in.

With raids offering not only better gear and more of it but also more interesting and varied fights that I didn't see over and over again, I ended up spending the limited (10 or less hours a week) time I spend on alts PvPing or working on professions. It's not that ZG or ZA are bad dungeons. They're not, not at all. As we discussed before, it's more that they were basically the only progression left to my alts, and two dungeons simply wasn't enough. Yes, you may argue, I could have run the lower dungeon tier of starter Cataclysm heroics if I was bored of ZG/ZA, and I did, but when I did I knew I was cheating my non-raiding alts of VP's for gear.

In essence, it comes down to whether or not you can justify to yourself not only doing something you've done before, but doing it in the exact same way. There isn't really anything you can currently do on a non-raiding alt for valor points which can turn into wow gold reaching enough amounts. 

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