You could buy Fel Armaments and their Scryer equivalent from the AH too.
Yes something like this for at least one or two of the new factions would have been nice. But in essence I completely agree with BeanX. The current system is not nearly as bad as many people make it out to be. And I did skip the new dailies more often than not. But that was my choice and I don't need to blame Blizzard for that to make me feel better about myself...