Miele
Lord Nagafen Raider
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I disagree, because nobody gives a shit anymore about the cloak, just as the ring will be forgotten very very soon once we enter Legion.^ I have the exact opposite opinion.
Edit: The legendary items from MoP and WoD date your character and make them unique. I have several max level characters, but only a few completed legendary rings. Same with the cloak. You'll be happy to hear that they're seemingly moving away from the cloak/ring style legendaries and making them a little more traditionally acquired in Legion. I doubt they'll remove the Legion drops given how they're acquired vs. an expansion-long story quest.
The only use you can pull out of the cloak nowadays is to look pretty and do some extra dps during timewalking. Unfortunately I can't make the cloak anymore on my current main, but I have 3 rings completed on my account (well, 10 tomes to go for the third). Yay me for not being able to play MoP longer when it was a snorefest to get the cloak.
People complete these quests because they have fuck all to do, the power gains are negligible even during timewalking (at least for a single item, if you stack a lot of stuff on the other hand...).
I completed Tarecgosa, sometimes I go clear MC for Thunderfury 2nd binding, which eluded me for years, I occasionally clear for Thoridal and was going to work on Val'anyr one day.
I could see the unique snowflake speech during vanilla/tbc/wrath/cata as it took a guild to make one single legendary, maybe two if luck was abundant. MoP/WoD legendaries are not that rare as they could be obtained with semi-afk LFR and a lot of patience.
Also legendaries cannot be used for transmogrification, so I guess there would be zero damage done to reintegrating those quests even fashion-wise. I still have all the legendary pieces on my priest, in case they decide to let me get the last few drops and complete the cloak (which would complete my timewalking set). I pull 10 to 15k dps in timewalking as shadow priest (even higher, depends on fight of course), which is 3 or 4 times the standard pug member, I can live without the cloak boost, but it pisses me off to no end.