4.2 - What is feral gear?

I give up. I really do. Are the game developers so vastly out of touch with the game that they develop that they haven't come to grips with the fact that we, as players, nitpick and calculate the benefit we receive from each stat, and determine the contribution each stat has to the roles we play?

Case in point: Haste, as relates to feral druid. You can't find an individual who knows anything about feral druids that would list Haste as anything but the absolute DEAD LAST secondary stat in usefulness to our class. IE, there is no stat that appears on Agi leather that would ever be prioritized lower.

That said, we get to fast forward to the datamined gear from Firelands. While druid tier has not been released yet, EVERY SINGLE PIECE of AGI leather has Haste on it. Given the current tier, and the fact that a few of the pieces have this stupid and USELESS stat on it, I'd guess it's safe to say they probably put that crap on the tier gear, too.

Do the devs play the same game we do? Because it's becoming more and more apparent that they are completely out of touch.
Uhm, 4.2 lets us be Firecats.
Feral cats like haste. At 372 levels of gear haste beats crit and is the second best secondary state after mastery, at least right now and according to models. It really isn't that bad. It's just not that fun.

You do realize that half of the gear that's been datamined has names like 'test staff 1', right? The itemization isn't done yet. Relax a little bit. Nothing has hit on it either; do you think rogues, hunters, enh shammies and the like might, just maybe, want some hit and expertise? It's all placeholders. If you're really concerned download the PTR and file a bug.
not to mention the fact that balancing (to what extent blizzard actually gets it right) is done around the gear they actually itemise into the game.

Sure as a bear it would be nice if we could pick up some stats we'd actually want.. like dodge/mastery leather, but if we could do that - chances are blizzard would have to nerf our avoidance...

and not nerf our threat if they ever catch on to how strong we are right now :P
Shhh, they might be listening!

Seriously the gear is fine. We'll be fine!

Feral cats like haste. At 372 levels of gear haste beats crit and is the second best secondary state after mastery, at least right now and according to models. It really isn't that bad. It's just not that fun.

Earlier levels then that too, depending on your levels of haste and crit.
alternatively, we're finally looking at the precursor of 4.2's Haste Rating = Dodge Rating conversion for bears :P

Case in point: Haste, as relates to feral druid. You can't find an individual who knows anything about feral druids that would list Haste as anything but the absolute DEAD LAST secondary stat in usefulness to our class. IE, there is no stat that appears on Agi leather that would ever be prioritized lower.

Hit and Expertise would like to have a word with you.

The last sim I ran put the value of those two stats fully half of Haste's.

Case in point: Haste, as relates to feral druid. You can't find an individual who knows anything about feral druids that would list Haste as anything but the absolute DEAD LAST secondary stat in usefulness to our class. IE, there is no stat that appears on Agi leather that would ever be prioritized lower.

Hit and Expertise would like to have a word with you.

The last sim I ran put the value of those two stats fully half of Haste's.

For cats at that ilvl, haste is the second best secondary stat behind mastery.

For bears, haste is weak, but it can be reforged.
My feral set is only around ilvl 353 and I'm already at the point where haste > crit, it's all about balancing, and while I haven't looked at the 4.2 gear yet I'm willing to bet reforging some of the haste into crit will balance it right back.
OP has to be a troll. Nobody can be that stupid an uninformed.