Hid­den in an oth­er­wise bland post on the next sea­son of pvp rewards, game designer Kal­gan let slip how emblem pro­gres­sion is going to go for the rest of Wrath! Here’s the rel­e­vant quote:

it won’t be quite as easy to get deadly items via emblems of con­quest as hate­ful items cur­rently are via emblems of valor

Well, that’s inter­est­ing. So what have we learned?

First, unlike some well-meaning folk have recently advised, don’t horde your tokens. Hey, I guessed wrong. It happens.

Emblems are intended for that level of con­tent, and there likely won’t be new rewards trick­ling down. I actu­ally like this sys­tem bet­ter; raid­ing Naxx every week won’t be “manda­tory” the way that raid­ing Kara was.

So, from this one sen­tence, we can derive that there will be an Emblem for each tier of content:

• Heroic/Naxx10 : Emblem of Heroism
• Naxx25/Ulduar10 : Emblem of Valor
• Ulduar25/ThirdWrathRaid10 : Emblem of Conquest
• ThirdWrathRaid25/FourthWrathRaid10: Emblem of Zomgepics
• and so on

Thus main­tain­ing the steady pro­gres­sion of both 10 and 25-man raid­ing, and also stick­ing with their stated design objec­tive that man­ag­ing twenty-five play­ers in a raid should yield higher rewards than man­ag­ing ten.

This also elim­i­nates any save/spend strat­egy regard­ing emblems, which is prob­a­bly for the best any­way. If you see some­thing you like at that tier, grab it.