Luckily, the BG crates you get for winning a BG can upgrade to be as good as epics. So if you lose out on epics, no worries. Youll be just fine.
There are some exceptions, as the occasional quest rewards will scale to be rather weird. Like, fallen apprentice robes and xakxaks lab frock are two cloth chests that have weird stat allocation that makes them desirable.
yea but he's a mage brosome quest epix have better 2ndaries
then their bg crate equivelants
https://www.wowhead.com/item=58922/worn-defias-bracers&bonus=3637 with 9 crit @ ilvl 32
yea but he's a mage bro