I don't think anyone has mentioned this, but there is a little confusion about point pools...

Passing on a weapon upgrade (which uses NAP - Non Armor Points) for a belt or cloak (Granted the cloak is NAP, but the belt is AP).  i think you've got your point pools a little confused.  Yes, you may have a crappy cloak, but getting a weapon upgrade kind of cancels that out, doesn't it?

The point system is there so people don't hold out for items.  It's designed to spend your points and actually be somewhat greedy.  Back in the MC days we used DKP and people would hold off on bidding on upgrades because they were waiting for the super awesome trinket with a 2% drop rate off Ragnaros.  All in all, they ended up falling behind their raiders who spent their points on upgrades and were usually the first to die on boss fights or were at the bottom of the dps/healing charts.  Our point system is designed to not let this type of thing happen.  Essentially, you just tried to hoard your "DKP" for a better item that may or may not drop sometime in the future.

Honestly, what you should be gearing up is to gear as if you were gearing in normal 25-man mode, not heroic 25-man mode. Yeah, it would be very nice to get the heroic versions of all items in game, but thats not being realistic. Think it about this way, the best tier 9 armor items in game are not ilevel 245 gear, they're ilevel 258 gear. And where do the ilevel 258 armor gear come from? They don't come via trophys and tokens, they come from via tokens from a box after we finish killing heroic anub. You're better off if you have a list to make all the heroic version drops that you "want" and mark them as "this is stuff that would be nice to get but there's a high chance I won't get it". A prime example, my list of unhittable gear has heroic versions of gear that would help greatly, but it's not realistic for me to get, as they are items our tanks probably need anyways

If I did what you were doing with the heroic version of justicebringer for trinkets, I would be stuck sitting on [44015] waiting for the perfect trinket which was [45490]. This trinket never dropped a third or fourth time. I then got [45292] and [45929]. ToC5 man released, and [45292] got replaced with [47215], and even these trinkets got replaced with what I'm using now.

There's a big difference between people who are "farming" points with lesser gear to get a heroic version upgrade, versus people who have better gear and are waiting for smaller upgrades from heroic mode. The better people are doing better damage in the first place, while the other people are being "carried" for a lack of a better word. Simply put, be greedy and get you gear early and often. NRP is intended for toys/offset gears, not your "backup" point pool to grab main spec gears. It's not fair for people like Garreth, Dangly, or Pudo to eye things that they can get for their offspec (dps) for NRP when a main spec bids using their NRP points. The same goes with tanking gear. I usually pass NRP'ed tanking gear to Noboru first before I take it as my off spec, as he's a tank in a 10 man, and I don't currently have a permanent 10 man raid spot for now. I faintly remember you bidding NRP for [45450], but I don't remember you having a tanking spec. Do i care about this item anymore? No, it wasn't worth complaining about it then or now, and this happened more than 2 months ago.

First off, non-heroic Justicebringer isn't a 232 weapon. It's a 245. It's your 2nd BiS weapon.

Secondly, your weapon is your single biggest upgrade. Yeah, you've got a 219 cloak. Or a bad belt. But you passed on your single most influential upgrade in a situation where it should be a no-brainer. Holding out for upgrades that *may not* drop is not something we encourage, particularly when you pass on gear that *did* drop that *IS* an upgrade.