This, without the boots, is a nice starting set for a Hunter (or enhancement Shaman) looking at running MC. As a crafted set lacking rare/40-man raid materials, it's attainable to those characters, and unlike green-of-whatever gear, it has both DPS related stats and FR. Obviously, including the boots only makes the set better, but these are much harder to attain for the pre- and early MC characters due to the MC mats needed.

The whole Black Dragonmail set comes especially handy before the next ""Before the Storm"" patch release with attack power nerf for hunters. Also, it gives almost 2% chance to crit, calculated with the new critting mechanics, against the old 1%.