LFR for the Casual: you need to put in some time

A recent thread on the EU forums ("Why MoP ruined the game for casual players") garnered some blue posts from CM Draztal. The TL;DR version of the original post is that MoP has taken WoW into a direction where dailies aren't something you could do if you wanted, but something you must do, since that is the only way to get rep with many factions. Those factions, as we all know, are gatekeepers and vendors of epic gear and various patterns for gear and enchantments. No rep? No access to their stuff. Moreover, the dailies are, for many casuals, the primary source of Valor Points, the currency used to purchase said epic gear. But there are now so many dailies and so many factions (with at least three more coming in patch 5.2), that a casual player literally cannot do enough dailies to progress. At least that's the opinion of the Original Poster of the linked thread.

Bullfeathers, says Draztal:
LFR requires you to have ilvl460, which you can get by completing all the Dread Wastes quests, some Townlong Steppes rewards, and if you're still lacking gear for some reason: heroics/scenarios. You don't need to dailies to get in.

Now, that caught my attention. This is the first time I've seen an authoritative source tell me that there is a path to get into the LFR by questing alone. Good news! I have 4 alts in current levels of progress under level 90 in Pandaria, and all of them could use a method of getting LFR-ready that doesn't reply on running the dailies -- again, like I have on my three 90's already.

But, "oops", says Draztal:
As some people have pointed out, you can't reach ilvl 460 in Dread Wastes/Townlong Steppes (and I totally made a mistake in that sense). What I was referring instead, was 5-man heroics. My points stands still, you don't need dailies to gain access to the LFR, and chain running 5-man heroics will be faster too since you don't need a 463 item on every slot to access LFR, but you won't get it either just with Dread Wastes/Townlong exclusively :)

Easy come, easy go... Now, to Draz, I will say that claiming you were "referring" to chain-running 5-man heroics when you said you could get LFR-ready "by completing all the Dread Wastes quests", well... Let's just say you must have a creative way of equating those two.

But for us casuals, it still means you're going to have to drop coin in the AH, craft some gear yourself, or pray to the gods of the RNG in scenarios in order to get to that ilvl 460 you need for LFR.