I suspect it ultimately may not matter much with leveling being so fast, but still. Also those set bonuses better be “per heirloom” because I guarantee I have some rogue pieces, some druid pieces, and like that. I think I have the majority of sets but some of the stuff has been technically redundant for awhile unless you wanted the mog.
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I wish Blizzard would just remove heirlooms from the game entirely and give people some of their gold back, and put any & all leveling bonuses on the Loremaster Tabard only.
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These are both really lame. 
Dangit Blizz.
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From the threads before, all a lot of people see is “but it could be 50% faster”.
That said I wasn’t expecting them to be the same but these new bonuses are…not good. They’re of extremely minimal use for the kind of player that is using that many heirlooms to burn through leveling.
The rested XP isn’t going to be a factor given how quickly we’re going to burn through levels.
The out of combat regen is entirely useless since mobs haven’t been anything resembling a threat in years in low level content.
The Burst of Knowledge 40% buff is not bad. The holy damage AoE will be near useless considering 99% of the time I ding, it’s from handing in a quest.
We’ve got 3 bonuses that will see little to no use for most players, and one that’s half useful.
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I have a fully upgraded set for each armor type because at some point I thought I remember seeing we got a bonus for using the proper armor for our class, plate for warriors, etc. I think it has since been removed for reasons unknown to me.
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I don’t remember the set bonuses, but something like the Class Order Hall tier set bonuses would be nice. (# 3 is an expanded version of one of the bonuses.)
I would also like to see generic, TONED DOWN, versions of the Archimonde trinkets.
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I couldn’t care less about the XP discussion and how fast it is going to take to level, but the changes are very weak. I can think of any number of better alternatives:
Speed increase
A buff similar the the old BoK or MotW (10% increase to stats)
Re-use some of the generic Azerite traits they have currently on a scaled down basis
1% more gold like the ZTrolls
Etc etc
Make them all only work until 59 so no one is using them endgame.
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That 3 piece set with “battlegrounds” will not leave beta with “in battlegrounds” on it.
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They are just useless now. No tweaks no better than average gear bonus.
Just junk. PLEASE GIVE US our gold back.
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Reading it again, the description is ambiguous. I thought it would only proc when you gained a level, then immediately stop. But, it could also be an aura… That follows you around for four minutes tagging everything in sight making sure you can’t get out of combat.
It doesn’t mention being a proc of any sort, so it doesn’t sound like it will activate when you whack a mob or something.
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Converting them to scalable enchants could be neat too.
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Bro.
Wait until people see this lol.
These changes are so bad that I don’t feel like I have to even say anything about it.
They are so bad that I know 99% of the community will hate it 
When people come home from work and see
They’re going to lose it lol
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The rested xp bonus seems pretty nonsensical. For a player, either they will level fast enough that it has no effect, or they will level slower and it will be helpful and then what happened to the original reasoning “we found that the experience bonuses that come from Heirlooms were no longer necessary and instead, made the new leveling experience feel very awkward with the extra leveling speed.”
headscratch
Utility bonuses like movement speed, mount speed, hearthstone CD, health/speed/dmg whatever buff on kill, etc make the overall process faster without reducing how far you go through the zone stories.
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Scalable enchants could be interesting.
Or, 2/3-piece allow instant mounting like the magic broom, and 4/5-piece a flight-master’s whistle for all content.
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That would be fantastic.
Edit: If they are gonna take the stance that the bonus experience isn’t needed in the SL leveling experience, then they should decide to take it and let the heirlooms have bonuses that make the level process smoother outside of the concept of experience. This riding the fence deal isn’t going to be popular.
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Finish the sets Blizzard, allow us to have mog perfection while leveling 
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I do realize that, but it doesn’t matter in the slightest imo. I paid real money on tokens to upgrade my heirlooms, and I was only willing to do that because of the value of having the XP boost available for all future WoW characters I created. Without the XP bonus these items are just plain worthless, regardless of how quick the leveling process will be without it.
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Completely and utterly irellevant to the discussion of heirlooms, honestly.
The current iteration of set bonuses are not a collection of “bonuses” for a lot of people. I am glad Blizzard adressed the problem of heirlooms being pretty much mandatory as the stats and xp-bonus combined make them in BFA bloated.
Doesn’t change the fact that the set-bonuses we’re getting are an absolute joke.
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I would like to see them fill out the missing four slots (boots, gloves, braces, belt).
I’d like them to remove the cloak, rings, trinkets, weapons and offhand from the set. That would leave the eight armor slots, for the 6-piece bonus.
I would like the cloak to give a movement bonus.
I would like generic to role trinkets. Something like the Archy ones? Toss in tertiary stats, too (leech, avoidance, etc.).
I would like gem slots to be added.
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Originally I believe that was the requirement to benefit from mastery, idk if that’s still the case though.
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