I have a lot of alts, so I have a lot of heirloom items, I’d guess about 35-40 items. Last night I spent 100k gold to upgrade them all to be usable thru level 110. Shockingly, most of them were already upgraded to level 90 before I spent any of the 100k last night.
Frankly, that’s a ridiculous amount of gold, and the upgrade from 110 to 120 is several times more expensive. At these prices, I don’t think I will be upgrading my heirlooms higher than level 110.
My money is gone, and now my rant has ended…but I’m certain we will see its like again ![:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye.png?v=6" ":stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:")
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I agree, the upgrade prices are out of line. I only upgraded 4 armor pieces for each type and one cape to 110 because saving for the Brontosaurus is challenging enough.
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I hope you weren’t upgrading duplicates. For example, there are three different plate heirloom shoulders. I upgraded one. The other two can rot.
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To be fair, most of the heirlooms aren’t worth using anymore once you reach Pandaria as they are so stat deprived compared to quest/dungeon gear.
I agree it was a bit much when I upgraded my heirlooms for my cloth class (mostly already upgraded to 100) and ended up blowing like 40k gold - while not bothering with upgrading the necklace because of HoA.
Don’t even want to think about how much you’re going to have to spend if you’re upgrading all your heirlooms (plate, leather, mail, cloth).
I don’t really care about the stats. Leveling from 110 to 120 was super fast thanks to the XP bonus the heirloom gears gave me.
That 50% more experience >>>>>>>>> stats.
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make 1 set per type and just use that.
Like leather…I pimped shadow set. All leather users run so far many sources say this is the armour to run.
Doing the same with plate now. No haste…I don’t want it. plate by and large has 1 piece per slot with haste.
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I think I’m up 200K this expansion, and I don’t do anything. I think I sold a couple stack of herbs in the first 2 weeks, but that’s pretty much it. All that cash is from WQs, Emissaries, and Paragon caches. I spend war resources on re-roll tokens. Most of my table missions are for AP, occasionally I’ll do rep.
But I do not actively pursue gold or commerce.
Is 100K a lot? Sure, seems like a lot. But, maybe it’s not a lot a lot. You DO have a lot of alts.
Well there is a cost to having gear for basically ever future character that will auto scale with you to 110 and basically be best in slot the entire time.
Yep. In this “waiting for 8.2” lull, I have been leveling alts. I tried to be economical about it since all of my alts were healers and needed basically the same kind of stats, more or less.
For example, I upgraded the leather set one time and boom - monk, druid, (and later, rogue) are all set. Seemed very reasonable gold-wise.
But then I rolled a mage and shadow priest alt (cloth set had to be upgraded to 110 along with neck and trinkets and staff).
Then I rolled a paladin, and the goal was to learn all three specs as I go. It’s been SUPER fun. But…holy uses a different plate set than ret and prot. Two plate sets and three weapons upgraded to 110 (the shield was already done from leveling Meriweather here). Mercy, that hurt the bank.
I have no gold, but my alts are decked out. Ha ha.
Anyway, I agree. It’s too much. It’s way too much, especially considering that the initial cost is pretty steep to begin with. I think scaling it up in cost at every upgrade level to such a degree is ridiculous. I have to farm a lot of herbs, scrolls, and potions on my main and primary alt to pay for my heirloom habit.
timewalking is a super cheap way to upgrade your heirlooms.
also the nice feature to them is if you run enchants to help leveling even more its a one time deal.
If one has the loom rings anyway. These I lack. So I make some ring enchant makers for say haste a bit richer every day or so on upgrades lol.
Except it’s not best in more than half the time after they nerfed the heirlooms. Funny how that works, and Hell yes the upgrade prices are way too far out of line. Cost me damn near a million to upgrade the ones I have to their current level and what happened? They nerfed them. I would have been less angry if they’d just urinated down my back and told me it was rain.
Semper Fi! 
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Yeah i stopped trying to buy and update them at the start if Legion. Just not worth it. Especially after the exp nerf.
They are better stats than anything you will probably come across while leveling and they will continue to scale up with you. The XP nerf sucks but guess what, they still provide more XP then non heirloom gear.
The only place they actually lose out is when compared to leveling AZ gear but honestly, if you aren’t just spamming islands to level in full looms you are just doing it wrong anyways.
The prices aren’t too terrible considering they are something we can use over and over again.
One thing that saves gold for anyone interested is the newer heirlooms from the service medal vendor.
You only need 1 cloak per faction(Cloak of Hardened Steel), instead of 1 per role. So that cuts down costs in that slot.
The new heirloom(Dusk Powder) with primary stat also helps save gold. If you wanna be really stingy just pick one other loom with a secondary stat for the other slot. That’s only 3 items to cover two slots for every character.
For the rest it does get a bit pricey, but just do it over time. You can always offset costs with TW badges(I have about 65-70k across my alts), DMF tickets and most of the big Holiday events.
Heirloom upgrades are for sale for badges. You can also use Love is in the Air tickets.
During TW go to the TW vendor. There’s the same tiers of upgrades at varying costs. I think it starts at 700 but check out Wowhead for more accurate info.
I did not know this. I have a metric TONNE of TW badges. Thank you!
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