I began playing last week, and had a question about heirlooms. I’m getting destroyed in BGs as heirlooms give people at least twice the amount of health, healing, and damage that I can do. I’m not sure, however, if new players have access to them.
Do you need to have a 120 character in order to acquire them, or can a new player who just started buy a WoW token and purchase them? I don’t want to boost my character to max level as I want to have the 1-120 experience, and I don’t think the heirlooms will harm that. However, playing in BGs is becoming unbearable when I face down an alliance player with 2-3 times my health bar.
Thanks.
I think you just need gold definitely don’t need to be 120. There could be (but doubtful) some level restriction and I’m not positive on that. Check google. I think BFA is still on sale and it comes with a free 110 boost. Anyone who doesn’t own BFA pas $60 for a boost so it’s a great deal.
You could make enough gold to buy low level heirlooms very fast at 110 just solo run a few lower level raids. You might also get mounts and for sure transmogs too. Watch you tube on solo raid guides.
Heirlooms can be purchased at any level from the heirloom and guild vendors. (The ones sold by the guild vendor require you to be in a guild that has them unlocked, and you might need a minimum reputation with the guild to buy them.)
However, heirlooms really shouldn’t be making that much of a difference. Early on, they do have the advantage of filling in some hard to get slots like helms, trinkets, jewelry, and shoulders. But just questing should start filling in those slots in the 20s.
You may want to start questing through a 10+ zone. (The 1-20 zones tend to have less useful rewards.) I’d reccomend running through Silverpine and maybe Hillsbrad Foothills. (Both those zones got a heavy remake in Cataclysm, and so have some of the most modern quest reward itemization 1-60 horde-side.) That will help fill in those gear slots.
For something like Korrak’s Revenge, the scaling does often mean that sub-60 characters are at a disadvantage to the higher level characters. (Empty gear slots will hurt a lot more, and you miss out on some of the higher level gear bonuses like Azeratie traits and Legion Legendaries.)
Battlegrounds are a team effort. If gear is an issue, I’d advise against going 1 on 1 unless you absolutely can’t avoid it.
Protect a healer and they’ll likely protect you.