I am what you would call and Heirloom collector. I have 95% of the available looms in the game and I love to use them. However with the new gear upgrading in older content I find myself wishing to be excited for gear upgrades again.
Secondly, with heirlooms going all the way to 120 and our head, shoulder and chest slots being taken up by Azerite gear I find myself having to make a choice.
Lose 30% of my XP bonus to have the best gear to level with or keep it and under perform in dungeons.
I think a way to fix both of these problems is obvious.
Create an heirloom token that gives you the XP bonus you have purchased in game. I currently have a 55% xp bonus from gear slots.
So when I create a new character I open up the heirloom tab and I can either create a loom set of gear or I can simply create the token and apply the XP buff.
The token should still be required to upgrade each expansion like other gear, I don’t mind if the cost is very high to upgrade it. I think this would make leveling a little less boring if longtime players with looms, had the option to keep the reward we earned and be able to gear up like we did the first few times we leveled a new character.
I would love to know what the community thinks about this.
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I agree.
I see the point in having quality gear that levels with you, but I think its time to change.
Make leveling fun again
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I like this suggestion a lot. Well done.
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Yep. People use heirlooms for the XP bonus. This would enable us to actually put some value on the gear in older content as well as current content.
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What if for leveling, instead of heirlooms and talent points we just gave you a neck. And you could gather power for this neck over the course of leveling and unlock new abilities that way?
I wouldn’t mind the idea of changing how we get XP at lower levels. Heirlooms don’t have to be the only avenue that’s for sure. I think the largest benefit of heirloom gear is not having to upgrade the armor while speed leveling. Many people find that a huge quality of life, especially for that reason. I’d say keep the heirloom gear but strip it of the XP gains and just leave the scaling bonus, and add the XP token on the side as you suggest.
I’m not entirely sure how Blizz would see this change, but who knows. They’d likely chalk it up to something like, “Oh, if you want upgrades just don’t wear the gear” I suppose if you’re trying to get that fulfillment out of your leveling you aren’t likely to be a speed runner who wants the XP anyhow.
As for myself, I want to get upgrades and I’m rather 50/50 on speed and casual. I wear my 'looms but when I get a purple upgraded quest item and my gear is still on par or even better it doesn’t feel great. So, I’d love to have a token for XP, toss the 'looms, get upgrades and improve gameplay and rewards. Then again, it would really devalue some aspect of the 'looms since they would no longer be needed for the XP, just scaling. BRUH. You are making my brain work too hard.
I’m down for a token. I’ll bite.
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You look like Brittney Spears just gave up and went on an eating spree. >.>
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Haha
Cant unsee. Going to delete character now.
I can’t find a gif that doesn’t have the “get out” part on it. I just wanted the face slap. Because it still made me snicker. So ignore the “get out” part. 
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/MemorableGivingAngelfish-size_restricted.gif
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I get what you’re saying about leveling speed. I fall into the same category as you. I am about 50/50. I just leveled a Monk to 110 and vendored a lot of gear I would have liked to use simply because it made no sense to drop that 10% bonus.
What if Heirlooms was just an enchant you put on your gear?
The enchant would have to be unlocked/purchased/upgraded just like heirlooms are now, but you could put it on any gear you find as log as the slot/type match.
Example: 2-hand weapon enchant that gives +10% xp +x iLvl The iLvl buff can scale as you level. Meaning you get the benefit of heirloom convenience… but a better base item scales better. So getting new gear also matters.
The way I imagine this would work, is if you get a level appropriate item… the scaling would be very minimal if not zero. But as you level any gear enchanted would scale with you to at least be almost good as level appropriate gear.
So you should be able to level with the gear you want, find upgrades along the way, while continuing to benefit from the conveniences of xp boosts and not outleveling gear if you don’t constantly find upgrades for every slot.
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Reworking heirlooms is like trying to put rouge on a rogue.
you basically give up and find the nearest woodchipper and throw it in there
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I dont even know what to say here.
They should just get rid of the xp bonus on heirlooms and make it a buff. Every time you level a character to max level you get 10% more xp on your next character.
If you already leveled 10 characters then in my opinion you deserve 100% more xp, you already went through the hard grind before, 20 characters 200% and so on until your capped at 50 characters 500%.
And as a bonus reward why not throw in a free level boost every 10 characters you level capped, why not? Blizzard hands them out like candy with every expansion anyway, what’s 5 more going to hurt?
This is the problem with heirlooms, it doesn’t get any better after your second character… you should feel encouraged to level more characters and get more rewards for playing more. There should be some cool mount or pet for leveling 50 characters to max level which some people have done already.
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Currently leveling a rogue and I felt EXACTLY the same thing. I think it’s a great idea to create the token. Put that low level gear earned to use and get excited about it again!
EDIT: I read recently in a book, that way back in Classic, they had considered the concept of: “if you had a max character, your next toon would automatically start at level 10, or with a 10% exp buff.” and it grew the more toons you had. That is also not a bad idea.
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