Please remove Heirlooms so gear actually matters while leveling!

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Heirlooms take away from a pretty substantial part of the leveling experience being equipping new gear and being stronger for it. Instead, you just put on your looms, mog them, and forget about them until 120. Vendor all the gear you find. Any epics or blues you find are worthless unless you can sell them to for the appearance.

Everything you fight dies in seconds because you’re op and you always will be. Remember when it was very possible to be killed if you pulled more than one mob in classic? There’s no danger anymore. You go out into the world and roam the hillside destroying everything that moves without resistance. This used to be something that was only somewhat possible if you super-geared yourself and still mobs would put up some semblance of a fight.

It’s boring.

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No.

Heirlooms are fine, if anything they need to be restored to what they were before.

Leveling isnt about the journey nor the gear.

If you want such things classic is waiting for you.

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Have you tried not using them?

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I bet OP cries about getting ganked in WM too.

Since he likes to complain about stuff that is super easy to fix.

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If you think it’s boring then don’t wear them.
I find it fun to feel powerful when I am playing, especially when it means I get to max level faster. I have also spent a lot of gold…

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That aint the fault of heirlooms, that is the fault of scaling, and blizz intentionally making mobs weaker to speed up leveling because the true game (of the daily grind) starts at max level…

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Heirloom stats were nerfed awhile ago. They’re about on par with normal questing gear, more or less. It’s not much of a difference anymore like it used to be.

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Gear doesn’t matter while leveling. It never has and it never will. For evidence of that, go level in Classic. It isn’t exactly hard even if you rely only on quest gear.

Also, heirloom gear is actually a bit worse than quest gear for equal level gear currently. So removing it does nothing except make leveling slower due to not having the exp buff.

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Meh, I just wish they would add an heirloom tabard or shirt or something that gives us the same amount of experience boost of having all the gear equipped, that way we can still equip new gear while leveling.

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Heirlooms aren’t even “amazing” anymore people keep telling me.

That they’re just equal to dungeon greens.

So which is it? Broken or just scaling level greens?

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So everyone else should suffer because a minority wants to suffer?

If the super specific select few want to suffer, let them do it to themselves. Don’t drag everyone down into a “Crabs in a bucket” scenario.

There is some basic game design and human psychology.

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Pretty much. I actually hope they remove them (or somehow marginalize them) for Shadowlands.

Ohm’s law. People will usually do whatever is easiest and fastest, even if it is destructive to their enjoyment of the game.

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and instead make it a tabard that gives 55% increased xp. Problem solved.

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I mean, the first time, sure. It should be an exciting and impactful journey for your first few characters.

But for those of us on our 10th, 20th, 30th character leveled, it would be nice to have the option to zone out on some of the journey.

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If they removed heirlooms, I’ll just be buying max level boosts. The game doesn’t really start until max level anyways.

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Oh hey, here’s a solution: Don’t wear Heirloom gear.

If anything they should double the XP boost on Heirloom gear for those that want to use it.

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This is basically the thread…

Plus no one forcing the op to wear heirlooms, you can take as long as you want levelling.

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THey nerfed them when BfA released they’re pretty much just an xp buff

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Wrong forum bro.

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You don’t have to use them. Leveling as a whole is boring.

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