Please remove Heirlooms so gear actually matters while leveling!

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I kind of feel the same way. So I choose not to use them on most of my
characters.

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84

If you want heirlooms removed, play a different game that doesn’t use it. We’ll do fine without you.

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85

It makes leveling alts a lot quicker, are you willing to slog through countless levels and endless piecemail gear that looks like you fell head first into a laundry hamper?

At least with Looms it makes the leveling of alts quicker, and can help keep Transmog (for those of us who love it) on.

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Nope. Someone just agrees with me.

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Maybe one day science will invent a device that lets you not equip heirlooms if you don’t want to wear heirlooms. Wouldn’t that be wonderful for you, OP?

/gazes wistfully out the window at the rain

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88

Just don’t use them and limit yourself to quest/dungeon gear, easy eh?

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sure they do…

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90

Gear still matters. There are about four slots that aren’t covered by heirlooms. Boots, belts, bracers and gloves.

For the slots that have heirlooms, it allows us to collect the appearances.

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Just a quick thought here:

  • Consolidate the XP boost into a single non-visual item, like a neckpiece or ring. This item can scale, but is of relatively average strength throughout the leveling experience.
  • Make transmog gear cosmetic in nature. This is mostly to avoid outright removing them from the game.
  • Maybe allow heirloom trinkets to exist, but make their procs & effects not really be tied to character stats. For example, the Hand of Hustice heirloom becomes the original version – a chance for an extra attack, but no stats or other effects. Other ideas are a chance to repeat of the last attack spell for free, your next spellcast or ability being free, and so on. Purely functional, not stat boosts. Maybe a slight risk for it being TOO good at max level, but I’m willing to chance that. Might take some forethought and careful balancing to avoid making them overpowered.
  • Make it so you can only equip one heirloom trinket at once, to avoid stacking issues.

I think that could be a decent compromise. Keep the XP boost, lose the overpowered gear (though maybe allow for fun trinkets, which are relatively uncommon anyhow) to keep gear drops and quest rewards relevant. One or two slots end up losing importance, but if it’s not unreasonable.

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Well … go classic and be happy.

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Gear doesn’t need to matter while leveling. If you want it to matter, then don’t use heirlooms.

How you choose to level is entirely up to you, don’t try and take away other people’s stuff because you don’t like it.

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I find heirlooms stats to be close to those from quest items so they dont make things die faster just you level up faster. And they would have to refund the countless amounts of gold players have poured into them over the course.

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Or you could just not use them. I know it hard not to but really you can just not use them.

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Hush… dont give them ideas

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97

Then go play classic

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Except heirlooms tend to be less powerful than blues you get while leveling.

So.

Ya. Heirlooms, power wise, have been nerfed pretty hard.

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You poor fella without even reading the rest of these comments I can already hear the shrill whining of those that disagree with you.

I am not one of them. I agree.

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Overpowered gear? Heirlooms are just above greens and below blues, you’re actually weaker using them than if you were using dungeon gear… They’re just more convenient, but definitely weaker, which by the way is a fair trade.

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Then don’t wear them. Your problem is solved.

For those who find leveling nothing but a chore to get their Alt to Max level, they can play that way.

Everyone is happy.

:roll_eyes:

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I’ve done the new starting area in the alpha, and I agree. You 100% don’t need heirlooms anymore, especially with the level squish. They really do not need to exist anymore at all. You don’t have access to heirlooms in the alpha and it was actually much better that way. I feel like if I had access to heirlooms it would have ruined the leveling experience to be honest.

I think once more people do it too they’ll probably agree. I am normally pro-heirlooms but it was 100% a better experience without heirlooms and it’s very obvious they don’t need to exist anymore once you do it yourself, too.