I don’t disagree that it is extravagant, but again, that is kind of the aim here. This is luxury. There are 93 heirlooms in existence atm, think of them as 93 auction house brontos.
But unless someone is an all-specs alt-leveling machine, you don’t need to upgrade em all.
A character can wear 11 heirloom pieces at once, 4 eq types, so 44 heirlooms. Cut that down a few, you could have em all use the same trinkets. So, we’re gonna upgrade 38 heirlooms with the new stuff.
worn eq, 34 x 15,000g == 510,000
weapons, 4 x 22,500g == 90,000
600k?
That’s a pile of tasty, piddly Unless I am completely brain-farting on the math here.
Heirlooms were originally added to the game back in wrath as a sink for the daily rewards from the crusader dailies. Hopefully, they give us an upgrade of a heirloom for a week to 2 weeks worth of dailies or add one to paragon chests or put tokens on the mission table.
You don’t need to upgrade everything at once. You do the ones you will use first. As you use those items to level up other classes you get more gold that you use to upgrade the other items. It’s called a snowball effect.
The only thing truly odd about the costs is that heirloom weapons are generally worthless past L90 because of the way they scale. Probably not a great idea to upgrade any necks for 110-120 either, since, yeah I’ll let you figure that out.
Also, the heirloom system, specifically the head/shoulder/chest pieces(30%!) are going to AGAIN highlight just how absolutely terrible a feature Azerite Armor has turned out.
For those saying its a luxery/do not buy them, it is not so much that they are luxury for gold. Personally, the problem I see is that I have seen people only getting poorer and poorer in BFA and unable to even afford things such as repairs at times. That being the case, why raise the price of something like this even further?
Contrary to popular belief, not everyone did mission tables on 10 alts and is loaded. With the increasing basic costs (repairs) and gold sinks (azerite reforge/mounts) it is getting absurd.
Not that this is a jab at you, but I can potentially go through 3K+ in repairs on a raid night if we happen to wipe a lot (and this does not even include time gathering/buying of materials). Paragon and Emissaries certainly help, but basic costs just keep going up especially if you push your limits in terms of content.
At ~550-650g they go for on my server, I’d need to sell 25-33 veiled crystals.
I don’t know where you’re farming 25-33 epics every couple of days, but I certainly don’t. Short of farming the Warfronts over, and over, and over, I’m not really sure where you’d have a good resource in any reasonable amount of time. That is, of course, per item.
A set of 11 heirlooms will run you upwards of 300 epics to turn into veiled crystals. That’s not a few days worth of work, and while I’m OK with luxury items costing something, that’s a significantly larger gap.
The price of things has always increased as expansions provide more and more ways to make gold. BfA, however, provides less gold making in general than Legion, so the leap is even more staggering.
Sure, a lot of the price tag is luxury, but the vehicle would still cost more than a normal car just for the amount of detail, power, and design.
Heirloom upgrades carry neither a luxury status nor significant cost to produce. Neither, in fact, do they carry much in the way of actual power. The fact that they’re already a nerfed version of what they used to be is a point against them, even.
Yea, I guess I should have qualified that better. Up until recently, and since the beginning of 8.1 when epic gear started raining from the sky in various catch-up methods, I had sharded a lot of 355+ gear and collected the veiled crystals. So given that stockpile, even only selling a handful every other day, one could easily pay these heirloom costs.
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