Just got into a halls of lightning with a tank still using Heirlooms that stopped in the 20s at level 45. He couldn’t even deal with the basic trash hitting him, let alone the first boss smashing his face in a single hit.
Group refused to boot him as a guild group so I left. I’ll take my 30min Deserter for having to not deal with stupid.
Blizzard, you need to add in a warning that you’ve now outleveled your heirlooms and suggest either to switch pieces to non heirloom, or point them to go upgrade it so it’s still useful.
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Did the tank realize they had outleveled their gear? I once ran with a guy who was tanking and didn’t even have all their inventory slots with gear because they were that new to the game. I explained and took him to Ironforge to show him the vendor and the one in SW. Guild group show a surprising lack of awareness.
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That’s what OP is asking to implement, a warning system if you out leveled your looms.
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This makes sense, I can get behind it 
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I agree with the warning. The times I decide to level an alt there’s a few looms I still don’t have maxed so I’ll forget about them for a bit.
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I wouldn’t mind seeing this, I have made this mistake while leveling with a friend, we couldn’t figure out why she was getting further and further ahead of me, turns out I forgot to upgrade my helm when you first could during BfA, can’t recall when that happened, but I didn’t upgrade it.
Halls of Lightning is already a pretty bad s*** show later on. Some of those mobs can actually wipe a group multiple times. Undergeared tanks running though there makes my skin crawl…
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I pointed it out to him, but he kept saying I was the problem and not healing him. Didn’t help he was Brewmaster as well on top of the lessor heirloom level. When all the pieces are armor giving pieces it’s a problem. If it was his trinkets and rings I wouldn’t have cared as much.
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I would like this. Most of heirlooms are maxed but I do have weapons that aren’t because of Legion and fail to notice it when leveling in non-Legion expansions.
This will be made a bit worse when azerite gear goes away because some people didn’t upgrade the heirlooms for those slots and may not remember to upgrade them.
Another good reason to get a warning in the game. It wouldn’t have to be something so flashy and constant, just a pop up when you load into game and when you first hit that over the valued level of the piece.
just my opinion, but Blizzard should’ve retroactively upgraded all current boas to 50 and removed ranks until they decide to scale them to 60. A nice gesture after removing the xp bonus that so many of us paid hundreds of thousands of gold for.
Or at least reduce the upgrade cost so we can finish upgrading the ones that aren’t fully maxed.
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tbh I wish the heirlooms would turn grey or possibly unequip itself, and the player not be able to equip it as instead they get the message “target is too high level” similar to when you attempt to use any other item with a level cap.
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That’s a horrible idea if I ever saw one. I understand the OP’s problem, if you don’t replace gear for 20 some levels, but I doubt so many players would want half their gear automatically invalidated because they hit level x at that very moment. I have several pieces upgraded 3/4 of the way, cause the last 5 levels or so isn’t a big deal, and I can just solo it to level cap. I wouldn’t want to find 6 new pieces instantly upon hitting level 45 though, that’s just dumb.
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Well, I use Zygor Guides for leveling and just about everything else in this game.
It actually keeps track of my Heirloom usage. When it gets close to my Heirlooms giving up the ghost. Zygor starts suggesting gear changes as I level. I can accept it or decline it.
It’s actually quite convenient.
He may not of realized he out leveled it. In the beginning I bought a lot of heirlooms and stuck them on whoever they worked for. When it came to upgrading I chose, one mail, one plate, one leather to upgrade, but forgot to take the unlevelled gear off of some of my older alts.
Sometimes when I am leveling I just forget to switch out my gear. Then I wonder why some things are hitting me like a mac truck… when I check my armour I am like, oopsies.
It would be nice if you check your gear and there is a red warning showing that it out-leveled. I notice the bonuses grey out when the item gets out leveled, but I don’t often hover over the bonus part.
Someone mentioned unequipping itself, that is a terrible idea, what if you are in the middle of a boss fight and one of it’s minions cause you to level and then all you armour falls off because it was out leveled, that’s just bad.
It’s not super flashy/noticeable like a pop-up warning, but it’s actually there.
With the new set bonus thingy, when you hover over any of your heirloom pieces, it will light up the ones that counts for the bonus.
One of my level 44 alt had 7/7 just a day ago, and right after dinging 45, I noticed that my heirloom piece count is now showing as 6/7.
Turns out, the neck heirloom piece I had equipped was only 3/4 upgraded and it stopped contributing to the to the piece count for the set bonus as soon as I hit level 45. (For clarification, you only need 6 for the bonus to come into effect)
I agree that we could use a better warning system though. I only noticed about it because I am a bit OCD after I accidentally replaced my heirloom ring to a normal socketed ring and I inspect myself often.
Edit : added a screenshot of what I’m describing - I did have a heirloom neck on, but it was only upgraded to 3/4.
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This promotes the player to utilize the dungeon/questing gear, rather than trashing/vendoring it. Or if you foolishly didn’t hold on to them and your gear turned grey, then you can simply go back to run some lower level dungeons or do some quests and gear up… that or simply upgrade your heirlooms
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They shouldn’t have to put a warning on the, the player should have noticed he wasn’t gaining in stats by level 30…
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