I just recently unlocked the heirloom trinket Defending Champion from the Gurubashi Arena and I’m finding that I’m unable to use the Ancient Heirloom Armor Casing to upgrade it higher than a lvl 1-29 trinket. I have other heirloom necklaces and trinkets in my collection that are highlighted when I attempt to use the item, but Defending Champion is not eligible for some reason. The item tooltip shows that it has 0/2 upgrades applied. (I also tried using the weapon upgrade just in case there was a mix-up in classifying what was eligible, and that didn’t work either, go figure!)
Pretty bummed out after the time it took to get!
update for clarification: I’ve tried using every single heirloom upgrade item available for both weapons and armor and none could be used to upgrade the Defending Champion.
Same issue here! Plz fix this Bliz, just let it scale like all other heirlooms.
(edit due to more information being provided)
There’s no user error here- the item is not a viable choice for upgrading through any heirloom upgrade items.
Here is a screenshot of the viable upgrade options when using the Ancient Heirloom Armor Casing
Here is a screenshot when trying to use the Timeworn Heirloom Armor Casing.
You’re mistaken about the Timeworn Armor Casing- the Ancient Heirloom Armor Casing is what you use first for upgrading trinkets, jewelry, etc- most heirlooms start out as max item lvl 34 (player lvl 29) which is where the Ancient Heirloom Armor Casing must be used to boost it from ilvl 34 to 39, or player level 29 to 34.
The order of items for upgrading armor / trinkets / shields / offhand heirlooms is:
Tier 1: Ancient Heirloom Armor Casing (player lvl 29 -> 34)
Tier 2: Timeworn Heirloom Armor Casing (lvl 34 -> 39)
Tier 3: Weathered Heirloom Armor Casing (lvl 39 -> 44)
Teir 4: Battle-Hardened Heirloom Armor Casing (lvl 44 -> 49)
I’m standing at the heirloom vendor as I type this, so there’s no mistake in the order.
that’s the order for heirlooms which have 4 upgrades available.
this trinket doesn’t have a 0/4 upgrade available.
it only has a 0/2 upgrade available.
those screenshots may have helped narrow down the issue…
did you take a look to see if the Weathered casing would work?
Is it possible it’s incorrectly flagged to use the weapon upgrade tokens instead of armor? I don’t have this trinket so I can’t test it, but it might be worth a try.
I have tried using every available heirloom upgrade for weapons and armor, and none of the 8 available upgrade items are viable.
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ok… sorry we couldn’t be of any help, but at least the extra info may be useful when someone gets around to looking at it
Update: happy to say that after checking again this morning, the heirloom can be upgraded with the use of the Weathered Heirloom Armor Casing (was not the case a week ago!)
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