Why is Heart of Azeroth not account wide?

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Even after the Azerite gear changes we are obviously stuck with this thing for the rest of the expansion until we feed it to the Titan or whatever they come up with.

Not sure anyone has noticed but leveling this thing is not fun and even less fun on alts. Is there any particular reasoning it is not account wide and scale with gear?

Can this be fixed?

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Similar to our artifacts, the HoA is meant to be something each character has to worry about. Just as in Legion it would have been crazy to have someone unlock all the traits on one weapon, then get all traits one EVERY other weapon, it would be crazy in BfA for someone to unlock all Azerite traits on one character and get them on all characters. That would heavily skew the whole game towards those who have the time and patience to grind out azerite.

I do agree that the grind for the HoA is very boring and unrewarding. Luckily, every week, the catch up mechanic gets better and better, so the longer you wait, the easier it will get. So there’s that I suppose.

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Because the HoA is going to morph into something completely different and not just be a battery for your azerite armor. Once it has it’s own upgrade system, there is no way in hell they will make it account wide.

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It is part of your character’s power progression. They have never had account wide gear of this nature (no heirlooms are different, they aren’t used at max level) and I hope they never have.

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Why would the levels need to be account wide? The Ilvl upgrade thing through rep is already account wide. Seriously… do we honestly need anymore handouts? It won’t be long before we get AotC or Cutting Edge just for logging in at this rate…

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Why are old honor titles not account wide?

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bad comparison, legion artifacts were UNIQUE by spec not to mention all the traits, etc
HoA is the same, no mattter what toon, what spec, yadda yadda
it really could be account wide and make no difference : /

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Scale it with gear and problem solved or whatever makes some people not rage. People who are saying it should not be account wide I do not think they understand the sheer amount of AP needed to level this monstrosity up.

For those saying Azerite is changing in 8.2… yes Azerite ARMOR is changing but we are keeping this thing till the next expansion. They need to make it account wide.

Once you get up to 40 or 45 on a main then go back to a 4 on an alt trust me it is ridiculous. 39 to 40 right now is 75k AP. That is pretty freaking ridiculous.

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The goal is to trick you into thinking your progressing in trivial mindless content. They cant start just making it clear that it’s a /time played metric.

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The problem is the necks ilvl sucks if you dont grind AP. Where with the Artifact weapon you could use items to slot to make it current tier ilvl. All my necklaces on my Alts are still like 300-320 range where my gear is like 370 range.

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Because they want you to play your alts

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I think the idea is they are going to end up more like artifacts by 8.2? At least that’s my take on Blizzard’s Q&As where basically they have thrown the towel in and are just going back to a Legion-proved model. Sadly it takes a long time for them to correct the ship direction and it only happens after we hit the iceburg and loads of WoW players had to get into escape boats.

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Because it keeps time played up let’s be honest but here.

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Its not sunday

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You are doing something wrong then. I have two alts that I really only play to do emissary quests or the DS WF (they don’t raid or do mythic+) and yet both are 380 ilvl. Have you not upgraded them with the free ilvls they get for your mains reputation?

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I feel like an idiot, no I havent done that. Heck I dont think Ive been to Magni in a while now on my main either. Thanks for reminding me. Thumbs up for you. :+1:

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Yeah, that is what I thought. As I really haven’t done any AP grinding on my alt and they are both like lvl 30. Those levels are a huge bonus :slight_smile: