Blizzard Fixes Heart of Azeroth to Require Level 40 to Equip

Live Posted 2020/10/20 at 5:00 PM by perculia

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Comment by SaltyRistoThe high level requirement for the HoA is one of the most idiotic things about how they did the level squish. It's integral to the entire gearing system of BfA, it should be a level 10 item plain and simple. If they're worried about it being imbalanced then they should make it's stats scale with your level until you hit either level 40 or 50.Comment by OnomatopoeiaI'm confused....

As per hotfix from October 15 "Players who reach level 50 will once again receive the quest, “A Dying World”, and will be directed to Magni Bronzebeard in Silithus to obtain their Heart of Azeroth. There is no escaping from his storytelling!"

Not acquiring it is abuse. Acquiring is now also abuse. Is this still a game, or social hours in prison?Comment by LainiWeizWith no HoA until 40 does that mean characters levelling in BfA get Azerite armour with traits they can't select until they hit 40? 0_oComment by qaccyThis really does make no sense at all. Getting the Heart happened as pretty much the very first thing players did in BfA. More importantly, they got Azerite and Azerite armor while leveling from 110 to 120. Does this mean leveling through BfA now means players never get a necklace and they get Azerite armor with unusable traits until they're basically done leveling?

Come to think of it, wouldn't a lot of this apply to Legion as well? How's that work with the artifact weapons? Legion has no weapons available whatsoever outside of the artifacts, but on the surface they seem like they'd have the same 'problem' as the Heart does when obtainable at a low level.Comment by AdmThrawnCan someone please explain to me why can't players get it at level 10?Comment by SirZooroIn BfA we got HoA at the very beginning, so this is surprising that they added such high level requirement. If they have problems with balance and twinks, they should instead put limits on max HoA level, so low-level chars will not be able to increase it indefinitely. For example max HoA level may be (11 - character level) for characters below lvl 40, and no limit for lvl 40+. They also should check HoA level requirements for azerite gear, to make sure that low-level characters will be able to use only some of their traits.Comment by NiccoloMWhere did you even get that idea?
Surely you couldn't find the news source that told you this "theory".Comment by Etunielimplements Chromie Time and then restricts a ton of stuff /slowclapComment by linkmastr001I'm super confused. Isn't one of the first things that should happen to a new player to get the HoA as they should be directed to BfA content at level 10? Why can't they use this? How will they use Azurite Armor? Are they going to get armor that simply doesn't work, and never upgrade a neck they may or may not have gotten in the first leveling area (for me, it was a random drop).Comment by ekrietlowI honestly didnt know the HOA required level 50.

If you can level in that expansion, how can you NOT have the HOA? its the focal point of the entire expansion.

Use your heart to seal the wounds, use your heart to absorb the azerite crashing into the chamber, use your heart to literally destroy the final raid boss...Comment by KidcriticusThey would join a dungeon with a level 50 get the level 50 to give them the Azerite aremor from last boss, log out and when they logged back in they had the quest to get the neck and other peices of azerite gear. They could then at level 10 go solo anything, one shot every mob in island expeditions and so on.Comment by BissoThe high level requirement for the HoA is one of the most idiotic things about how they did the level squish. It's integral to the entire gearing system of BfA, it should be a level 10 item plain and simple. If they're worried about it being imbalanced then they should make it's stats scale with your level until you hit either level 40 or 50.Comment by Lundhloli like how you hide your weapon with broken relics in it in the picture.Comment by Oogzyi like how you hide your weapon with broken relics in it in the picture.i like how you hide your weapon with broken relics in it in the picture.total senseComment by OogzyThe high level requirement for the HoA is one of the most idiotic things about how they did the level squish. It's integral to the entire gearing system of BfA, it should be a level 10 item plain and simple. If they're worried about it being imbalanced then they should make it's stats scale with your level until you hit either level 40 or 50.andComment by QQmoreCan someone please explain to me why can't players get it at level 10?Comment by QQmoreThat's not "fun detected" that is "People abusing unintended things, to get an unfair advantage"Comment by QQmoreAn unfair advantage to get some extra stats while levelling? Don't know why they care that muchComment by QQmoreOnce again, i said, once again Blizzard shows us how they clearly are anti-twinks.
This is an abberation for all players who find this trick, and tried to have fun with the current twink game.
(Because, between us, the twink game is dead since a long time, with the difference xp-on/xp-off BG queue.)
No need to remove the neck directly from the player's gear. Just fix the bug, then low level players won't be able to get the HOA anymore, and this is fine. It will for sure, i said, be hotfixed. But not like this seriously... The HOA is geared to my character, but it provides me no stats anymore, like a ghost-gear. Instead of fixing the bug, you prefered to cut it to the people who already got it. That's shame, i hope that you know it.

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