still too muchI had big expectations from 9.1.5, but they are still so out of touch...
Now we are getting into reasonable ranges. Makes me wonder though if the new tokens also are sold for timewarped badges - and how much they are going to cost.Funnily, now the slots that were hardly worth upgrading before because they did not give XP now are the best to upgrade - weapons (particularly the garrosh ones with two sockets) and trinkets (the wod ones). Due to the overbudget on primary stats azerite pieces (even nazjatar ones) are going to be better on the slots you can wear them until very high level, so they are very low on the upgrade list. Rings and cloaks are very weak statwise, necklace too especially as the heart of azeroth is a good alternative there. So after weapons and trinkets pants are probably one of the better slots to upgrade, but it's already pretty much wasted gold/currency.But yes, overall the advantage is minimal at best and they could really buff heirlooms a little bit, for the investments both players made for buying them and the developers for implementing them.
While WoW revolves around a dependency on Gold, in-game items of this kind of expense will be irrelevant to many of the player base.Making them more affordable will help, but as many have said, making their use more relevant to a larger proportion of the player base would be more important.
Still not worth the gold.
Instead of adding new upgrade tiers, fold them together. Or, since they removed 70 levels, just make heirlooms naturally go up to level 50 unupgraded then have players buy tokens to upgrade them to current. At these prices, it's over 128k to fully upgrade one set and a weapon, over 141k if you need to use a shield too. If your alts include say an Outlaw Rogue, a Warlock, a MM Hunter, and a Protadin, you're looking at just under half a million gold (about 499k due to overlap) to have them all in full heirlooms.
To those saying these are useless, you do still get the benefit of not having to swap gear all the time leveling. like are you really going to be farming BiS gear on the way to 60? probably not, this at least gives you a bunch of slots you dont have to worry about, much like while leveling from 1 they do help in that regard. Edit: Im not saying its the best use in the world but there's at least SOME kind of use you can get out of them
The prices are still ridiculously high considering how useless they are.Blizzard needs to restore the XP bonus on heirlooms, and give them proper stats again. Otherwise, the only people buying these will be the "gotta collect 'em all" players.The only things I can think of that MIGHT be worth upgrading are the Garrosh heirloom weapons.
They are still worthless with all the experience increase buffs removed. Wasn't that the main purpose of equipping heirlooms?
I am in favor of making leveling an experience again. Reducing the pace of it is a major factor, and removing exp bonuses from heirlooms was a big part of that. But, at the very least, heirlooms need competitive stats and other compelling bonuses to be worth the price.Right now that's just not the case. Blizzard, in typical modern Blizzard fashion, is missing the mark here. As with almost anything else they do these days, within and outside WoW.
They don't necessarily need the XP bonus, there are other ways to make them worthwhile. They could collapse all the upgrades to 1-50 and 51-60, cutting costs WAY down. They could add QoL stuff to the set bonuses, like 30% increased runspeed, or straight power like 10% flat haste. They could rebudget heirlooms so they're MUCH better than leveling blues, by a solid noticeable margin. They could give every heirloom 2 gem sockets.Any or all of the above would make heirlooms much more attractive.
After they removed the XP bonus they're not even worth it for free.
Believe you should upgrade at least a few key Heirlooms, like the Fishing Contest ring (which all classes will use), Garrosh weapons or WoD and Arena Chests trinkets.
Also for those that didnt realize this you only need to buy ONE set of CLOTH heirlooms and ALL your characters can wear them.You will lose out on some armor but the other stats still scale.I wear the cloth ones on my warrior and still tank dungeons with them no problem. and no the healer doesnt run out of mana