I think they will still be used by players who like the convenience of not having to constantly replace any of the gear in slots where they are using heirlooms while leveling up. All that gear can just be vendored immediately.
NIce change . I will do the same thing I do always and wait for it to be Timewalking and farming those currencys that in the end, IMO it's the best way to upgrade the HIerlooms. Thanks !
That's true if it didn't cost like 60k gold per armor type with a set of weapons and jewelry. Total cost would be around 250k gold. I personally have 9 million gold and 11 level 50 alts ready to go, and I don't plan to buy any heirloom upgrades to 60. Leveling doesn't take particularly long and the heirloom bonuses are really weak. 250k gold is no big deal for me if it's being spent on something I would find truly useful, and heirlooms don't come close to making that cut.If costs were reduced by 90%, so I'd be out like 25k, I guess I'd do it just for the hell of it.
Nice, glad they reduced it. Technically I feel since there are five ranks now they should go back through the previous ranks and reduce the gold cost on them as well for those that haven't upgraded ranks yet.I know everyone says they are worthless without the XP boost but honestly I disagree. It's nice having gear that I don't have to replace as I level and adding enchants to them for leveling makes it worth it. If I have to use regular gear, everytime I get a new piece I would have to re-enchant it again so I avoid that with Heirlooms.Sure the XP boost was nice but it's not a make or break issue for me as I just don't see not having that as an issue.
Why not just make an x set bonus a y% XP increase?
It isn't fair to say they're literally worthless, they aren't. It's about value, >60k gold to equip one character with heirlooms is ridiculously poor value.
why would anyone waste time upgrading heirlooms without xp bonus? I've hit 60 in all my toons using timewalking, only occasionally replacing some gear from drops and i was more than fine, gear is literally the least important aspect of leveling, you could hit 50-60 in greys if you wanted to.
Nope. Not upgrading until they put some sort of exp back on em.
Wait, people still use heirlooms?
for me its about having all my characters running around in the exact same armor since I only buy the cloth set.people look at me a bit funny tanking dungeons but so far no problems
I am very excited for this patch and cannot wait to completely upgrade my heirlooms and purchase all of those scouting maps :) This is going to be a lot of fun for me while I wait for 9.2 as I have a lot to unlock with the covenants!
No XP buff = I'm not going to bother with them. Already hated using them even with the XP buff because my character looked the same forever while playing.
I mean, transmog takes care of that. Not that leveling took very long with full heirlooms with the XP bonus anyway.
Still not worth the cost...
It's baffling why Blizz won't give the exp bonus back to the heirlooms...The only thing they help with is leveling and it is in Blizz's best interest to let players level as many alts to 60 and play the 'end game' content with them as possible because it prolongs the interest these players have in the game before unsubing. One might argue that the character boost that is in the shop gives them better profits then letting players enjoy faster leveling but that is poor argument. Players that don't want to wait to get to max level will buy boost anyway, or pay someone to level that character for them. The removal of the exp bonus on heirlooms hits only one group of players and that is the ones that haven't unsubed yet and want to level alts despite the heirloom's nerf. Give the exp bonus back to the heirlooms. It's not too much to ask... seriously... It's the right thing to do.