I seem to have a little problem after returning to the game. I had fully upgraded heirlooms on me when I started in Pandaria at level 55. I was promptly crushed and wondering why I realized the quest rewards there have about double the stats comparing to heirlooms. This can’t be right… right?
Edit: Obviously it was not this character but a lower level druid.
I think Heirlooms should scale up the ilvl further to the same you earn in dungeons, I hardly use them on my alts to be fair.
Check if you have outleveled your heirlooms. Each heirloom should show you the max level the item levels up with you.
You can also check from your collections tab for your heirloom and “create” them in your inventory again. Might be a bug if those are old heirlooms (the ones that were not in the collection tab yet)
^^ This
Unfortunately they introduced levels to heirlooms so you have to upgrade them to keep them current. They also removed the xp perk so at best it can give you better rested xp.
My heirlooms are “upgrade level 6/6” and currently for example at level 57 my leather shoulderpads give 74 agi, 111 sta and 149 crit. Quest reward (green quality) shoulders I got at level 56 give 105 agi, 157 sta, 84 haste and 117 mastery.
Creating the heirlooms again doesn’t affect in any way, the stats remain the same.
Loom shoulders have ilevel 271 and the quest reward has ilevel 289. Somehow I feel this is no working as it should, as currently those heirlooms are completely useless.
That’s what they are now sadly. You get better from quests as they can proc Blue or Purple.
I’m still mad how much I spent on that junk.
Heirlooms cost way too much to upgrade these days. Considering there’s no XP bonus on them anymore.
The only reason I even really use heirlooms now is to keep enchants and Xmogs until top level.
They REALLY should reduce the cost for upgrading them. Or at least only have a cost to upgrade to current highest. And have the rest be default.
It’s expensive by design. It’s one of the gold sinks in the game.
Yes, but the issue is that when you are at x level, whatever drop you loot, the heirloom’s ilvl is much lower, hence why it needs a ilvl buff of some degree, that’s my issue with heirlooms currently.
A lot of things are expensive by design. Doesn’t mean I have to like them. XD
You also don’t have to engage with them at all if you don’t want to.
It’s only gold anyway.
It is indeed a gold sink but not a very good one if you don’t actually benefit from buying them. This is making my head spin, on the other hand it doesn’t feel so good knowing how much effort I have put to get those looms in the bad old days… but on the other hand I do like the idea of quest rewards actually being worth using.
Anyway, it’s not such a big deal, I was just wondering if they are bugged and the answer seems to be “no, it’s working as intended”.
If your questing to level. Dungeons they will still be superior untill 70’s
Heirlooms are not supposed to be BiS. They are just good enough for every level. Sometimes you’ll get better items for a few levels, but eventually heirlooms will catch up.
There has been a few squishes since then, and heirlooms got nerfed a lot in that time.
Their only advantage right now is that they stay at your level, depending on the upgrade level you pushed them to.
Drops from dungeons are on the same level as heirlooms are on the same level. If you level up during the dungeon then tour heirlooms do as well so they become better than the drops themselves.
If your loom is ilvl 271 and the quest reward is 289 it means you are misding the next upgrade track to bring the heirloom in level with the quest gear. Heirloom otherwise should never be lower ilvl.
Give me heirloom boots, belts, wrist and gloves!
So your argument is that if I don’t want to spend stupid amounts of gold on something, I just shouldn’t use it?
You’re exactly the kind of boring person I hate wasting time reading on the internet.
I’ll just block, save myself a future of having to read you.
Except that is the problem here. I have a staff in my priests inventory that is better than my heirloom staff. Dropped from a dungeon. He’s level 55, my loom staff goes to 69.
I don’t really mind, myself. My heirloom is still better, it has an enchant on it and it’s Xmogged. Xmog tops all.
Don’t heirloom follow up all the way to 80?
Sadly not, only 69.
To my memory it should be equal ilvl to drops, but maybe it is an ilvl lower than the drop. They are still useful due to leveling being so fast that any non-heirloom gear becomes obsolete fast. That and the fact that your heirlooms can be enchanted/gemmed is a nice extra.
It has been a while since I levelled a character however, so maybe they tweaked it more since then.