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New Upgrades and Heirlooms and Tweets

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 7:39 pm
by Lisaara
http://www.wowhead.com/news=209792/5-2- ... ler-tweets

Thought people might wanna check this out on wowhead.com

Re: New Upgrades and Heirlooms and Tweets

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 8:38 pm
by Jäysee
So you can buy an upgraded heirloom or trade in your old one for a free upgrade?

Re: New Upgrades and Heirlooms and Tweets

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 10:20 pm
by Lisaara
I'm hoping that's the case.

Re: New Upgrades and Heirlooms and Tweets

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 10:38 pm
by Makoes
Not really free, you have to trade your old loom in AND pay the same JP cost you paid for it before, in order to get the 1-85 one.

"For upgraded heirlooms, these new heirlooms will not replace the old heirlooms. Instead, players can upgrade their old heirlooms by turning them in along with their initial Justice Points price. These heirlooms have the same stats as the old heirlooms, but will be able to be used from 1-85, instead of 1-80."

Which to me seems rather expensive...

Re: New Upgrades and Heirlooms and Tweets

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 10:46 pm
by Lisaara
Makoes wrote:Not really free, you have to trade your old loom in AND pay the same JP cost you paid for it before, in order to get the 1-85 one.

"For upgraded heirlooms, these new heirlooms will not replace the old heirlooms. Instead, players can upgrade their old heirlooms by turning them in along with their initial Justice Points price. These heirlooms have the same stats as the old heirlooms, but will be able to be used from 1-85, instead of 1-80."

Which to me seems rather expensive...
That is very expensive. We paid for our old stuff fair and square. Why take more from us? -_-;

Re: New Upgrades and Heirlooms and Tweets

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 12:03 am
by Shade
Junrei wrote:
Makoes wrote:Not really free, you have to trade your old loom in AND pay the same JP cost you paid for it before, in order to get the 1-85 one.

"For upgraded heirlooms, these new heirlooms will not replace the old heirlooms. Instead, players can upgrade their old heirlooms by turning them in along with their initial Justice Points price. These heirlooms have the same stats as the old heirlooms, but will be able to be used from 1-85, instead of 1-80."

Which to me seems rather expensive...
That is very expensive. We paid for our old stuff fair and square. Why take more from us? -_-;

So not worth the extra cost. I'll just level from 80-85 the old fashioned way in that case. Forget wasting all my JP on that.

Hopefully this is something they will reassess.

Re: New Upgrades and Heirlooms and Tweets

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 12:27 am
by Danielfboone
I gave up using heirlooms long ago. They completely destroy the leveling experience for new toons by making it go too fast and making you far too overpowered. You never get to get gear upgrades from quest rewards either. I hate heirlooms and consider them the second worst addition to the game ever implemented, trailing only Arenas.

Re: New Upgrades and Heirlooms and Tweets

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:44 am
by Lisaara
I like heirlooms but I do like seeing my character in different appearances too so it's got it's pros and cons.

Re: New Upgrades and Heirlooms and Tweets

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 5:27 am
by Makoes
That's why I usually mog my Looms :)
I do hope that they re-assess the cost up upgrading BoA's, I dont see many people doing these costs for a an added 5 lvs, especially really easy levels.

Re: New Upgrades and Heirlooms and Tweets

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 5:44 am
by Meggers
I know I wont and I have all the looms, even have double of some sets. Upgrading at the original cost + the old item is freakin stupid.

Re: New Upgrades and Heirlooms and Tweets

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 6:51 am
by Lisaara
Makoes wrote:That's why I usually mog my Looms :)
I do hope that they re-assess the cost up upgrading BoA's, I dont see many people doing these costs for a an added 5 lvs, especially really easy levels.
I do too if I find somethin I like.

Re: New Upgrades and Heirlooms and Tweets

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 8:33 am
by pop
I would only upgrade it if the looms grants the same stats, bonus and include mastery equivalent to cata(80-82) and mop (83-85) blue quality gears.

Re: New Upgrades and Heirlooms and Tweets

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 8:49 pm
by Shinryu Masaki
So not worth it. Even worst for new players who hit lvl 90 and after awhile decide to start an alt, they'd have to pay double the cost just to get the heirlooms to 85, no one in their right mind is going to pay for it.

Re: New Upgrades and Heirlooms and Tweets

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:41 am
by Jäysee
Makoes wrote:Not really free, you have to trade your old loom in AND pay the same JP cost you paid for it before, in order to get the 1-85 one.

"For upgraded heirlooms, these new heirlooms will not replace the old heirlooms. Instead, players can upgrade their old heirlooms by turning them in along with their initial Justice Points price. These heirlooms have the same stats as the old heirlooms, but will be able to be used from 1-85, instead of 1-80."

Which to me seems rather expensive...
Excuse my french but....screw that. :roll:

Re: New Upgrades and Heirlooms and Tweets

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 3:48 am
by Makoes
I really hope they reconsider and just replace the current BoA's with the 1-85 ones. The cost of the BoA's already is high enough that its not going to be game breaking.

Re: New Upgrades and Heirlooms and Tweets

Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 9:11 pm
by duffy05452
Seriously?!?!?!?!? let's announce that we're gonna upgrade the BoA you had to grind Justice Points out the wazoo to get (like many others, I have complete sets of all, and a couple duplicate sets) woot! then let's announce that we're gonna make it ridicously exspensive.... nice epic crotch kick :evil:

Re: New Upgrades and Heirlooms and Tweets

Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 9:23 pm
by Slickrock
Danielfboone wrote:I gave up using heirlooms long ago. They completely destroy the leveling experience for new toons by making it go too fast and making you far too overpowered. You never get to get gear upgrades from quest rewards either. I hate heirlooms and consider them the second worst addition to the game ever implemented, trailing only Arenas.

No one said YOU had to use them....

That aside, this does seem to be a big "screw you" to anyone who has a lot of alts they want to level... Imagine having to buy more than one set too for multiple armor classes.. Ouch!

Re: New Upgrades and Heirlooms and Tweets

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 11:28 am
by Smyelmdar
I just knew it. It sounded way too good to be true. I knew there was some grinding involved. Which means, I won't be upgrading any of my heirlooms. :(

Re: New Upgrades and Heirlooms and Tweets

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 1:31 pm
by Rawr
I'm not trading mine in. With all the guild exp bonuses and whatnot I plowed from 80-85 in less than a day with just my helm and cloak. It's just not worth it. :mrgreen: