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Post by
YesterdaysHero
Go for it. Heirlooms are always good.
Other side of the coin being the lvl 85 Heirlooms that will be making an appearance, so gear is another idea.
Post by
Pwntiff
Are you going to be leveling someone under 80? If yes, sure, they're your emblems. If no, you will currently get no benefit from heirlooms past level 80. I will be glad to retract that statement if someone points me to an official announcement about heirlooms continuing to scale and grant XP past 80.
Post by
Varaconn
Are you going to be leveling someone under 80? If yes, sure, they're your emblems. If no, you will currently get no benefit from heirlooms past level 80. I will be glad to retract that statement if someone points me to an official announcement about heirlooms continuing to scale and grant XP past 80.
I'm sure they'll grant XP, but it's possible with the huge item inflation past level 80, your old heirlooms (lol) would get very swiftly outclassed to the point where the reduction in stats is canceling out the increased XP gain.
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354743
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Post by
Varaconn
Yeah, that's pretty much my point. You'd be crippling yourself using heirlooms to the point where and +xp is nullified by the missing stats.
Post by
ChairmanKaga
Yeah, that's pretty much my point. You'd be crippling yourself using heirlooms to the point where and +xp is nullified by the missing stats.
^This, you can't gain XP if the floor is being mopped with your corpse. There is a huge stats cliff going into the initial Cataclysm zones, even steeper than the other two expansions IMO. You'll be dumping even ICC gear halfway in. Hell, there's a green quest reward that's almost better than freaking Shadowmourne.
Heirlooms are a mistake for existing 80s. Better off to save those emblems and buy something worthwhile with them. Even with their effective value getting slashed in the Justice Point conversion, hanging on is probably still the better option.
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Post by
Pwntiff
I summed it up quite nicely in my initial post. If for someone under 80, spend them if want.
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Post by
Pwntiff
We aren't forgetting it. We're remembering that Cataclysm greens will out stat current heirlooms that you'll actually level slower.
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Post by
Varaconn
We aren't forgetting it. We're remembering that Cataclysm greens will out stat current heirlooms that you'll actually level slower.
so even the new heirlooms there putting out the greens are still gonna outstat them? cuz that doesnt really make much sense if they make new heirlooms but no one uses them because the greens are better
Cataclysm greens will out stat
current
heirlooms
Post by
Pwntiff
Ok...you're missing the point. He's talking about getting Wrath heirlooms (admittedly for leveling to 80), and all of the discussion is based using Wrath heirlooms in Cataclysm. Cataclysm heirlooms do not enter in to this discussion at all because they are designed to be beneficial from 1-85 where Wrath heirlooms are designed to be beneficial from 1-80.
Post by
faia
heirloom will not work past lvl 80 on release
if you think about leveling a new character like worgen or goblin go for it, but remember the new currency after patch will be used in cataclysm with a cap
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Post by
YesterdaysHero
you guys that say the greens are better then heirlooms are missing one point
the greens dont have expierance boosts on them.the heirlooms do,but id say get into a guild that has the expierance for the guild heirlooms and get those
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