Heirlooms ruin leveling experience?

[Dylemma]

**READ BEFORE COMMENTING** Already some dumb responses saying no I like heirlooms they make me level faster. ACTUALLY READ.

Does anyone else feel like leveling is braindead and is 0 fun? I've heard a lot of people say heirlooms ruin the leveling mmo experience. It does imo too everything dies in 1 hit and i'm mindlessly just going through quests and also it's not like the armor looks cool...I use to love leveling and love getting new gear from quests I'd be like hell yea new shoulders more dps. Now who actually cares about what gear you get? You don't need anything besides heirlooms and OP enchants. This is how I think they could EASILY fix this.

A buff that gives you experience, woooo how hard was that. Make a buy-able buff for all characters or something of this sort, doesn't take a genius to think of this, all your leveling gear is irrelevant because of heirlooms. Make gear fun to get again. Heirlooms are not fun, you're decked out at level 1 with almost every slot possible.

There is a lot of things wrong with this game but the open world leveling experience is what the game was born on.

EDIT: Not to mention ruins leveling PvP and twinking. Everyone one shots, why? Heirlooms.

EDIT 2: To the people saying you'll level slower I like 1 shotting things, well it ruins all kinds of aspects of what the game has and had for us in the past, low level world pvp, low level bgs/pvp in general and twinking. Pressing 1 button and 1 shotting something or someone isn't playing your class.

[Deleted]

No, they make leveling bearable.

[Pebrocks The Warlock]

No one is forcing you to use the heirlooms. You're ruining the suppose fun yourself by wearing them.

[Count Zero]

Leveling was awesome 1st time through. And brand new players typically won't be using heirlooms 1st time through

[Armourboy]

I agree and have been saying it forever but most will disagree because they like it being fast and easy.

[melkesjokolade]

I decided to go against my speedlvling with heirlooms and dungeons, Im reading all the quests and gonna finish every zone and I cant remember last time I had that much fun in wow, honestly.
Forgot to mention I play it with sound on aswell and no heirlooms.

[Volibear]

Does anyone else feel like leveling is braindead and is 0 fun? I've heard a lot of people say heirlooms ruin the leveling mmo experience. It does imo too everything dies in 1 hit and i'm mindlessly just going through quests and also it's not like the armor looks cool...I use to love leveling and love getting new gear from quests I'd be like hell yea new shoulders more dps. Now who actually cares about what gear you get? You don't need anything besides heirlooms and OP enchants. This is how I think they could EASILY fix this.

A buff that gives you experience, woooo how hard was that. Make a buy-able buff for all characters or something of this sort, doesn't take a genius to think of this, all your leveling gear is irrelevant because of heirlooms. Make gear fun to get again. Heirlooms are not fun, you're decked out at level 1 with almost every slot possible.

There is a lot of things wrong with this game but the open world leveling experience is what the game was born on.

Leveling is only an experience the first time around. Any future times it's a gate to end-game, sped up by heirlooms. Don't want to use heirlooms, that's your choice.

[Darkeon]

It's all about choice.
You don't have to actually wear them. Nor do you have to spam-run Instances as a Tank\Healer. Nor do you have to use +% experience consumables. Nor do you have to purchase the L90 Boost.

If one wants to fully enjoy the leveling experience as it was designed, they are still able to do so; Just simply play through the zones, with simple non-heirloom gear.

All this while making it faster and more bearable to someone who simply wants another high level character, but finds the leveling experience a chore.

[DarthMonk79]

Also you could always transmog the heirlooms to look like your new gear from dungeons/quest rewards and then have that "cool" look. Like stated above, you choose to use them, you don't have to use heirlooms. They have nothing with ruining the level experience, which is funny as hell considering people keep begging for them and more heirlooms to cover more gear slots.

[Deleted]

They need to make the +300% xp potion drop far more common. It's still only 1% from Archiereus.

[Dylemma]

It's funny how most of you didn't even read the whole post, typical people. For the experienced players there should be a buff for xp...not gear.

[Serissa]

They need to make the +300% xp potion drop far more common. It's still only 1% from Archiereus.

Better make it toy in toybox.

[Cathbadh]

No, they make leveling bearable.

Agreed.

OP, if they're ruining your leveling experience, take them off. There need to be no changes made otherwise.

[Gorgodeus]

It's funny how most of you didn't even read the whole post, typical people. For the experienced players there should be a buff for xp...not gear.

Funny how you didn't read the response that most people gave: If you dont want to wear heirlooms, no one is forcing you to.

[Aquamonkey]

Next thread will be: "I used the boost to 90 and it ruined the leveling experience."

[ablib]

Next thread will be: "I used the boost to 90 and it ruined the leveling experience."

It's about as ridiculous as "These heirlooms I willingly put on, and could take off if I had self control, are ruining my leveling experience".

[Justin-Sane]

They need to make the +300% xp potion drop far more common. It's still only 1% from Archiereus.

I have about four stacks of those. Krol the blade has a 10% chance at dropping one, run into him pretty often when farming in pandaria. You can also get them from the partially-digested bag that drops from rares in nagrand. The drop is also 2-3% from Archiereus, according to wowhead. They've already made them easy enough to obtain.

[Tradu]

No, they make leveling bearable.

Pretty much this. Levelling is an annoyance that's in the way of me playing an alt in content I'm actually interested in, so heirlooms making that faster is great.

[Darkeon]

It's funny how most of you didn't even read the whole post, typical people. For the experienced players there should be a buff for xp...not gear.

Different folks, different strokes.

I, for one, find it very refreshing leveling Alts and not having to worry about changing gear (and looking like a "quest-clown" and having to run to town and transmog every 10 levels, I'm -that- OCD); Hell, I wish I had heirlooms in ALL slots, instead of just in most.

But I can see your point of view.
Maybe a good suggestion would be something similar to what we have in other games, such as Guild Wars 2, that are Account Bonuses. Doing certain feats give your account certain bonuses (+% magic find; +% gold find; +% experience gain, etc).

Maybe add in a Toggle On and Off in the Settings, just in case someone wants to experience the leveling experience as it was originally designed, too.

[MoanaLisa]

I've heard a lot of people say heirlooms ruin the leveling mmo experience.

They do for me.

This is how I think they could EASILY fix this.

Even easier fix: Don't wear them.