Heirlooms - How best to upgrade?

[FuxieDK]

Recently, Blizzard added yet another upgrade layer onto the heirlooms: 110 to 120.

Upgrading ~100 heirlooms yet again, is a costly business, if done by gold: Over halv a million..
Not to mention the new ones we got in BfA from the Medal vendor, they need total upgrade from the bottom, increasing to the cost.

There are currently 5 ways to get the upgrades: Gold, Timewarped Badge, Tricky Treat, Ancient Coin and Burning Blossom.
110->120 is still only available for gold and Timewarped Badges, but I guess the will be available with the last three, when we get close to the events.
Oddly, you cannot buy upgrades with Medals.. That would have been my favorite way to do it.

What is YOUR favorite way to upgrade them?

[kamuimac]

with gold . 2 tokens on EU will be more then enough gold to cover most of itl . and the time you save is worth much much more then 40 euro . for most of people in developed countries its like 1-2 hours of work so who cares really

you can also buy it with badges etc but imo its completly inefficient - would rather stay extra hour in work then wasting many hours farming boring stuff in game to buy it. (if i had to but most people have way much more free "resources" without overhours anyway)

[FuxieDK]

I see your point, and I probably forgot to add Token to the list of options.

However, I do not like the token idea, myself. I already pay €12,99/month and €40-60 every other year for the expansion..
Buying my heirlooms with real money, goes against every fiber in my body (i.e. I hate micro transactions), even though €40 (for 2 tokens) is just 3 hours work (after tax is paid).. And no, I cannot get 2x180=360K gold in 3 hours in game in any way, unless I'm extremely lucky and get one of the rare mount drops..

Also, tokens are at an all time low right now: 179.181g as we speak.. One year ago (18/5-18, 12:58) it was 401.827g - It's less than half in one year.

[kamuimac]

I see your point, and I probably forgot to add Token to the list of options.

However, I do not like the token idea, myself. I already pay €12,99/month and €40-60 every other year for the expansion..
Buying my heirlooms with real money, goes against every fiber in my body (i.e. I hate micro transactions), even though €40 (for 2 tokens) is just 3 hours work (after tax is paid).. And no, I cannot get 2x180=360K gold in 3 hours in game in any way, unless I'm extremely lucky and get one of the rare mount drops..

Also, tokens are at an all time low right now: 179.181g as we speak.. One year ago (18/5-18, 12:58) it was 401.827g - It's less than half in one year.

true - but still beats farming content for hundreds of hours to get badges.

alternatively one can play AH but it will also take you many hours to get 400k .

i was speaking stricly from time efficienty manner.

if you dont mind collecting them for months ? sure other sources are ok . but mine is most efficient.

[Unlimited Power]

I had the gold on hand to upgrade every single heirloom to 120 day 1 of the patch release, so that's how I went about it. That said, I was left with ~60k gold on my main realm, but I don't really have anything I need to spend gold on anyway.

[Dakara]

If they don’t grant an XP bonus then they don’t get upgraded... saves a fortune!

[lawomous]

I ended up using Timewalking Badges. During WoD and Legion downtime I ran the timewalking once a week on my tanks\healers for the 500 badges, so I had about 5-10k badges over 12 toons. If you don't want to spend gold and got some time to grind badges you can do the Chromie scenario.

Here's a guide if you're interested. I haven't used this yet but it may be helpful to someone. https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comment...booster_guide/

[Demetrion]

If they don’t grant an XP bonus then they don’t get upgraded... saves a fortune!

Exactly.

Also I first went to upgrade those that I'm going to use the most. For example, before they came out I've already had 2 leather using classes at 120, which means I got only 1 left and it won't get leveled anytime soon, but on the other hand I've not leveled a single plate class. So plate looms have the prio there.

I do my upgrades via gold. That's the easiest currency to get for me at the moment.

[Fayenoor]

Buy them using gold using a Goblin alt.

[Schizoide]

If you want to cheap out, buy all the cloth XP heirlooms. Leather/mail/plate wearers can use them and do get the XP bonus. Of course you miss out on agility or strength so you'll be even weaker, so if you do this I would suggest making separate "fight" and "XP" gear sets. Kill monsters with the fight set, then switch to XP to hand-in quests.

[rda]

I would never spend Timewarped Badges on heirlooms, there are just too many things that are only available for those badges. If you want to count whether it makes sense spending gold, compute the amount of gold you need to spend on heirlooms on one side (A), then compute the amount of time these heirlooms are going to save you (B), then multiply that by the amount of gold you think you will be able to easily make (= farm) per hour (C), then compare the results (A vs C).

[FuxieDK]

Buy them using gold using a Goblin alt.

By now, everyone is exacted with Undercity, so Goblins don't offer any discount.

[kamuimac]

I would never spend Timewarped Badges on heirlooms, there are just too many things that are only available for those badges. If you want to count whether it makes sense spending gold, compute the amount of gold you need to spend on heirlooms on one side (A), then compute the amount of time these heirlooms are going to save you (B), then multiply that by the amount of gold you think you will be able to easily make (= farm) per hour (C), then compare the results (A vs C).

i can tell you how it looks for me . i already leveld up 2 toons to 120 using looms - on average it saved me around 3 hours per toon . 2 toons were like 5-6 hours .

i already made net gain on first toon since i bought gold with tokens

[Tyrathius]

Do you really need every single heirloom upgraded? Just doing one set per armor type of the xp-boosting ones will cost about 130k, which isn't too bad. And if you aren't actively leveling every single armor type you can get away with even less than that. You don't need the duplicate pieces, you don't need the necks, and IMO you really don't even need things like trinkets and weapons (although those may at least give you something of a boost).

[Fayenoor]

Update only the heirlooms that give you XP bonus. I upgraded a trinket in addition (the 2% HP on kill). That's huge if you stack it specially for classes which cant self heal. No need to upgrade weapon past 100. Get artifact at 100 and that should be good enough till 110.

I think the biggest benefit of heirlooms is lower levels 20-100. Beyond 100, only the XP bonus ones will suffice. So neck (common), ring (common). Now it is perfectly ok to wear non class rings/necks. Stats are irrelevant and XP bonus is good.

[ThatsOurEric]

I recommend using badges. Allows me to save my gold, and since I'm not in a hurry, I can upgrade my characters at my leisure.

[FuxieDK]

Do you really need every single heirloom upgraded?

No one needs anything in this game.

But a lot of people are completionists, and for heirlooms, toys and pets, so am I

[InTheEnd]

Heirlooms should be unique in that the armor type changes depending on class/spec of the character, thereby severely limiting the number of different heirlooms one needs to accommodate their alt. What is the use in having so many different pieces when everyone wants the same thing: decent stats and +X% experience gain that stays relevant from level 1 to level cap minus 1.