Like I said, I've leveled several alts and the heirlooms were weaksauce. I used them until they stopped scaling but I didn't bother to upgrade them to level 50, much less 60.
Re levels 1-20, I've only leveled allied races from the start recently so I missed half of that, but 10-20 they didn't seem particularly powerful. Maybe they were and it just went by so quickly I didn't notice-- but anything you don't notice is inconsequential, by definition. They aren't worth 500k. Not 50k either. If it was like 20k to upgrade an entire armor type I guess I'd do it just for the minor convenience.
Maybe if I was leveling by killing old world Chromie time rares only and then logging off until the rares respawn, relying on rest XP to level, then they'd offer real value. That is reportedly very fast leveling in terms of hours /played but takes months accumulating rest, using it, then logging off waiting for more. Or if I was leveling in content that doesn't consistently give gear, like... I dunno, Torghast? Pet battling? Mob grinding? BFA islands give gear now.
Anyway I'm not looking to fight-- if people inexplicably like them then sure, leave them in the game. I just see no possible scenario where I'd upgrade mine. I'm willing to be convinced, change my mind!
Last edited by Schizoide; 2023-03-20 at 07:26 PM.
You barely get gear as you level and you outlevel it straight away, heirlooms are just superior thats a simple fact, if you want to level with far less power and slower then thats fine but you are wrong saying they are worthless, also gear is random you might not get a weapon upgrade for 10 levels, seems you are out of touch with reality here, scaling gear as you level or relying on random drops or quest rewards that get out leveled, i know what im going to pick.
You say you had millions lying around, you barely need to spend anything to upgrade them, gold is easy to make if you actively go after it and you can upgrade them for free with timewalking.
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I leveled every single allied race to 50 with partial heirlooms, all of which stopped scaling between 35 and 45 or so. My experience is they are a minor convenience factor only-- but I leveled through quests which constantly shower you in new gear. Most were in SL with the 50% XP buff, but I did do the final two in Dragonflight (which is actually faster with the new XP curve).
Timewalking is "free", but I'd have to do a ton of TW dungeons to upgrade anything. You make like 50 per dungeon (after the once per TW quest for 500) and you'd need many thousands. The final weapon upgrade to 60 alone costs 1200 TW badges. And that's 60, not 70.
I have tens of thousands of TW badges too, don't get me wrong, but I accumulated them by doing a single TW dungeon for the quest on multiple characters to save up to 5000 badges on a couple chars for the next times they add mounts. So that was substantial effort over months and months of play. The gold is much "cheaper" for me, and that isn't worthwhile either.
Last edited by Schizoide; 2023-03-20 at 08:26 PM.