The New Leveling Experience And Heirlooms in Shadowlands

[javierdsv]

I'm so damn annoyed I can't reply to that blue post on the official WoW forums... I know they don't read them but I'm really angry about these bonuses. They're close to useless.

Why remove the XP bonuses? They want veteran players to level from 0 once again?
Because as far as I know, and as the blue said, these bonuses were to aid people who already leveled a character and wants to spend less time leveling the next time.

They should have just restricted the amount of alts you need at max level before the XP bonuses were applied again. To like 3 or 4.

[LordVargK]

Dude, READ THE POST. Heirlooms are literally becoming even better than they are, purely from a stat perspective. Nobody is going to put on a fucking green or blue quest reward. Live in reality.

Where does it say so?

[LostSinclair]

Who uses rested xp for brand new alts that can now apparently get to cap within 5-7 hours? completely useless. Also the burst of of knowledge thing, most dings happen during quest turn ins not random mobbing.

If they want to make these things still useful bump up the ilvl enough to they're almost pre nerf levels and add some movement speed along with the out of combat regeneration.

[Olololo2r5]

why are people on this post acting so entitled like heirlooms are such an achievement that the bonuses should be catered exactly like they want? sound like so spoilt and whiny.

[Holdodlig]

Those bonuses are boring. When I level up a char I never have time to get rested. And come on, dealing an aoe while leveling. Seems like a diablo 2 affix but sadly in WoW it just no happens enough to matter in any way or to be actually engaging.

[DeltrusDisc]

why are people on this post acting so entitled like heirlooms are such an achievement that the bonuses should be catered exactly like they want? sound like so spoilt and whiny.

For real...

I honestly wish they'd just get rid of heirlooms... they make leveling and dungeoning a lot less fun, as the chances you get a reward you actually need are pretty much lowered to 0, since so many slots are already filled.

Oh, why not just not use heirlooms then?

It's the curse of "I already have it."
Blegh. =/

[TriHard]

This is definitely not an acceptable bonus, it should have a straight up power gap compared to normal gear and it should offer stuff like high movement speed, fun combat procs, etc.
You're not gonna be leveling up that often so that proc is just fucking useless.

At least give us the option of getting all our gold back and I'll be satisfied, cuz I'd rather take exp bonus over these lame ass bonuses

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why are people on this post acting so entitled like heirlooms are such an achievement that the bonuses should be catered exactly like they want? sound like so spoilt and whiny.

Are you for fucking real? Can you not use your brain and think for a second as to why people are upset? We've spent a shit ton of gold to have exp bonuses to have it taken away, in return we get the most boring set bounses this game has ever seen, this is as boring as WoW classic gear set bonuses.

Maybe think before you decide to comment next time.

[Nnyco]

The 60% rested exp is still very strong.

[MageInACan]

because heirlooms gave you such a huge exp bonus on EVERYTHING that it made leveling way too quick, so it felt disjointed, so heirlooms felt required and expensive, instead of a bonus you could get.
rested only effects a few things, and is limited, while just overall all exp is not.

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gaining a level does not take 30 mins, actually if you are good you can keep this buff up 100%
50 levels, takes about 10 hours to get 1-50.
but you can speedrun it to be better of course.

Astounding! FelPlague's come to defend Blizzard's garbage decisions again! Who would have guessed?!

[Julian Rayne]

So lvl 120turns into 50. But how about other chars, eg if i have lvl 104, 90,110?
what lvl will they be?

• Level 120 becomes level 50
• Level 110 becomes level 45
• Level 100 becomes level 40
• Level 80 becomes level 30
• Level 61 becomes level 25
• Level 45 becomes level 20
• Level 28 becomes level 12
• Level 20 becomes level 10
• Level 10 becomes level 5

Source: https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...s-level-squish

[Daffan]

Trash. Complete trash.

2 needs to be buffed to 100%

6 needs to be changed

4 is too low time, a joke really

The 60% rested exp is still very strong.

How

It takes years to build up

[TheRevenantHero]

As I predicted, heirlooms are utterly fucking useless in Shadowlands. If they don't give players the option to get a refund on their upgrades, then I(and likely a lot of other players) am abandoning this dumpster fire of a game. Because right now, the changes are basically Blizzard telling people that invested gold in heirlooms to go fuck themselves.

[Nnyco]

Trash. Complete trash.

2 needs to be buffed to 100%

6 needs to be changed

4 is too low time, a joke really




How

It takes years to build up

It takes 10 days to fully fill it up, 5 as pandaren. Your comment makes no sense either tbh: 100% would mean you always get double exp from rested.

Not that you need any bonus experience anymore in the first place, considerin how fast SL leveling is.

Astounding! FelPlague's come to defend Blizzard's garbage decisions again! Who would have guessed?!

Astounding! A throwaway account starting drama.

[Kazlehoff]

We want to ensure that players’ investment in these Heirlooms continues to offer unique benefits while levelling

the unique benefit we bought or earned Heirloom gear for was "increased levelling speed"

any benefit other than (directly) "increased levelling speed" is not what I want out of heirlooms.

consuming rested experience at a slower rate? i mean it will lead to extra experience. so ok. i don't like it as much as flat "extra experience" but ok.

a 2/4 min stat buff? two to four min? really? make that 30 min to an hour and maybe it would be worth considering.

out of combat regeneration? ever since winds of change went live, I've been power levelling one of every class and race on the horde side. I don't think any character I've levelled so far (and all I have left to do is Troll Lock, UD Priest, and Gob Rogue) has ever needed to buy food or water. I'd even rather have increased rested experience generation.

What will be done about the hard to acquire heirlooms? for example, I went completely out of my way to earn the Stranglethorn fishing ring.

I would also like to see an additional 8 set bonus for those players who went out of their way to acquire the rings. perhaps the ability to generate rested experience anywhere.


What i can see happening from these changes is players will start making their character 10 days before they plan to start leveling it just to park it in a rested zone to generate that rested experience, then not playing alts until they've generated enough rested experience again. whats the point if you cant get any benefit out of your very costly heirloom gear?

[Traveler Voltin]

this is sad but not surprising from blizzard. since they hate fun

[Relapses]

And now we're getting cryptic. How does being critical of this change make you incapable of critical thinking? I'd say it's exactly the opposite. If you don't see these new heirloom bonuses are at the very least worse, then you're critical thinking is completely nonexistent.

Cryptic?! Are you fucking serious?

Blizzard makes the leveling experience quicker which removes the necessity of items which make the leveling experience quicker. This isn't rocket surgery. If you can't put this together because you're too fucking angry that they "took away" something from you, you're probably not the brightest crayon in the box.

[TrollHunter3000]

Those bonuses are lame.

Not if you dungeon spam. Kind of insane then.

[TheRevenantHero]

Not if you dungeon spam. Kind of insane then.

Even with dungeon spam, these bonuses are trash.

[Cazze]

Hahahahahaha

People are ugly crying, demanding gold refunds. What the fluying fuck. Have you not used those heirlooms? Why the fuck buy them then?

Seems to me you can't accept your own stupidity. I mean to be so angry and offended by fucking this.

Holy shit.

[Lucetia]

The 60% rested exp is still very strong.

It is only strong if you let your toon sit for a week. At that point you'll have enough rest for 2.5 levels (currently, so maybe 5 in the expansion) so it'll only last for ~5-8 levels if that and then you'll be receiving zero bonus. If you don't let your toon sit that long then the bonus is more useless.

Not if you dungeon spam. Kind of insane then.

They are even more lame if you dungeon spam.