Transferring emblems to alts its a currency?

[superstargoddess]

I like the idea. By the time you get to 80, you should have a grasp on how to play your class and just need the gear to go with it. It's better than trying to do things that people won't let you into because you don't have gear that's 2 times higher than the raid you are going to.

[Khanjin]

If your alt can do whatever your main is doing to get the emblems than why not take your alt in the first place maybe then there wouldnt be T9 hunters doing 2k dps in heroics...

That has nothing to do with having a main, if you have a main you play well you must atleast have a hunch about how to look up the basics of any class. You're either a terrible player, or a good player. It takes an hour to figure out the basics of any class.

[Torinogut]

I would like this idea. With some modifications though. I want the highest badge transferrable to be 1 below heroic 5 man standard. That way you would create enough valor/hero badges for your alt to deck him in epix, but not good enough gear to step into the highest raids.

[Grocalis]

A system like this would go a long way to curb the WH craze. So many times I find my alts fighting for anything worthwhile because of a low WH score, I could know every fight in the game and it would not matter, because I am 100-200 points below the "minimum". I have even logged on to show possible groups that I have a well gears tank that does raids, but it would not matter, he would want me to take my main, not the alt. Let's face it, we are soon going to need better way to get gear for alts to deal with the community driven WH ceiling, or figure out a way to remove WH score mongering, which I don't see happening.

My idea, personally, is to allow any emblems below the top emblem to be tradeable. So now, I could trade all my conquest, but I can't trade all my triumph. One 3.3 comes out and triumph becomes the new heroic emblem, then it will be tradeable, but frost wouldn't.

Also, I recommend a change to the rolling mechanic. Anytime you use general group loot, the "Need" option makes the item soulbind to the character, thus if you needed it, you get it and can't do anything further other then equip or sell. "Greed" would be changed to make the item BoA until "equiped" for the first time, at which point it would then also soul bind to the person that first equipped it. That way, you can run groups and when those leggings that no one wants drop, we can actually make some use out of them by all greed rolling for alts then selling it for a measly 5g.

We are the community that seems to put gear level over skill level, so we need to find alternate ways to bypass everyones stupidity about WH, and the best way to do that is to allow the main that we get all the groups with, to be able to gear up the alts that no one wants.

[Mord]

Looking forward to even more geared people who has absolutely no idea how to play their class...

Like you!

[Blightyboy]

Well, bear in mind that while it is currency like gold, it's BoP currency, unlike gold. Apples and oranges.

[Heywes]

I like the idea, but i think it would be smarter to make it the second highest and lower can be traded down to alts, not the highest tier of emblem.
So an example for next patch will be, i can transfer Triumphant badges down to alts but not Frost.
It could work, but i doubt it will be implemented.

[kaspertg]

I like it mainly because i could then get emblems on my healer for my dps toon. Who's stuck in the lacks raid gear to raid category people have a hardon for.

[Kuismar]

I would like this idea. With some modifications though. I want the highest badge transferrable to be 1 below heroic 5 man standard. That way you would create enough valor/hero badges for your alt to deck him in epix, but not good enough gear to step into the highest raids.

was thinking something similar to this. use the current system where you can trade down say triumph to conquest, conquest to valor. but instead of buying say the lower badge you can buy a heirloom badge of conquest/valor/heroism. those badges could then be traded with your alts.

[Sharaki]

That has nothing to do with having a main, if you have a main you play well you must atleast have a hunch about how to look up the basics of any class. You're either a terrible player, or a good player. It takes an hour to figure out the basics of any class.

I like the idea, and like Khanjin said it has mostly nothing to do with skill. Combine it with thing like "allow any emblems below the top emblem to be tradeable. So now, I could trade all my conquest, but I can't trade all my triumph." And here we have wrorking system. You just should post this on wow suggestion forums.
Basically I like the idea since I'm playing both hybrid and pure characters. In many realms there's great need of tanks/healers while dps have hard time to find 5man groups (to get those 'normal' badges), with this I could just grab my tank into heroics so my dps class could raid.

[Deadlybonne]

It would greatly enhance gameplay in my opinion and make playing alts more fun. U could also choose to play more on your alt and transfer emblems to your main. So when your play your alt more your main benefits from it.

So its not only a good system for gearing up alts, but its also a good way to give more freedom on which class u want to play and which char u decide to gear up ?

Or maybe they can make a new tier of loot like heirlooms that can be bought for alts.

Keep in mind that this system would be used for people playing this game for a while. Or maybe a system could be made where u can spend your own emblems so emblem cost for your alt would get reduced. Some kind of personal achievement system where u can spend emblems so the overal cost for all your other chars of emblem cost at vendor gets reduced.

Either way im up for any kind of system that allows your main to make it better for your alts in any way.

[shakeme]

The reason why this will not work and the argument that was given in the first reply to this thread is:

If you could transfer badges among characters then basically what you are allowing is for double, triple, quadruple token gains... if you main was not geared yes but you had 4 alts, you run the heroic daily on all 5 of your toons... there you go... your main now has 10 emblems of triumph.

It is a great idea for those of us that are geared already so we can send things to alts, but it can be abused by people who are not geared yet to get their mains into BiS items really really quickly.

What would be a better solution is to make all the badge items BoA... that way you could use your main to buy items and then send them to your alt... you would not be able to stack badges that way and you would still be able to send badge gear to your alts.

ok then, make all but the newest badge tradable. Does anyone really care about 226 loot at this point to any serious extent?

[masterprtzl]

The only downside I would see is people doing the daily heroic on multiple characters for more top-tier emblems.

This would be prevented if the top-tier emblem couldn't be traded. Simple.

solution: make it so one less than top tier is tradeable while the rest are not.

[atomicalibi]

strongly disagree, usually i dont side with the whole "this game is too easy" thing but this would be pretty ridiculous
+ it would mess up the gear:skill ratio as some1 wont have to have ANY experience on a class to get good gear as they could just get it from their main

[Xuany]

I've got a better idea, how about they just send you BiS gear in the mail when you ding 80, instead of the fireworks and potions. Tbh this game is to easy already, have I thought about this? Yes, but it's to easy and will NEVER work. And just because you leveled it from 1-80 doesn't mean you know how to play your class, all you know is the rotation it takes to kill the mob, raid rotation and single target leveling rotation is completely different. >

I have six 80's and don't mind farming Heroics at all, gives me something to do, if my gear is handed to me in 2 days its boring and I'll just be standing in Dalaran watching trade chat and it's trolls.

[Deathleaper]

Why not, their talking about doing it with rep lol

[Freedom]

You could easily bypass all sorts of instance timers to gear up one char twice as fast... so unless the tokens went down one tier in quality it'd be a bit cheap. Like in 3.3 you could get 323232 gear twice as fast or more depending on how many alts you have.

Edit: oops I wish you could get iLvl 323 gear XD.

[shakeme]

Tbh this game is to easy already

We suggested only older badges become tradable. How does have a secondary chara gear up with old gear via your main make the game immensely easier.

I mean really, there are changes that make this game easier, and then there are changes they make the game more enjoyable. I think this is more of an enjoyable change than an easier change.

[Extract]

The game would be meaningless

[Fenixdown]

I can't say I'm personally for the idea.

The fun thing about alts, is while sure they may not be as well-geared as your main, they are your fallback for earlier content.

Personally, I HATE taking my priest to Naxx or Ulduar 10 (unless it's to finish my hard modes). However, that's what my alt DK is for. I bring him, have fun, get a few upgrades, fewer things get dusted, and everyone is happy.

It's what I did in BC with both my hunter and my shaman. I would take one or the other to Kara, Gruul, or Mag (unless the group was friends and desperate for a healer) while I would raid weekdays on my main in BT.

That's what alts are for. At least that's my opinion.