Heirloom Changes in Shadowlands

By RenataKane Updated: 2022/03/10

Heirlooms in Shadowlands: Changes from Previous ExpansionsThe Heirloom Armor SetRegalia of Fabled Adventurers

Heirloom Chestpiece

Heirloom Helm

Exquisite Sunderseer MantleTattered Dreadmist MantleHeirloom Shoulders

(2) Set: Rested experience consumed is reduced by 30%.

(4) Set: Increases your out-of-combat regeneration in the outdoors, normal dungeons, and battlegrounds.

(5) Set: Gaining a level triggers Burst of Knowledge, dealing (X) Holy damage to nearby enemies and granting you 40% (Primary Stat) for 2 min. Defeating additional enemies extends this effect, up to 2 min.

(6) Set: Rested experience consumed is reduced up to 30%.

State of Other HeirloomsChauffeured ChopperChauffeured Mechano-HogBenefits of Heirlooms: Beyond the Bonuses

Heirloom pieces will continue to scale to your level and will probably still be better than anything you will find in the world, so those are some armor and weapon slots you don't have to worry about replacing as you level.

As far as we know, you will still be able to enchant heirloom pieces with powerful abilities (I like Enchant Neck - Mark of the Hidden Satyr on my heirloom necklace, as one example) and not lose that until you replace the item at max level.

You can apply transmogs to heirlooms to maintain a particular "look", or change it as often as you like.

Comments

Comment by gianmaicol

"heirloom upgrade level 4/4".

news about that? we still have to upgrade them? any info on the brackets?

Comment by Kuyosakee

"Heirloom pieces will continue to scale to your level and will probably still be better than anything you will find in the world." I don't think that it is the case right now, looms tend to be underperforming

Comment by Styxs13

So that 5/5 ability is really cool and totally sucks at the same time. I was stealthing around on my gnome rogue in the ptr, just looking around, and I "zoned" up a level. Well this set off the explosion in the middle of the large elite crowd I was around... They played gnome punt with my butt. Cool ability, some time wasted when leveling on quest turn in, sometimes gets ya in a bad position.

Comment by tumppu75

So what about the heirloom weapons? No change apart from level crunch, it seems?

Comment by Thoorin

Eternal FML to poor souls that didn't farm Siege of Orgrimmar raid when it was current content in Pandaria, and as such don't have the improved weapon heirlooms with 2 gem sockets. Sure, the exp gem is no more come SL, but there's still value to gem sockets. You can put movement speed there...

Comment by TheRevenantHero

These changes are so absolutely terrible. Even with the rested experience buff, you'll still run out of rested within like 3 MAYBE 4 levels. And then to recharge it, you have to be logged off that character for 10 freaking days. Every other ability on the heirlooms is pretty much worthless as well. This is such a slap in the face to people who spent an insane amount of gold to constantly upgrade the heirlooms. The fact that Blizzard won't refund that gold is insulting and has definitely caused me to not buy Shadowlands.

Comment by JDLKY

My problem is these are going to be useless in the new content. I'm done leveling new characters up to
120. I want something to help to help past 120~50 and this system, as it stands now, fails.

Comment by Crownfucnroyal

I thought they promised they were going to be giving us heirloom bonus' that were actually good. These are all complete trash.... Making them have no transmog cost would be better... and even then that would be a garbage reward for the 200,000+ gold ive spent upgrading all these. Am slightly disappointed to say the least.

Comment by Jevnaker

The removal of xp from heirlooms along with the removal of xp potions and the level squish is the most idiotic and useless changes to wow since they removed the option for us to turn off the ugly new char models.

Comment by Comocosono

So what you are telling me is this is another completely useless and unneeded bull*&^# change. Replacing useful experience gain with useless and worthless set bonuses. I guess it doesn't matter until they come up with a new class and increase the maximum characters you are allowed per account anyway, can't see myself deleting a character to level another halfa$$d "allied race" of a 4th mage/warrior/druid/monk/hunter. With party sync you can just scale down your level to do dungeons and questing with your friends anyway.

Comment by Comocosono

So what you are saying it is is easier, more efficient, and less costly (by at least 200k) to just buy/craft gear at every level 10 bracket that thanks to Shadowlands crafting changes has amazing set bonuses/sockets/procs/on-use effects.

Comment by CrunchBoat

I'm still waiting to hear what Blizz is going to do for the ones like me who spent hundreds of thousands on upgrades. Still feel like I'm getting shafted for being a nerd and collecting so many heirlooms.

At the very least full heirloom should mean you ALWAYS have rested xp. I got heirlooms so I could power level without worrying about gear. Now I can power level for a few levels then wait 10 days to do it again. Sad. If always having rested xp is a no go, then make heirlooms gain rested xp much much faster. Like 3 days and you're at full rested again.

What I want from heirlooms is basically an item that is right around that just above blue but below purple item level for whatever level I'm on.So I don't have to worry about gear leveling. The new heirloom bonuses are so incredibly blasè.

Comment by Sharkey21

Pretty cool to know that dozens and dozens of hours of grinding and hundreds of thousands of gold on upgrades/enchants etc. is gone just like that. What a joke.

Comment by Grogal

Just logged in during prepatch. Despite having multiple heirlooms equipped it keeps saying 0/7 in the set...
I have neck/shoulder/back/ring... so should give me 4/7 in the set and the 2 bonusses that come with it.
Anyone else having this?

Comment by GrimHood

It's just after the pre-patch and the 5 piece leveling explosion is hurting/aggroing neutrals. So you go hand in a bunch of quests, ding, and get slapped by a bunch of elites lol.

Comment by Phuri2010

Not sure if it has been mentioned, but...the Hellscream Heirlooms (dropped in Seige of Orgrimmar from Garrosh) are now level 1+ (before squish they started at lvl 90)

Comment by Zathriam

It would be nice if the highest heirloom bracket actually covered the last (currently 50) level aswell and not just -49.
As it stands now, all is fun and games until you hit level 50 and your heirlooms drop their effectiveness and the stat squish $%^&s you over.
I personally don't care either way about the exp bonus, levelling has always been fast anyway, but when levelling up from 49 to 50 actually makes you weaker rather than stronger then something is messed up.

Comment by Velabruglas

I hope someone can answer this question as I have been searching the web for a week and can't find an answer.

I don't see an ability to increase the level of the necklace or ring past 29. If that's the case, you can't get the 6 set bonus from 30 and up. None of the boosts state they can be used on those two items. Anybody know if what it seems to be true actually is - that you can't get that extra 30% rested XP bonus once you get to level 30?

Comment by sivla

Ah yes the benefits of these heirlooms now. There are no benefits at all. you get to keep 30% rested longer..big fat deal. as for that mindless and stupid buff that lasts no time at all after you ding..utterly useless. In fact, there isn't one single reason why I would even bother with looms any longer, especially when leveling through BFA where gear drops almost at will from mobs and the npc's throwing gear at you from quest rewards every few quests etc.

We really have been cheated here. Look at it this, it hurts no one for anyone to have xp heirlooms except the tiny minority of loosers who really should find an alternative game to play, I wouldn't be surprised of they where the exact same minority that didn't want flying.

Look, it was our choice whether we splashed the cash on looms, and then splashing that cash enormously on upgrading it. It hurt absolutely nobody. It wasn't as if we could wear it and benefit from it any new expansion until that expansion was practically dead, much like wod, legion, bfa etc etc. On entering a new expansion not only could we not fly straight away and i am fine with that, as long as i can have flying at max level without all the mindless stupid meaningless and other adjectives you can add to grinding rep. I also understand and accept that there is also a tiny minority who love to grind and grind and grind for nothing reason than they enjoy it. That is fair enough to them, but when it impacts the majority in a negative way. Taking away the xp from heirlooms is a very negative thing to do. (the whole point of these heirlooms was to level up alt toons as quickly as possible, because either the guild needed some specc they don't have and so people level up a toon as quickly as possible to help the guild out, but thanks to the idiotic minority that has now been removed).

To those people who keep repeatedly babbling about how much more xp you get now than previously. I say to you, you have completely missed the point entirely.

Take pre patch, the stats on heirlooms simply could never compete even with regular green bta items, and blue / purple random quest rewards completely out done them. You only wore the heirlooms for the xp gain, you most definitely didn't wear it because it saved you have to get new gear all the time, those times disappeared a long while ago. You either wore them for the xp boost, or you wore regular gear which out performed the looms, no matter where.

Comment by HinataObsession

I am inclined to agree that is complete and utter bull@#$%. The entire point of heirlooms was the XP boost. And I have 2 accounts. Do you know how much gold I pissed away on upgrading heirlooms? If I had that all back between the 2 I could probably buy the Brontosaurus mount. We should be refunded at least 50% of all gold we spent on upgrading Heirlooms since they took away 50% of the heirlooms functionality.

And I should also note that prices to buy the upgrade pieces have -not- changed. So there is plenty more gold that will have to be pissed away due to this curveball.

Comment by Qoko

I've given my opinion and upgrade priority as heirlooms look currently on the heirloom set bonus. Yes, they might be less applicable but with some carefully upgrade planning still useful. If you've spend gold already to upgrade it all, I can understand that feels like wasted gold.

Comment by Incandio

I think it's pretty clear this is Blizzard's way of removing Heirlooms from the game without removing them from the game. As in, if you've got them you've got them, but who would get them now?

Comment by Taneo

I don't mind these changes, I like how heirloom gear isn't as critical now (if an efficient leveling grind is in-mind, anyway). I never did unlock a set for all variations class/ spec. The 5-piece bonus sounds silly and out of place, I hope it's changed for something similar to the others.

Comment by Stormwarning

They squished the max level heirloom down to 49 (because that's fair to begin with) and then expect anyone still using heirlooms to pay, on average, 5k to upgrade the piece 49 to 50. So you have already paid to level the heirloom to max level and now they want you to pay to upgrade it 1 level. Hope folks keep their gold in their pockets :)

Comment by Dudeiscrazy

Read

Notes to self:

* The set bonuses are as follows: (Heirloom weapons and trinkets play no part in creating set bonuses)
(2) Set: Rested experience consumed is reduced by 30%.
(4) Set: Increases your out-of-combat regeneration in the outdoors, normal dungeons, and battlegrounds.
(5) Set: Gaining a level triggers Burst of Knowledge, dealing (X) Holy damage to nearby enemies and granting you 40% (Primary Stat) for 2 min. Defeating additional enemies extends this effect, up to 2 min.
(6) Set: Rested experience consumed is reduced up to 30%.
Heirloom set bonus effects only work for characters from levels 1-50.
*Heirloom pieces will continue to scale to your level and will PROBABLY STILL BE BETTER THAN ANYTHING YOU WILL FIND IN THE WORLD, so those are some armor and weapon slots you don't have to worry about replacing as you level.

Comment by Syphin

At the very least, give heirlooms a stat advantage to make leveling easier. Doesn't have to be crazy, just add like 10 ilvls so the stats will always outweigh anything I'll pick up and I can slice through mobs faster. There needs to be *something* that makes these worth the gold sink.

Comment by Punraz

Heirlooms scale now above Level 50 and the set bonuses apply.

Heirloom Changes in Shadowlands

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