Forgive me if this has already been answered.

Will the heirloom chest and shoulder pieces continue to provide the experience bonus from 80-85 in the expansion? Will they continue to scale? I may take a hit in damage while leveling, however if I could get an extra 20% experience by wearing them, it would be worth it.

It's been stated elsewhere that heirloom items cease to scale at 80, and that this is by design.

I don't think Blizz will allow that as soon as the expansion is released, they may however change it after a good deal of the playerbase has reached max level.

And, actually, a blue has stated that they have not made a decision yet

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I don't think Blizz will allow that as soon as the expansion is released, they may however change it after a good deal of the playerbase has reached max level.

And, actually, a blue has stated that they have not made a decision yet

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Then they need to sit down and have a meeting about that, as ANOTHER blue posted yesterday that they had....

no one knows.

it's likely that they will not, but it remains to be seen what the exact mechanics behind it will be.

personally, I'd like to see something where you need to have 1 level 85 to unlock the xp bonus for your alts. it would suck if we had to farm for all new BoA's just for 80-85 or have our alts going from decent-level blues at 80 (BoA is supposed to be roughly equivalent to a blue at any given level) to crap greens at 81.

perhaps the shoulder/chest xp bonus could stop functioning at 80 and they'll add new BoA items with xp bonuses (helm/cape!? make it so!) that require level 85 badges.

I hope ill be able to throw my shoulders back onto my shammy,
But yeah I'm guessing they wont allow it

Even if they have not made a decision yet, they have plenty of time to do so.


I imagine they could cap the existing heirloom items at 80, then create another heirloom vendor that would take your old heirloom items (plus a fee, maybe 50-100g?) And give you a new heirloom item that would work 80-85. The vendor would only sell to level 85 characters. That way we would need to level our mains first.

gg

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I currently heirloom items specifically state that they go from levels 1 to 80 so we don't currently plan to make the currently available items auto-update to go to level 85 in the next expansion.

As for the experience gain, nothing is set in stone yet, but I think it makes sense that we won't want players to get a 20% exp bonus when leveling to 85.

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will we have to re-gear our BoA'd-out alts when they hit 81, then?

At least consider letting the weapons level up past 80. They don't give experience, and I love my arcanite reaper.

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will we have to re-gear our BoA'd-out alts when they hit 81, then?

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if you wear boa gear at 80, when there are easily obtainable blues that are better, you are bad anyways. so what does it matter?

IMHO

4.0.x they should only scale and function 1-79

4.1+ they should scale and function 1-84

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will we have to re-gear our BoA'd-out alts when they hit 81, then?

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If you hit 80 and keep the BoA gear, you suck. I shudder at the sight of a tank or DPS doing heroics with BoA gear.

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I currently heirloom items specifically state that they go from levels 1 to 80 so we don't currently plan to make the currently available items auto-update to go to level 85 in the next expansion.

As for the experience gain, nothing is set in stone yet, but I think it makes sense that we won't want players to get a 20% exp bonus when leveling to 85.

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So what will happen with rested EXP?

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I currently heirloom items specifically state that they go from levels 1 to 80 so we don't currently plan to make the currently available items auto-update to go to level 85 in the next expansion.

As for the experience gain, nothing is set in stone yet, but I think it makes sense that we won't want players to get a 20% exp bonus when leveling to 85.

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Will recruit a friend be available to Worgen and Goblins? It would seem a bit unfair if so.

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if you wear boa gear at 80, when there are easily obtainable blues that are better, you are bad anyways. so what does it matter?

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I'm talking about in terms of leveling... let's say I roll my worgen alt, starting from level 1. by the time I reach 80, no one will be running northrend instances anymore, so it's not like I'll be able to rely on anything but green quest rewards.

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So what will happen with rested EXP?

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As with the previous expansions, rested XP gets reset across the board. When did you hop on the WoW wagon? 3 months ago?

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So what will happen with rested EXP?

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Nothing, you don't have any @ level cap. I believe they made this change for TBC? You only gain enough rested XP to take you to the level cap.

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So what will happen with rested EXP?

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In the past, rested states have been eliminated on max level characters for an expansion