Comments on: How to acquire Wrath (level 80) heirloom items in WoW

By: My Alt Puzzle « Tish Tosh Tesh

My Alt Puzzle « Tish Tosh Tesh — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:27:28 +0000

[...] to make my little team as self-sufficient as possible? How will I ever survive without Heirloom gear? [...]

By: Grombeck

Grombeck — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:30:32 +0000

Helps if I include the url:

http://psynister.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/enchanting-heirlooms/

By: Grombeck

Grombeck — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:30:06 +0000

Not sure how you feel about cross posting other blogs, but here is one I found about enchants on heirlooms. I learned that you can also enchant shoulders with the PVP enchant. The easiest way to get this would be to use the stone keeper shards to get Wintergrasp commindation and mail them to the alt since they are BOA aswell.

By: Grombeck

Grombeck — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:52:29 +0000

Don’t forget that you can enchant the weapons and chests w/ old world enchants. I have the 30 spellpower on my staff and 100 mana on my chest. I can burn everything at low levels. The enchants are very expensive, but since I plan to level a warlock in cata, these heirlooms/enchants will be used a few times.

By: arbitrary

arbitrary — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:58:17 +0000

Thanks for this, mind-boggling and makes me think I really need to be playing WoW in all my non-existent spare time, but at least it means I can focus on trying to get 1 heirloom before Cataclysm!

By: Tesh

Tesh — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:53:34 +0000

So the logical question in my mind is:

“When will they sell Heirloom-like gear for cash?”

Seems to me to be a potentially better seller than XP potions.

By: Gronthe

Gronthe — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:02:09 +0000

@ Koch: I wish I had known this sooner, but thanks, this is a great tip!!!

If I were looking for information on how to obtain Heirlooms, this is a wonderfully consise article that I would recommend to anyone. Simply splendid!

Having obtained heirlooms using all 3 methods, I would highly recommend the PvE via Heroic route for the speed at which you can obtain the required emblems. The tournament was fun the first time through, but you can only make a max of 10 champion seals a day (not including ToC 5Man heroic), so make that 13. But like you say, 6-8 heroic runs and you’re good to go.

By: Aggrazel

Aggrazel — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:26:45 +0000

Another thing I did not know about heirlooms until recently is that your character can equip heirlooms of a armor type even if you don’t have that proficiency yet, provided that you will get it sometime.

Example, my level 20 shaman is using the “chainmail” heirloom items, even though shaman cannot equip chain until level 40. It does downgrade the stats to make the armor value “leather-like” and it even says “leather” when I look at the item after equipping it.

A handy thing if you’re buying heirlooms for a low level character that gets an armor upgrade later, just buy the best you can (plate for warriors, paladins – chain for hunters, druids)

By: Fulguralis

Fulguralis — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:18:56 +0000

Yeah, what Koch said. It actually took me a while to figure that out (by accident I might add), and then I felt like a dunce for about five minutes. You get that familiar number box like when you’re trying to trade someone only 2 flasks (or w/e). Definitely helpful for batch processing emblems.

By: Koch (Aszune)

Koch (Aszune) — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:25:50 +0000

Just one note to speed up the process (as I didn’t see it mentioned yet) – you can “bulk buy” emblems of a lower tier by shift-clicking on the item you want and the entering a number.

As none of the other items are usually bought in bulk this might be worth mentioning.