Heirloom Item Level Change
by Its_Immanis - 9 years ago show comments
In an effort to further improve the effectiveness of Heirloom items after the release of patch 6.1, Crithto announced that after the maintenance today a hotfix will be implemented which will increase the item level of all heirlooms from levels 91-100.
There will still be some items which have better stats, but that should occur less frequently than it did before today’s fix.
The original post is provided below along with a link to the thread to follow for any further updates or for questions you may have about the upgrade.
Originally Posted by Crithto (Official Post)
We’ve received feedback from some of you regarding Heirloom item scaling from levels 91 to 100, particularly in comparison to items available from dungeons. After some discussion, we agree that Heirlooms need to be made more competitive with dungeon items. So, we’ve just applied a hotfix that will increase the item levels of Heirlooms from levels 91 to 100 (live once scheduled maintenance completes). You may still find the occasional item that has slightly higher stats, but the frequency of that happening should be much lower.
Thank you for the feedback!
I think this is a really smart change. On one of my alts I took the Dwarven Bunker as one of my buildings and the level 1 perk for that building is doubling the chances that a quest reward will have a rare or epic upgrade, along with increasing the “potency” of the upgrade. When I would get upgrades the item would be quite a bit better than the heirloom so I would have to make a choice between taking the upgrade and losing the XP boost, or keeping the boost and having to shard/sell a nice piece of gear.