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Did you use heirloom gear?
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Post by
drainyou
Question is pretty simple really. With starting the toon at 55, did you bother using heirloom gear? If so which peices and any particular reasoning.
I'm aware that once through the main quest line you come out of the DK starter shop fairly decked out for your level - all slots filled. *giggity*
It was suggested to maybe use one piece such as shoulders or chest for an XP increase but I was told that the BiS gear can't be enchanted and that includes the 'runeing' or whatever that DKs apply to weapons.
I also am generally unaware to how well the heirloom gear compares to the dungeon / quest blues you get along the way, as I've seen some people using them up to 80 and others ditch.
Thanks in advance.
Post by
Nazeka
the 20% xp far surpasses ANYTHING that you'll get from 55 to 79.
The weapon is up to personal choice, I'd rather keep my Bloodied Arcanite Reaper than find two handers.
Post by
Victarious
The chest and shoulders are 100% worth it for the XP alone. 20% faster is 20% faster no matter where you start from. The pieces are comparable to either level 187 or 200 blues (I forget the exact conversion, if there is one) and can serve you well in normal 80s and even starting in on heroics. You don't really need to enchant your heroic-level gear, and you can get T9 quickly these days so it's not as though you'll be stuck in them for long.
Some people use the weapons as well, but I've found there are good enough weapons from questing/rep/dungeons, all of which can be runeforged, that it's not worth it.
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Post by
drainyou
Thanks for the quick responses - as usual the WoWHead community is ace in actually being informative vs. flaming a potentially 'newb' ish question.
Thanks.
Post by
woohaa
maybe alittle late but if your also planning on making a war or paly the heirlooms are worth getting because they can later be traded to those players.
an arcanite reaper with crusader is well worth using since the only good runeforge for dps is fallen crusader which you don't get till 72 or 73 i believe. IMO having a good weapon for your current lvl is always nice. especially as a melee...if you don't have the weapon currently then it'd be personal choice to farm the emblems...although seeing as you can do it rather quickly now i don't see it as much of a problem.
Post by
apocalypsa
When I leveled my dk we didnt have dual spec so I leveled with a blood tank spec, everyone thought you could only tank as frost and heirlooms almost didnt exist because no one at 80 had the heroisms to spare yet. Right now I'd recommend the shoulder+ chest, and the BAR until you get rune of the fallen crusader. Then just rock the blue axes from quests.
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Post by
DeeJerz
Yes, I leveled from 58 to 80 with the heirloom gear (hitting 80 right before maintenance today actually). I started out using the 2H sword then quickly switched to the 2H Axe (seeing as I had both already) and it was easy sailing. If you are worried about not being able to rune forge your weapon.. enchant it with Crusader.
Post by
drainyou
Seeing as DW frost tanking is pretty much the way to go at 80 I was wanting to get into that rhythm soon than later. I'm at 65 now and I have about 200 badges to throw at heirloom.
I've read that unless you get some nice 1h that going DW isn't worth it until 80 when you get some nice 1h heroic drops. I was curious what the thoughts were about 2 x heirloom swords ( nice 2.8 speed + stam / ap) with crusader on both. ( conveniently I'm a chanter on main. )
Also picking up the really nice trinket + shoulders.
Post by
woohaa
honestly i wouldn't waste badges on 2 1handers for tanking purposes. the one thing i consider before buying heirlooms is...will this be the only character that uses them? if the answer is yes then i don't buy it.
the only exception would be maybe daggers for a twink rogue.
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Post by
woohaa
yeah the maces are really nice to have. as i said if your going to use them on other characters then their worth buying.
one of my reasons for not really thinking the maces are necessary is most of your threat in frost is from HB/DnD/BB. yes you can tab target runestrike which will provide alot of threat with those maces. however the only thing those maces provide for the above 3 skills is from the AP on the maces.
in a dps spec or even tanking spec with blood. the arcanite reaper provides so much dmg.
however, if your going to reuse the maces then yes by all means use them in frost dw.
Post by
woohaa
on a completely different note. did anyone else read that cata will be releasing a bunch of new Heirlooms and our current ones will only go from 1-80 and the new heirlooms will be 1-85. So just a fyi, so that you guys aren't wondering why the stats on your heirloom that you specificially farmed for cata isn't increasing in stats. it'll still be worth using from 1-80 since i'm sure the stats will be the same as the new ones. until you hit 81 that is =)
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