Sexy Draenei holding a Repurposed Lava Dredger

Patch 3.2.0 is right on top of us and I’ve updated our Heirlooms Item List to include all the new chest pieces and the 2 new weapons being added.

• The chest pieces will each cost 40 Emblems of Heroism
• The 2 handed mace Repurposed Lava Dredger currently has placer stats on WoWHead’s PTR site and should cost 65 Emblems of Heroism
• The 1 handed mace Venerable Mass of McGowan doesn’t have a confirmed price yet as far as I can tell but it should be safe to assume it will be 40 Emblems just like the other 1 handed heirloom weapons

The new Heirlooms combined with other changes like Druids/Shamans getting Travel Form/Ghost Wolf at level 16 should really make low level twinking interesting. Not to mention the changes to PvP Experience.

Updated List of Available Heirlooms

Ziedra Level 1

I finally let my alt-itis get the better of me and succumbed to buying a bunch of heirlooms in an attempt to level up a priest. I say “attempt” because this will be my oh… 4th or 5th time I try to level up a priest. Every time I’ve gotten somewhere between level 20 and 30 before I just couldn’t take it anymore and gave up but this time I have some help! So I bought the following for now at level 1:

• The Blessed Hammer of Grace
• Exquisite Sunderseer Mantle
• Discerning Eye of the Beast
• Swift Hand of Justice

Pretty amusing to have spell damage and haste at level 1. Regardless, my level 1 twinked priest still ran OOM after smiting a few boars, luckily my Blessed Hammer of Grace packs quite a melee punch. Melee priest huzzah!

It didn’t take me long at all to get to level 10 where I decided to leave Teldrassil to go to Bloodmyst Isle since the quest rewards are better than any of the other alliance starting zones. It still bugs me how the Blood Elves get two blue quality items from their quests and the Draenei get none but oh well I don’t care I got heirlooms. In just a day I got to level 20 and am currently sitting at level 21 with 38 spell power, 4 spell hit, and 7.52% spell crit. Not bad! Getting to level 20 as with all priests was a big hump and was always what discouraged me but post 20 mobs drop quite quickly and I’m able to kill more than one at once with little to no down time thanks to Spirit Tap.

Damn Stranglethorn gorillas!

This is my latest little side project in my WoW life. Let’s see how long it takes me to get her to get to level 80. Mind you I’m not trying to power level and will only be leveling my priest between heroics, raids, and PvP on my 2 main characters Yiedra and Xiedra (yeah I’m that lame naming my characters haha). The professions I chose where skinning (to get the crit bonus and make some money as well) and tailoring to make my own gear. I would have gotten enchanting but it’s a pain to level and my friend Somnium is already an enchanter so I feel it’s a waste of time. For now I’ve been going down the shadow tree as it still seems to reign supreme as the best solo leveling talent specc.

I’ll keep an update on how my little heirloom girl is doing from time to time on her journey to level 80.

So what are Heirlooms exactly? Heirlooms where introduced with WotLK and are a new type of item that have a golden hue to them similar to the elusive and mysterious Artifacts. There aren’t many to choose from now but their novelty is that they are “Bind on Account” which means they link to your account, not your character, allowing you to transfer the item to any character you wish of the same faction. These innovative items level up with you, meaning that on a level 1 character the item level will be level 1. Once you level up the item levels up with you removing the need to find an upgrade and therefore making leveling a much easier process. The shoulder slot Heirlooms aside from giving great stats and the lucrative image of having shoulders at level 1 also provide a 10% increase to experience gained from killing monsters.

Some restrictions apply:

• Can’t be enchanted with anything that would make the item soulbound
• Only can be enchanted with level 1 enchants. So no Mongoose, sorry.

At the moment they can only be obtained from two sources:

1. Emblems of Heroism, allow you to purchase the more PvE oriented Heirlooms
2. Stone Keeper’s Shards, allow you to purchase the more PvP oriented Heirlooms

Obtaining both Emblems of Heroism and Stone Keeper’s Shards is easy. You obtain the emblems from bosses killed in WotLK heroics and the stones drop off bosses in both heroics and non heroics while your faction has control of Lake Wintergrasp.

Come on, you know you want to have a level 1 gnome warrior equipped with a Bloodied Arcanite Reaper!  So where do you get them and what do they look like? I’ve compiled a list of all the Heirlooms available here.

• List of available Heirlooms