An end to mailing heirlooms?

Posted by on 10 6th, 2011

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If you’re an altoholic, you’ve no doubt experienced the joy of schlepping your heirloom items around via the mail system (along with claiming all your pets and mounts for every new character). With Cataclysm and the focus on all the earlier content, many people are still running alts through the old world, soaking up all the different changes. A recent blue post by Zarhym hints at a potential design change to the heirloom system. Zarhym So, after making a trip to the doctor and having some blood stolen, I stopped by Ghostcrawler’s office to discuss this and other topics with him. We talked about some of the feedback in this thread, as well as the developers’ latest thoughts on BoA and heirloom items. Rather than potentially having my statements in this thread come back to bite me at some point in the future, I’m going to risk being confusing or sounding dumb. :p In short, they agree that the process of mailing heirlooms around constantly is a little annoying. We’d prefer to try and work ourselves away from the method of mailing out BoA items in the future, like pets, mounts, etc. To that end, we have some design goals in mind that would improve this sort of item distribution system. And with those design goals have come some ideas for changing heirloom mechanics. This is sort of contrary to the idea I stated in this thread about just designing the system to allow players to mail their heirlooms all around their accounts without realm restrictions. That’s all of the information I can share at the moment, but I feel like it’s worth pointing out that the design philosophy I stated earlier isn’t so set in stone — we’re reevaluating these types of systems as we look toward the future. I apologize if I’ve caused any confusion. source This sounds great. Perhaps a BOA/heirloom vendor in each city who will sell you anything you’ve unlocked for a nominal fee? Time will tell! Filed under: News items An end to mailing heirlooms? originally appeared on WoW Insider on Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read