Cataclysm Press Event: Older heirloom items to work for goblins and worgen

by Daniel Whitcomb Jun 13th 2010 at 6:00AM

Here's some good news for everyone planning to roll a goblin or worgen, or even a human hunter or troll druid, when the expansion hits: Your heirlooms will still work, but only until level 80. At the recent Cataclysm press event, Blizzard confirmed that heirlooms from the Wrath era will still work for new characters in the Cataclysm era, and specifically even for goblins and worgen. Since you earned them, you should still get to use them.

However, they also note that the heirlooms will only work up to level 80. At level 80, you'll have to start using new heirlooms that will be added in Cataclysm itself. So go ahead, buy that Bloodied Arcanite Reaper for your new holy cow or worgen warrior; it'll still work just fine, at least until you get level 80.

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Filed under: News items, Cataclysm, Worgen, Goblin

Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)

harry Jun 13th 2010 4:43PM

If you are wearing heirloom gear you can still enjoy the content. You don't HAVE to run through the content right? If you want to finish a storyline or something then you can keep doing it until it is done.

Josho Jun 13th 2010 7:05PM

Then they better not have any Feat of Strength achievements for First Goblin or whatever; having an experience boost is kind of cheating everyone else out of the race, even if you're obviously not going to win it.

harry Jun 13th 2010 10:30PM

I agree with Josho. I don't want to see first Goblin achs either if it means that people will use the heirlooms. Since I know I will be busy getting my myriad of current 80's to 85, I will not be in the running in the least.

Grendalsh Jun 14th 2010 3:28AM

Has anyone else noticed that the worgen symbol is practically the same as the japanese symbol for a hot bath (onsen)?
From Wikipedia "The presence of an onsen is often indicated on signs and maps by the symbol ♨" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onsen)
Hot tubbing lycanthropes?

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