Comments on: How to bring Uber to your alt!

By: Kromas

Kromas — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:51:29 +0000

8 lvl 70 alts all equipped with max boa items. Now to find the time to level them :P

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:08:52 +0000

Posting a little too late on this one, but: the armor type will only “scale down” in two cases.

If you buy Plate Heirloom shoulders and put them on a sub-40 Warrior or Paladin, they will act as Mail.
If you buy Mail Heirloom shoulders and put them on a sub-40 Hunter or Shaman, they will act as Leather.

Put differently, your level 80 toon should buy the type of armor that your alt will be using after level 40. It will downscale appropriately.

By: Ribeye

Ribeye — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:10:05 +0000

I got a pair of the Plate DPS shoulders for my Warrior (currently 52) and DK (62) to pass between em while they level, and they’ve been fantastic – very noticable in speeding up the grind. I’m hoping that the weapons are engravable with DK runeforging, at least while they’re in the possession of said DK (but I’m not holding my breath)… Still, once I get ~24 more badges (if memory serves), it’s “ARCANITE REAPER! HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” I can’t wait. :)

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:49:58 +0000

Yakra, I was not aware of the blue post you linked to… but I think I can say with sincerity that I never for one moment believed that you WERE supposed to be able to get an enchant on these items.

In fact, considering the cost in Emblems for these, and the value of the items that you COULD use, it seems pretty silly that you can’t use whatever enchant that you want. Kinda makes that spellpower mace my high level Shammy is carrying a liability… almost. :)

I am very glad you mentioned it, so folks that are interested and don’t care that they MIGHT be throwing away 10,000 honor know they might have an extremely limited time to get the Gladiator inscription.

By: Seleria

Seleria — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:41:32 +0000

@Ziboo Just decided to go hypothetical with your argument there. So you’re saying that having heirloom items can/will have an impact on the server economy (you know, because it’s so healthy already…). But, while people might no longer buy a few slot items (shoulders and weapons) on the AH, how many of those people running around with uberalts would have rolled another alt in the first place if not for having a bored level 80 with 300 or so emblems and nothing to do with them? I know I just rolled a new alt for that purpose. I’m sitting on three 80′s, hate levelling, and yet here I am with a 4th character on its way up who will probably get the pretty pretty shoulders. That’s how many more slots for the shopping?

Also, what’s the difference between a level 80 using emblems to buy heirloom items for their alt and a level 80 using gold to buy BoE items on the AH for their alt in the realm of “fair levelling”? The people levelling their first time around certainly don’t have the gold to spill on their characters. And back to the AH argument, now that they have the feeling of the “uberalt,” won’t they be more inspired to buy the big ticket items so they have an uber uberalt?

By: Sharvhan

Sharvhan — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:10:24 +0000

So far I’ve got a resto shaman and rogue for Uberalts. I debated tricking out my little warlock too, but decided to level her up without any assistance. So far, I love how easy the leveling grind is for both “twinked” characters, but I do enjoy seeing what new piece of gear I can get the warlock while leveling up. Both are fun, but I’d say in different ways. The Uberalts are all about speed (yes, speed killing with a resto shaman is awesome), but I think my warlock is fun because of the discovery and earning things the old slow way.

By: Artorin

Artorin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:30:23 +0000

My 42 warrior is my pimp alt. Started out with just the Main hand sword to go protection. But then decided I would rather dps so he got the one handed shard sword and the emblem plate shoulders. Fury is fun and all… but then I got thinking I’m going to be getting titan’s grip one day… so I now have the 2h BoA axe and will follow that up with a second by the time he gets to 60 and I will go from arms back to fury. Currently all the weapons have crusader and now that you mentioned the shoulder enchant I’m most certainly going to go grab that :D

By: Ziboo

Ziboo — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:16:50 +0000

I don’t know how much easier Bliz can make this game, but Uberalts is not a good idea IMO. I can see why they did this – keep the 80′s busy farming and now everyone can have a baby twink – no need to work hard to level. How will this affect the economy on the AH remains to be seen. If people don’t have to switch out gear as they level.

Maybe they should just make it so after your first level 80 or so you can just start at say level 55 like the DK’s. 25 levels and back to 80. Or maybe start everyone at 80 so they don’t have to level? Why all that waste time leveling a game so many clearly do not enjoy except for endgame. /sigh

By: Sunny

Sunny — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:13:36 +0000

I’ve been a bit behind on some of the WOTLK stuff due to college but this sounds like a great idea! Especially since I got bored with my alts rather easily.

By: Copey

Copey — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:00:24 +0000

A question here, I don’t exactly have a burning desire to have an alt, I mean I can tank, heal, or if I want to be really silly I can drop bombs in boomkin. But having dropped one of my farming professions to gain JC, I have thought it would be nice to take the free alt that Blizz gave me (dk) and level him up as a farmer. Probably like mining and herbing. Because lets face it, seeing a DK running around picking flowers is funny. Anyway, would it be worth it to send some shoulders/items to him? Even though his starting gear is so good to start out?

And if I do send some plate shoulders to him, can I later send it to say, a rogue or something at level one? Will the armor type change in that way?