But you can Bob... You can sell your heirloom point. You can get say, 1 million gold for 3 heirloom points... Then you can play however you'd like for a long time. You know how this game has changed. Sadly, it's not like the old days where you could play however you'd like, they added upkeep for that explicit reason. For example, Goretooth clones running around everywhere (supposedly).
Well, weapon heirlooms are op but not not too game breakingly. I just dislike Lordly armour really.
And I'm not trying to insult everyone who uses heirlooms, I just get annoyed sometimes as i fight someone with a complete heirloom set.
Now, if heirlooms were made to reduce upkeep instead of giving such large stat bonuses... Then yeah I'd all be up for that since it wouldn't be that OP.
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