I make gold hand over foot, no matter what gear I take. I dont see that ANYONE who isnt a very bad player crutching on gear and failing can fail to make gold hand over foot. And your right. Its worthless. My clanmates know, I am a soft touch, when they are 20, 50, 100k short of something they want to buy, they ask me. When somehow one of them constantly runs out of upkeep money, I send him 100k.
Ultimatly, I play the game to have fun. I play with the gear I like, all the time. To buy this gear as a new starting player would take approx 12 hours of gameplay time, at a x1. Heirlooms, plate, horses, w/e it is you think you need, wont make you a better player. Only playing and understanding the limitations of the games mechanics, the way players exploit shortcomings in the mechanics, the way most players immedietly start to backpeddle once they get hit, those are things that will make you better.
Remove heirlooms, remove gold, random gear, any other silly thing you can say, w/e. The OP of this thread is just unhappy cause heirlooms cost more than he is willing to spend. This needs moving to spam section.