Cross-Realm Heirlooms - Interesting Blue Post

[Purj]

MMO-Champion - World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies

Bind on Account items
In terms of Bind on Account items, we believe that using the mail system to transfer heirlooms from one character to another is less than ideal. We’d like to work ourselves away from that sort of item distribution model, and have some design goals in mind that would change the mechanics of how heirlooms are distributed in-game.

We think it would be wonderful to simplify the system so that, for example, you might have a constant heirloom page across all your characters that you could peruse and select from at your leisure. Conceivably, we could do something similar for pets and mounts.

As always, these sorts of design ideas are constantly being evaluated. I just think it’s worth pointing out we’re not currently aiming to create a system that would allow players to mail heirlooms across realms or accounts. We believe that would be a sub-optimal design, and we have better solutions in mind for the future.

What do you think? Could end up being good or bad, based on their "better solutions in mind"..

 

[Quelfep]

better for f2p

 

[Cloud]

Yay!

 

[Cake]

Sounds promising.

I have a neglected 39 with no BoAs that would benefit.

 

[Umpteenth]

better for f2p

f2ps can't use mail system, so it is useless for them.

 

[Dorigon]

f2ps can't use mail system, so it is useless for them.

If you actually read the post, you would see that the possible new system has nothing to do with mail.

 

[Bankbeauty]

Sounds logic to me

 

[Cloud]

Sounds logic to me

*Logical

And yes if they do implement this, it will be way way easier to re-roll twinks and the-like on other realms with friends.

 

[Fourtwennay]

This makes me very happeh.

I have toons on 6 different servers (theres my horde server, my alliance server, my 39 server, my 70 server, and a few others). And grinding heirlooms for all of those is so bothersome.

 

[Cellebate]

Honestly as good as this would be for everyone, it will probably go the same path as tabard storage system and dance studios.

 

[Bowwow]

The "constant heirloom page" would be nice. I seem to lose them in the mail and a gm can only find them half the time.

 

[allahkazam]

something like this should have been done ages ago honestly. as long as they don't mess it up and have things lose enchants or something it will be cool. will be nice not to have to transfer somewhere to roll a twink just because your BoAs are one place and your friends are in another.

 

[iaccidentallytwink]

I was bored last week and got 2 of my toons from different realms on different accounts (same Real-ID) into an RFC and tried trading an heirloom. Oddly enough, instead of giving an error instead the trade window just immediately closes and says "Trade Cancelled". Blizz already thought this through. Tried a bunch of variations, with macros and lag. Would not go through. Blizz lied about it simply being technically unfeasible, they do not want this happening for other reasons otherwise the trade would have worked flawlessly.

 

[Dorigon]

Quite the conclusion there.

 

[Clay Not to be Named]

If they had cross realm I would have lots of twinks
I think there were be more players leveling if you could do this

This was a very nice post thanks for the update

 

[Umpteenth]

They have been planning this ever since Heirlooms were introduced.
Don't count on it.

 

[Mocha]

When I tried to solve this issue myself by inspection, this was the only logical idea I could one up with. However, I am nervous that this will erase the mogged skins, which is less than ideal for me where I finally have both inferno robe and talbar mantle on my newly made shaman and my cata paladin.