Wow Gold -- The Heirloom Items

Of late you have discovered the Heirloon items in the Wrath beta. In an nutshell, you can purchase these items from badge vendors and send them to your olts. Most of them will scale with level and are even mailable to other characters on your account after you have used them.

We all know that the original owners of heirloom items take exceptional care of those items and might have specific talent or skill in maintaining and upgrading them. An heirloom item carries a benefit that persists until the item's destruction. Such a benefit makes the item special and is the result of the original owner's tinkering or a side effect of being present when a character's destiny is fulfilled. See the section below for several sample heirloom item properties.

How many heirloom items will there be? Enough for every equip slot for every character class and spec? What will their item level be relative to your character level? It may be that in just a few months the practice of farming lowbie dungeons will be replaced with farming end-game content to max out that rogue of yours.

In order for an heirloom item to come into being, the item must be present when a character fulfills his or her destiny (as per the Destiny mechanic on page 112 of the Saga Edition Core Rulebook). When a character fulfills his or her destiny, instead of gaining the "Destiny Fulfilled" effect of that destiny, he or she can instead choose to create an heirloom item. That character then chooses one of the following effects, which is applied to a particular weapon, suit of armor, or item in the character's possession at the moment the destiny is fulfilled. Typically this item is one of particular significance to the character.

In addition, when a character with an unfulfilled destiny dies while in pursuit of his or her destiny, instead of the normal effect (Force Spirit, Noble Sacrifice, or Vengeance) that character can choose to create an heirloom item instead.

Heirloom items have other implications as well. Assuming they are better than most or all regular items, you'll be able to tell how often a twink plays his or her main just judging by their gear. Gold for enchants can be bought, but heirloom items must be earned, or at least will cost considerably more money to acquire through shadier means.

When an item becomes an heirloom item, its fame spreads throughout the galaxy. When carrying the heirloom item in plain sight, you gain favorable circumstances on all Charisma-based skill checks provided that you are dealing with another character or droid at the time.

When an item becomes an heirloom item, you can choose to convert one of the item's equipment bonuses into a destiny bonus instead. If the equipment bonus converted to a destiny bonus is from a modification made with the Tech Specialist feat (see page 21 of Starships of the Galaxy), the bonus is no longer considered to be the result of a modification -- it has just become an inherent bonus of the item -- and another modification can be made to the item with the Tech Specialist feat. Thus, the old bonus no longer counts toward the one-per-item limit inherent in the feat.

When carrying or using the heirloom item, you can impose a destiny penalty to any one attack roll or skill check made by a character with a Dark Side Score of 1 or higher. This destiny penalty is equal to the target's Dark Side Score.