I'm all for not being able to obtain heirlooms from the marketplace any other external place. Though, earning heirlooms ingame is another matter to me. I see it as a sort of reward for leveling 1-80 at x1 rates, so the second time around you will not have to struggle so much. And let's face it, the heirlooms were a part of retail thus they should remain. I do get that in the twinking community it might take a bit of a blow since in time I would assume heirlooms would be mandatory to be a successful twink but come on, it was there live and it should be here now. As I said before, they should be looked at like tokens of endurance for:
- Leveling from start to finish at least once
- Then farming the badges to purchase them
I mean it's not effortless to obtain them, it does require a fair bit of work.
I think they should be in the game. Just to make that second grind a little bit easier on you.

