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Note that heirloom items will at all levels have a gearscore that appears to be their level 80 version's score. Not sure if the LGF tool takes stats or level into account for those, but at any given level they are slightly worse than a same level blue due to some stat allocation being put into the xp bonus, so you will probably want to replace them pretty soon after hitting 80. I know I saved some quest blues from Icecrown/Storm Peaks/crafted for it.
I did some experimenting with this last night.
Wargirlb's gear score with Heirlooms was over 3500 but Dungeon Finder tool would not allow access to normal Pit of Saron.
I swapped out the Heirlooms lowering her GS to 3300 and then the Dungeon Finder tool would allow access to normal Pit of Saron.
So it looks to me like the Dungeon Finder is not counting Heirlooms at all while GS does count them.
Or rather that they are being counted as ilvl 1.
Thanks for testing it though.
I use the Merlin's robe on my shaman, they are more squishy per say but they do awesome DPS.
using merlin's robe & bejeweled wizards bracer's and you get about 8% more crit ratig ( over whatever I was using before ) as long as they don't steal aggro they do great.
I've got the shoulders/chest as both cloth and leather for each account.
Any caster type toon will wear the cloth (caster) BoA's, even if they're a shaman.
And any melee type will wear the leather (melee) BoA's, even if they're a plate toon.
As they level, the relevant stats and more importantly the experience boost outweighs any loss in armor.
With 4/5x a toon, it doesn't really matter, mobs die so quickly.
At the tail end of Hellfire, my 5x Hunters did the Cenarion Expedition quest where you plant a seed and kill the elite; it was the first crossbow upgrades offered by a quest reward.
It turns out they were using level 15 crossbows at this point, because I couldn't be bothered to level bows/guns.
Also turns out, they had not trained since 56th level.
But they had no issues with Hellfire, doing the entire zone (minus a few collections) in a few hours one evening (flying mounts help immensely).