The Queue: Ornate salvage

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This depends on a.) your server and b.) the amount of time you want to invest into the activity. That latter part is an issue for me, so I tend to vendor everything except level 100 epics and crafting materials. I don’t disenchant anything — low level enchanting materials are next to worthless and Warlords of Draenor enchanting materials aren’t worth as much as the greens they come from. Let’s say, for example, you have a green 2-handed weapon that vendors for around 40 gold. If you’re really lucky, maybe you’ll get 7 Draenic Dust from that item. If each Draenic Dust is only selling on the auction house for 4 gold each, you’ll get 28 gold out of that 40 gold item. The values shift if you’re then converting Draenic Dust into Temporal Crystals, but I still find vendoring the greens is worth more.

If you really want to sink time into salvage, you’ll want to learn which greens sell well as transmog gear and which ones are better off in the trash. As you might expect, the “sexy” gear is worth the most. Pieces of the Ornate set, which is the level 50ish mail armor pictured in today’s header image, will sell for 500-1000g per piece. The items might not sell immediately upon listing them, but they will eventually sell. My significant other used to have a bank alt with a full guild bank dedicated specifically to wheeling and dealing in the transmog market. She made a killing. This depends, of course, on whether or not your server/server cluster has a strong transmog market. It might not. Investigate!

Even if you vendor absolutely everything, the salvage yard is extra profit on every single mission you run.

If you’re hoping to see it in-game, you’re out of luck. The bombing itself is not in-game, but in the novel Tides of War. There’s a scenario in-game that relates to the aftermath of the event, but when you get into the scenario, it has already happened.

There is little to no explanation about it within the game itself. That was a huge criticism at the time — the scenario explained nothing. It’s all external.

For me, I find it simplest to wait until early morning the day it’s to be published before doing anything with The Queue. Otherwise, you spend all day long staring at the comments, hoping someone asks another question. Life is easier if I let them build up before worrying about it. As I answer this question, it’s 5:15 a.m. Central time. Before I conclude today’s edition of The Queue, or turn to Twitter for questions, I’ll scroll to the very bottom of the comments section — that is, the oldest comment on yesterday’s post. I have no idea if I’ll go to Twitter for questions today or not! I haven’t gotten that far yet.

When you create a seasonal character, that character cannot access the stash (and so forth) of your non-seasonal characters. They start from scratch. You see how far you can progress that character within the season. There are participation rewards at the end of the season (which seem to be new every season), and when the season ends, that character gets moved into your general pool of characters.

It isn’t really a big deal, just a “see what you can do within X amount of time” for-funsies thing. People seem to make a much bigger deal out of it than it really is.

If you’ve completed the zone they’re in, then no. No reason to go back. Absolutely zero.

Tanaan is open, but it seems largely barren of content so far. There are buildings, there’s scenery, there’s mobs. What you actually do there is so far a big question mark. Bits and pieces have showed up in every PTR build, but there isn’t any playable meat. Only bones.