The Queue: Playing dressup

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No, they haven’t added that, but an item’s tooltip will tell you whether or not you’ve collected it. The Wardrobe collection itself also allows you to view items you haven’t collected — you can look through your collection, filter by Not Collected, see the super cool Musk Rose Robes, decide you want that item, and go get it from a vendor. Or you might find the Arachnidian Robes, see they’re a World Drop, then check the Auction House to see if there’s one for sale.

When it comes to the various profession hunts, your followers typically unlock unique crafting recipes — usually cosmetic, fluffy stuff. Jewelcrafting has the best one: a daily quest which rewards heaps of gold. However, all followers assigned to buildings increase the yield of work orders and that’s exactly what the Mining follower does. The Mining follower was supposed to unlock the mining carts which show up in the mine, but bugs caused the mining carts to show up regardless of whether or not you have someone assigned to the mine and the devs decided to just keep it that way. All a follower in your mine does is give you a higher ore yield from work orders.

Talking to your mining follower won’t do anything for you, but they’re usually patrolling down in the mine somewhere … or sometimes they wander off to go be lazy in your inn if you have one.

Yes. I feel weird giving a one-word answer, but … yes. You’ll get Blood of Sargeras. You won’t have a use for them.

This depends on who you talk to. Rush/face/aggro decks — decks built around fast, early aggression — can still be quite dominant. It’s a style completely contrary to the long-game control decks, yet still does well. That’s how Hearthstone (and all card games) tend to be, though. There are a few deck types per expansion/adventure which are strong, using the strengths of a particular expansion. When the next thing releases, it shakes up the scene and the types of decks people are playing changes.

Become what you hate most. Seize those victories. When the next adventure comes around, try something different with the new cards.

Screw freeze mage, though. For real.

Incomparable. The numbers are wildly different, but so is the method of acquisition. Maximizing your garrison gold gains involved getting fully-equipped followers with Treasure Hunting, probably at a short-term loss for a long-term gain, through a long-term max level activity. Leveling is … just leveling. You do quests. Is there gold? Sure. But it’s a totally different activity and it’s finite. You’ll get to max level and then leveling is over. Meanwhile, your garrison stuck around for two years. I’d guess you’ll get somewhere in the area of 10,000 gold from level 100 to level 110 if you’re maximizing your cash and minimizing your expenses. The gold is at endgame through World Quests and, depending on how the economy shakes out, the auction house.

The salvage crates you have now, or are acquiring right now, will remain the same. You can pop them open after the Legion pre-patch for your wardrobe and they’ll be no different than they are right now in Warlords. However, a different type of salvage crate will be implemented in the Legion pre-patch, and their rewards will be significantly reduced.

TL;DR: Crates you have right now will be fine. Any new crates will be trashpiles.

You can access the PTR without an active subscription, but I admit, I don’t know what your access will be like on a veteran account. I don’t know if the PTR takes that into consideration — and my account hasn’t lapsed in ages, so it would take me longer to create an account and test it than it would for you to do it yourself. That sounds snarky, I know, but that isn’t how I mean it. I say just go check it out.

Mostly, I included this question because peoples’ confusion over “PTR: Warlords of Draenor” seems widespread. Yes, it’s a PTR for Warlords of Draenor. Because the Legion pre-patch is a Warlords of Draenor patch. It isn’t a Legion patch until we’re playing Legion — and given this patch releases before Legion, it isn’t a Legion PTR. If you want to test the pre-patch features, the Warlords of Draenor PTR is where to do it.