The Queue: The plant whisperer

Welcome back to The Queue, our daily Q&A feature for all of Blizzard’s games! Have a question for the Blizzard Watch staff? Leave it in the comments!

Coming soon to a channel near you, it’s The Plant Whisperer, a compelling new gardening show that highlights the importance of talking to your plants. Especially on Draenor, where at virtually any moment said beloved and unassuming houseplants could feasibly uproot themselves and try to kill you. You ever seen a man with his mouth caught in a Gorgrond Flytrap? Let me tell you, it ain’t pretty.

It should be in your mailbox — I believe it just shows up in the mailbox of the first character you log into, so if you have multiple characters, make sure you’re checking that one. If you still don’t see it anywhere, then I’d recommend opening a ticket. Hope you locate it, the transmog items are pretty sweet!

I asked our local Heroes expert Anna about that one, and she had some good answers!

“Yes, and the reasons why vary. Garden of Terror in particular, it’s not popular because there are two big places where you fight, but everything’s spread out. That means fewer head to head fights, which means fewer big make-or-break fights… pros hate that. Blackheart’s Bay is similar — pros aren’t fond of the coins mechanic, but it’s also due to the way maps play out at the end. Usually what happens is at around level 20-22 there’s a big team fight, one team gets wiped, and that team immediately tries to go stomp the core into oblivion down a single lane they’ve cleared. So maps like Blackheart’s are less popular because at the end the mechanic is off firing down some lane you have zero tactical use for — but you still have to be mindful of it.”

Towers of Doom is another one of those lesser-used maps. Check out this infographic from the Summer 2016 DreamHack All-Stars Global Championship — you can see which maps were popular, and which ones were frequently passed over. Neither Garden of Terror nor Blackheart’s Bay made an appearance.

Whites and grays are not available for transmog, sadly — but the new Wardrobe system is still pretty sweet, and shirts have been added to the interface so you can transmog those instead of carrying around a collection. The Wardrobe also includes a tabard section, so you don’t need to use bag space for them anymore. As far as mounts go, those are still account-wide, and at present date in the beta it still works exactly the same as it does on live — favorites are saved account-wide, and the random button doesn’t let you pick between random ground or air mounts.

I logged on to the beta to check this out, and unfortunately heirlooms don’t seem to be completely implemented yet — the heirloom tab is there, but it’s blank for all my characters. I bought a couple of heirlooms just to see if that would make them pop up, but no dice. I haven’t seen any items to raise the current heirlooms to 110, however. Keep in mind though — the heirloom trinkets from Warlords, like the Orb of Voidsight, can be used all the way up to 110.

Sadly, I have not seen hide nor hair of Dog anywhere in Dalaran or on the Broken Isles. I guess this kind of makes sense, since we don’t have a handy garrison or farm for him to hang out in.

But I find myself wishing that maybe we’d get a cool moment somewhere while questing or just wandering Dalaran where we’re minding our own business, we hear that familiar bark, and Dog comes running out of nowhere to meet us — and then gets added to our collections as an official non-combat pet. He served his time at our side, I don’t think the little guy needs to do any more battles, pet or otherwise.

It’d just be a nice end to his story, I think.

You can transmog from the moment you equip something that you can transmog — level 1 characters start out with white items, and you can’t transmog appearances to those. You can, however, transmog weapon enchant appearances to your weapons, provided you have the gold to do it. So once you get yourself equipped in a piece of eligible gear, you should be able to start using that right away.

As far as for right now, if you’re playing a plate or mail wearing class, the reason you’re running into issues is because mail classes start out in leather — they don’t switch to mail until level 40. Same goes for plate classes — they wear mail until level 40, then switch to plate. That’s where that issue is coming from. In Legion, this issue will disappear entirely — plate will wear plate and mail will wear mail from level 1 onward.

That’s it for today’s Queue — if you have any questions you’d like to see answered, be sure to leave them in the comments below!