The Queue: Still playing dressup

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Yes! Absolutely yes. I’ve been complaining about this since early alpha. I hate being stuck in a boxing stance for who-knows-how-long after combat. I’m a warlock. I do not do kung fu.

Sure.

I’m not sure what you’re asking. Herbs (and most other crafting materials) have always been bought and sold through the auction house. If you needed leather to craft something on your Miner/Blacksmith, you either asked a friend, got it on an alt, or bought it from the auction house. Professions have always been designed this way.

The only difference is the tooltip now explicitly points people toward the auction house. If a brand new player — someone who is starting in Legion — tries crafting something and sees an item in their crafting window they don’t recognize, there’s now an in-game hint pointing you toward the auction house.

I think this might, in fact, be the only thing in-game which actually informs players of the existence of the auction house. We typically found it on our own, or just kinda knew it was there, but someone who has never played an MMO before might not know. Heck, if they come from the modern mobile and/or F2P model of games, they might have known an auction house was there, but assumed it was the place to exchange premium currency. That’s what the “auction house” often is in those games — trading in your gems/whoozles/whatsits for bonus items.

They apply to the current patch. If you’re running perfectly fine now, you’ll be perfectly fine in Legion, too. There may be some exceptions in the new zones where there’s a great deal of detail or many ambient particle effects, but if you can go somewhere such as Tanaan Jungle and not experience any hiccups, you’re likely safe.

I’m sure they have a plan — they’ve been testing the actual launch procedures on the beta/PTR — but I imagine they had a plan in every prior expansion, too. We won’t know how stable realms will be until it happens. I doubt Blizzard wanted the extended downtime in Warlords of Draenor or in any expansion before it. Live realms are a completely different beast from test realms.

Just in case you decide to go Frost. They want to make sure everyone has their bases covered. Sure, you specs are Blood and Unholy now, but what if you didn’t like the Legion version of Blood and wanted to try Frost instead? You wouldn’t have the weapons to do it — so they supplied them.

The Innkeeper is a dwarf, so his inn is probably in Kharanos, or some other snowy mountaintop.

That’s what would make sense to me. Having played all of this stuff on the beta, the demon hunter introductor quests, the Broken Isles event, and the start of the invasion event all tie into each other quite neatly. Those three elements don’t need each other, but they do work well at the same time: The Demon Hunters break free, the Horde/Alliance are trying to figure out what’s going on at the Broken Isles, the Demon Hunters show up to deliver a warning, and the invasion kicks off.

I would be disappointed if these things weren’t enabled at the same time, I think.