Demon Hunter and Garrison Questions

Demon Hunter and Garrison Questions

PS - Note that I am peppering you with two posts this morning!

(1) What gear level will demon hunters start with? Demon Hunters begin life at level 98, level up to 100 and enter a special training facility. When they come out of that into the world of Legion they receive a full set of i680 gear. Wow.
        PS - I might have miscalculated the gear level required to have early success in Legion. Tiphaine (i674)  is the only member even close to level i680. That could be a scary scenario for Java (i622) who I intend to send into Legion first. Perhaps Java should spend more time in Tanaan to raise her gear level.

(2) Will demon hunters want or need a garrison? The answer seems to be two-fold.
        (2a) First is the question, are garrisons required in Legion? The short answer is no.
        (2b) The second question is: Should demon hunters build a garrison? The best answer I could find is this: Some players believe that a garrison would be useful for trading recources via the bunker, war mill, and trading post. If one is very good at doing that it might be useful. However, my expectation is that there will be way more things to do in Legion that will make garrisons useless. Plus, there is another lore based reason for abandoning garrisons: Demon Hunters come after the defeat of Archimode and should not be involved in any way with Draenor. However, Blizz ignores lore as often as they defend it, so that may not mean much.

(3) Another consideration is whether the garrison hearthstone will continue to funtion outside Draenor. If it's blocked, garrisons are dead.

(4) Garrisons made it easy to access banks and the Auction House. One "hopes" that the new Class Halls will have convenient access if the garrisons don't.

(5) What will we do without garrison missions? Here's one answer from the forums: "You'll be too busy sending your followers on Class Hall missions to think about running the old content version of garrisons."

Your thoughts?