The short answer is No! The long answer is - at the end of Exile's Reach you have to use the dungeon finder to go into a dungeon scenario. Other people can group with you to kill the final "boss". Both grouping up with other people and dungeon kills are against challenge rules....
A scout is usually a dead Challenger that is kept to level up and scout ahead so that a player can test certain areas out before bringing in their living Challenger....
Yes, all engineering items are allowed unless they break other rules....
Yes, Toys are not meant to give you an in-game advantage....
The best bet would be to go to a site like WoWHead.com and look up gear. Filter by white / gray quality and by your class....
You can buy grey or white quality armor/weapons as long as it does not break any of the rules only with the gold you earned on that challenger....
Yes. Bandages made from Tailoring (previously First Aid) are okay to use. While you can't learn a profession (except you wonderful Pacifists!) you can purchase bandages from the Auction Hosue. The anti-venom should not count as a healing or mana potion, so should not flag you. Mind you, we have not tested this yet as the anti-venom only works when level 25 or lower. Exception: Tin Man Challengers are allowed to use any potion....
NEW! Cosmetic gear is no longer allowed. You are only allowed to wear grey or white quality gear. Exception: Blood Thirsty and Green challengers are allowed to equip green gear....
I'm not entirely 100% sure. I suspect there is something wonky happening with the data being made available from the Blizzard API as I don't ever physically remove characters from the DB unless I see they are no longer participating in the challenge (like boosted characters). In all the reported cases I've seen, the character re-appeared within a few hours. If you see this issue, please wait a day or so...
You can absolutely re-use the name of a Challenger. For characters that were deleted and re-rolled using the exact same name we've seen a bit of a lag for data being updated / refreshed on the API side of things. You will be able to look up your character on the Armory and it looks fine, however, the API data we access seems to use a different data-set. Don't worry. All you need is some patience. It seems like at the most it...
