[WoD] Garrison Optimization Launch Thread

Has anyone had a Garrison invasion beyond the very first tutorial one?

Qhue_sl said:

Has anyone had a Garrison invasion beyond the very first tutorial one?

Click to expand...

Not here.

Soygen_sl said:

Apparently you get the invasions by doing the Apexis dailies. After killing so many(500, I think?) of those level 100 mobs, you piss them off enough to invade.

Click to expand...

Apparently it's random.
Some says they had to kill 3k+ mobs in order to pop one.

Yes, this system is retarded.

Note that the Iron Horde invasion is extremely overtuned and getting gold on it is virtually impossible, as it just doesn't spawn anywhere near enough mobs. The other invasions are much easier.

I may have fucked up, I collected every follower and I leveled them all to 100. Now all I see is "Check back later for more missions"

Any strategy for upgrading follower iLevels? All of my guys are at 600.

I have a bunch of +3/+6/+9 weapon and armor upgrades in the bank from lv2 salvage/lv2 bunker but only one of each set to 615. Seem better to use upgrades after setting the level to 615 but they are not dropping for me...

For each follower, choose between leveling armor or wep when you're starting out. The follower ilevel is based off the average of the weapon and armor level. So pump one stat to 630 and you'll have 615 ilevel. Eventually you'll get armor or weapon drops that increase ilevel to 630 (or 645), so you make the most out of those drops by focusing on one stat. Like if you have 615 armor and 615 weapon (so 615 ilevel) the bump from the 630 drop is not as good as if you have 600 and 630.

I'm having the same problem. Bunker/War Mill was the biggest waste of GR and gold ever, salvage boxes aren't dropping shit, and I've seen 2 missions with a follower upgrade reward in the last week. It was fine for a while (except the bunker, that was always fucked) then it just completely dried up.

Not to mention, almost all my i615 missions vanished and I'm getting less than one per day on average despite having all L100 followers and several 615+. I suspect that the person responsible for followers/missions keeps making undocumented changes in the various hotfixes each week, and he's breaking more shit than he's fixing.


Speaking of colossal wastes of time and GR, I went 52 hours in my DK's barn without a single blood before finally getting one again.

Simas_sl said:

For each follower, choose between leveling armor or wep when you're starting out. The follower ilevel is based off the average of the weapon and armor level. So pump one stat to 630 and you'll have 615 ilevel. Eventually you'll get armor or weapon drops that increase ilevel to 630 (or 645), so you make the most out of those drops by focusing on one stat. Like if you have 615 armor and 615 weapon (so 615 ilevel) the bump from the 630 drop is not as good as if you have 600 and 630.

Click to expand...

Great advice, thank you!

No difference between using three green +3s and one epic +9s besides bag space to hold them right?

Correct, and you should avoid using any +3/6/9 upgrades until after you've used a 615/630 set of the same type on that follower.

Vorph_sl said:

Correct, and you should avoid using any +3/6/9 upgrades until after you've used a 615/630 set of the same type on that follower.

Click to expand...

Think I'm going to have to actually do this since I only had 2 615 upgrades drop and have two bags full of the others It's why I haven't used any yet even though I've been 100 for a week.

attog_sl said:

I may have fucked up, I collected every follower and I leveled them all to 100. Now all I see is "Check back later for more missions"

Click to expand...

Ouch. Get an Inn/Tavern and recruit some lower level followers if you need more missions populating.

---

As for invasions, it is most certainly tied to the number of mobs that you kill.

I have been farming Arakkoa reputation in the Lost Veil. I am 6k (I have killed roughly 3200 of the Ogres/Octopi/Goblins in the area) from Exalted and have had SEVEN Botani Invasions. It is to the point that I amnotdoing them anymore and I am not telling my guildmates that I have them available, because it is so fracking boring doing it over and over again.

On the plus side, I have come across FOUR epic items. (Two from salvage boxes and two from grinding Arakkoa).

I was guilt'ed into giving one to a guild member, I sold the rest. Made close to 115k from it.

Got my lvl3 lumber mill, salvage yard and barracks at the end of last week. Should get the lvl3 War Mill by tomorrow.

After that I'll pool up GR for a bit and I'll change either the lumber mill or my lvl1 trading post. No benefits for the lumber mill, so I'll probable keep the trade post. Then again, it's absolutely stupid that to get the lvl3 20% reputation bonus, you have to be exalted with 3 draenor reputations...Which means the bonus is only really useful to up one or two other reputations, which is retarded.

Anyway, I'll build an inn over the one I erase.

Malkav_sl said:

Got my lvl3 lumber mill, salvage yard and barracks at the end of last week. Should get the lvl3 War Mill by tomorrow.

After that I'll pool up GR for a bit and I'll change either the lumber mill or my lvl1 trading post. No benefits for the lumber mill, so I'll probable keep the trade post. Then again, it's absolutely stupid that to get the lvl3 20% reputation bonus, you have to be exalted with 3 draenor reputations...Which means the bonus is only really useful to up one or two other reputations, which is retarded.

Anyway, I'll build an inn over the one I erase.

Click to expand...

Time to get started on Timbermaw!

Talking about old reps, is Sporeggar underwater in the past?

Ukerric_sl said:

I think that missions have a respawn time that's a multiple of their duration (i.e. a 1h mission might respawn in 6 hours, a 10h mission will respawn like 48h later. Or something). I've got half-and-half (one follower parked somewhere where the sun doesn't shine), and the 95-99 bracket is almost fully respawned from the morning run in the evening, while the long 8h mission slots aren't refilling until the day after.

Click to expand...

Get Master Plan addon and you don't have to worry about the mystery of it. It gives you a timer of how long you've had the mission in the log and the total time it will stay in the log before it recycles.