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Making Gold In WoD – Patch 6.1
This is Warlords of Draenor. The expansion that asks the important question: “Who needs flying? Are you too lazy to walk across your own garrison? Y’know, since nobody leaves their garrison anymore.”
True story too. The recent patch 6.1 now gives you even more reasons to stay inside your garrison – from a Juke Box (to change the mood music while you mine/herb) to World Bosses who come right to your door (dude don’t step on my stable). Fight the good fight without ever leaving the comfort of your cushy home away from home. Aren’t we supposed to be waging a war against the Iron Horde?
Now about gold. What of gold? Turns out, Patch 6.1 just made it easier to earn gold without having to leave your garrison. The life of a shut-in just got a whole lot more profitable, and Bellular will tell you how to cash in.
Garrison Follower Guide
Some of you may have noticed a bit of a lapse in my blogging lately. No health tips, gaming videos, or rants about the latest World of Warcraft catastrophes (RIP WoW Insider).
I’ve got a limited play schedule, so it’s not like I’ve got more than a few hours a day to get my WoW on and then write about it. Not with World of Garrisoncraft and the various checkboxes I need to tick for every character, every day, before I get to anything not involved with the garrison. That takes time, and time comes in a finite quantity in my house.
Over the past few days, my game time had solely been devoted to Her – my Blood Elf Hunter.
I posted about Her a few days ago. She was just an alt that I wanted to level up to get some use out of her professions. I wasn’t looking for anything serious. She was just a fling, someone to kill time with and have a little fun.
Who knew She would become so high maintenance? Blood Elf stereotypes exist for a reason.
I was really having fun with Her. About halfway to 100 I decided that She was going to be my main bank alt. Her job would be threefold:
1) Earn gold daily by sending Her followers on Treasure Hunter missions.
2) Create enchants, glyphs, and Darkmoon Faire cards to generate income for the remainder of the expansion.
3) Hearth to Ashran for AH duties once per day.
This led to a few issues.
Treasure Hunter missions were unlocked after obtaining a Level 3 Inn/Tavern. To get the Level 3 blueprint, the achievement “Stay Awhile and Listen” has to be completed. This involves completing a number of dungeon quests. Some of the quests can be done on Normal, some on Heroic. I wasn’t looking forward to living through dungeon queues so I went to Wowhead to see if there was a less painful way to get this done.
My research showed that only half of the quests needed to be completed. It also showed that the missions rewarded between 50-100 gold. Was that worth the effort of spending 30-45 minutes in a queue? I could sell the green drops from the War Mill and make coin quicker. Therefore, Treasure Missions (and the Level 3 Inn) were taken off the books.
Another alternative for making gold “in-house” would be by using the Pet Menagerie, as I discussed in a previous post. If my Belf was going to be a shut-in, She was damn well going to be a profitable one.
This left the matter of garrison followers. She really didn’t have many. The curse of leveling up so damn fast. Not only did She need a full roster of twenty (or twenty-five with an upgraded bunker), but She would also need some to work the Mine, Herb Garden, and Inscription hut to improve production.
It was time to head back out into Draenor to find more followers. Luckily, Bellular would have plenty of Follower advice to give.
Looks like my Lady and I will be out killing and maiming for a little while longer.
I just can’t quit Her.
WoD Garrison Resources
Meet the head of my HR department. Complaints are dealt with painfully.
As you can see, my HR department is as ugly as life without garrison resources.
Master Rokk here. Garrison resources are the lifeblood of garrison life. You need them as currency for various items, but more importantly you need them for garrison follower missions. Now these missions are important because they provide gear, gold, and XP without ever having to leave the comfort of your fur-lined comfy chair. So it’s important that you send out your followers as often as you can.
The problem comes when you start to run low on resources. Your garrison chest can provide you with six per hour, but when you’re sending ten to twenty followers out every couple of hours at ten to twenty five resources a pop, those reserves just can’t keep up. I used the Headhunter at my Inn to find me three followers with the Scavenger perk, which doubles the amount of resources retrieved on garrison resource missions. Unfortunately those missions seemed to have run dry. I haven’t had one for days. Plus, with the glut of followers I have I may be forced to lay off my Scavengers. We live in tough times.
Bellular came through with a video to help people, like me, who are in need of resources. It’s good when you need a bump. A little something to get you going. Like coffee for your garrison, but without the barrista chatter. What the Hell is a barrista anyway? I’ll stop now – I may have one working for me. I can’t keep track of all these people running around my garrison. I’d rather not offend any of my employees. I’d like to avoid having to sit in on another nasty meeting with HR. He likes to throw things. Like, horses and large stones kinds of things.
Anyway, here’s the video:
Zumio offered a rather unique method of rounding up resources with a little ingenuity. Well, actually it’s more like Engineerity. Shut up, I know that’s not a word.
Rokk Talk 