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Weekly Update
What have I been up to this week? Well…
Counting Coins
See, now this is the problem with shift work. When you work nights, your body can’t process what the Hell you’re doing to it. Your brain wants to be sleeping, but instead it’s swimming in caffeine for way, way too long. This leads the brain to do all sorts of silly things. Things like upgrade garrison buildings, for example. I used some of the amassed gold from the week to upgrade some of the shacks. This was a mistake in the grand scheme of things. For example, I upgraded a War Mill to Level Three. All that did was give me a daily with a reward of either a weapon or armor upgrade for a follower. A bit of a waste, given the cost.
Now what I should be doing is upgrading the Barracks to Level Three. This will raise the follower cap from 20 to 25. More followers, more missions, more gold. But a few of my characters aren’t even at the follower cap yet so there’s no point in upgrading their barracks.
Still, Friday being the end of the week and all I decided to count coins and see how much I made, even after the random building upgrades.
Lo and behold, my total for the week turned out to be 23,648gp! That extra garrison is clearly paying off.
Objectives
Like I said in a previous post, in the past month I’ve gone from having zilch on my to do list, to being completely swamped. Since I’ve been working nights, my WoD time has been limited to maybe an hour or so per day. I’d worked on the lumber mill to build resources on some characters, tried to build a super team of followers, and banged out some Harrison Jones missions to get ever so much closer to having him as my official follower powerleveler.
One night, my zombie brain thought it would be a good idea to get a Laughing Skull Orc mask for one of the crew. Gold and resources were spent on a Level Two trading post. Now with flying being a thing again, and unlocking it will involve three rep grinds, getting that post to Level Three is a good idea. The only issue is that I don’t know who will be working on unlocking flight. I may have to get another trading post.
So for the upcoming week, I need to:
- Continue working on Harrison Jones missions.
- Decide on a character who will work on getting the meta achievement for flight and start questing and exploring and so on.
- Run more Heroics and get close to LFR raiding.
- Playing on the Isle of Giants for the mount or pet.
- Work on Transmogs.
- Kill elites for gear upgrades.
Not enough hours in a day. Or week.
Lessons Learned
Let’s see, what did I learn this week?
- I need Harrison Jones in my life.
- Custom groups are awesome. I’ve used them to get Harrison Jones quests when I didn’t have any in my own garrison. I’ve also used them to jump realms and farm trees for stacks of timber.
- In a way, leveling quickly was a burden since I now have to go back and do old content that I tore apart a few times before. All that just for flight.
Never a dull moment.
Gold Garrison Buildings
In World of Warcraft, gold is my game.
I’ve got six Horde garrisons that are cranking out a decent amount of gold for me. Surprisingly, there’s quite a bit involved in getting every coin possible out of each garrison, which has been my game-within-the-game. I’d let my garrisons lapse for far too long, which means I’ve been letting easy gold slip between my fingers.
Bullshit on that ever happening again.
I’ve peeped various sites to see if I’d missed something as far as efficiently building a Garrison Gold Factory. It turns out that while I have the meat and potatoes down in each garrison, there’s a couple other buildings I could be adding to improve the overall gold-making potential:
- Inn: Yeah, kind of a no-brainer. At Level Two, you can cherry pick followers with the traits you want (like Treasure Hunters and more Treasure Hunters). At Level Three you unlock the Treasure Hunting missions, and I don’t need to explain the gold-making benefits of something with “Treasure” in the title.
- Barricks: By default, you’re limited to 20 followers. Since more missions means more gold, you want to get your Barricks to Level Three to increase your hard limit to 25 followers.
- War Mill: It is important to equip your followers as fast as possible. Having a War Mill at Level Three will give you those upgrades, but at a cost of scraps of iron. Level Two should suffice.
- Lumber Mill: These cost gold to upgrade (but no garrison resources). By gathering wood for work orders it will generate garrison resources. You could also use the Trading Post to do this as well, but given the choice between these two I would lean towards the Lumber Mill. The reagent for the Trading Post work orders may be accessible from your garrison, but they’re random. The Lumber Mill work orders take wood. No random guesswork involved.
- Storehouse: This ties in with the Lumber Mill and War Mill. A Storehouse at Level Three will increase the number of work orders you can do. The more work orders means more resources (via the Lumber Mill), which means more follower upgrades (via the War Mill).
- Salvage Yard: Another building that should be upgraded to Level Three. Better drops which can be sold (AH or vendor) for more gold.
Are there other buildings that could be used to make gold? Sure, probably. But these six have a synergy that makes the overall gold-making potential that much stronger.
It’s all about the loot, baby.
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