Comprehensive guide to building up your Garrison

[Juggzz]

I've heard its bugged and the workorders will continue to run when the building isnt there.

[Denizly]

What happens to existing WOs at a building if I replace it?

When you build the Tp again it will have those WOs still. They continue to run.
This is a bug

[Ashcrack]

If I upgrade my barracks from level 2 to level 3 am I going to need to spend 5 days activating 5 more followers?

[Denizly]

If I upgrade my barracks from level 2 to level 3 am I going to need to spend 5 days activating 5 more followers?

Kinda, but the moment you start the update you get the limit to 25.

[Samfisher]

Knew about the level just needed to know if I needed to use goldmane in missions to make him better quality for the barn but guess not so that's good news. Thanks

I'm actually conflicted about Goldmane. He's been giving me 1 feast per Work Order sometimes, and sometimes he gives me 2. My LW follower ALWAYS gives me 2 and the only difference is LW is Epic while Goldmane is green. i dono ):

[papajohn4]

Advice from experience: Don't build the Junk(war) Mil...1 week now and 80% of the time I get 1 scrap. I have geared up all my followers from Lv2 Salvage Yard. It is ridiculous for a Large Building..if you like the transmog armor or you built it for the free roll per week then fine. But if you built it to gear up followers is a huge waste of resources.

[Hazer]

This is sort of an interesting thing you can do for a nominal amount of GR:

On a mon Night [US servers], switch out a L1/L2 LM for a L2 Inn, get your epic Millhouse follower + headhunter follower for that week. Also do the dungeon quest for the vanity stuff. On Tuesday, get your new follower and new dungeon quest. Afterwards, switch back to LM for the next 13 days. Can even be a L1 LM, but might want to rebuild it to L2 to assign the Evergreen follower for the GR bonus.

Personally this was a huge help to get 3 followers for free. I went with a 2nd Scavenger and a Combat Experience today because it's probably the best all-around trait, though a 3rd Scavenger was tempting. Note that to get Millhouse you have to do the trick with the switching plots everyone knows about [even in the Wowhead comments]. Switch plots until he spawns. Or alternatively, visit friends garrisons with Inns, something I don't foresee Blizzard changing.

I'm not sure if Combat Experience is the best all-around, but it sure seems like it. Amazing trait that only one non-Inn follower has [Blook]. I also like High Stamina/Burst of Power.

Why on a monday night and not any other night of the week? Because of server reset? And why would you switch back 13 days and not one week?

My LM is already level 3... Would it be worth doing this? At least once for Millhouse?

[Denizly]

My LM is already level 3... Would it be worth doing this? At least once for Millhouse?

Your call, and don't change LM.

[Viceofdeath]

I'm currently in a progressive raiding guild, in order to prep for immediate heroic raiding we were asked to get flasks/elixirs up and running etc. At the moment my professions are Mining/Engineering.

My garrison is:

Level 2 Engineering Works, Salvage Yard and Forge
Level 2 Trading Post and Level 3 Lumber Mill
Level 2 War Mill and Level 3 Barracks

I'm looking for advice as to what would be best, would it be best to drop Salvage yard and Forge for Alchemy Lab and Enchanters Study and pickup Alchemy as a profession?

I need base agil flasks (fireweed) to start with and as we progress greater flasks and also agil pots (talbuk meat)

I have 2 alt's one with Jc'ing and one with LW as professions to help my character and between the 5 i'll have all aspects covered gearwise (My character is a hunter)

[Hazer]

Your call, and don't change LM.

In a casual raiding perspective, is Barracks / War Mill / Lumber Mill / Trading Post + Salvage Yard a fair combination?

[Denizly]

I'm looking for advice as to what would be best

Forge might be worth dropping IF you take alchemy as prof.
Salvage is absolute best, upgrade it to lvl 3 to cut your loses, and leave it be.
Engineering provides you with scopes.

If you pick alchemy as profession, ditch the Forge.
Enchanter's is, depending on prices, useless. The most expensive enchant's are the weapon ones (as they require ench), and you got that covered via engineering.

[Viceofdeath]

Would the best option be to drop forge for Enchanter's study and go Alchemy Lab? Or just screw chanting and take alchemy and alchemy lab?

[Denizly]

Would the best option be to drop forge for Enchanter's study and go Alchemy Lab? Or just screw chanting and take alchemy and alchemy lab?

Drop mining, pick alchemy.
Drop forge, make alchemy lab.

Screw chanting. Flask are needed more then enchants.
And without enchanting as a prof, you can't rly make so much from the enchanter's study.

[Hazer]

Drop mining, pick alchemy.
Drop forge, make alchemy lab.

Screw chanting. Flask are needed more then enchants.
And without enchanting as a prof, you can't rly make so much from the enchanter's study.

My profs are Alchemy/Herb. I have alchemy lab + SY. What third small building do you recommend? Scribing?

[Denizly]

My profs are Alchemy/Herb. I have alchemy lab + SY. What third small building do you recommend? Scribing?

Read the 'how to chose small building' part and decide.

[Juggzz]

I've noticed something strange, and not sure if this is RNG, or just me over thinking it.

Whenever I leave completed bunker work orders sit there and pick up 4-5 at a time, I get much better upgrades. Now clearly this could just be that there is 4 orders instead of the one, and that's why the chance at better follower upgrades, but I've been getting this strange feeling that if you leave them there and not pick up the work orders one at a time you get better upgrades. I seem to pick up a lot of scraps when I pick them up one at a time.

[Deleted]

So i have:
War Mill level 2 (need 1 more follower to get it to 3)
Trade Post level 2
Barracks level 3
Alch lab level 2 (i am alch+herba)
Storehause level 2, which is useless for me i think
Salvage yard level 3
Lumber Mill level 3

800 resur currently

Is it worth to drop Lumber mill for something else? May be like tavern to get followers with better skills or barn to make some gold? Prob barn on alt is better idea actually.

[Denizly]

I've noticed something strange, and not sure if this is RNG, or just me over thinking it.

Gotta call it RNG or a bug. Probably RNG tho.

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Is it worth to drop Lumber mill for something else? May be like tavern to get followers with better skills or barn to make some gold? Prob barn on alt is better idea actually.

Might be worth to drop the TP for something else now (if you got the LM follower). Since then both generate same GR but LM is ''free''.
Barn is worth it if it's lvl 3.
Inn is there if you need specific traits once or twice (wait for maintenance day to put something else if you get inn now)

[Deleted]

I am sure someone already explain it but why before maintenance day?
Also is it worth to change Storehause for something that actually worth it? Tried enchanter building but it was crap... Goint to try forge now.

[Denizly]

I am sure someone already explain it but why before maintenance day?

So you pick up 2 followers, 1 for each week without having to put it up again another day.
Storehouse is worthless. Only Remote use is from the lvl 3 one but i doubt you have it. Even then once you get it you will prolly have all WO related achies.