Merc's Guide to Multiboxing Followers

[Mercurio]

Ok.. so the lvl3 salvage yard is a lot of fun.. its like Christmas everyday! so many presents to open everyday! BUT OMG! its a lot of damn work sorting through all the low lvl items you get to find out whats valuable or not. I spend an hour a day just sorting the junk from the usefull or transmog stuff. Any tips on how to speed this up? i mean im tempted just to DE it all lol.

Totally agree. Here's another strategy I'm using: since you get FAR more missions for low level followers (missions seem to be generated for level 90-99 followers based on knowing they need new missions every 30-90 minutes vs every 4-8 hours for level 100 followers), I am keeping five active followers at level 91, 93, 95, 97, and 99 and NEVER sending them on missions. This generates tons of low level missions that I send my level 100 followers on. Of course, this does almost nothing for those level 100 followers, but it does crate a ton more Big Boxes of Salvage. And the contents of these boxes don't seem to be modified by what level of mission they were generated on.

At at any rate, the 665 BoEs are starting to appear for me and they sell for Incredibly high prices. [Kick, it reminds me of farming BoT for epics and selling them on the AH that we did so much of at the start of Cataclysm.] Great way to build up a little cash reserve that allows you to completely ignore the optimal but time consuming ways to enchant, gem, and outfit 20-30 toons by just buying everything off the AH and not worrying about the cost.

[Lyonheart]

Totally agree. Here's another strategy I'm using: since you get FAR more missions for low level followers (missions seem to be generated for level 90-99 followers based on knowing they need new missions every 30-90 minutes vs every 4-8 hours for level 100 followers), I am keeping five active followers at level 91, 93, 95, 97, and 99 and NEVER sending them on missions. This generates tons of low level missions that I send my level 100 followers on. Of course, this does almost nothing for those level 100 followers, but it does crate a ton more Big Boxes of Salvage. And the contents of these boxes don't seem to be modified by what level of mission they were generated on.

At at any rate, the 665 BoEs are starting to appear for me and they sell for Incredibly high prices. [Kick, it reminds me of farming BoT for epics and selling them on the AH that we did so much of at the start of Cataclysm.] Great way to build up a little cash reserve that allows you to completely ignore the optimal but time consuming ways to enchant, gem, and outfit 20-30 toons by just buying everything off the AH and not worrying about the cost.

I noticed the low lvl follower thing as well, good idea on keeping a few and not sending them, Im almost out of low level followers lol! What do you do with all the low level items... that's the issue for me.. i get hundreds of low level items and it takes time and research to figure out which ones are worth gold for transmog ( i guess thats the point of the random low lvl items ). I have just been vendoring them because it was taking way to much time to sort through them all. Be nice to have an addon that alerts you to rare transmog item when you loot them.