Hi All,
I haven't been on the forum for a long time but wanted to add to the Garrison discussion.
The idea of running missions on followers appealed to me. It feels like I'm being "productive" on my alts when otherwise I probably wouldn't play them much. So when WoD hit I decided to focus on Garrisons and missions. I've been running 55 level 3 garrisons for a while now. Here are some random comments (and some comments on shipyards following):
- I typically do missions twice a day when I'm keeping up with things. Doesn't take too much time to roll through all the toons.
- Buildings are: Barracks (3), Bunker (2), Enchanters (1), Inn (3), Salvage (3), Storehouse (3), Trading Post (1)
- Initially I picked up followers while questing and then filled in to 25 via the Inn. Most of my initial recruits where Scavengers (there were no Treasure Hunters or Greesemonkeys then). On later teams I opt'd out of most quest or area followers and focused on mission reward specific followers from the Inn (Blook being an exception). My rule of thumb on later teams was a balance of 25% Oil, 25% GR, 50% Gold reward followers which seems to allow good coverage base on mission offered.
- My rule of thumb for recruiting was to recruit followers with the reward Trait as weighted above and having the lowest count of Ability within my current list of followers. I break this rule if a rare follower recruit has the second Trait that doubles up one of the mentioned above or Extra Training.
- Mission priority were Toon XP mission when I was < 100 on the toon. After dinging everybody to 100 then I would prioritize Raid > Follower Armor Tokens > Oil > GR > Gold > Epics > Follower XP. At some point you don't need Follower Armor Tokens but it takes a while.
- Toons are generally always parked at the mission table. About once a week I run them out to empty cache and dump excess GR (> 5000) by buying either Dust or Cloth (@ 4GR). I'd also visit the Bunker and pickup and requeue Work Orders for follower armor upgrade tokens.
- About once a month when I have more time I'll do the above but also convert all my armor scraps at the Bunker to a Thunderlord Sabatons and DE all of them to dust. Also during this run around I'll hit the scrapyard and open crates. I vendor everything from the crates except for WoD BoE epics and WoD crafting mats. I'll sometimes DE the 610 BoP blues because they vendor for nothing but produce a standard amount of dust but this too adds a lot of time to service all 55 toons. Just depends on my lazy factor that day.
This cycle is pretty self sustaining in that I don't lack GR and everything just seems to balance out between my gaming time and 55 toons. I've opt'd out of doing other activities such as Barn, Lumber Mill, Crafting Mats, Mining, Herb, etc etc because, for me at least, it doesn't scale to 55 Garrisons. It takes too much time to run each toon around for the reward. I tried several mixes early on but finally settled on this based on trying to keep all 55 Garrisons overall productive but not having to micro each team.
I thus far have enjoyed WoD a lot because of Garrisons vs say the past two expansions. When I have time to play I'd queue my 100 garrisons up with missions and then focus on leveling a < 100 team. It's odd to say playing WoW can ever feel "productive" but that's what garrisons added for me. Something always cooking in the background when leveling or not playing at all.
Shipyards...I'll add another post because they've been a different animal.
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Originally Posted by GuildOfBunk
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