Merc's Guide to Multiboxing Followers

[Lyonheart]

Nerf inc to keeping low level followers..( for the purpose of getting low level missions )

Originally missions all pulled from a single pool; players found that as they got their first level 100 followers they got fewer low-level missions and had a harder time leveling their weaker followers, so we made a change to ensure that some low-level missions would always pop if you had a follower in that range who needed them. We recognize this causes some odd incentives (you're encouraged to NOT max all your followers) and are discussing good solutions to that problem.

[Mercurio]

Thanks for the heads up. Guess we'll have to maximize the farming of Big Crates of Salavage while we can. Glad I've been able to make some early WoD cash while the salvaging is more abundant.

[Mosg2]

It sounds like they're going to fix the whole package so you'll have access to more missions, not just nerf keeping a follower at 91 and 95.

[Lyonheart]

SO the nerf went live. Now missions below lvl 94 "might" yield a salvage bag. 95-99 can give large crates. level 100 missions give the large crates and can sometimes give more than one.
With that said, i saw it coming. And im kind of glad. Now i wont feel the need to stay glued to my mission table lol. As multiboxers we still have a huge advantage with how many missions we can have going at a time. We will just have to focus on leveling and gearing up followers for more chances.

leveling and gearing followers has advantages as well>>I have geared up all my first team to 615+ item lvl almost exclusively through missions. I have not even finished Nagrand yet, nor run any dungons

edit: Had to edit about not getting crates or bags from failed missions.. i just got one from a level 100 fail mission.

[Mercurio]

Leveling and gearing followers has advantages as well>>I have geared up all my first team to 615+ item lvl almost exclusively through missions. I have not even finished Nagrand yet, nor run any dungeons.

I've had similar experiences. As I posted in another thread, "My first team of ten is between ilvl 619 and 627. I've yet to set foot in a heroic or even a regular level 100 dungeon. I'm not raiding Highmaul yet, but my followers are starting to. They get a mission called "Highmaul Raid" once you get a group of them to (follower ilvl) 645. They give your toon a piece of ilvl 655 gear when successful."

Thanks for the update on the nerf. I run out of level 100 missions very quickly, even with 20 level 100 followers. Sounds like it will still be worth it to keep a handful of followers between 95-99 for a shot at additional big boxes of salvage. A chance is better than the zero % chance you have by just having more idle level 100 followers.

[Ñightsham]

I have a question about assigning a follower for bonus work orders. Does this follower level at all during the assignment or do you have to send them on missions to level them to 100.

[TheShox]

When a follower is assigned to a building, you cannot send them on missions. You have to unassign them and then send on missions to level them up. In the Stickied "Comprehensive guide to building up your Garrison" on mmo-champion in the prof/garrison forum, the OP stated that you only need to assign a follower to a building on Pickup. They don't need to be there at each 4th hour when the WO completes. I'll be testing this out on some buildings tonight. You really want your professions followers that will be assigned to buildings at 100 for a guaranteed doubling of your work orders.

[JackBurton]

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.

get an addon like trade skill master with wowuction plugin to tell you what the prices are of the stuf
https://www.tradeskillmaster.com/

[Fogyreef]

Haven't seen much mention of sharing garrison services out side of this: http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...end-s-garrison

Have you guys found any other thing you can share when your alts visit?

[Starbuck_Jones]

Garrison followers are beasts during the invasion quests. Got my first gold clear today with Defender Illona as bodyguard and Admiral Taylor as patrol minion. Blook is pretty op as well with his 12k single target dps, but he doesn't have the million hp of Taylor.