Quote Originally Posted by Ughmahedhurtz View Post
Garrisons are, IMO, hugely worthwhile. My caster group and hunter group are almost all at 625+ average gear levels with several 650+ pieces and they haven't set foot in anything but Slag Mines and Skyreach normals (I'm working on achievements on the 5x Prot Paladin group at the moment). The paladins are also 615+ now and I've yet to set foot in a single WoD dungeon with them.

It gets to 615+ pretty quick, and yes it's a lot of work up front. Once your followers are up to epic level mostly and you have several of them at 645+, good gear starts dropping frequently.

And the flood of greens from large crates is nifty, too.

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Thats fair enough, it depends what your multiboxing goals are?
If you want to gear up as fast as possible so you can raid then i totally agree that garrisons and apex crystals are the path of least resistance by far.

But for me i box for the fun of doing instances with my team, my spec, my tactics and as low ilvl as possible, so obviously getting a 5 man team at 630+ without having set foot in the instances is the antithesis of my goals.