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zutroy

One month of gold from Garrison Missions - 124,339g.

I've been keeping track of my gold earnings from garrison missions for the last 30 days using the Accountant addon. I'm quite pleased with the results:

http://i.imgur.com/khZacaw.jpg

This is with 5 level 100's, with a bunch of Treasure Hunter followers across them. Level 3 barracks for +5 followers, and level 3 inn for treasure missions and the ability to recruit 1 follower per week (I always grab Treasure Hunters).

I spend maybe a hour per day refreshing missions before and after work.

Approximately 25k per character per month, is enough to buy a WoW Token every month with just 1 character and play for "free", which was my goal. A full set of 11 characters on an account should bring in 275k a month.

Posted Apr 24, 2015, 3:06 PM UTC

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GamerBeast•

You are my hero and my inspiration. I am doing this method as well and a bit farming on the side on my decently geared Resto/Boomy Druid :)

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zutroyOP•

I do a bunch of other stuff on the side (mostly Enchanting for Temporal Crystals), but I was happy to see that garrison missions would be a good fall-back for easy gold making.

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BobbyMaximilian•

Is there a guide for doing this with a freshly lvl 100 charakter ?

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zutroyOP•

This is basically what I do. It's not optimal as far as min/max, but it's what I like to do.

  • You'll want as many level 100 characters as possible.
  • Build an Inn and get it to Level 3. This is key to unlock more profitable missions that reward gold.
  • Build a Salvage Yard and get it to Level 3 (not 100% required, but it's extra free gold)
  • Build a Baracks and get it to Level 3 (this increases your follower cap to 25)
  • Do the Harrison Jones daily missions so you can get him as a follower. This helps level your other followers much faster thanks to his Mentor trait.
  • Every week, recruit a follower via the Inn that has the Treasure Hunter trait. I also suggest recruiting a few Epic Mount and Scavenger followers.
  • Level up your followers ilvls as high as you can. Key ilvls that trigger new missions are 615, 630, 645, 660, and 675. I like to level followers in groups of three (so I take 3 followers from 615 to 630 at the same time)
  • Do lots of follower missions. Prioritize missions that reward gold. Get gold. Be rich.
  • Repeat with as many level 100's as you can. The more times you can refresh missions per day, the more gold you'll get.
  • You'll also end up with tons of salvage crates. Either vendor, DE, or AH the greens/blues/purples you get from them.
  • Build a Trading Post (level 1 required only) and exchange Garrison Resources for Draenic Dust when the trader that sells them for 4 resources is up (it's random I believe, so sometimes this is just once per week). If you have followers with the Scavenger trait, you can very easily make enough resources each week to cover all the dust you'll need.
  • I like to have enchanting + enchanting hut on all my toons.
  • Get the follower Ahm (Horde - quest in Talador). Assign him to your Enchanting hut to get double the crystals from work orders.
  • Using the dust you got from the Trading post, fill up your enchanting hut work orders.
  • Enchanting profession lets you create 1 Temporal Crystal per day.
  • If you're so inclined, make enchanting scrolls or upgrade items and sell on on the AH. Personally I just sell the raw Crystals (closing in on 300k in sales since January)

That's about it. Again, there are other ways to make more gold, but this is the method I prefer as it's not all that much work. I also pick up the Stables, so I can interact with objects (like work order crates) without having to dismount. I also mine/herb when I feel like it.

Hope that helps.

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Cue2•

Running some old cata dungeons on each character each week is also a great way to earn gold. Thatll easyily net you another 50k + each week

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Skreevy•

Wpuld be interested as well.

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wolfwing•

There was a post on the regular wow Sub a couple days ago where a guy did similar with his followers over a 15 day period. He setup a spread sheet of the gold making. The main thing they added was a salvage yard, which brought in a good amount of gold on it's own mainly from vendoring all the junk.

Results: http://imgur.com/GW8DPR3

Credit to u/Decyde

Original post: http://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/33h67m/15_days_of_follower_missions/

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ichebu•

Yup, Salvage yard is where it's at - to do 25 followers without it makes the setup seem very incomplete.

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Decyde•

Was pretty annoying logging all that ;p I failed logging my results twice before I realized just taking a final tally at the end of the night is the easiest.

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wolfwing•

Well thank you for the effort to log the results! It has been helpful in getting myself motivated to finish leveling my alts to 100!

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Decyde•

Yep, np.

I'm stuck on the crap phase with my 11 alts on another realm I just got 100 today. Having to do Harrison Jones x 11 a day on top of trying to log them on every 90 minutes if I can so they can get 100/epic faster.

This part takes about 3 weeks to do but it can go faster if you get HJ within a couple weeks.

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zutroyOP•

I've really been slacking on HJ - I need to motivate myself to get him completed on all my toons.

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zutroyOP•

Awesome! I was poking around for other results and couldn't find any. Thank you very much for this. Now I feel bad for not keeping track of my stats with more details.

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wolfwing•

Hey you did better than a lot of others. I was thinking about tracking my gold making via the garrison, but I keep putting it off.

Plus I would have to sort out the gold made from Salvage crates. I send the Transmog items with a market value over 100g to my AH Mule, and the greens that DE for more than vendor price to my Enchanter, then the dusts etc to my AH Mule.

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zutroyOP•

Using Accountant, as seen in my screenshot, that number is the total from ONLY garrison missions. Doesn't include crates. So it's all automated and quick and tracks across all characters on an account - don't need to manually update a spreadsheet. I make a lot of gold from other sources, so I was mostly curious about the freebie gold from missions.

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wolfwing•

Also going back and looking at my original post, I meant it to be a "hey here's another persons results to compare with!" not a "Ha! this person did better than you!" type of post.

Either way, results will vary by number of Followers and how much the RNG likes you each day.

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zutroyOP•

All good - I was just being hard on myself for not keeping detailed stats :)

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Decyde•

I had a lot of people ask me how much I was making and a lot not believe me that I'm going to make 1 million a month from alts. I was just at a great spot to show multiple toons with how many Treasure Hunters for people wanting to do it.

I just finished grinding 11 more toons to 100 last week and this week for the double results.

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zutroyOP•

I've just started grinding out a 2nd account of all Death Knights so I can have even more. I'm excited to get to 22 characters chugging out missions.

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Decyde•

If I had unlimited time, I'd do this on RaF accounts. Since it takes a lot of time to do missions, I couldn't imagine doing more than 22-25 toons however.

I timed myself at 20 minutes per 11 toons to do missions and just a tad longer if I do pet missions for upgrade stones to sell.

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cornerssss•

salavage yard is coo,l only problem is if you dont stay on it you turn into an instant horder with no bag space.

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thelonious_bunk•

I hope this doesnt get nerfed to shit in 6.2.

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wehrmann_tx•

All it will do is out pace the real money spent on tokens and drive gold per token prices up. It's going to be scarce market where gold buyers don't need to because free garrison gold and since no one is spending real money on tokens, there will be none for sale.

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thelonious_bunk•

I dont think people paying real money for gold will maximize their garrison profits though. Same people that use thier mats on themselves instead of selling the crafts lol.

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fuckthefive0•

Hmm it seems that many wise and provident goblins are turning to this method to make gold and get free game time!

How long do you reckon it would take to go from fresh dinging level 100 to the final functioning set-up? ( I have one well geared main atm)

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zutroyOP•

In my mind, a final functional setup is 11 characters with all the garrison buildings and at least 5 followers with treasure hunting at 675 ilvl. That takes a lot of time.

But if you're running multiple alts to level 100, gradually stepping up to that final setup, you're still pulling in lots of gold. I'm probably somewhere around 33% towards my ultimate final setup. Way less if I decide to run a 2nd account with 11 more characters.

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Tepn•

Great to see as I work toward this. Congratulations.

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PastorOfPwn•

What am I missing in my garrison? I never see enough gold missions to get this kind of income. I see 615 missions, are there some above that I haven't unlocked yet? I have a lvl 3 Inn, Enchanter, and Tailor all for the extra gold missions.

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zutroyOP•

Two things:

  1. Level up your followers beyond ilvl 615. Across my characters, I'm mostly 630+ (on my main they're all 675).

  2. I send my followers on the junk XP missions to clear them out in the hopes of popping a gold mission. Then I always prioritize gold missions above everything else.

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GamerBeast•

does this clearing mission to pop gold ones actually work? is there a bigger chance of popping gold, resource or cache missions?

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zutroyOP•

I have nothing but my own observations. I feel like clearing missions does pop gold missions, but it's possible it's just x amount of hours that pops them.

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PastorOfPwn•

Does going beyond unlock higher level missions past 615?

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zutroyOP•

Oh yes. There are lots of lucrative missions at 630, 645, 660, and 675 missions. Definitely do not stop at 615.

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PastorOfPwn•

Oh. My. Gromm. I feel like such an idiot... I've just been capping people at 615. UGH!

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Blackfan•

What I would like to know is how many 1k gold raid missions you have on each char?

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zutroyOP•

Stacking followers with treasure hunting, you can get 2000g from one mission. They pop maybe once a week. I've got them on 3 toons now that I've leveled up my followers to a high enough ilvl.

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Blackfan•

You get 4k gold from 1kraid mission with 3 treasure hunters. Do you have any of those?

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zutroyOP•

I believe you need to unlock the Mythic missions to get that one, and I don't really raid very much, especially not on alts.

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Blackfan•

Yep you do. Alright

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ckpetrone•

TRYING THIS OUT

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armada_ace•

Same here, gonna try this out and lets see how far it gets me.

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TehBananaBread•

So you make around 4k an hour? Not that much in comparison to 1 AH snipe, but still nice to see garrison pay off that much!

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PastorOfPwn•

Well compared to sniping it is almost 100% reliable/consistent. I think that is the true strength of the garrison money and why I am personally pursuing it.

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zutroyOP•

I suspect at some point they'll nerf Treasure Hunter missions - if not during this expansion, surely the next. I can't imagine they'd let us keep making all this reliable free gold from garrison missions indefinitely.

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PastorOfPwn•

Well hopefully by then I have a lot of time in tokens banked!

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ichebu•

Honestly, it really only serves people with lots of alts and invests time into them. I'm sure it will get nerfed next expansion or inflation will make it not worth it, but I don't see them hitting it too hard with the nerf bat before that.

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zutroyOP•

Yes - you absolutely need lots of alts for this. I had all level 90's already anyways from MoP, so all I did was drag them through the opening quests of WoD until they had garrisons. Then I let them sit gathering resources for a bit. Then I brought each one to level 92 so I could get a level 2 garrison. At that point, I leveled a few up solely on mining and XP missions. Very slow, but effortless leveling. I then started going through each zone picking up treasures for XP. With a full set of heirloom gear, it was 40k XP each.

The 90-100 grind isn't as bad as I was expecting it to be in the end.

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Osmodius•

You can still make a decent amount even with one character.

I mean, for what little time it consumes.

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zutroyOP•

It's fun little quick time that I can spend and pull in a good amount of gold. I'm not overly concerned with the gold per hour it generates.

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