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For completing the first Warlords random heroic of the day, you get 0 Garrison Resources. Learn how to clear these dungeons with our Warlords Dungeon Guides!

You naturally accumulate Garrison Resources over time, which can be looted from an elaborate chest next to your Town Hall.

Most rares drop Garrison Resources every time you kill them. Some also drop items like Icemother Milk which create Garrison Resources. See our exploration guides listed below for more information.

Many treasure chests in Draenor contain Garrison Resources. When you complete all quests in a zone, you can buy a map like Shadowmoon Valley Treasure Map which puts all chests in the zone on the map. See our exploration guides listed below for more information.

Many Quests reward Garrison Resources. You can see a complete list of Quests that reward resources in our Database.

Many Garrison Missions reward Garrison Resources. You can see a complete list of Missions that reward resources in our Database. You can increase the amount of Resources from missions by utilizing followers with Scavenger--multiple followers can have this trait on the same mission.

Your Lumber Mill Level 3 can provide additional Garrison Resources. This building grants you the ability to chop down trees around Draenor--10 Timber creates one Work Order for 20 Garrison Resources.

You can build a Lumber Mill Level 1 when you have completed questing in Gorgrond or have hit 94. You can increase the amount of Garrison Resources per work order if you obtain Phylarch the Evergreen after reaching Lumber Mill Level 3.

Treasures and Rares in Draenor

Rares, Treasures, and Temples in Shadowmoon Valley

Rares, Treasures, and Shamanstones in Frostfire Ridge

Rares, Treasures, and Garrison Outpost Caches in Gorgrond

Rares and Treasures in Talador

Rares, Treasures, and Jumping Puzzles in Spires of Arak

Rares, Treasures, and Gliders in Nagrand

Rare Drop Items that Reward Garrison ResourcesPreserved Hydra BloodMagnaron HeartGiant Kaliri EggIcemother MilkPile of Frostfire TurnipsShadowmoon Astrologer's AlmanacRecipe: Fiona's RemedyTreasure Chest Items that Reward Garrison ResourcesAmethyl CrystalDraenic Crystal FragmentsSurplus Auchenai WeaponryIron Horde Weapon CacheToxicfang VenomExploratron 2000 Spare PartsWays to spend Garrison Resources:

Each building size and level has a different amount of Garrison Resources needed to build it.

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Guides

Garrison Outpost
Guide: Zone-Wide
Perks, Quests, Followers

Gearing up in Warlords
of Draenor

Guide to Farming and
Spending Garrison
Resources in Warlords of Draenor

Guide to
Garrisons in
Warlords of Draenor

Guide to Large Garrison
Buildings

Guide to Medium Garrison
Buildings

Comments

Comment by Longeria

I have Horde and Ally chars, so I think to do them both at the same time. Activated on both side at least 1 char go for the start quests and start the garrison. Off course I go level my Hordes faster and earlier then my alliance. I am not sure if it generate his "wood" automatic if you are not on-line with any off both chars. So I will find out later.

Comment by Reignac

Material is the currency for Garrisons, the new feature implemented in Warlords of Draenor. You get one Material every ten minutes, and it can also be a reward from quests, a drop from rare mobs, or found in treasure chests or events around the world.

Everything in the Garrison costs Material. Building new buildings does, of course, but so does sending out your Followers on missions.

Comment by Nynaeve

This currency is used in the construction of your Garrison buildings.

There are many ways to obtain the Garrison Resources (also known as Garrison "Materials"). Here are some examples:

Resources are generated at a steady pace, with more generated when you have certain buildings (the Mill).
Certain quests and "bounty" quests reward you with Resources.
Follower's Successful Missions can reward you with Resources.
Rare mobs can drop Items that give you Resources, and some drop the Resources themselves.
TI style jumping games can have a chest reward with Resources.
Resources can be looted from objects on the ground.

Comment by dakyras

Guide (beta) to ground looted resources (part 1)

Alliance garrison:
- Found a Lunarfall Egg object (5-10 garrison materials) in the phase before you build your garrison. This is in the big nest that the Lunarfall Matriarch is guarding. This is not available after your garrison is built.
- Follow the pug Pippers it will lead you to at least 4 different dirt piles containing 10 resources each.
- Garrison Cache (auto-restocks slowly, available in all garrison levels)
- In the fishing pond is an underwater cave with a treasure chest of 20 stolen materials

Shadowmoon Valley:
- Underneath the boat you crashed on after escaping Tanaan Jungle intro event is a Sunken Treasure containing 10 materials.
- In the Paletide Den is Stolen treasure containing 10 materials. Paletide Den is across the water from the crashed boat you arrived on. The rare Bahameye is in the water between this cave and the boat.
- also at Eventide Landing is a barrel of Fantastic Fish contains 10 materials.
- Rotting Basket inside Bloodthorn Cave next to the npc Diaani whom you rescue for a quest. Contains 16 materials and a battered wolfskull helm.
- inside Waning Crescent cave is a Glowing Cave Mushroom (look for the waterfall inside the cave) Contained 10 chameleon lotus and 15 materials.
- On a hill on top of Waning Crescent cave is Ancestral Greataxe, contains 19 materials and ancestral shadowmoon greataxe
- find your way onto the top of the entrance to Waning Crescent cave, you'll find http://www.wowhead.com/quest=33564/treasure-hanging-satchel first time I looted it it had 19 matierals, second time 12.
- Gloomshade Grove contained 19 materials and ~~5 parasitic starfish~~ 10 awesomefish.
- Gloomshade Grove between the 2 smaller ponds is a big tree with a cave at its base full of dead/carnivorous squirrels - inside is a Bubbling Cauldron with 14 materials and void-boiled squirrel
- Gloomshade Grove by the road to the south are a bunch of wolves feasting on an elekk skeleton, the tusks are lootable and contain armoured elekk tusk
- Windreaver's Rise in the cave below is Shadowmoon Exile's Treasure containing shadowmoon astrologer's almanac - OR -
- Umbrafen underwater in the southern-most part of the water is a giant underwater mushroom with a Mushroom-covered Chest at its base, contained 15 materials and shadowmoon astologers almanac
- located on a tiny island near Telos in The Verdant Mire
- on Isle of Shadows (south of Shaz'gul) contained darktide pincer but no garrison resources
- Iron Horde Tribute in one of the huts at Shaz'gul contains tiny iron star
- in a hut in the north west corner of Anguish Fortress is a Shadowmoon Treasure chest, had 58 garrison resources when I looted it.
- Giant Moonwillow Cone in a clearing behind the big tree where you meet Velen and drink his elixir of clarity, contained moonwillow wand
- in an alcove right below Essence of Darkness npc in the Anguish Fortress, contains ronokk's greatcloak
- Anguish Fortress the Carved Drinking Horn object in an alcove near the rare npc Voidseer Kalurg (one side is the dungeon entrance, directly opposite the rare is this), contains carved drinking horn
- at Anguish Fortress in an alcove in the room directly under the npc Essence of Shadow
- Anguish Fortress in an alcove in the room directly opposite Essence of Anguish's cave.
- Anguish Fortress in an alcove in the room right next to Essence of Anguish's cave.
- Anguish Fortress in an alcove in the room next to Uzko's above.
- Anguish Fortress in an alcove in the room next to Rovo's above.
- Anguish Fortress in an alcove in the room next to the ashes one above.
- Anguish Fortress Shadowmoon Sacrificial Dagger at the top of the stairs of Terrace of the Stars
- The Burial Grounds there are four Peaceful Offerings at the base of each of the four stones you need to collect rubbings of for the quest
- Iron Horde Cargo Shipment in a busted wagon on the edge of the Burial Fields on the Shaz'gul side.
- Anchorite's Rise in the big lake at the top, the source of the river that flows north, contains vindicator's polish kit (warning! this area is lvl 100 hostile npcs)
- Embaari Village up the ramp to the second floor of the Teluuna Observatory is the Astrologer's Box with star chart
- Gul'var, in one of the huts is but it requires lvl 94 to open. Hut is on the left of the path up to The Shadow Rise where Gul'dan is. Contains fingers of the void
- Path Of Light flight path, about 150 yards or so behind the flight master is a Kaliri Egg, contains giant kaliri egg
- Darktide Roost ~~on the smallest of the 3 islands~~ now inside cave of the middle sized island that make up this lvl 100 subzone is a Scaly Rylak Egg (might be the ) with had an Aged Yolk inside and 25 resources.
- but is a Swamplighter Hive when you mouseover, next to the river in Blademoon Bloom contains a toy
- next to where you hand in Velen's final thoughts quest in Coliseum of Light, Karabor (I've not seen this on live, not sure it made it in)

- Elodor (no garrison materials, just including it for completeness)
- Umbrafen contains only umbrafen spore

~~Will try turn these comments into a guide later (can't submit a work in progress).~~ Much easier to use the in-game treasure maps sold for 100g each by and whatever the horde counterpart is in Ashran.

Comment by dakyras

Guide (beta) to ground looted resources (part 2)

Talador:
- found near Frostwolf Overlook (horde base) in the north of the zone, there's a bridge over a series of waterfalls, if you can make your way around to the base of the biggest waterfall at the top of the stream you will find this there, contains fishing line
- left nehind in a small draenei camp at Orunai Coast that explodes when you get near it, contains deceptia's smoldering boots
- in a cave ~~Drax's Workshop (horde shredder quest destination)~~ east of Frostwolf Overlook at the bottom of the series of waterfalls that flow into the sea.
- in a cave called Ketya's Hideaway, full of mechanical booby-traps located on the other side of the river to the east of the Shattrath docks. Contains stonegrinder
- ~~high above Kuuro's Claim~~ Been moved to Aarko's Estate.
- inside Kuuro's Claim up the ramp in the back. Contained a ring
- found at the northern end of the western-most pier of Shattrath docks, contains placeholder item
- in the river under the letter R in Tuurem, contains amethyl crystal
- under the bridge at Aruuna.
- on the balcony of a small building overlooking the burning field to the south. Contains tiny naaru statue.
- Iron Scout a lvl 95 male orc corpse lying in front of a burning tent, slightly north west from the small lake near Aruuna, has a chat option "search the body" that gives garrison resources (currently bugged, the chat option can be selected over and over).
- or inside Aruuna Mines on the bottom floor. Contains some ore.
- in the buring field south of Aruuna, contains blazegrease greatsword
- lightbearer leaning against a tree in a clearing close to the arakoa flight master on Duskfall Island.
- Duskfall Island, near the pleasurebot-8000 there's a barrel of fish on the docks with some more ~~parasitic starfish garrison resources.~~
- Teroclaw Nests are all over the place east of Jorune Mine where there are teroclaws, can loot any one of them for teroclaw hatchling
- in Gordal Fortress in the last building before the witch lord ogre boss. Contains a mace
- shows up at ~~Exarch's Refuge~~ next to the road west of Telmor after you take Yuuri's quest from him inside Tomb of Lights. ~~He also shows up with another Yuuri's Gift at Court of Souls.~~
- also at Exarch's Refuge. Contains surplus auchenai weaponry
- inside the cave at Deathweb Hollow (inside and up the ramp).
- Curious Deathweb Egg inside the cave at Deathweb Hollow (inside at the back behind the dreadlord) contains an egg
- inside the cave at Deathweb Hollow. Go inside the cave and dive deep into the water on the left side.
- inside one of the larger buildings at Telmor. Had another tiny naaru statue
- Aarko's Family Treasure, on the coast south west from Telmor. Talk to Aarko to begin a small invasion event. Contains aarko's crosbow.
- Cave west of Aarko's Estate is a cave with a path up from the sea, inside is a statue puzzle, activate to unlock (placeholder loot atm)
- on the western side of Ango'rosh Ruins. Mine had 8 sorcerer stones which are unique (5) so I was unable to loot them
- inside the biggest hut at Gul'rok.
- Viperlash, a rare in a cave at Gul'rok has a lootable spear sticking out his corpse after you kill him.
- Soulbinder's Reliquary inside and down the left of Tomb of Souls. Contains a ring

Comment by Bethania

BETA comment

Just completed "Go Fetch" (Garrison Tavern / Dungeon Daily) on a mage

Received Crate of Valuable Treasures as quest reward.

It contained:

Lightbinder Gloves
63 gold, 40 silver, 86 copper
38x Apexis Crystal
20x Garrison Resources

Comment by cem3203

i wait 24 hours for Garrison Cache and got 144 Garrison Resources
-Beta Built 6.0.2 ( 18950 )

P.S.: You can get max.500 pcs. Garrison Resources from Garrison Cache atm. ( You can have max.10.000 GR in your backpack)

Comment by Mike

For anyone interested in searching for all the garrison caches, hidden treasures and rare spawns around Draenor, I highly recommend the addon HandyNotes and its plugin DraenorTreasures.

Comment by Voxxel

As we're advancing in Draenor on lvl 100 we may change buildings often enough so blindly to find ourselves completely run out of Garrison Resources. In this case don't hesitate to build up and do the relevant quests for the Lumber Mill or Stables that provide quite a lot resources; even if you minus the build cost the outcome of the initial quests will be a clear profit. You can also do some side quests you may have left behind while leveling to 100 that reward with high, >30 amount of Resources, such like

Bounty: Twisted Ancient x75
Wanted: Kuu'rat's Tusks x75
A Curse Upon the Woods x35
An'dure The Giant x55, short side chain starts with Trouble In The Mine
Bonus Objective: Orunai Coast x45
Shooting the Breeze x40
Wanted: Keeho's Severed Paw x100
Wanted: Spineslicer's Husk x100
Wanted: Venombarb x100

To check the above quests use this macro:
/run local t={"Twisted Anc:",33111,"Kuu'rat:",33833,"Curse upon:",33120,"An'dure:",34415,"Orunai Bonus:",35236,"Keehos Paw:",35674,"Spines Husk:",35675,"Venom:",35676,"Breeze Shoot:",35676}for i=1,#t-1,2 do print(t,IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(t))end("True" means you already completed that quest)

Some of them may be Alliance only; For the complete list, check this link.
Along with the quests, there are notable, easy-to-get items around Draenor that grant us Garrison Resources on use. Obtain those becomes our top priority task in the times we're out of Resources:

Amethyl Crystal can be looted from Amethyl Crystal in Talador. Grants 100.
Surplus Auchenai Weaponry can be looted from Draenei Weapons in Talador. Grants 100.
Exploratron 2000 Spare Parts can be looted from Explorer Canister in Gorgrond. Grants 50.
Iron Horde Weapon Cache can be looted from Weapons Cache in Gorgrond. Grants 100.
Toxicfang Venom can be looted from Toxicfang Venom in Spires of Arak. Grants 100.
Shadowmoon Astrologer's Almanac can be looted from Shadowmoon Exile Treasure in Shadowmoon Valley. Grants 25.
Recipe: Fiona's Remedy can be obtained by completing Fiona's short questline in Shadowmoon Valley. Grants 25.
Giant Kaliri Egg can be looted from Kaliri Egg in Shadowmoon Valley. Grants 25.
Icemother Milk can be looted from Canyon Icemother in Frostfire Ridge. Grants 25.
Pile of Frostfire Turnips can be looted from Goren Leftovers in Frostfire Ridge. Grants 25.
Magnaron Heart can be looted from either Valkor or Vrok the Ancient in Forstfire Rige. Grants 25. //Note the drop chance is low. Also one chance per day per character.

Macro to check if you looted them all (Magnaron Heart excluded because that drops from daily rare mobs and you can loot them once every day.):
/run local t={"Amethyl:",34236,"Auchenai.wpn:",34253,"Canister:",36621,"Iron.H.cache:",36596,"Toxic:",36364,"Exile:",33570,"Fiona:",33788,"Kaliri:",33568,"Icemother:",32941,"Turnip:",33948}for i=1,#t-1,2 do print(t,IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(t))end(Again, "True" means you already obtained that item)

Other than that, the absolute most efficient way to gather the missing resources is to kill rares and open treasures. I was able to push from 1200 to 2000 in only 2 hours of rare-killing! All of them drop 10-35 pieces of Garrison Resources and Treasure chests also can contain some.

Note to remember, Gorgrond is a special zone with building-specific treasures. With the Arena outpost building you will able to break 25 boulder treasures while with the Lumber Mill outpost building you can weed out 25 thornvines. Each of them contains 15-30 resources and you can do BOTH boulders and thornvines by changing your outpost building. However this method is only for emergency cases because the price of changing the building is so high.

On an end note, don't forget to loot your Garrison Cache pile next to your town hall from time to time, the rate of the cache is tend to be 1 resource per every 10 min.

Gorgrond building-specific treasure map

If you're unfamiliar with the locations of all those rare spawns and treasures around Draenor, make sure you buy and learn the zone Treasure Maps from the Archaeology vendors in Ashran: Grakis for the Alliance and Srikka for the Horde and check Perc's relevant guide.

Comment by DaltonImperial

Any confirmation of some beta comments like "the town hall generates 1 garrison resource every 10 minutes" and "the maximum amount of resources in the Garrison Cache from the town hall is 500"? Also, does upgrading your garrison to Tier 2 or Tier 3 increase how many resources are generated from the town hall?

Comment by RufusHonkerIV

Most people know about logging their 90 alts out in an inn or a city so when they get to them they can have rested XP for two levels.

However if you can just get through the Draenor Starting area to your first garrison on your alt(s), not only will you be accumulating rested XP, but you will be accumulating garrison resources in the cache!

Remember to log in to your alt from time to time - you can only have 500 cap in the cache itself, but 10,000 on your character.

And when you finally use your alt, you'll be able to buy a fair few Excess Potion of Accelerated Learning with the garrison resources.

Comment by Fastgr

Best helper to gather Garrison Resources from around the world is Handynotes.

Comment by Krystalleon

Another thing to add that might help you all find these resources that are scattered around Draenor; The Addon named HandyNotes. Displays everything on your map including Rares and World Drops. Be sure to download both the Addon and the Draenor extension. I've linked both:

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/handynotes
http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/handynotes_draenortreasures

Enjoy.

Comment by Atanae

The challenge with resources is that Blizzard starts you off giving you tons of resources from almost anything. Bend at the middle? Have some resources! The further you level, the less opportunity you have to get resources and you need to rely on other avenues. By the time you're 100, there's almost no way to get resources outside of a few sources. This leads many to a false sense of security as your first introduction to garrisons is paired with a generous influx of resources. By the time your realize the spice isn't going to flow forever, you've already burned through most of your stockpile. The only real solution until Blizzard provides more venues for getting resources at end game, is to just not spend much at all UNTIL endgame and after you pay for your level 3 garrison.

FWIW, this is what I've done, and I have over 2K resources at level 97 (and not even started with Talador). The purpose of this approach is to maximize acquisition of resources at the greatest time you are acquiring those resources, and storing them against later needs. This is a "pre-endgame" approach and assumes you are looking to spend most of your time out in the world, leveling, running dungeons, etc and not delving deeply into garrisons early on.

- Plan a basic, minimalist build: Barracks, Profession Building then Lumber Mill and Storage. Reasons: Barracks is free, matching profession building not a bad thing to have, storage: great to have your bank on-hand, Lumber Mill: right now the best, most efficient, predictable and controllable resource gain).

- Do every quest to unlock the treasure maps. Kill every rare.

- Only do follower missions where you have either: 100% chance or you have no choice but to send the follower off because the follower's level is too low in relation to the average number of missions being offered. Keep in mind a high-level follower with the right counter can "carry" low level followers.

- Do not spend any garrison resources on anything other than the basic build and mandatory buildings. I was able to get: Level 2 Mine, Herb Garden, Fish Shack, Profession Building and Storage. I kept Lumber Mill and Barracks at level 1 with minimal impact to my garrison resource cache.

- Get the Lumber Mill for Gorgrond. This gives you the shredder, which has limited flight and will allow you to quickly solve vertical puzzles in Gorgrond. The tangles of overgrowth are numerous and great resource sources.

- When you are done with a zone, buy the treasure map. Then go back into the zone and clear out your treasures. I feel doing at the end of each zone is more effective: better chance of getting item drops that are meaningful for your level. Also, you're familiar with the zone, so getting around will be faster. Finally, 100 gold in small chunks is better on the gold pouch than buying 4-5 maps at once. However, if you don't care, waiting until 100 then roflstomping content is totally fine.

Now, the critical points:

- Keep the barracks for the time being. It's a free building. If you don't want to keep it, just don't upgrade it. Small buildings, totally up to you, but choose something you can deal with until you hit 100 and get the quest to build your level 3 garrison.

- Don't upgrade anything if you're unsure. if you change your mind, or swap, your buildings reset to level 1. So if you upgrade your barracks, then change it to stables, then decide stables is not for you and put the barracks back, you will get a level 1 barracks and will have to re-level it.

The gameplay choice is Lumber Mill or Trading Post. Trading Post is a good excess materials for garrison resources trade, but it's not predictable or consistent. The offer change from day to day, and there may be days the material being asked for is something you don't have. Lumber ALWAYS converts to resources, in a predictable rate of 20 resources every 4 hours. Since you can only carry 250 lumber at a time (across all bags), you won't see someone monopolizing lumber or power farming it. If you don't want to commit to the mill, there's no harm in keeping it level 1, but you'll be limited to the start zones and Gorgrond (and parts of other locations) for the bulk of your lumber.

Again, this is JUST to get you to 2,000 resources. Once you get your level 3 garrison,how you wish to manage the buildings you want against the resource constraint you will have is totally up to you. That's why I recommend not upgrading anything you might change. Don't waste the resource. Now while you're leveling.

Another point: you can get some great buffs by using alternate buildings in zones. For instance: I may have Trading Post in my garrison, but the Inn in Spires. Inn gives me a XP boost. I also plan to have Stables in Nagrand, but not in my garrison. The local buff is fine for my needs.

Comment by reapasaurus

I have autoloot on and I always grab any garrison resources before I can read the amount I am looting. They also do not appear in my chat log as looted currency. Anyone know an addon to fix this?

Comment by lankybrit

Why doesn't this page mention the Trading Post? That's also a good source for Garrison Resources. You can trade mats you don't need for Garrison Resources.

Comment by BirdKiller

For those who do not want to use Handynotes and motivation to complete each zone's questlines, there's a vendor that sells treasure maps for each zones you've completed. These maps reveal all the hidden treasure spots that commonly contain garrison resources.

The vendors are:

Horde: Srikka
Alliance: Grakis

They sell the following items:

Nagrand Treasure Map
Shadowmoon Valley Treasure Map
Gorgrond Treasure Map
Talador Treasure Map
Spires of Arak Treasure Map

Along crate of Archaeology fragments we all know about.

Comment by Whatvoidzone

It will take 3 days 11 hours and 20 minutes for your garrison cache to cap at 500 garrison resources.

Comment by decembre

Amount of Garrison Resources you can get per day from repeatable sources (not counting follower missions):

144 from garrison supply crate (1 every 10 mins)
180 from Trading Post Level 1 (30 every 4 hours)
120 from Lumber Mill Level 1, 180 with Phylarch the Evergreen working at a Lumber Mill Level 3 (20 or 30 every 4 hours)
50 from the daily random heroic dungeon

Total: 494, or 554 with Phylarch the Evergreen working at a Lumber Mill Level 3

NOTE: The six dailies from the Stables Level 1 mount training quest can net you up to an extra 120 GR per day for a limited time (+100 GR for catching and training each beast). It takes a day or so to ramp up to the maximum amount, and is proved for about a week and a half till the mounts are trained (I believe a daily ends once you have the mount). As the mounts are account wide, I do not know if you can also do these dailies on alts.

Comment by ypazrogue

It's worth noting that the Stables can be a pretty solid way to earn quite a few resources very fast. Each of the capture/kill quests rewards 20-50 resources each and there are at least 6 of each.

Comment by Hagendaz1337

This little bit of math should come useful to some players. This also may be one of the easiest/fastest ways to accumulate garrison resources.

Firstly you'll need a follower with the scavenger skill. While some people may think it means 200% total it doesnt. In fact it triples your garrison supplies rewarded from missons, and it STACKS.

Scenario:
You have two garrison missions rewarding 40 garrison resources each.
You can either have two followers (assume without the scavenger trait) that can counter the treats.
OR
You have two followers without the counter but they have the scavenger trait.

The math is as follows:

2*40*1= 80 (two followers each doing a mission that awards 40 garrison supplies at 100% success rate)
2*(40*3)*0.5= 120 (two followers each doing a mission that awards 120 since the resources are tripled at 50% success rate)

You'll notice that the scavenger trait will likely pull ahead on average (susceptible to RNG). Also please keep in mind typically without the counter to the danger (at missions higher than 90) I typically have a 51-59% success rate. So the average mission being successful becomes higher than a 50% chance. Level 90 missions a lot of times gives my scavenger followers about a 78% success rate (without the counter to the mission threat).

I've added a picture of what's possible by taking this chance with THREE followers with the scavenge ability.
http://i.imgur.com/JAz5YVI.jpg The initial reward was 175 garrison resources I put three followers with scavenge on the mission and got 1225 resources from ONE mission. Math is as follows (3*2*175)+175=1225. I had a 40% success rate.

Comment by NaAbPwNzOr420

blizz damn give more this boxes u need very many to build houses and i have no :(

Comment by WoWMarketeer

Here is a detailed video of how you can get tons of resources. Probably more than you know what to do with!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bjl1fHMMYw&list=UU9n3ZmJmlE5oSB1gIdIAu7w

Comment by joonjoon819

There really needs to be more ways to gather resources. 120~180 from full operating Lumber Mill and 144 daily is far from enough. Mission rewards are unreliable. Treasure Chests only give some 10 resources per chest, which is hardly worth the time invested running around the entire zone. We are forced into low-level quests only for the resources. There needs to be something better.

Comment by johnmully

Maps are a waste with the exception of frostfire and gorgrond. You might get 200 garrison from each if you are lucky, more likely 150. I am horde so I ran into shadowmoon valley and killed all rares and looted everything. I got about 700 just from that. I am on my 3rd toon. The first 2 are identical in garrison setup only happened because area52 at launch was terribad so I had an 85 on another server (low pop), 2nd account that I played while my main chilled and area52 got back to norm. Both have War/Lumber/tavern/tailor/ench/store all buildings have lvl100 followers assigned. I recruited scavengers after I quickly saw the advantage there, also epic mount is the other I recruit followers for. My garrison resources were easily managed on those 2 and when I spent they were quickly resupplied and I have about 4-5k each with maxed out garrisons minus the pets. Now my 3rd toon I have War Mill/Barn/tavern/salvage/forge/storehouse. I have followers assigned and a level 3 garrison but not all my buildings are. I have done all the treasures, rares you name it and I have 300 garrison pts. I am broke and hate this. I ran with the barn so as to get savage bloods but am at lvl 2 with that I do like the barn it's more fun so far than the lumber but idk. I dinged 12/19 on this guy so it's still early but I didn't have this issue with my other 2. My 4th toon going to try the trading post and barn cuz that guys a lw. One tip I do have for guys with multiple toons is to start the intro quests and get to your garrison, you will be close to dinging 91, (I kill all the rares close by and grab the 2-3 treasures in the same area while questing through and usually ding 91) and will get your garrison resources saved up before you start, 500 in 3.5 days (log in every 3rd day cuz 500 is max) so about 5k in a month which is more than perfect to start with. I have 11-90's yet to level so this will get super easy as I get to them, if I do.

I just think that Blizz should have made the buildings work harder or faster as they level not just increase the work orders. I'm not saying a lot more but just more. Maybe instead of every 4 hrs it's 3hrs at lvl3, or increase workload output. example being tailoring 1 cloth every 4hrs can either be 2 cloth every 4hrs or 1 cloth every 3hrs. So the result is either 12 or 8 cloth in a day or 24/16 with a follower. But something has to increase in the garrison reward department. Definitely need to add like 50/100 lfr/norm/mythic and even boss loot. Last boss in heroics drops 25 once a day something.

Comment by wolframwow

Okay, here are some little tips to help you do a lot of resources in no time and tips on how to gear your followers faster.

Let's start with gathering the resources
I've tried this on my 2nd character as well and now i have over over 5k resources gathered in less than 2 weeks (only from followers missions, no farming elites, no producing anything with lumbermill or tradepost). This also can be applied at any level, when you have built Lunarfall Inn / Frostwall Tavern Level 2 but it will be explained for beginners (players which have just started to play in Draenor and need some help). Advanced players may jump step 1,2 and 3.
Step:
1) Reach as fast as you can the level to do this mission Strike While the Iron is Hot (alliance) or this Strike While the Iron is Hot (horde)
2) Get one Outpost Building Assembly Notes
3) Go in Stormshield/ Warspear (in Ashran) and get Garrison Blueprint: Lunarfall Inn, Level 2, learn it and build it.
4) Having level 2 Inn makes you able to recruit new followers (1/week). Go and recruit your 1st one, BE SURE to choose his ability (trait) to be this one: Scavenger
5) You will need maximum 3 scavenger followers, but you can start producing resoures with the 1st one
6) Having a scavenger follower, make sure to assign him to mission that grants you resources.
7) If he doesn't match to the mission, do not worry, assign him to that mission. He will still have 50-60% chance of winning 3x the normal resources (100%+200%=300%). But the chance of winning also depends on his level. There are some missions who grant 500+ resources if you have 1 scavenger follower assigned to them.
8) Keep this going on, and soon you will have a huge pile of resources.

But wait! What will you do with the resources you do not need? Build a Trading Post Level 1, and trade them for materials, or you could trade resources for Seal of Tempered Fate Seal of Tempered Fate

EXTRA: DO NOT DEMOLISH your Inn because you still need to recruit some followers. They will need Epic Mount , to do the missions faster (any type of mission) and not keep your followers busy in one mission when other are available.

And now let's start with gearing the followers
Gearing followers is quite IMPORTANT. They will be able to do higher level missions, with higher reward in gold, resources, or ITEMS for you. Yeah, items! Beside level 615 items (or lower) they will be able to get you even level 640 items or level 655 from Highmaul (normal difficulty) after your gear the followers.
Step:
1) This step isn't mandatory but is VERY useful. Recruit 3 followers with Epic Mount , since you will need this to do the long duration mission (4,6,8,12 or even 24 hours mission). You may want to do the missions faster since you will do more mission in the same amount of time, which means more crates and more rewards and the followers will not be kept busy with some missions, when other are available. See step 2).
2) Important: build the Salvage Yard Level 2 or even BETTER, build it at level 3. After successfully finishing a mission, you will sometime get some crates which will drop follower items, or player items. having salvage yard at level 2 brings you Crate of Salvage, and at level 3 you will get Big Crate of Salvage . You will get follower items from crates, and if you do more follower missions, you will get more crates in the same amount of time. You can sell the player items for gold or disenchant them for the enchanting profession
3) Important: Build your Dwarven Bunker / War Mill Level 2 . Since you have it at level 2, you may want it level 3. Now you can produce follower weapons.
4) Do as many missions as you can, of course, you will need to win them to get the crates, and gear your followers.

step for player items: Gear 3 (or more) followers to epic gear (ilvl 645) to be able to unlock the Highmaul Mission for level 655 player items.

RECOMMENDATION: gear up first only epic followers (which have reached the maximum level)

EXTRA: try to make as many epic followers as you can, since they have more abillities and suit better for missions. Having epic followers, can help you level up other followers!

PS: This guide is based only on my personal experience.
PSS: thanks for reading, and sorry for my poor English

Comment by Lightja

It's common for people to recruit followers with the Scavenger trait through their level 2-3 Tavern. When you recruit for a specific trait, you're presented with multiple options for abilities. If you're like me, you're curious what the best abilities to get on your scavenger are based on the options you have, so I looked at all the Garrison Resources missions to see how much each ability is used as a counter. Below that is a list of useful traits, if you need to decide between two traits.

Abilities & Traits ranked according to total # of missions, then by average Garrison Resources from 90-99 missions (as these are more common).
Rank ------- Ability ------------------ Level 90-99 Missions (# of GR) ---------- Level 100 Missions (# of GR)
-- 1 ----- Group Damage ---------------------- 3 (48,44,32) ---------------------------------- 3 (175,130,100)
-- 2 ----- Massive Strike ----------------------- 3 (46,42,20) ---------------------------------- 3 (175,175,130)
-- 3 ----- Magic Debuff ------------------------ 3 (38,34,32) ---------------------------------- 2 (175,100)
-- 4 ----- Danger Zones ----------------------- 1 (36) ------------------------------------------ 3 (175,130,100)
-- 5 ----- Timed Battle ------------------------- 1 (30) ------------------------------------------ 3 (175,175,130)
-- 6 ----- Minion Swarms --------------------- 2 (40,30) -------------------------------------- 1 (130)
-- 7 ----- Wild Agression ---------------------- 1 (20) ------------------------------------------ 1 (130)
-- 8 ----- Powerful Spell ----------------------- 0 ----------------------------------------------- 2 (175,100)
Deadly Minions has NONE

Rank ------- Trait ------------------ Level 90-99 Missions ---------- Level 100 Missions
-- 1 ----- Burst of Power ------------------ 14/14 ------------------------------ 6/6
-- 2 ----- Beastslayer ----------------------- 6/14 ------------------------------ 1/6
-- 3 ----- Naturalist ------------------------- 3/14 ------------------------------ 0/6
-- 4 ----- Cold-Blooded -------------------- 2/14 ------------------------------ 0/6
-- 5 ----- Furyslayer ------------------------ 1/14 ------------------------------ 1/6
-- 6 ----- Primalslayer --------------------- 1/14 ------------------------------ 1/6
-- 7 ----- Mountaineer -------------------- 1/14 ------------------------------ 0/6
-- 8 ----- Guerilla Fighter ----------------- 0/14 ------------------------------ 1/6
-- 8 ----- Orcslayer ------------------------- 0/14 ------------------------------ 1/6
-- 9 ----- Wastelander --------------------- 0/14 ------------------------------ 1/6
Honorable Mentions:

Blook's Combat Experience works as well as Burst of Power for GR missions, and works for all other missions as well, including 8+ hour missions. It's worth mentioning that Blook's Combat Experience is one of a few traits that isn't rerolled by Follower Re-training Certificate, so you could reroll Blook until he gets Scavenger if you wanted.
Racial Preference traits such as Child of Draenor also increase success rate on the level 100 GR missions if followers are the right race.
Epic Mount doesn't increase success rate, but it does cut mission time in half, for ALL missions.
Extra Training and Hearthstone Pro can be useful when leveling your scavenger follower or followers that go on missions with them. In my opinion, these are better than Fast Learner because they have utility even when your Scavenger reaches level 100.

Below is a list of level 100 missions by ability, so you can see which perks work well together for multi-follower missions.
Level 100 Missions
Group Damage: Can't Go Home This Way, Who's The Boss?, Elemental Territory
Massive Strike: Can't Go Home This Way, Magical Mystery Tour, Who's The Boss?
Magic Debuff: Magical Mystery Tour, The Basilisk's Stare
Danger Zones: Can't Go Home This Way, Griefing The Enemy, The Basilisk's Stare
Timed Battle: Can't Go Home This Way, Magical Mystery Tour, Griefing The Enemy
Minion Swarms: Who's The Boss?
Wild Agression: Griefing The Enemy
Powerful Spell: Magical Mystery Tour, Elemental Territory
Deadly Minions: NONE
--------- Mission ---------------- Item Level ---- GR Reward
Can't Go Home This Way ------- 630 -------------- 175
Magical Mystery Tour ----------- 630 -------------- 175
Griefing The Enemy -------------- 615 -------------- 130
Who's The Boss? ------------------ 615 -------------- 130
Elemental Territory -------------- 600 -------------- 100
The Basilisk's Stare -------------- 600 -------------- 100

Comment by DaltonImperial

If you are at the 10,000 cap and kill a mob that drops Garrison Resources, you will not be able to loot the resources but will get some mail from Thaumaturge Vashreen entitled "Lost Currency" that essentially says your total is still at 10,000; you do NOT get an item that you could use later to get the "extra" resources once you are not at the cap.

For quests, you are still able to complete the quest; the game just appears to ignore the resources that would have been awarded had you not been at the cap.

Comment by AngelOfDeath

Excluding the times you would replace buildings and only build once, it costs a total of 10,650 Garrison Resources to build each building and the Garrison to Level 3.

Comment by casonator

I haven't seen anyone post this prominently, so a cool strategy for spending these quickly at your trading post: You can run a simple command to buy tons of items like Draenic Dust.

To purchase 200 Draenic Dust all at once for example, you would input:

/run BuyMerchantItem(3,200)

where the first number is the number item (Draenic Dust is third, so it's 3), and 200 is the amount.

This bypasses the endless clicking of spending resources. Some people have found though that you have to purchase one stack the normal method and say yes before it works (maybe to confirm the 'yes, I'd like to buy this' gateway).

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