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Phylarch the Evergreen

Phylarch the Evergreen

Restoration Druid

Abilities

Entangling Roots

Counters Deadly Minions

+0-1 Abilities

Traits

Evergreen

Counters Swamp

+0-1 Traits

Garrison Building: Lumber Mill
Zone: Draenor

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Guide to Garrison Buildings
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Guide to the Garrison
Lumber Mill

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Comment by CasCassCasch

He has better stats than legendary followers! Prolly cause he's 100 and they are 90.

Comment by Greshek

The name seems to be inspired from The Hunger Games. A name mixed up by two of the main characters, Katniss Everdeen and Plutarch Heavensbee.

Comment by Gwiez

I hope it's permanently in Tree of Life (Incarnation) form. And that it can mine using entangling roots.

Comment by Poggor

To get this follower you'll need a Level 3 Lumber Mill. To get the Tier 3 blueprints for your garrison buildings you will have to complete Upgrading the Mill, which includes turning in 75 orders in the Lumber Mill and completing Reduction in Force and Legacy of the Ancients.
After this you'll be able to log Large Timbers. Logging them will have Phylarch to spawn 3 times before he "surrender" and join your side, becoming one of your followers.

He can be assigned to the Lumber Mill as worker since he has the garrison ability Evergreen and there he will give Subversive Infestation.

Comment by Antarax

After recruting my Phylarch the Evergreen got these additional abilities/traits:

Comment by Malvenue

He also has the herbalism trait so he can also work in the herb garden.

Comment by shawnjacobs

I am Groot.

Comment by ilostmahbucket

You can unlock him more quickly by working towards Upgrading the Mill on multiple characters.

After you complete the prequests detailed in the other comments here, it is simply a random chance for him to spawn when harvesting large timber. Had to farm about a dozen Large Timber before I got Phylarch to attack me three times.

Comment by maligmus

Phylarch the Evergreen has Evergreen. This trait allows you to get 30 Garrison Resources per workorder instead of 20 if he is assigned to work at the Lumber Mill.

To get this follower you must do the following:

1. Get Upgrading the Mill by completing:

Quest Reduction in Force
Quest Legacy of the Ancients
And by placing 75 work orders at the Lumber Mill collectively accross all toons on your battle.net account (not just your account, but any account connected to your battle.net acct)

2. Once Upgrading the Mill has been completed you can purchase the Garrison Blueprint: Lumber Mill, Level 3 for 1000g.

3. Upgrade your Lumber Mill Level 2 to Lumber Mill Level 3. After the upgrade completes, complete Tree-i-cide.

4. Go out and farm Large Timber, I reccomend Nagrand. When you get the first Large Timber, Phylarch the Evergreen will pop out and fight you. Defeat him and he will run away. Go get the 2nd Large Timber; again, he will pop out fight you, and then run away when you defeat him. When you get your 3rd Large Timber he will fight you once more. This time when you defeat him he will give you the quest to add him as your follower.

***NOTE: If you are full on Timber (250), he will NOT spawn when you cut the Large Timber.

Comment by MarkFl

His name likely comes from the greek word Phylarch meaning "ruler of a tribe" and the botanical term Evergreen for trees that retain their leaves.

Comment by arkainjel001

I am Groot!

Comment by Zoombox

If you have the stables built in your garrison, you do not get dismounted when chopping timber. However, Phylarch the Evergreen will not spawn while you are mounted. You must dismount before chopping Large Timber if you want him to spawn.

Comment by 2picnic

Once you recruit him as a follower, he will often be found near your level 3 lumber mill, channeling a beam of leaves on one of your logs. It follows that (like Weldon Barov) he would still be present nearby the lumber mill even if you sent him on a mission or deactivated him, although you wouldn't get the 50% resource output bonus.

Comment by Haxalotl

Also of note, at least cosmetically...

When Phylarch is assigned, he will "harvest resources more ethically".

This entails him shooting leafbeams at the logs around your Lumbermill or Warmill.
Your original lumbermill workers will just stand around, probably thinking they should've joined the union.

Comment by tobindax

To be honest, I don't get the hate that must be expressed through this follower. At first someone trying to preserve the forest is being beaten to death, multiple times. And then he "accepts" his defeat by saying "your species is SUPERIOR".

Really?

Comment by missdofb

I fought Phylarch the Evergreen for the third time and died because of a DoT just after I killed him. When I got back to my corpse, he had despawned.

Is it possible to trigger him again?

ETA: After logging a couple more Large Timber, he respawned and I was able to defeat him again and take him on as a follower.

Comment by Rhase

Does anyone know if the trait "evergreen" is immune to rerolls via Follower Re-training Certificate?

Comment by MyParasites

Does getting this guy cancel out Birchus?
Birchus is no longer in my garrison since i got phylarch

Comment by Blutelf

He does spawn when you have 250 Lumber.

Comment by Manniala

Phylarch the Evergreen

First Encounter:
Phylarch the Evergreen yells: DEFILER! Your lifeblood will nourish the Everbloom!
Phylarch the Evergreen says: Cherish this victory, invader. The next time we meet you will suffer!

Second encounter:
Phylarch the Evergreen yells: I have found you once more, defiler! The wilds will grant you no reprieve!
Phylarch the Evergreen says: You are a parasite! A blood-sucking insect that looks to feed on my world! We will not allow it!

Third time:
Phylarch the Evergreen yells: Twice you have bested me. You will not win again!
Phylarch the Evergreen says: Your... Your species is superior. I am yours to command.

I can now talk to him and he gives me Phylarch the Evergreen (mine was epic) as follower.

Comment by Mushalor

I really like the Botani, and Phylarch especially. There's not a lot of info on them, so here's my small compiled contribution.

Encounter 1, 2, and 3
Phylarch the Evergreen yells: DEFILER! Your lifeblood will nourish the Everbloom!
Phylarch the Evergreen says: Cherish this victory, invader. The next time we meet you will suffer!

Phylarch the Evergreen yells: I have found you once more, defiler! The wilds will grant you no reprieve!
Phylarch the Evergreen says: You are a parasite! A blood-sucking insect that looks to feed on my world! We will not allow it!

Phylarch the Evergreen yells: Twice you have bested me. You will not win again!
Phylarch the Evergreen says: Your... Your species is superior. I am yours to command.

(Although I'd copied these down myself while completing this quest today, Manniala beat me to posting the above; I've included it here for completion's sake, anyway, and given credit where credit's due.)

In addition to the phrases he says for each spawn, here's what he has to say when you defeat him:

Phylarch the Evergreen says: I will journey to your fortress, master/mistress. Once there, all that I know, you will know.

And for those that don't want to go hunting, this is what he says in the quest offered to take him as your follower:

For tens of thousands of years, we Botani have clashed against the mightiest forces of this world, but none have had your unbridled ferocity and resilience.

I... I concede to your battle prowess. I will aid you in your campaign for dominance of my world.

If you will accept me.

Comment by Gankie

Phylarch the Evergreen used razor leaf!

Comment by Nepturion

Go to Bloodmane Valley in Spires of Arak, cut down Large Timbers on the hilltop.
Did go several places, but he didn't spawn.
When I managed to figure out where he spawns I got him three times and he became my follower!

Comment by hmalacco

Thing is that for some reason this guy in my garrison is always sitting down. even when there is no chair underneath.

Comment by AeroKargath

This guy becomes part of your life after you reach level 3 with your lumbermill. While you've been granted a permit to cut down the largest trees in outlands, Phylarch, being the environmentally conscious tree-folk that he is, tries to put an end to your logging ways. As such he will meet you at these large trees and try to fight you off. Not quite by strapping himself to the tree but by fighting off your bulldozers instead.

Phylarch realizes after several unsuccessful attempts at staving off your environment-destroying ways that there is simply no stopping you and will offer instead to turn your lumbermill into the Prius of Draenor. While he may not be able to prevent you from destroying the landscape, he's damn sure going to try to slow down the pumping of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.

Do your part for the Draenor environment. Unlike Earth where we apparently have no idea how the world will end, we have seen Draenor's future.

Comment by UlarnekofArygos

A warning, if you get rid of your lumber mill, he'll stay on your followers list but stop showing up in your garrison entirely.

Comment by Hopelesshobo

Note that when he does spawn, you do not get the lumber from the tree you cut down.

Also, on 2 characters, he spawned on the first 3 large trees I attempted to cut down in Nagrand.

Comment by LordSpike

Got him from cutting down Large Timber in Nagrand only. Took me 4 Large Timber to get him to attack me a total of three times. After which he submitted his services to me.

Comment by Shazeera

do you get him as alliance by just cutting down trees? the quests listed below are for horde only so im curious what alliance quests i need to do if any?

Comment by larzor

I am Groot!

Comment by mommyclz

IMO Arak is a much better place to do this than Nagrand. First in Nagrand, he spawned, and I got ganked by a pack of Nagrand Prowlers which killed me before I could kill him. Then I found another tree I was phased out of. Had much better luck in Arak, esp in Bloodmane Valley

Comment by Quezako

To find large timber, you can use this macro in Nagrand:
/way 42.5 51
/way 50 48.5
/way 55.5 62
/way 57 53
/way 57 47.5
/way 59.5 72.5
/way 60 56
/way 60 69
/way 61 58
/way 61.5 74
/way 61.5 46
/way 64 55.5
/way 64 70.5
/way 65 63
/way 66.5 52
/way 68.5 36.5
/way 69 50
/way 72 43
/way 72 51
/way 72 68.5
/way 73 57
/way 74.5 15.5
/way 74.5 23.5
/way 75.5 48.5
/way 75.5 66.5
/way 76 19
/way 76 29
/way 76 66.5
/way 76.5 35.5
/way 76.5 39.5
/way 77 63
/way 78 71
/way 80 65
/way 81.5 43
/way 82 29
/way 83 49
/way 83.5 24
/way 85 45
/way 87 28
/cway

You could use Macro Toolkit addon to extend the macro.

Comment by gemhzr

quick guide http://youtu.be/gj8ZqKMC17k

Comment by Eillesthis

Currently the only Botani follower.

Comment by Stompa

Large Timber spawn points can be found by checking the maps on this item page: Large Timber.

By far the most nodes are in Nagrand, then Talador.

Comment by cadred

Good news! You don't have to do Legacy of the Ancients to get Phylarch. I was in Gorgrond looking for a petrified ancient and was doing trees to pass the time. Phylarch appeared and fought me twice. This was after I had cut large trees and before I had gotten the Petrified Ancient. The ancient gives you the Legacy quest. I just thought I had aggroed two of those mobs who look like Phylarch.

After I finished my legacy quest I went to Nagrand and got Phylarch again (3d time) and he became my follower. So, unless it was bugged, we don't need to do Legacy to get Phylarch. But someone would have to verify this.

gl.

Phylarch the Evergreen

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