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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 Lightja

Many of us have multiple level 90 alts that aren't yet 100, but we still want to recruit followers through the level 2 tavern. Unfortunately the Level 2 Tavern Blueprint says that it requires level 98 or a Spires of Arak outpost. You can get a Spires of Arak outpost at level 96, but there's a way to get the Tavern even earlier. You can actually get your level 2 tavern at level 92!

Here's how:
Step 1: Get your level 2 Garrison. This involves doing quest chains in Frostfire Ridge for Horde and Shadowmoon Valley for Alliance. You can follow This Guide to do this. You need to reach level 92 and get to Gorgrond, so do this on your way to level 92. I also recommend getting all of the followers in your starting zone while you're at it.
Step 2: Quest in southern Gorgrond and Complete Strike while the Iron is Hot. You can look at prerequisites to determine the fastest way to get this done, but from what I can tell, is you just have to finish the quest chains that are given to you when you first build your outpost. I got to level 93 with my non-rested alts, and 94 with most of my rested alts. I definitely did some unnecessary quests, so its possible you could get it at level 92 if you optimized the questing route.
Step 3: Take the Outpost Building Assembly Notes you get as a reward to Torgg Flexington in Warspear or Kinkade Jacobs in Stormshield in exchange for Garrison Blueprint: Frostwall Tavern, Level 2 for Horde, or Garrison Blueprint: Lunarfall Inn, Level 2 for Alliance.

Using this I got my 5 alts their level 2 tavern in about 2 days. Now i'm getting 6 recruits out of taverns per week with only one level 100!

Comment by bogmore

Requires level 98 or Spires of Arak outpost.

This is the Alliance version of the quest Strike While the Iron is Hot

Comment by Ploug

I ran into an issue upgrading Lunarfall Inn to level 2. I had to buy the blueprint, but when I tried to learn it, the game said I had already learned it and the upgrade button was still unavailable.

What fixed it for me was leaving the garrison, zoning into Shadowmoon Valley, and then going back into the garrison. After that, the upgrade button worked as expected.

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Lunarfall Inn, Level 2

Garrison Blueprint
Item Level 1
Binds when picked up
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Use: Provides the plans needed to upgrade your Lunarfall Inn building to level 2.

Level 1
Each day, a visitor offering a dungeon quest with generous rewards will spend the day at your inn.

Level 2
Recruits random followers each week. You can specify traits and abilities you're especially interested in.

Level 3
Unlocks the particularly lucrative garrison resource missions.
Requires Level 10
Requires Spires of Arak Outpost questline or level 35.

Sell Price: 10

This item will be converted to Frostwall Tavern, Level 2 if you transfer to Horde.

Lunarfall Inn, Level 2

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