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Placing Your
Garrison
- Expanding Your Garrison - Followers

Garrisons are one of the new features coming
in the newest World of Warcraft expansion; Warlords of Draenor. Highly
anticipated, Garrisons, promise to finally give us a chance to have
personal player housing. Existing seamlessly in the world, Garrisons are
much like Sunsong Ranch. Players will have the ability to place, build,
staff, and manage their Garrisons. Thus, making them uniquely their own
little piece of the world. Your friends may even be able to visit your
Garrison!

Want to know more about Garrisons and how they
work? Read on for more details.

Placing Your Garrison

The first step in creating your Garrison is,
of course, choosing where you want to place it. Garrisons may only be
placed in the new lands found in the Warlords of Draenor expansion.
Unfortunately, you cannot just pick any area in a zone. Instead, each zone
will have multiple places where Garrisons can exist.

The benefits of picking a certain zone is
currently unknown. however, rumors have it that different zones will
provide different benefits for your Garrison. Players will also be
provided a means to quickly transport themselves back to their Garrison,
something to keep in mind when picking a location.

Expanding Your Garrison

With your Garrison in a spot of your choosing,
it is time to get down the the real work; expansion. Each Garrison is
given a number of plots that can hold buildings. Each building your place
in your Garrison can be upgraded to make it better effective and more
visually appealing.

Starting Buildings

Each Garrison will begin with a set of stater
buildings. These buildings should be present as soon as you get your
Garrison up and running. Buildings players can expect to find inside their
Garrison from the start are:

  • Town Hall – Main point of player interaction.
  • Mine – Mine for ore.
  • Herb Garden – Grows herbs.
  • Fishing Shack – Provides Fishing Dailies and Vendors.

Plots

Besides the expected starter buildings, your
Garrison will have a variety of empty plots. These plots can hold more
buildings and come in three sizes; small, medium, and large. Buildings
will also come in these size variates and must be matched up with the
correct sized plot to be placed. For example, a medium sized building
cannot be placed on a small sized plot. Filling all empty plots will
upgrade the Garrison to the next tier. There are three separate tiers,
that will each allow more plots, better bonuses, and more buildings.

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Building Functions

Each building you place in your Garrison will
have a unique function. What this function will be will depending on the
building built. Some will allow crafting, others will allow for the
completion of missions and much more. Buildings can also grant bonuses for
play in the wider gaming world, including player buffs.

To increase the function of your buildings,
you must upgrade them. Buildings can be upgraded a total of three times.
Each upgrade will increase the buildings function and also change the
visual appearance. Upgrading buildings may require plans or blueprints
which may come from various sources throughout the world including faction
rewards, world drops, quests, and more.

Specialized Buildings

Besides the standard buildings found inside a
Garrison, players can choose to specialize a building. This will allow you
to choose a variant on the bonuses and abilities the building provides.
Specialization will only be available for max level buildings and can be
changed once a day.

Garrison Followers

It stands to reason that you can't take care
of a huge Garrison by yourself. The answer to this dilemma is the
Follower. Special NPCs that can be recruited to join your Garrison, these
fellows are really the lifeblood that makes your Garrison come alive.

Recruiting Followers

Some followers may automatically find their
way to your Garrison, but if you want your humble abode to be epic, you
are going to need to recruit more. Followers can be obtained in these
ways:

  • Upgrade your Inn.
  • Progress through the game's storyline.
  • Complete quests.
  • Pay for them.

Each follower will have their own name,
character level, item level, traits, and rarity. Traits a follower has are
affected by the follower's rarity of common, uncommon, rare, and epic. The
more rare the follower, the more traits he/she will have. While rarity of
the follower will stay the same, players will be able to customize many
aspects of their followers. Typically, followers hold down posts at your
Garrison and you can visit them at anytime, unless they are on missions.

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Garrison Missions

One of the main uses of your followers is to
use them to complete various missions. Missions are special
Garrison-related undertakings and essential to building up your Garrison.
Besides building up your Garrison, completing missions give you the chance
to earn powerful loot for your character. followers will also earn
experience for each mission they successfully complete.

A special interface will be put into place
where players can view potential missions. These missions will show how
long they will take, how many followers it will require, and the desirable
traits for that mission. Choosing a follower with those traits will result
in a bonus. The time and followers needed for a mission vary greatly, from
short quests using 1-2 followers, to long raids that will employ many
followers and take days at a time. As you might expect, harder missions
reward better loot.

Missions can continue while players are
offline. In fact, followers can even team up with other followers while
the player is offline. Garrisons are not made to be time-intensive,
especially at higher levels.

Powering Up Your Followers

Just like your Garrison, your followers can
grow in power. As you progress, so will your followers. From levels
90-100, followers will gain character levels, which determine how
successful they will be at missions and what abilities they have. You can
also equip them with gear, to increase their item level. Equipment has a
larger role once followers have reached level 100.


With the information above, you can feel
pretty confident that you are ready to get started with your Garrison. Be
aware that any and all information could change before the final release
of Warlords of Draenor (and perhaps even after). Please keep checking back
for updates as more information becomes available. In the meantime, feel
free to share any tips, tricks, information, or ideas you have concerning
Garrisons in the comments section below!


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Last Updated: Mar 29, 2016

About The Author

Amunet, also fondly known as Memtron, is an organic life form best known for its ongoing obsession with Blizzard Entertainment's numerous properties. To that end, Amu has authored hundreds (thousands?) of the most popular World of Warcraft guides, editorials, and Top 10 lists on the planet. When not gaming and writing, Amu is busy chasing after her three children in a perpetual loop of ongoing disaster.

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