8. The Garrison WoW: Warlords of Draenor Guide

The Garrison is one of the most important gameplay elements added with the Warlords of Draenor expansion. It isn't just a place where you take new quests, it's your main base of operations. You can customize it so it will serve your needs. You can meet various merchants here and, after upgrading specific building, profession trainers as well. Below you will see a presentation of the most important parts of a garrison.

At the beginning, your town hall is a simple building with one table inside.

Buildings

A garrison can be customized by building specific buildings. A the beginning you will have only a city hall, but one of the first tasks will help you build barracks for your allies. Every building has three levels. The higher the level, the more profits from the building.

The way your garrison looks changes as you upgrade it.

Number of fields on which you can build depends on the level of your city hall. All fields are divided into groups based on their size - there are large, medium and small fields. To build and increase level of a building you will need resources. They can be gained by sending your companions to missions, by completing some quests and by regularly visiting a chest located near the city hall.

Every building server a specific purpose, some of them are very useful and makes virtual life far easier. For example, Barracks allow you to call for reinforcements that are very helpful in fight with stronger opponents. Stables allow you to breed your own mounts.

On the small fields you can create buildings for specific professions, like the Forge for Blacksmithing or a Gem Boutique. A building like that gives you access to profession trainers that can teach you new recipes. It gives you a merchant with profession-related items as well. So you won't need to travel to the closest city each time you run out of materials.

Another category is for buildings related to the minor professions. Every garrison has a Mine, Fishing Hut and a Herb Garden. What's most important you won't need the Mining ability to mine from your mine and you won't need Herbalism to gather herbs from your herb garden.

Followers

Another new gameplay element are the Followers. They are NPCs that you "gain" during the game. You can do it by completing the main and side quests or you can even craft them yourself. They can be found while exploring as well. There are dozens of them in the game.

Every follower is unique. He has his own name, character class and special abilities. The latter is especially important due to the tasks you can assign them to. You have a control panel from which you can send followers to different missions. When choosing who to send where you should look at weakness of your enemy. You should choose a follower that is best suited for fighting that enemy. If you make the right choice, there is almost 100% probability he will complete his mission. Your followers can level up by completing missions. The higher their level, the greater the chance their will complete the task you have given them.

Every mission takes a specific amount of time. Usually a one-person mission takes from 30 to 60 minutes. More complicated tasks can take even 10 hours. During that time the followers aren't available in the garrison. To get a mission report you must click on the table in the town hall. If you're currently in other part of the map you should go to the closest outpost, where you will find a table to manage your followers as well.

For completing the missions you will gain some materials for the garrison or experience for your followers (at least at the beginning of the game). Sometimes you will be awarded with an equipment item or even with a new follower.