WoD tips, tricks, guides, fucking whatever.

Prude · Oct 25, 2014

This is a thread for useful information to make sure everyone know what the fuck they're doing in the days after release and stuff.

Copied verbatim from the Something Awful "WoD Questing Survival Guide (Horde)" thread OP:

"Incoherence" said:

Comments/additions/flames welcomed. I know nothing at all about the Alliance content, so don't ask me what's different for them.

References
Garrison outposts and their effects
Guide to followers

HOW TO GET TO DRAENOR
A big popup will appear on your first login that says "press this button to get the quest to go to Draenor". Do that. You will be taken to a Tanaan Jungle entrance event, which is fairly self-explanatory, and then to Frostfire Ridge where you will establish your garrison.

General Tips

Kill all the rares you can find. Rares have a special minimap icon, drop some sort of special item the first time you kill them, and only appear rare to you the first time, so you don't have to keep track of which ones you killed. There are also a few TI-style events, most of which seem to be more trouble, and treasures, which generally glow purple and contain Garrison Resources.

Bonus objectives will appear on your map in each zone. These vary from "easy experience" to "hilariously not worth it", but it is generally obvious from the description of the objective which one it is, so you won't have to agonize over it. (In particular, Spires of Arak has some shitty ones.)

Quest rewards will randomly upgrade to rare or epic. (This includes followers who join you.) The upgrade is only +5-10 item levels, so don't freak out if you get bad luck.

Draenor Perks are gained at 92. 94. 96 and 98. Their order is random for each character. I'm not sure if they roll separately for each spec, so you might get a better roll on your secondary spec.

You will be sent to Ashran fairly early on for an introduction. There's a free follower there, so do this whenever you want to take a 10 minute potty break (the flight takes awhile). Consider setting your hearth there, since you'll come back a couple times to turn in books for level 2 garrison plans. (Also, when looking at the blueprint vendor, note that there are two different kinds of books.)

Every zone has a breadcrumb in your garrison, so you'll want to go back at least every 2 levels. The Spires of Arak breadcrumb more or less sends you back where you were, so if you find the breadcrumb in Talador just walk there.

Your Garrison
Garrison upgrades and building construction take an hour of real time per building. You should do them as soon as possible. You should also unlock the mine (92) and herb garden (96) as soon as you can, since they will restock daily. (Also, you can use them regardless of your professions.)

Followers show up randomly in the world: some of them are questgivers who say "well, I did my part here, why don't I join up with you", some of them are just randomly hanging out in the world (Blook and Tormmok in Gorgrond, for example; Wowhead has a full list). Followers have "abilities" which counter particular "threats" in missions (these are coded by icons), and "traits" which either give them bonuses in particular mission situations or allow them to work at certain buildings in your garrison. Note that the threshold for "red" is 3 levels or (at 100) 15 item levels below the mission, and "orange" is anything below the level or ilvl in the mission. Orange followers lower your success chance and gain half experience; red followers don't count toward threat counters and gain no experience (so you can't powerlevel followers).

Missions appear sort of randomly. Their level depends on the level of your followers. Counters will show up on the follower list, so you don't have to remember which follower has a taunt. "Rare" missions appear much less commonly and have better rewards, so don't waste them on a 50% chance if you don't have the right counters. These also take real time (anywhere from 30 minutes to 16 hours), so it pays to stay on top of them as you level. There is a command table at every outpost except for Nagrand's, so you don't have to use your garrison hearth to start or end missions.

Work orders take 4 hours to complete, and only one is in progress at a time: the only reason you would put 14 of them up at a time is if you aren't planning on logging in for a couple days. (Or if the Trading Post is asking for something you have a surplus of, I guess.) Having a follower at the building increases the yield; I'm not sure whether the follower level matters. The corollary to this is that the Storehouse's work order bonus is useless if you log in every day or two.

You should take the following buildings:
Large: Barracks plus one of your choice
Medium: Tavern plus one of your choice
Small: Salvage Yard, plus any two of the following:
1. Your armor class's production profession (tailoring/leatherworking/blacksmithing) to make crafted armor for yourself
2. Your production profession(s) to roughly double your daily cooldown output
3. Enchanter's Study to disenchant your unwanted purples

Random things that tripped me up:

The Primal Trader is outside the wall to the east, near the archery range (at least for the level 3 garrison, I don't know about lower levels but it's not like you'll need him before 100 anyway).

There's a portal to Ashran in the level 3 garrison. It's on top of a tower near the archery range. There is not a portal BACK, but that's what your garrison hearth is for.

If you have an herbalist follower working in the herb garden, you can choose what you plant in the herb garden (reflected the next day): talk to the NPCs. I don't know if this carries over if you pull the follower off the building; I'm guessing not.

Frostfire Ridge (90-92)
Outpost choice: none because you get the whole garrison instead. Garrison ability summons some Frostwolf orcs to attack your target.

At the very start of the zone, before you have a garrison, there's a quest to kill some gronnlings. These are shared-tap, so even if there are six million people trying to kill them you should be able to get through. This is not true of most subsequent non-named mobs, unfortunately.

You are probably going to be about 90.75 by the time you even get into the zone, so you won't be here terribly long unless you want to be. Follow the main quest line until you conquer Bladespire Hold, at least, which will guarantee you the item needed to train professions to 700. (Also do the hub directly below it with the ogre slavers so that you get Mulverick as a follower.)

There's a possibility that you get stuck in this zone if you try to leave in the middle of the last "chapter", but you'll be 92 long before that so just do the first Gorgrond hub so you can fly over the obstruction when you get to that point. They may have fixed this from beta.

There's another questline here at 94 with Khadgar; you'll see it when you go back to your garrison.

Gorgrond (92-94)
Outpost choice:
Sparring Arena: Gives an ability that summons a gladiator for 1 minute. After 1 minute, you gain a buff for 5 minutes based on how much you killed in that 1 minute. Eventually gives you the followers Bruto and Spirit of Bony Xuk.
Lumber Yard: Lets you summon a shredder, which can fight enemies or can be used to cut down vines which hide treasures (the treasures have garrison resources). Eventually gives you the followers Penny Clobberbottom and Kaz the Shrieker.

Unlike the later zones, the choice of outpost has a large effect on which quests you do. The other hubs become bonus objectives, for the most part. It is also possible to switch the building for the hilariously not worth it price of 10,000g.

There are two followers just hanging out in southern Gorgrond: Tormmok and Blook. Make sure you pick them up before you leave.

Note that while it is possible to get to Talador on foot from Gorgrond, there's a level 100 Iron Horde blockade there and you're supposed to go back to your garrison. You could slowfall off a cliff to the Frostwolf hub and start there, if the garrison server dies for some reason.

Talador (94-96)
Outpost choice:
Arcane Sanctum: Summons an orb which pulses AoE damage every 2s for 30s. Rewards follower Magister Krelas.
Arsenal: Summons an artillery strike at your target, which does 3 pulses of substantial damage and stuns most things in the AoE. 3 charges, although 1 charge will blow up most regular mobs. Rewards follower Morketh Bladehowl.
These each have their own separate quest lines in separate areas. I recommend the Arsenal, since the artillery strike is ridiculously good.

Talador has two entry points: you can technically do the Frostwolf quest hub (including the Battle for Shattrath) first and then go to Vol'jin's Pride, although the intended path is to do it the other way around.

One of the group quest targets is a bird, Kil'uun, who appears randomly in a large area. Don't freak out when you can't immediately find it.

Spires of Arak (96-98)
Outpost choice:
Smuggling Run: Every 10 minutes, summon a vendor who sells some vaguely interesting things, plus consumables that work within the zone.
Brewery: Gives you yet another hearthstone which returns you to Axefall from anywhere in the zone. More importantly, gives you +20% experience within the zone so that you can leave this zone faster because it is dumb and bad.

This zone is the Townlong Steppes of Draenor: it's dark, painful to navigate, the bonus objectives all suck, and you have to hang out with a bunch of cursed arakkoa who don't do anything interesting except squawk at people and talk to you from beyond the grave. At least the Alliance gets Admiral Taylor as a follower.

There are a few Timeless Isle-style platforming puzzles that reward arakkoa archaeology fragments. You'll see the icons on your map.

Prioritize the Pinchwhistle Gearworks hub, which gives you the plans for the Salvage Yard (and a follower).

Nagrand (98-100)
Outpost choice:
Corral: Summons a special mount which can be ridden in combat. (If you're a feral druid, apparently you can just run at 200% speed everywhere instead.) You can interact with and loot things while on top of it, as well.
Tankworks: Summons a demolisher which makes quick work of anything in its path and lasts until it dies. Note that it cannot go inside caves or swim, so try to time its usage around outdoor questing as much as you can.
I know you've all been waiting for mounted combat forever, but seriously, pick the demolisher so that you don't have to pay attention at certain outdoor quest hubs. Try to plan around the fact that the demolisher can't go indoors (or swim, for one particular quest line).

Nagrand sort of has a BC-style Christmas tree going: once you finish your outpost you can go to the Ring of Trials and there are about six questgivers there to send you to different places in the eastern part of the zone. There's also a cameo appearance by Hemet Nesingwary which is not what you might expect.

You're definitely going to hit 100 before you finish the zone, but you might want to finish it anyway for starter gear.

Things to Do Once You Hit 100

Upgrade everything in your garrison.

Finish Nagrand quests.

Start the legendary ring quest, if you haven't already. It involves running a lot of dungeons, which is something you're going to do anyway.

Talk to the warmaster in your town hall, who sends you to the Proving Grounds. Go do a bronze trial and he'll reward you with an ilvl 610 weapon to start you off. (This is not terribly useful to you if you have a Garrosh heirloom, since those all scale up to 620 at level 100.) Maybe even do silver so you can queue for random heroics eventually: the ilvl scaling has a minimum of 615 but you can probably pull it off in your random greens.

Use whatever crafting professions/profession buildings are available to you to make crafted gear. You can wear 3 pieces at a time, and upgrade them with special tokens.

Do the daily Apexis Crystal thing every day, and use the crystals to buy gear.

Level up and gear up your followers so they can find you gear from missions. (The trick to follower item level is that it doesn't matter aside from missions with an ilvl requirement: for missions with an ilvl requirement, followers who are 15 ilvls below are "red", and followers who are 1-14 ilvls below are "orange". It may be worthwhile to try to make multiples of 15 with the salvage items you get.)

Run dungeons or Ashran (for PvP) until your eyes bleed.

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Prude · Oct 25, 2014

GARRISON THREAD OP PART 1:

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Straight out of Wildstar this is going to be the place where you spend your expansion. Staring at your Peons endlessly wandering about and chopping Wood.
For people who are not up to date on this whole Garrison nonsense, Garrisons are basically player bases which will serve as a HUB through Warlords of Draenor. With a Garrison you can: Send followers out on missions, Gather resources to build more shit, Have your boring ole Guild Meetings at a friends garrison, or even troll Trade chat! The possibilities are endless. Your Garrison hubs are located in Frostfire Ridge (Frostwall) for the Horde and Shadowmoon Valley (Lunarfall) for the Alliance. You cannot move your Garrison, but as you quest in different zones, you can build outposts. These give you zone-wide perks and special followers.With a Garrison, you can access up to three professions due to buildings. If you do not have a profession, you can have an NPC associated with a Garrison building craft you most, but not all, Draenor recipes.

Now on to the fun part, WHAT YOU CAN BUILD
When you first start out, you will have a level one Garrison, then as you level up you have the opportunity to level your town hall up to get access to more plots of land.
Level 1: One small and one large plot.
Level 2: Two small, one medium, one large, Herb Garden, Fishing Shack, Lunarfall Excavation also unlocked.
Level 3: Three small, two medium, two large.
Note: Upgrading to level three requires :frogsiren: 5000 Gold, so don't blow all your hard earned bucks on the latest mount just yet!

As for what you can build on the plots, there are three different building sizes, each which can be leveled up three times. IN ADDITION: You also have a set spot for a Mine, Fishing Shack, Pet Battle Arena, and Herb Garden, you will unlock those as you level as well. Also, for all level three plans you need to complete an account wide achievement, once you finish this achievement the level 3 plans will be availbe for use on any character.

LARGE BUILDINGS

There are five large buildings.

Armory

Levels:
Level 1 Doubles the chance for your quest rewards to get a rare or epic Bonus Upgrade.
Level 2 Allows the collection of armor scraps from the Orc clans of Draenor for armor transmogrification use.
Level 3 Grants 1 of your 3 seals of tempered fate (raid bonus loot roll) at no cost each week.

You need 165 Iron Horde Scraps for each Orc Clan armor set.
Cloth: Shadowmoon
Leather: Thunderlord
Mail: Warsong
Plate: Blackrock
Helms, Shoulders, Hands, Belts, and Boots cost 25 Iron Horde Scraps. Chests and Legs cost 40 Iron Horde Scraps. Battered Iron Horde Helmet, Crusted Iron Horde Pauldrons, and Ravaged Iron Horde Belt are also needed for the appropriate pieces.

You can also unlock Transmog outfits for your faction! You need 165 Iron Horde Scraps for the armor, and then an additional 5 for the tabard and 40 for the Stormwind Shield or Orgrimmar Axe.
To obtain the level three blueprint, you must complete
Filling the Ranks: Raise 20 garrison followers to level 100.

Barracks
Patrol Missions usually give two to three times the XP per mission compared to regular missons. Call to Arms can only be used in Frostfire. The Bodyguard system allows you to select one follower with the bodyguard Trait to act as a stronger pet. They are only limited by life so if they die, they CD for one hour. As you Slaughter your way through Draenor you get reputation with your follower, at 10 Rep per kill currently. Once you hit level 2, after gaining 10,000 rep with them they unlock a trait. It can range from Avatar, to Bloodlust, and even summon Infernal! At level 3 after hitting 10,000 again you unlock another body guard skill. This allows you to, repair your guild in the wild, teleport back to your Garrison, or even summon a party/raid member to you!

Level 1 Grants the Call to Arms ability and unlocks Patrol Missions. Patrol Missions have higher than normal follower experience rewards.
Level 2 Allows a follower with the bodyguard trait to accompany you as a guardian in Draenor Zones.
Level 3 Increases your follower limit by 5.

To unlock the level three plans for the Barracks you must complete Patrolling Draenor: Complete 50 garrison patrol missions.

Mage Tower

The Mage tower allows you to collect Ogre Waystones to power up Waygates in any zone in Draenor. Pretty important since there will not be flying.
Ogre Waystone are dropped by all Ogres in Draenor, a good place to farm them is by the Stonemaul Arena in Gorgrond.
Once you have 25 stones with Ogre Waygates, visit your preferred location and click on the gate. Then return to your Garrison and a one-way portal will be opened to that location at the Mage Tower. You can seal gates shut with 10 stones.

Levels:
Level 1 Unlocks access to an Ogre Waygate of your choice on Draenor.
Level 2 Unlocks access to a second Ogre Waygate.
Level 3 Unlocks access to a third Ogre Waygate.

To unlock the plans for level three you must complete: Finding Your WaystonesLoot 500 Ogre Waystones.

Stables

The Stables allow you to gain mounts from catching specific creatures around Draenor

Level 1 Enables the capture and training of special mounts on Draenor.
Level 2 You may remain mounted while interacting with objects in outdoor Draenor zones.
Level 3 Increases mount speed in Draenor by 20%.

The following mounts are earned after completing quests:
Trained Snarler
Trained Silverpelt
Trained Riverwallow
Trained Rocktusk
Trained Meadowstomper
Trained Icehoof
Armored Frostwolf is a reward from The Stable Master.
Armored Frostboar is a reward from Advanced Husbandry.

To Unlock the level 3 Plan, you must complete: Master of Mounts Fully train all six mounts at your Stables.

Workshop

Level 1: Unlocks a personal engineer that creates a powerful invention each day. Exceptional work!
Level 2: Your engineer gains access to five new and amazing devices.
Level 3: Allows the creation of a siege vehicle once per day. Drive it to victory in Draenor!

Four inventions are available at Level 1, and additional ones at Level 2:

Sticky Grenade Launcher: Launches a timed explosive at an enemy target, inflicting Fire damage after 5 sec. Does way more damage to enemies near the target. (10 Sec Cooldown)
Robo-Rooster: Summon a Robo-Rooster to protect you.
Pneumatic Power Gauntlet: Fires a coiled chain at your target, inflicting Physical damage and pulling them to you. (2 Min Cooldown). Also a version that knocks enemies away, based on spec.
"Skyterror" Personal Delivery System: Launches you high into the air and deploys a mechanical glider. (5 Sec Cooldown) 2 charges.
These inventions are available at Level 2:
Prototype Mechano-Hog or Prototype Mekgineer's Chopper: Ride a Prototype Chopper with exploding ejector seat. This is an extremely fast vehicle.
N.U.K.U.L.A.R. Target Painter: Paint a target location, causing a powerful warhead to land there after 10 sec, dealing 500000 Fire damage to all enemies within 30 yards. (1 Hour Cooldown)
XD-57 "Bullseye" Guided Rocket Kit: Build a rocket capable of unstoppable flight that lasts for 1 min. (5 Sec Cooldown)
GG-117 Micro-Jetpack: Changes your jump into a fiery leap. Deals Fire damage and knocks down enemies at the impact location. Lasts 10 min, 3 charges.
Sentry Turret Dispensor: Summon 3 Sentry Turrets that launch rockets at nearby enemies. (10 Min Cooldown)

To Unlock the Level 3 Plan, you must complete Terrific Technology: Use all of the inventions available at the Workshop.

MEDIUM BUILDINGS
There are five Medium Buildings

Barn

Basically, the Barn allows you to go out into the world and use Traps to capture beasts, and then put in work orders to skin/shave/butcher them for delicious materials
The Barn houses captured creatures that provide the garrison with leather, meat, and fur.
Level 1: Allows you to capture Clefthoof, Elekk, Wolves, and Talbuk for leather and fur. Used for leatherworking and tailoring recipes.
Level 2: Allows you to capture Boars and Riverbeasts for rare meats used to create the most powerful food.
Level 3: Allows you to capture elite beasts to harvest for savage blood, used in all epic crafted armor and weapons.

The level 3 plan is rewarded from: Master Trapper Place 25 Work Orders at the Barn by trapping creatures in the world.

Inn

The Inn is your one stop shop for Lore, and followers
Famous NPCs from past expansions offer dungeon quests with generous rewards.
At level two, the headhunter will visit your garrison, allowing you to pick a follower by a specific trait or skill.
Level 1: Each day, a visitor offering a dungeon quest will spend the day at your inn.
Level 2: Recruit a follower each week.
Level 3: Unlocks the particularly lucrative Treasure Hunt missions.

The level 3 plan is rewarded from completing Stay Awhile and ListenComplete all of the Inn quests listed below.

Lumber Mill

The Lumber mill allows you to chop down trees around Draenor for Garrison resources, as well as allowing you get a Lumberjack title! :dance: Ten lumber rewards you with 100 Garrison resources at the rate of three hours per order.
It also allows you to get followers as well, The Followers Weldon Barov / Alexi Barov.

Level 1 Allows you to mark small trees in Draenor for harvest. Harvested Timber can be converted to work orders for Garrison supplies.
Level 2 Allows you to harvest medium trees for additional timber.
Level 3 Allows you to mark large trees for even more timber.

The level 3 plan is rewarded from completing: Upgrading the Mill Place 75 Work Orders at the Lumber Mill and complete the quests listed below.

Gladiators Sanctum

This is your one stop shop for murder! :unsmigghh:
When you kill a player with this building you get broken bones.Killing players rewards between 3-6 bones. 50 are needed for Warlord of Draenor. Killing 500 players of every race has unique titles as well, and finally you can be the star by getting the title "Warlord of Draenor" when you complete a meta achievement with this building. Work Orders rewarded rare-quality Primal Combatant PvP Gear--ilvl 620 gear which scales up to ilvl 675 for PvP.

Level 1: Increases your out-of-combat regeneration in outdoor Draenor zones and allows the collection of broken bones from defeated enemy players (used for Conqueror's Tribute).
Level 2: Enables safe fall in outdoor Draenor zones. Also enables the Nemesis quest series for defeating enemy players of specific races.
Level 3: While below 35% life, all damage is reduced by 50% in outdoor Draenor zones. Grants access to the Battle Royale arena event.

To unlock the level three plan for this building you must complete The Bone Collector: Collect 4000 Broken Bones from other players in Player versus Player combat across Draenor

Trading Post

The Trading Post lets you trade in 20 Garrison Resources for 5 herbs, Sumptuous Fur, fish, meat, ore, Draenic Dust, or Raw Beast Hide. You can unlock the trader at level 1 by completing Tricks of the Trade, a quick quest where you wake up a trader with coffee!

At level 2, there is a broken Ancient Trading Mechanism lying on the floor of your Trading Post. You need to complete the quest Auctioning for Parts to rebuild it
The Trading Post allows access to the Sha'tari Defense or Laughing Skull Orcs factions.

Level 1: Allows the trade of crafting reagents for garrison resources and vice versa, for a profit!
Level 2: Enables access to the auction house. Also grants access to the Shattari Defense or Laughing Skull factions.
Level 3: Increases reputation gain in Draenor by 20% (account-wide).

The level three plan for this building is rewarded from Savage Friends Earn Exalted with 3 Draenor reputations.

SMALL BUILDINGS

These buildings are mostly for professions. The level three from the Profession Buildings can be obtained for placing X number of workorders, the info is not on the beta yet.

Alchemy Lab

Level 1 Allows the production of Alchemy items.
Level 2 Allows followers with the Alchemy trait to work here, granting a unique bonus. Also allows up to 3 work orders at one time.
Level 3 Allows up to 5 work orders at one time.
Follower bonus: Offers an Alchemy daily quest for unique potions when assigned to the Alchemy Lab. Also boosts work order production based on follower level.

Gem Boutique

Level 1 Allows the production of Jewelcrafting items.
Level 2 Allows followers with the Jewelcrafting trait to work here, granting a unique bonus. Also allows up to 3 work orders at one time.
Level 3 Allows up to 5 work orders at one time.

Follower Bonus: Offers a variety of Jewelcrafting daily quests when assigned to the Gem Botique. Also boosts work order production based on follower level

Enchanter Study

Level 1: Allows the production of Enchanting items and allows non-Enchanters to disenchant items.
Level 2: Items disenchanted at the Study generate more materials. Also allows up to 3 work orders at once.
Level 3: Allows up to 5 work orders at once.

Follower bonus: Offers a variety of visual weapon enchants when assigned to the Enchanter's Study. Also boosts work order production based on follower level.

Salvage Yard

Level 1: Allows Salvage to be occasionaly recovered from missions.
Level 2: Increases your chance at recovering Salvage from missions. In addition, you may now discover follower items in Salvage.
Level 3: Greatly increases your chance at recovering Salvage from missions. In addition, you may now discover player items in Salvage.

The level three plan can be unlocked from opening 75 crates of salvage

Engineering Works

Level 1: Allows the production of Engineering items.
Level 2: Allows followers with the Engineering trait to work here, granting a unique bonus. Also allows up to 3 work orders at one time.
Level 3: Allows up to 5 work orders at once.

Follower bonus: Sells engineering gadgets when assigned to the Engineering Works. Also boosts work order production based on follower level.

Scribes Quarters

Level 1: Allows the production of Inscription items.
Level 2: Allows followers with the Insciption trait to work here, granting a unique bonus. Also allows up to 3 work orders at one time.
Level 3: Allows up to 5 work orders at once.

Follower bonus: When assigned to the Scribe's Quarters, allows you to swindle vendors out of their gold with forged documents. Also boosts work order production based on follower level.

Storehouse

Level 1: Enables access to your personal bank and increases the total number of active work orders for all buildings by 1.
Level 2: Enables access to your guild bank.
Level 3: Enables access to an Ethereal Trader for Void Storage and Transmogrification and increases the total number of active work orders for all buildings by 2.

Tailoring Emporium

Level 1: Refines raw materials into special Tailoring reagents each day, and allows the production of tailored items.
Level 2: Allows followers with the Tailoring trait to work here, granting a unique bonus. Also allows up to 3 work orders at once.
Level 3: Allows up to 5 work orders at once.

Follower bonus: Offers to craft unique battle standards when assigned to the Tailoring Emporium. Also boosts work order production based on follower level.

The Forge

Level 1: Allows the production of Blacksmithing items.
Level 2: Allows followers with the Blacksmithing trait to work here, granting a unique bonus. Also allows up to 3 work orders at one time.
Level 3: Allows up to 5 work orders at once.

Follower bonus: Offers a unique buff that allows your items to ignore wear and tear durability damage for 4hrs when assigned to the Forge. Also boosts work order production based on follower level.

The Tannery

Level 1: Allows the production of Leatherworking items.
Level 2: Allows followers with the Leatherworking trait to work here, granting a unique bonus. Also allows up to 3 work orders at one time.
Level 3: Allows up to 5 work orders at once.

Follower bonus: Offers to craft a wide variety of tents when assigned to the Tannery. These tents grant a bonus to players that rest in the area for a short while. Also boosts work order production based on follower level.

OTHER BUILDINGS

These are the four different buildings that are always there and are unlocked by leveling.

Herb Garden

The Herb Garden allows players to pick herbs in the Garrison if they have Herbalism or not. The quest to unlock Herb Garden is available at 96. You can also unlock Farmer transmog weapons

Level 1: Grows Draenic Seeds into herbs each day and herbalism nodes are available in the garden.
Level 2: Allows followers with the Herbalism trait to work here, granting a unique bonus. Also increases the amount of herbs that can be harvested at the Garden and allows up to 3 work orders at once.
Level 3: Grow a uniuqe Draenor fruit tree in your garden that grants food buffs (like Giant Nagrand Cherry). Also allows up to 5 work orders at once.

In addition to picking special herbs in your garden, you can loot Draenic Seeds. When you have 25 Draenic Seeds, you can place a Work Order which rewards you with large amounts of each herb.

To unlock the level three plan, you must collect 1000 Seeds

Mine

The Mine allows players to mine nodes in the Garrison if they have Mining or not. This is unlocked as soon as you hit a level 92.

Level 1: Allows players to mine Draenic Stone from mineral nodes in Draenor. Draenic Stone can be converted to work orders for Draenor minerals.
Level 2: Allows followers with the Mining trait to work here, granting a unique bonus. Also opens a new mineshaft, granting access to additional mining nodes and allows up to 3 work orders at once.
Level 3: A final mineshaft allows access to rich mining nodes. In addition, garrison guards will patrol your mine, keeping it clear of hostile Goren. Also allows up to 5 work orders at once.

In addition to mining ore from your mine, you can loot Draenic Stone. When you have 25 Draenic Stone, you can place a Work Order which rewards you with large amounts of each ore.

To unlock the level three plan, you must collect 500 stones

Pet Menagerie

The Menagerie provides new opportunities to develop and enhance your pet retinue. To unlock the Menagerie, you need to be 98 to complete Pets Versus Pests. This requires you to defeat 3 pets in your Garrison:

Level 1: Attracts elite pets you can battle for rewards. Also lets 5 of your battle pets hang out in your garrison.
Level 2: Increases your trap chance and reduces the cooldown of Revive Battle Pets while in Draenor. Up to 10 of your pets can now hang out in your garrison.
Level 3: Unlocks a pet battle daily with unique pet rewards.

To unlock the level three plan you must win 1000 pet battles on Draenor

Fishing Shack

The Fishing Shack provides support to those looking for their next big catch. It can be unlocked at 94 after a short quest chain:

Level 1: Allows small Draenor fish to be caught in Garrison waters and provides access to daily Fishing quests.
Level 2: Allows medium Draenor fish to be caught in Garrison waters.
Level 3: Allows enormous Draenor fish to be caught in Garrison waters. Also grants you a chance to catch a unique fish that can be used to lure mysterious creatures onto the shore.

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So there it is! In the next post I will go over the different followers you can find in Zones/From Quests!

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Prude · Nov 12, 2014

GARRISON THREAD PART 2:

"Fat_Cow" post="435218716" said: ↑

FOLLOWERS AND OUTPOSTS!

As you may have guessed, we need Followers to help collect all those bear asses on Draenor, so Blizzard has given us plenty to choose from. You can get followers from; finding them out in the world, doing a quest chain for them, buying them from rep vendors, garrison missions, and from constructing Outposts. Without the level three Barracks upgrade you are capped at 20 followers, any more after that you will still gain, but they will be put on "reserve". You can get followers out of reserve by talking to an NPC in your Garrison.

Followers can level up from 90-100, and when a follower hits level 100, they are given ilvl 600 gear. When looking at followers you will notice two things; Abilities refer to combat-themed abilities that are appropriate for their class. These can counter specific mission threats, and traits refer to bonuses where a mission’s success is increased when in certain types of zones, against certain mob types, or when grouped with a particular race. Several traits allow you to assign a follower to a profession building for a benefit. Followers can be Uncommon, Rare, or Epic--some have a set “base" quality with a chance to be randomly upgraded when you discover them.
Once you hit 100 with a follower, you can continue to gain XP for them, upgrading them to rare, and even epic. There is also a reason to continue to level your followers after they hit 100, shiny shit! :frogsiren: If you have a salvage yard, or you are good with luck, your followers can get higher ilvls, thus allowing them to attempt better missions. Item Level 615 missions reward ilvl 630 gear for players, or ways to boost your follower’s item level to 630. Item Level 630 missions reward ilvl 645 gear for players, or ways to boost your follower’s item level to 645. Item Level 645 missions reward a Cache of Highmaul or Foundry loot. This contains gear that’s a difficulty higher than what you run and Mythic raiders receive an additional 1000 gold. Basically, if you run heroric dungeons you can get a cache of a tier higher than what you have, mythic. However, these missons are rare so don't expect to gear up this way, just an added bonus really.

Horde Only Followers
Death Knight: Benhamin Gibb: Reward from Three Feet Under in Spires of Arak.

Hunter: Dark Ranger Velonara: Reward from Standing United, quest series tied to building the Brewery in Spires of Arak, Mulverick: Mulverick's Plight, and Shadow Hunter Rala: Reward from The Real Prey.

Priest: Ulna Thresher: Reward from early Garrison mission.

Rogue: Ka’la of the Frostwolves: Reward from early mission Gronnlings Abound, Spirit of Bony Xuk: Pick the Sparring Arena in Gorgrond and complete Get the Xuk Outta Here!.

Shaman: Greatmother Geyah: Reward from The Battle of Thunder Pass, Kal’gor the Honorable: Reward from The Battle of Thunder Pass, Kaz the Shrieker: Complete the full Lumber Mill questline in Gorgrond, Lokra: Reward from The Battle of Thunder Pass.

Warlock: Aeda Brightdawn: Reward from The True Path in Talador.

Warrior: Olin Umberhide: Reward from early Garrison quest Winds of Change, Weaponsmith Na’shra: Reward from Smeltcraft

Reputation: Karg Bloodfury: Reach Revered with Frostwolf Orcs, Cacklebone: Hit Revered with Laughing Skull Orcs, which requires Trading Post.

Alliance Only Followers
Death Knight: Delvar Ironfist: Complete quest series in Stormshield, ending in A Surly Dwarf

Druid: Qiana Moonshadow: Reward from very early garrison questline, Thisalee Crow: Reward from The Sleepers

Hunter: Rangari Chel: Choose one of three followers in Friend of the Exarchs, Rangari Kaalya: Obtained after building the Lumber Mill in Gorgrond and completing Iyu.

Mage: Roona: Reward from quest A Matter of Life and Death.
Paladin: Artificer Rommul: Complete a mini-event near Embaari Village in Shadowmoon Valley, Defender Illona: Reward from the Gatekeepers of Auchindoun quest series, Vindicator Onaala: Complete Friend of the Exarchs and choose between one of three followers.

Priest: Daleera Moonfang: Reward from Rangari Rescue, Fiona: Complete a quest chain for Fiona’s Caravan, Cooking With Unstable Herbs, in Shadowmoon Valley, Soulbinder Tuulani: Complete the “In the Shadows of Auchindoun" questline in Talador.

Rogue: Bruma Swiftstone: Reward from early mission Killing the Corrupted, Hulda Shadowblade: Reward from Standing United, quest series tied to building the Brewery in Spires of Arak, Shelly Hamby: Reward for completing a questline to save her husband, ends with Game of Thorns.

Shaman: Rulkan: Complete the Ancestor's Memory questline.

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Admiral Taylor: Complete the quest series tied to Admiral Taylor’s Garrison ( Admiral Taylor) and then return to your Spires of Arak outpost.

Apprentice Artificer Andren: Complete Friend of the Exarchs and choose between one of three followers.

Reputation: Vindicator Heluun: Hit Revered with Sha'tari Defense, which requires Trading Post, Cleric Maluuf: Reach Revered with Council of Exarchs.

Neutral Followers
These followers can be obtained regardless of faction

Death Knight: Abu'gar: Return Abu'Gar's Favorite Lure, Abu'Gar's Vitality, and Abu'Gar's Finest Reel to Abu in Nagrand.

Druid: Phylarch the Evergreen: Requires level 3 Lumber Mill. He will periodically appear when logging Large Timber, and eventually join your side.

Hunter: Nat Pagle: Requires level 3 Fishing Shack, An Angler on Our Team

Mage: Image of Archmage Vargoth: Find four of his mysterious items scattered through Draenor, Magister Serena / Magister Krelas: Complete the Alliance or Horde quest chain tied to your Arcane Sanctum in Talador, Millhouse Manastorm: Reward from the daily dungeon quest For The Children! when you have a Level 1 Lunarfall Inn.

Monk: Pitfighter Vaandaam / Bruto: Build the Sparring Arena outpost in Gorgrond and work on the The Fists of Vaandaam questline.

Paladin: Croman: Reward for completing Come With Me If You Want to Live, Leeroy Jenkins: Reward for completing Leeeeeeeeeeeeeroy...?

Priest: Talonpriest Ishaal: Awarded after completing all quests in Spires of Arak, Between Arak and a Hard Place/ Between Arak and a Hard Place.

Rogue: Dagg: Free Dagg from a cage in Frostfire Ridge, Goldmane the Skinner: Feline Friends Forever, Kimzee Pinchwhistle: Complete the level 96 questline to unlock the Salvage Yard, Rangari Erdanii: Pick the Sparring Arena in Gorgrond and complete Chains of Iron, Weldon Barov / Alexi Barov: Can be trapped under a log anywhere in Draenor, if you have the Lumber Mill.

Shaman: Leorajh: Hidden in a cave (55,3; 68,5) to the northwest of Pinchwhistle Gearworks.

Warrior: Ahm: Reward from Dying Wish, Aknor Steelbringer: Complete the The Steel Has Been Brought achievement, Blook: Talk to Blook at Blook’s Overlook in Gorgrond, Lantresor of the Blade: Rewarded after completing the Hallvalor questline in Nagrand. ( Challenge of the Masters/ Challenge of the Masters),
Meatball: Reach Rank 5 in the Brawler’s Guild, Miall / Morketh Bladehowl: Complete the Alliance or Horde questline in Talador to build the Arsenal, Pleasure-Bot 8000: Reward from Clear! questline in Talador,
Talon Guard Kurekk: Reward for completing Mantle of the Talon King,
Tormmok: A Centurion Without a Cause, Gorgrond, Ziri'ak: Taught from Inactive Apexis Guardian, which has a low chance to be sold by Honest Jim/Linny "The Skinny" Leadpockets, a perk for building your Spires of Arak Trading Post.

Outposts!

In each zone past your starting zone you will have the chance to choose one garrison building of two provided to provide yourself benefits, as well as changing the zone's quest lines up some. At level 100 you can change the outpost for a fee, so don't worry if you saw a really cool follower, you can still get him/her.

Gorgrond

Sparring Arena: If you decide to choose the Gladiator-themed perk, you then get the Champion's Honor zone-wide buff in Gorgrond, which allows you to summon a random champion to fight for one minute, who then gives you a 5 minute powerful buff.

or

The Lumber Yard: Which allows you to Summon Mechashredder 5000, which has special abilities and lets you cut through thick vines for caches that contain Garrison Resources.

Talador

Arcane Sanctum: Your Arcane Sanctum perk is Guardian Orb: Summons a Guardian Orb at your location that electrocutes enemies within 15 yards for 9600 to 14400 damage every 2 sec for 30 sec.

or

Arsenal: The zone-wide Talador perk is Artillery Strike: Orders your Armory to begin an artillery strike at the targeted location. The Armory will fire 3 volleys over 3 sec. Each volley deals 64000 to 96000 damage to all affected enemies and stuns them for 3 sec. Max 3 charges.

Spires of Arak
Smuggling Run: The Trading Post-themed building in Spires of Arak is the Smuggling Run. Once every 10 minutes, a vendor can be summoned who has a chance to sell a variety of interesting wares such as a 28 slot bag, a follower or even garrison resources!

or

Brewery: Choosing the Inn-themed perk rewards you with a Brewery. This rewards you with Home Away from Home, a teleport to your Inn in Spires and 20% boosted XP in Spires.

Nagrand

Tankworks: You can summon a Telaari Siege Engine or Wor'var Demolisher

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Corral: Summon a Telaari Talbuk or Frostwolf War Wolf. This can be ridden while in combat, so it is essentially a zone-wide speed boost. Druids in the zone get to run at mount speed as to not look too weird.

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Prude · Nov 12, 2014

COPIED FROM THE GEARING UP MEGATHREAD:

"Dr. Mantis Toboggan" post="437232876" said: ↑

Guide to Gearing up in Warlords of Draenor

With the expansion almost upon us, I thought a guide was in order for those who have no desire to stop and smell the roses and instead gear up as fast as possible to kill even more orcs in Draenor as fast as possible at level 100. I'll eventually add pretty pictures and links, but for now I'll just focus on getting the information out there.

Please note that I am writing this primarily as a quick guide for somebody who wants to gear up for PVE raids as fast and efficiently as possible. If you have other goals, this might not fully apply to you. Here is a MUCH more detailed guide if you want it: http://www.wowhead.com/news=244117/warlords-of-draenor-early-gearing-guide

The Ultra-Quick Pre-Raid Guide (in rough order of importance)
-Level up your garrison and its buildings while you level and at level 100. Do all the stuff you can for gear. See below for optimal building configurations.
-Do the Legendary Questline for a 680 ring
-Run heroic dungeons until you're fully decked out in 630 gear
-Do the daily challenge mode quest for a chance at 640 gear
-Do the Molten Core anniversary raid for a 640 helm
-Kill the world boss(es) each week
-Get whatever else you can afford/have time for through Apexis Crystals and crafting

Leveling from 90-100
The main thing here is to focus on keeping up to date with your garrison as much as you can and getting whatever quest rewards you can while leveling. You'll want to get your garrison to level 3 as soon as possible. Go to the garrison thread for more information.

Gearing at level 100
There are many gear sources at level 100. You'll want to do as many of them as you can handle as long as they keep getting you gear.

Here is an image that pretty much sums everything up below!

Garrison
Here is a lovely garrison Infographic for more detailed information.

When you get your garrison to level 3, you'll want the following buildings:
-Large: Barracks + Dwarven Bunker/War Mill. The former allows you to get more and better followers to allow you to do more difficult follower missions and thus get better rewards. The latter gives you one of your weekly bonus rolls for free and gives you a chance to get your quest gear upgraded.
-Medium: There is some contention here. The Barn allows you to get Savage Blood to create better crafted items. The Lumber Mill provides you with garrison resources. The Trading Post allows you to trade crafting mats for garrison resources and vice versa.
-Small: You can have three buildings. Follow this priority: 1. Profession building that corresponds to your armor type (The Forge for Plate, The Tannery for Mail/Leather, Tailoring Emporium for Cloth), 2. Another profession building that corresponds to your crafting profession (if it's different from the first one), 3. a Salvage Yard, 4. an Enchanter's Study.

This building configuration allows you to maximize your followers' leveling and gear, gives you resources for crafted gear, and also grants you crafting recipes for the best items that you can craft using your crafting profession.

You want to level your buildings and followers up as fast as possible. This will eventually get you access to a rare mission that will award you with a piece of gear that is one tier higher than your current raid progress.

5-man Dungeons
Level 100 Normal dungeons award item level 615 gear, and Heroic dungeons award item level 630 gear. Spam these to your heart's content until you can no longer get upgrades from them. You'll need to finish Proving Grounds Silver for your role in order to queue for Heroics.

Apexis Crystals
Apexis Crystals are a new currency that allow you to buy gear (and upgrade the gear you bought with Apexis Crystals), progress in your legendary quest, buy pets, toys, mounts, and other fun things. For our purposes, we'll focus on the first two.

You'll need 4986 Apexis Crystals for an early step in the legendary ring quest, so save up for that first.

You can buy helms, legs, bracers, belts, gloves, and cloaks with Apexis Crystals. The gear you can buy starts at item level 630, which you can further upgrade to item level 645 and finally 655 with more and more crystals.

They are gained from several sources:
-Daily quests and other rare quests from your garrison
-Rare mobs throughout Draenor
-Work orders from your garrison
-Garrison invasions

Daily Challenge Mode quest
There is a daily challenge mode quest that awards a Challenger's Strongbox if you complete the specified challenge mode. You do NOT need to earn a medal; you just need to successfully complete the dungeon. These have a chance of containing an item level 640 item.

Legendary Questline
The new legendary questline in Warlords of Draenor awards a ring. The first chapter awards an item level 640 ring at first, which upgrades to an item level 680 ring as you progress in the quest.

World Bosses
There are three world bosses in Draenor, but none will be available at launch. Much like the world bosses in Pandaria, you can (and should) kill them each once per week. Tarlna the Ageless and Drov the Ruiner drop item level 650 loot, and Rukhnar drops item level 665 loot. Not much is known about these as far as difficulty goes right now.

Tarlna the Ageless and Drov the Ruiner will spawn the week Highmaul opens up, and Rukhnar will spawn the week Blackrock Foundry opens up.

Molten Core helm
LFR Molten Core, which will open on November 21st and run until January 6th, drops an item level 640 helm.

Crafted gear
In Warlords, you are limited to wearing three crafted items at any time, except for cloaks, which do not count towards the limit.

Each piece of crafted gear has three upgrade levels, each of which take more and more materials to create. Weapons start at item level 630 and upgrade to 640 and 655. All other items start at item level 640 and upgrade to 655 and 665.

I personally do not believe getting all crafted items maxed out is worth the time, money, or effort unless you are filthy rich and can afford to simply buy the items. It takes a lot of time and effort to get all the materials to upgrade the items past their original item levels. For most people, I would suggest getting a couple pieces of 640 crafted armor that you can and leave it at that.

PVP Gear
Honor Points purchase gear that is item level 630 for PVE purposes (660 for PVP).
Conquest Points purchase gear that is item level 660 for PVE purposes (690 for PVP).

Raid Gear
This is the stuff you're gearing up for!

Opening December 2nd
Normal Highmaul drops item level 655 gear.
Heroic Highmaul drops item level 670 gear.

Opening December 9th
LFR Highmaul drops item level 640 gear.
Mythic Highmaul drops item level 685 gear.

Opening several weeks later
LFR Blackrock Foundry drops item level 650 (non-armor sets) and 655 (armor sets) gear.
Normal Blackrock Foundry drops item level 665 gear.
Heroic Blackrock Foundry drops item level 680 gear.
Mythic Blackrock Foundry drops item level 695 gear.

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Prude · Nov 12, 2014

COPIED FROM THE GOLD MAKING THREAD:

"SiliconX" post="436761265" said: ↑

(Placeholder until I can fabricate something more witty and with a Horde character)

Welcome to the Gold Making Megathread for patch 6.0 and Warlords of Draenor!

Disclaimer: WoD brings with it so many changes, it's nigh-impossible as of this writing to accurately predict what strategies will work and what won't so don't ask. This thread will be quite general to start and updated frequently as we learn and adapt to the new systems.

Table of Contents

Original Post:
1. Credits
2. Introduction
3. What's new in Warlords of Draenor?
4. Making gold in Warlords of Draenor
5. Basic rules and misconceptions about making gold
6. Resources
7. Addons
2nd Post:
1. Frequently Asked Questions

1. Credits

Credit for the information from previous OPs goes to Inverse Icarus, Variable 5, StockOption, Frozen-Solid and LSD-25. Much of this post is their information so I'm just standing on the shoulders of giants. Thread title credit goes to Ursine Asylum.

Here is a link to the 5.0 thread. It is largely for posterity and credit as the information there will be mostly, if not all, out of date.

2. Introduction

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Do you dream of being part of the 1%? Have you ever wanted to be at the Black Market Auction House for more than just ganking AFK nerds? Do you want to swim in Scrooge McDuck levels of gold? Then you've come to the right place. Here you'll find all sorts of advice and the tools needed to make you the envy of your guild mates and the scorn of Trade Chat troglodytes when you link the Invincible you just bought. You'll also find a plethora of knowledgeable goons ready to impart upon you their wealth of knowledge and regale you with tales of that time they lost 20,000g trying to reset the Noodle Cart market. Above all else, you'll find a lot of dick waving and general laughing at the poor plebes who can barely afford repairs.

3. What's new in Warlords of Draenor?

Merged Auction Houses. The Horde, Alliance and neutral auction houses have been merged into a single, server-wide auction house. Whether this is good or bad depends on who you talk to and their situation pre-6.0. On one hand, you now have more competition but on the other, you have more players willing to throw their daily rewards at you.

Tradeskills all go up to 700 now. That's right, no more 75 point jumps, they're going with 100 per expansion from now on. Learning Draenor Master will not come from a profession trainer but rather from a world drop scroll in your faction's starting WoD zone. If you're worried about this, fear not as these have high drop rates so you won't need to poopsock to get them. A nice perk to these scrolls is that they will increase your maximum skill to 700 no matter your current skill level. One big change with professions is all combat benefits have been removed so you can take professions you want rather than ones you don't want in order to simcraft 2dps higher. Listing all the changes to all the professions is not really within the scope of this thread so I'll just give the cliff notes:

Blacksmithing, Leatherworking, Tailoring and Jewelcrafting can now make epic 640 ilvl armor/jewelry that can be upgraded once to 655 and again to 665 though consumable items crafted by that same profession. These items will require L91 to equip so they'll be great for alts and entry level raiding. However, you'll only be able to equip 3 WoD level crafted items at once.

Meta gems are gone and sockets now have a small chance to be on a piece of gear, so gem demand will drop considerably. Primary stat gems are gone, only secondary stats remain but they will be more powerful.

Only neck, rings, cloak and weapons can be enchanted. Only WoD level enchants can be used as all MoP and lower enchants can only be used on ilvl 600 or lower. You can now transmog weapon enchants.

Classes now learn some Major Glyphs automatically while leveling, and these recipes have been removed. Draenor glyphs will be learned through the new Draenor daily cooldown research, but pre-WoD glyphs will now be learned via ink-specific, no-cooldown research (ie. http://wod.wowhead.com/spell=165564)

All gathering professions can now gather any resource at any skill level. Similar to the 5.3 change to Herbalism and Mining, you'll get fragments/petals if your skill level isn't high enough.

By now you've heard about the Garrison. This will affect gold making for sure but exactly how and how much is something we won't know for awhile. You will be allowed to have 3 profession garrison buildings. You can choose buildings that will give you limited access to professions you don't have or buildings that will enhance professions you do have. Mining, Herbalism and Fishing however, are buildings that everyone gets (although you won't get as much as you would with the profession out in the wild).

Crafting materials now stack to 200 and you're able to craft from materials in your bank. Blizzard has added bag sorting options so now you can designate certain bags for certain things like armor or consumables. There is now a Reagent Tab purchasable on your personal bank which will store crafting mats, keeping your bank free to hold all those plate bikini transmog items that you've been trying to sell forever.

Even more gold sinks. Want the Alliance chopper that nobody voted for? It'll cost you a cool 100,000g. The Garrison will be a bit of a gold sink but nothing major as its designed to be accessible and taking a page from the Book of MoP, there will be a bunch of reputation mounts, pets. The Black Market Auction House has moved to Nagrand and a bunch of new items to tempt you have been added. Notable (beta)confirmed items include:

BoA single-use grimoire which can be used at L85 to allow flying in Pandaria (opening bid is 10,000g)

Swift Zulian Tiger and Swift Razzashi Raptor from pre-Cataclysm Zul'Gurub

TCG pets Spectral Tiger Cub, Ethereal Soul Trader and Tuskarr Kite (probably duped). TCG mount White Wooly Rhino

MoP rare drop mounts such as Son of Galleon and all sorts of Cloud Serpents

MoP raid pet drops such as Droplet of Y'Shaarj, Son of Animus, etc.

Kor'kron Shaman's Treasure

Darkmoon Ticket Fanny Pack (contains what seems to be an average of 400 DMF prize tickets)

4. Making gold in Warlords of Draenor

Warlords of Draenor brings the biggest upheaval to our way of life that the game has ever seen and it'll likely be weeks or even months post-launch before we'll really have a firm understanding of what works and what doesn't. Asking questions like, "What will be the biggest money maker in WoD?" or "How should I set up my Garrison to make lots of gold?" are just questions that we can't answer. You'll probably be chased out of the thread and if you're really lucky, you'll join that infamous list of goons that made wowplayers.txt.

5. Basic rules and misconceptions about making gold

These come up in this thread all the time. You probably won't read this anyway but here are the answers:

Buy Low, Sell High (BLSH). I know it sounds cliché but it is the cardinal rule. I can guarantee you that aside from players selling carries, every gold maker out there follows this rule in some form or another. Whether it's buying up raw mats and selling the finished product or just simply flipping, BLSH should be your mantra. The best way I can put it is: You make money when you buy, not when you sell.

Do your research. Every server and every market is different. This can take days, weeks, or even months on some of the riskier markets. Use resources like TradeSkillMaster, The Undermine Journal and WoWuction (all in the Resources section) to gauge potential markets. If you just jump in then things will probably get a lot worse before they get any better.

Learn the trends. It should be obvious that there is more demand for gems, enchants and raid consumables right after a weekly reset. There is less demand for these things on Sundays or Mondays. Depending on the timezone in which the majority of your server is located, there will be prime times for selling, buying, and the amount of competition in your chosen markets. Personally, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday are my peak sale days while Sunday, Monday and to a lesser extent, Thursday, are the slow days. This goes back to BLSH: buy on slow days because prices will typically be lower and sell on peak days.

Undercut by a copper. No, undercutting more doesn't make things sell faster. Buyers will pick up the cheapest item, regardless of how cheap or expensive it actually is. This is especially true on high volume markets. This conversation happens every few pages. You're wrong. Don't debate it.

This shit is too expensive! Sometimes an item will be posted at market price for ages and never actually sell. An item is only worth as much as someone will pay for it. This works both ways.

Know when to gouge. Is a big holiday coming up that uses small eggs? Price gouge the fuck out of them. Buy out the entire AH of nexus crystals? You just wasted your money.

There is no bulk discount. If you have a lot of one type of material, putting up different sized stacks can be extremely profitable. Sometimes people need one of something, sometimes they need 10, sometimes they need 100. If they need 100, it's unlikely they'll scroll through page upon page, buying auctions to save a few gold per. They'll just scroll to the first stack of 100 they see, so in many cases you can make MORE money by charging for the convenience of buying multiples at once. This goes back to do your research. A tip is to figure out what quantities of a certain material are needed for certain desirable crafts and sell in those quantities. I sell stacks of 6 Trillium bars far more often than singles, and at a higher price point. Do not underestimate people's laziness.

Don't flood the AH. People will frequently put huge quantities of an item up for sale, oversaturating the market. This can and will cause a crash. When posting only put up enough items that can reasonably be moved, and hold off the rest of your supply. If the supply on the AH looks lower than normal, people will be more willing to pay higher prices. Wait until it's been purchased, and restock the AH. Once again, KNOW YOUR MARKET! Some items also have relatively high listing fees compared to their sale value (gems). If you put up 50 of the same type of gem and you only sell 5 a day on average, you're paying all the extra AH fees for no reason. This also goes for people who find an awesome vendor item that people don't know about. If you post 50 of them on the AH all at once, people will realize it's not a rare drop and will not pay your stupid surcharge for it. Don't do this!

Time is money, friend! A running joke in this thread is, "I farmed it myself so its free :downs:". Your time is valuable. If a flask sells for 30g, and the mats to make it cost 35g on the AH, sell the mats. No, turning them into a flask and selling the result is not a 30g profit, it's a 5g loss. If you really need that flask, sell the mats and buy the flask. Congratulations you just made 5g! This leads into the next point:

Farming is almost always a waste of your time. Let me give you an example I read that really hit home for me and got me started into this endeavor. Let's say you want to make 1000 of something to sell on the auction house. It requires 2 of a raw material and that raw material on the AH is 30g for a stack of 20, so you're looking at 3000g for the materials. The finished product sells for 6g each. So you can spend 5 hours (just a made up number) farming the materials and an hour crafting them and sell them for 6000g total. Nice profit but lets look at a different option. You buy the materials for 3000g and spend an hour crafting the finished product. You've made 3000g but you've only spent one hour as opposed to 6. Option one you've made 1000g/hour while option 2 you've made 3000g/hour and you had all sorts of extra time to listen to goons bitching about Metallica playing Blizzcon. There are really only two exceptions where farming is an effective use of your time: You don't have the 3000g to buy the materials or its the start of an expansion and prices are sky high.

Diversification! Yes, if you do the math, maybe you make the most money theoretically by turning your ore via the ore shuffle into scrolls of Landslide and only scrolls of Landslide - but if you only can sell one scroll every three days, your theoretical profit is quickly hard-capped. Maybe you make less money percentagewise selling enchanting mats or blue gems, but if you can unload them 50x faster than you can unload scrolls of Landslide, it's that much faster that you can take those profits and reinvest them, starting the whole process over again.

Consider older markets. Would you believe me if I told you 50% of my total profit comes from selling stuff from Cata, WotLK, TBC and even Vanilla? It's true. These are markets that are often ignored by players because they don't understand the potential or simply don't think it's worth the time. Volume is much lower but so is supply so profit margins can be extremely high. These markets are highly server dependent and can be quite risky but the potential makes it worth a look.

6. Resources

There are a plethora of resources available on the interweb that you should know of and use if you want to make some "Fat Stacks". The information on them is invaluable and will mean the difference between getting by and sleeping at night on piles of money surrounded by beautiful women :thejoke:

The Undermine Journal
https://theunderminejournal.com

The defacto standard for online auction databases, it closed at the end of July due to hosting issues and it was unknown when or even if it would reopen. Late August it returned and the owner has been working furiously to get it back up to snuff. By far the most thorough and detailed auction database, it has more information that you could ever dream of. It's also the only online database that has Battle Pet prices and history which makes it an essential tool in your arsenal.

TradeSkillMaster
https://www.tradeskillmaster.com

No longer just a suite of addons, the TradeSkillMaster website now has an online auction database where you can view Server and Global Market Values, as well as set up notifications so you can be alerted when selected items hit certain price thresholds.

WoWuction
http://www.wowuction.com

Not quite as sophisticated as TUJ or even TSM but it does have one nice feature: Estimated Sold Per Day. This is a good tool to look at to estimate demand on items you're looking to sell or markets you're thinking of getting into. It is purely an estimate and not exact, so be cautious using it. As of this writing (October 25/14), WoWuction is a little behind the times and hasn't been updated to reflect the merged auction house so be mindful of that.

The Consortium
http://stormspire.net/content

An online message board for all things WoW gold related, it is chock full of great tips, general information and guides. As well, a lot of the who's who post there. If there's a site or addon out there WoW gold related, chances are the creator is a regular on The Consortium.

Phat Lewts' Gold Blog
http://www.phatlewtsgold.net

One of the better WoW gold blogs out there, PHGB is actually current. Phat Lewts is the creator of the "Learn TSM 2.0" video series which is pretty much required watching if you want to start using it.

7. Addons

TradeSkillMaster 2.0
https://www.tradeskillmaster.com/addon/overview

The undisputed king of gold making addons, TSM 2.0 is actually a core addon with a suite of modules and is essential if you plan to operate in high volume markets. TSM 2.0 added more functionality over version 1.0 while simplifying it and making it more intuitive. It will allow you to (almost) automate auctioning, crafting, shopping, mailing, warehousing and pretty much anything else you can think of. It has a pretty steep learning curve and can be a bit overwhelming at first but once you grasp the basics, it all falls into place. Learning it on your own is damn near impossible, thankfully Phat Lewts has created a "Learn TSM 2.0" series on YouTube that goes over the most important modules one by one. I can't recommend enough watching them first:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8MEW0tXSmgui_ovgr6uui-ZoR1nCMd4m

TradeSkillMaster Desktop App
https://www.tradeskillmaster.com/app/overview

A recent addition to TSM 2.0, this is a desktop application which will regularly download auction house data for your selected server(s) and give you up to date data in game for the AuctionDB module. This means no more time spent scanning the auction house for your database which anyone who used Auctioneer would tell you, sucked ass. It also allows you to backup TSM 2.0 settings which is a godsend if you need to re-install or whatever. Pretty much mandatory if you plan to use TSM 2.0.

Auctionator
http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/auctionator

Relatively lightweight, makes it easy to see how many stacks of different sizes are posted at what price. Great for buying or selling in bulk. Extremely valuable mod, especially if you're just a casual, everyday auction house user.

Postal
http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/postal

A robust mail mod, it adds all sorts of useful functionality to the mailbox. Download all mail with a single click(even if you have more than 50) or autofill contacts in with the BlackBook, it has all you'd ever need for mail.

Ackis Recipe List
http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/arl

A recipe list mod, it will scan your tradeskills and give you information about what percentage of recipes in a given tradeskill you have, which ones you're missing and where to get them. It was becoming a bit of a memory hog so it has now been split into a core mod with separate modules for each profession so you can download only what you want. Very useful mod if you plan to delve into older markets.

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