Follower Missions (Gold and Garrison Supplies)
Difficulty: Beginner
Approximate Earnings: Several hundred gold daily.
Time Spent: Less than 10 minutes.
How To: There are 10-20 garrison missions available every day at the command table in your Town Hall or Great Hall. Many of these will reward gear, gold, garrison supplies, and items used to reroll your follower’s traits and abilities. In order to make a bunch of gold passively each day, you will need to prepare your followers properly.
Level as many of your followers to epic quality as possible. Equip them with upgraded weapons and armor to unlock higher level missions (current ilvl (Item Level) max is 675). Use Follower Retraining Certificates (garrison mission reward) and Follower Trait Retraining Guides (purchased from Sergeant Crowler [A], and Sergeant Grimjaw [H] in your garrison) to get followers with the Scavenger and Treasure Hunter traits. The more followers you have with these traits the more potential you have to earn hundreds of gold with the following strategy.
Assign followers with the Treasure Hunter trait to missions that reward gold, and followers with the Scavenger trait to missions that reward garrison supplies (don’t forget to pay attention to the mission success rate though). Both of these abilities stack, so that is why it is worth having many followers with these traits. A 3 follower garrison mission that rewards 200 gold base will reward 600 gold if you assign 3 followers with the Treasure Hunter trait to complete it.
Completing missions that reward gear and weapons is another way to make some gold. You can activate the tokens received upon mission completion and vendor them for 20-50 gold a piece.
If you do not have a Trading Post in your garrison, then garrison supply missions will not be as much of a priority for you. See the “Trading Post” method below for information on how to make tons of gold from your surplus supplies.
Trading Post
Difficulty: Beginner – Intermediate
Approximate Earnings: Several hundred gold daily.
Time Spent: Less than half an hour.
How To: The Trading Post building occupies a medium plot and can be upgraded three times, however, you only need the first tier to make extra gold from your excess garrison supplies. If you followed the method in the “Follower Missions” section of this guide, you will more than likely be looking for a way to spend those garrison supplies that keep piling up (they are limited to 10k per character).
Each day a traveling vendor will be accessible via your Trading Post. Depending on the vendor, you may pay more or less in supplies per materials on any given day. I suggest spending a large amount of your garrison supplies by trading them to the vendor that gives you the best price for each material. Stock up on items such as Sumptuous Fur, Blackrock Ore, True Iron Ore, Draenic Dust, and Raw Beast Hide– they are all used in crafting. Before you make any purchases, check pricing on your auction house! Selling these materials will bring in several hundred gold. You can even use the Trading Post to generate more garrison supplies by placing work orders at the designated NPC.
Barn (level 3)
Difficulty: Beginner
Approximate Earnings: Several hundred gold daily.
Time Spent: Less than an hour.
How To: Once you complete the achievement “Master trapper”, you will be able to upgrade your barn to it’s final tier (level 3). You will want to do this if you need Savage Blood for crafting, or if you are looking to make a few hundred gold for the sale of each. In order to receive Savage Blood from your barn you must have work orders placed by trapping level 100 elite monsters such as the Wetland Trampler, Ironhide Bull, and Direfang Alpha, all of which can be found in Nagrand. Each work order has a 15% chance to reward you with a Savage Blood in addition to the standard return of Raw Beast Hide or Sumptuous Fur (depending on your trapped mob). If you have a follower assigned to your barn you will receive more hide or fur per order but no boost in chance at bloods. The average price of Savage Blood is recorded at about 300 gold each.
If you are a pet collector, the Pygmy Cow battle pet can be obtained by interacting with a glass of warm milk that randomly spawns in the barn.
Salvage Yard (level 3 recommended)
Difficulty: Beginner
Approximate Earnings: Dependent on how many follower missions are completed daily.
Time Spent: Less than an hour.
How To:The Salvage Yard occupies a small plot in your garrison. Each tier of this building will give you a chance upon follower mission completion to receive a bag or box that can be opened for various items. It is worth it to upgrade this building to it’s final level (3) if you intend to send followers out on missions daily.
Bags of Salvaged Goods, Crates of Salvage, and Big Crates of Salvage will contain vendor junk, BoE gear and weapons of all qualities, transmog items, and item level 665 BoEs which command a good price on the auction house. Level 2 and 3 Salvage Yards will also allow follower gear and weapon upgrades to drop from these containers. In order to make an extra hundred or two gold each day, vendor everything you receive from opening these containers, unless it is a desirable transmog or high item level epic BoE.
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