Maximizing Garrison Gold Income

[Pandemix]

Hey guys, I've been collecting data on the gold gain from my garrison on one of my characters to make a guide on how to maximize profit from it. in a week of recording I found the character to have made around 20k gold from missions alone, I hope this emphasizes the importance of collecting gold find followers from your inn.

So I'll start this off by giving a overview of the buildings you can get in your garrison, and their cost/profit, Keep in mind you can ease the pain of buying the recipes by doing the outpost missions.


Inn/tavern
2950 gold, 1k total resources
Once established, brings in 450g/day on average from gold missions, with the added bonus of new gold find followers, I suggest collecting a couple of resource bonus followers in the beginning to help speed up the proccess

Herb Garden/Mines
both 800 Gold/150 resources
totals at 230g for 5 mins of effort a day, I suggest only getting it if you have either no miners/herbalists, or if you have those proffesions on the character, as you can do the work orders at no time cost to you.
Should pay for itself after 2 weeks

Barn
2950 Gold, 1k Resources total
if you are trabbing solo with an undergeared character, this will not be as efficient, but with my terrible server prices I earn around 16k/hr on the time spent trapping.
takes around 9 days to pay itself off at max level

Inscription Hut (only level 2)
1200 Gold. 150 resources
average 90g a day on the merchant orders, make sure you keep herbs to do this
Should pay itself off after 2 weeks

Salvage Yard
2700 Gold, 450 Resources
If you auction off the things that sell well, and disenchant the current teir items, you can make well over 110g/day, but on average I find it gives 110g/day
1 month pay off

Trading Post (only level 2)
150 Gold
Build this first to allow for resource gain to speed up the creation of the garrison, once you have finished building everything you can burn all of your resources here for at least 1g/resource if you time the days right, along with a net gain if you are always doing the work orders and spending the resources properly
You can either use this or the barn, the barn will give higher profit, but the trading post will be useful in building the garrison, and will take less time investment for the gold gain that it provides.

Shipyard
Total 3500 Gold/3500 resources
This is the highest cost plot in your garrison, it will eventually net you more gain than anything other than the normal missions. I suggest upgrading it later on as it is such a resource sink, but it will definately pay off. I've found it to earn me around 1k/day on average with the right ships. I also suggest spending your extra resources on upgrades for ships when required for heavy hitting gold missions


This way you will quickly be gaining the resources you need, while also gaining the followers necessary to gain the most profit later on. Then you will move onto the heavy hitters, followed by the supplimental income. I also suggest downloading masterplan to make the follower missions a lot faster.

Over the course of a week I found the following profit from missions:
- 3275 from inn quests alone
- 772 from the salvage yard
- 11670 from Normal gold follower missions (didn't get blingtron's vault)
- 6390 from the shipyard

Before you say anything about the diminishing returns of the gold find missions, keep in mind that I'm doing all of this on 6 characters on one account, which should be an average amount for most players.

I've also uploaded a video where I explain all of this to those of you who TL:DR (Yes it was recorded on a potato)


Let me know if you think there's something wrong or worth changing. Cheers.

Also, check out my stream at twitch.tv/magixbrah I'm doing a WoW Token giveaway for ever 20 follows I get!

[Augury13]

Thanks for contributing and sharing this +rep

[Raidlegend]

Hi thx 4 share I personally don't like the barn is there an alternative?

[Pandemix]

Hi thx 4 share I personally don't like the barn is there an alternative?

It's 100% worth dropping the barn for the trading post if you don't want to spend time on the trapping, though it can be annoying to get the right work orders going on it, it helps to sit on a stack of each material waiting to fill up your work orders. Once the day arrives where the material the sells for the most on the auction house costs 4 resources you should go wild and buy as much as you can.

The Inn/Trading Post combo is very useful for someone who doesn't have the time for trapping

[Raidlegend]

Yes and I think that I can make more money with the Inn/ Trading Post Combo than Trading Post/ Barn Combo but I can be wrong. Thanks for your fast reply anyway

[artemarkantos]

Salvage Yard my favorite building!

[Pandemix]

Salvage Yard my favorite building!

It definitely won my heart the first time I pulled a 665 trinket out of one of the boxes. Shame they aren't going for 200k+ anymore ):

[IChangedMyUsername]

@Op, JC building makes 110-320g a day from the daily if you have a follower working there. Only has to be level 2. Better than inscription

[Pandemix]

@Op, JC building makes 110-320g a day from the daily if you have a follower working there. Only has to be level 2. Better than inscription

Cheers man, I'll have to set one up.

[Zizzzzy]

It's 100% worth dropping the barn for the trading post if you don't want to spend time on the trapping, though it can be annoying to get the right work orders going on it, it helps to sit on a stack of each material waiting to fill up your work orders. Once the day arrives where the material the sells for the most on the auction house costs 4 resources you should go wild and buy as much as you can.

The Inn/Trading Post combo is very useful for someone who doesn't have the time for trapping

This should be 100% a time investment choice. Barn is superior to trading post IMO unless the price of Savage Blood on your server is terrible.

For trapping, look in group finder.. there are tons of groups for all 3 trap types. It takes 15 minutes to trap 100 things, half hour and you're good for a few weeks of work orders and you can just sit back and let the gold flow.

Now for your Garrison Resource dump without the Trading Post you buy barn completion work order from your Garrison guy. 1000 resources for 5 work orders. When I compare spending resources at the trading post at 800 resources for a 200stack.....to spending 1000 resources for 5 savage blood and a stack of fur/leather .. barn nets more gold just on the resource dump alone... the daily work orders are all extra gravy

[Pandemix]

This should be 100% a time investment choice. Barn is superior to trading post IMO unless the price of Savage Blood on your server is terrible.

For trapping, look in group finder.. there are tons of groups for all 3 trap types. It takes 15 minutes to trap 100 things, half hour and you're good for a few weeks of work orders and you can just sit back and let the gold flow.

Now for your Garrison Resource dump without the Trading Post you buy barn completion work order from your Garrison guy. 1000 resources for 5 work orders. When I compare spending resources at the trading post at 800 resources for a 200stack.....to spending 1000 resources for 5 savage blood and a stack of fur/leather .. barn nets more gold just on the resource dump alone... the daily work orders are all extra gravy

I'd only just thought to do the completion orders myself, I'm glad to hear that it's the best idea, Thanks.

[SAP_Pete]

Best use of Trading Post is to generate additional garrison resource and buy follower trait re-roll certificates with them, until you have all treasure hunters.

[clowngoku]

Nice guide :-) Thanks