How to Start a Garrison Mission
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To start a garrison mission, you need to follow the main quest line in Draenor, which will eventually lead you to unlock your Garrison Level 1 with Barracks Level 1 built, allowing you to begin your garrison campaign. By advancing your Garrison’s development and reaching level 100, you will unlock garrison campaign quests that are not tied to Apexis daily quests, which are related to Garrison invasions.
Introduction to Garrisons
Starting a garrison mission is an essential part of the World of Warcraft experience, particularly in the Warlords of Draenor expansion. Understanding how to unlock and manage your garrison is crucial for progressing through the game and accessing various quests, missions, and resources.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. How Do I Unlock My Garrison?
Your Garrison is unlocked almost immediately after starting in Draenor, in Shadowmoon Valley for Alliance players or Frostfire Ridge for Horde players. You need to follow the main quest line and, after a few quests, you will end up with a Garrison Level 1 in which Barracks Level 1 are built.
2. How Do I Unlock the Garrison Campaign?
Garrison campaign quests start to pop up once you hit level 100 and have advanced your Garrison’s development to a certain point. They are not tied in any way to the Apexis daily quests; those are related to Garrison invasions.
3. How Do I Start the Questline in Draenor?
To get to Draenor, you can pick up the quest The Dark Portal from the Hero’s Call Board in Stormwind or the Warchief’s Command Board in Orgrimmar. If this quest is not available, travel to the Dark Portal in the Blasted Lands and speak with Khadgar to start the quest.
4. How Do I Unlock the Garrison in Warlords of Draenor?
The traditional way of unlocking Draenor is to do the initial quest series in Tanaan Jungle. However, it is possible to skip that quest series. Pick up the quest Warlords of Draenor: The Dark Portal, either from Chromie for Chromie Time, or from the Call Board/Command Board.
5. How Do I Get to My Garrison Without Hearthstone?
If you don’t have Hearthstone fortress, go to the main city’s sign to pick up the quest from Draenor and follow the quest line to arrive. At level 90, you can accept the mission of The Dark Portal and send it to the Dark Portal, and then give up the mission, and don’t accept the quest from Khadgar.
6. How Do I Get to the Garrison in Tanaan Jungle?
Unlocking Tanaan requires you to build a Level 1 Shipyard. This requires you to be level 100 and have a Stage 3 Garrison. You’ll need 150 and 150 to build the Level 1 Shipyard.
7. How Do I Get to the Garrison from Orgrimmar?
Go to the portal room in Stormwind or Orgrimmar. Take the portal to the PvP zone in Draenor. From there you can fly to your Garrison location.
8. Can You Skip Warlords of Draenor Intro?
World of Warcraft players can skip the long introduction to Warlords of Draenor when leveling characters by following a few simple steps. Since the World of Warcraft: Shadowlands pre-patch dropped a few days ago, players are rediscovering some of Azeroth’s greatest tales from the past thanks to a new leveling system.
9. What is the Secret of Draenor?
Secret of Draenor Engineering is a crafted trading item used to purchase Engineering recipes at the garrison and Ashran.
10. Can You Build Garrisons in Enemy Territory?
Garrisons may be built in friendly sectors for 50 supplies or in active enemy sectors for 100 supplies. Garrisons cannot be built in neutral sectors or locked enemy sectors.
11. How Do You Summon the Garrison Raid Boss?
To summon the Garrison raid boss, ask your friend to make a group/raid and teleport to his garrison. Summon the boss and then alt+F4. Log in on the character you want the kill on. Get invited to friend’s group and teleport to his garrison. Tag, kill, and loot.
12. How Do You Summon a Garrison Bodyguard?
To get your Bodyguard to follow you, assign a follower with the bodyguard trait to the barracks from the architect table in the Townhall. They will appear outside the Barracks. Go to that follower and ask them to assist you in Draenor.
13. How Do You Unlock Level 3 Garrison?
To unlock the level 3 blueprints for Dwarven Bunker/War Mill, you’ll need to complete Filling the Ranks. This requires you to raise 20 garrison followers to level 100 — acquiring a level 100 follower does not count towards this achievement.
14. How Do You Unlock Level 2 Garrison?
You can upgrade your Garrison to Level 2 on completion of the questlines culminating Bigger is Better/ Bigger is Better. Visit Quick Facts on those quest pages for a list of related quests.
15. How Do I Visit Garrison in WoW?
To visit a garrison in WoW, join someone’s party. Click on YOUR portrait. Select to visit their garrison. /wave. Profit.