Episode 098 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this episode your host Jim Younkin discusses changes in how he's playing these days, Garrison tactics, making gold with Salvage, TradeSkillMaster Premium and much more. And now… on with the show!

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Remember when you started your gold-making adventure into Warlords of Draenor. You were young. You were fresh-faced. You were excited to apply all the gold-making knowledge you'd acquired to this brand new expansion!

And then you actually tried to make gold in the expansion and you ran into a huge brick wall with the word "Garrison" stenciled on it in big block letters. Read on for some candid admissions by Blizzard on how they ruined professions in Warlords of Draenor.

Episode 097 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this episode your host Jim Younkin and special guest Erogroth discuss making gold with professions in Warlords of Draenor, garrison gold-making, the upcoming TradeSkillMaster 3.0 and much more. And now… on with the show!

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Episode 096 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this episode your host Jim Younkin playing World of Warcraft as a new(ish) parent, garrisons and their function for the time-constrained, a general malaise in the WoW community and much more. And now… on with the show!

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Episode 095 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this episode your host Jim Younkin and special guest The Gold Queen discuss maximizing garrison gold-making and much more. And now… on with the show!

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If you're like me you are a bit obsessive and completionistic about making sure you are doing your work orders on all of your alts. But what are you spending in material cost to stay on the "hamster wheel" of garrison work orders and should you even be spending that money?

I've been playing around with the spreadsheets I have been building using TSM data (See Build a WoW Item Pricing Spreadsheet Using TradeSkillMaster .CSVs + Google Drive Sheets) and one of the sheets I have calculates the cost of materials necessary for doing work orders on various professions buildings.

Head past the jump for an idea of what it costs to pump out work orders day after day on your characters.

Episode 094 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this episode your host Jim Younkin discusses leveling in Warlords, what are all our cooldowns really good for?, TSM .csv spreadsheets, Trading Post flipping and much more. And now… on with the show!

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In this "explainer" video, I go over how the Garrison Work Order system works. I try to break it down in terms that are simple and easy to understand and help people like me make sure that we're thinking correctly about how they work.

In addition, I go over adding a follower to your Tier 2 Garrison profession building to make even more Work Order items. I should warn you this video (while shorter than my last) clocks in at 40 minutes. Head past the jump for the final (Beautiful Mind-style) output image.


YouTube: Garrisons Explained: How Work Orders Work (Get Faster, Get More)

Episode 093 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this episode your host Jim Younkin discusses how gold-making has changed in Warlords, Blizzard fighting botters, gold-making with garrisons, passive vs. active play and much more. And now… on with the show!

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Episode 092 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this episode your host Jim Younkin discusses hitting level 100, picking tier 3 garrison buildings, the "Working More Orders" achievement, garrison resource theory and much more. And now… on with the show!

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We finally hit level 100 on one of our characters and are now faced with what new small, medium, and large garrison buildings to build.

Just like when we wrote Best Starter Tier 2 Small and Medium Garrison Buildings To Make Gold? we're going to look at what we might want to do in Tier 3.

Episode 091 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this episode your host Jim Younkin discusses what he's been doing now that he has a little time to play, garrisons, garrisons (and more garrisons), leveling, material prices, hotfixes, and much more. And now… on with the show!

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As was updated in our recent post on material prices since launch:

@CM_Lore: "@dopplegager @TheCrafticus The Garrison was giving too much ore. That was hotfixed yesterday. Will take some time to see the effects." 2:31 PM - 26 Nov 2014

With "yesterday" in that tweet being November 25th, as of this writing the garrison mining nodes have been nerfed for about 4 days. To determine whether it would be worth buying up some of the "cheap" ore now in preparation for an eventual theoretical price increase due to a lowering supply I thought I'd check the numbers.

Yesterday I summed up my current feelings about my experiences with the following tweet:

"You know how you can turn off XP for 10g? Blizz needs to implement "Don't let me into my Garrison for 10 hours". Then I'd actually level."

The reason I came to that conclusion is that I feel like I've been spending what limited time I do have to play the game endlessly fiddling around with my garrisons rather than doing what I feel like I should be doing: leveling.

Episode 090 of The Power Word: Gold Podcast. We bring you the latest World of Warcraft gold-making tips, tricks and strategies.

In this episode your host Jim Younkin discusses what he's been up to while on break from WoW, the Warlords of Draenor launch, level 90 items, cross-faction auction houses, and much more. And now… on with the show!

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I finally got my first Tier 2 Garrison in Warlords of Draenor and I now have the question that many of you have had to answer: which starter medium and and small building should I build in Tier 2?

In my post Details On All Twenty Garrison Buildings In The Warlords Beta I outlined what the buildings were at the time. For my initial thoughts on the beta buildings go back and read that post. In this post I hope to think out loud a bit about the possible choices for small and medium buildings at Tier 2.

The new Level 100 build of the Warlords of Draenor Beta is all about Garrisons with Blizzard giving you all sorts of tricks and shortcuts that allow beta testers to build all sorts of Garrison goodness.

I was very interested in all the different Garrison buildings along with all the different levels of those buildings and what benefits they offer. Read on past the jump for details on all twenty building you can build in the current beta.

Image Source: BlizzPro

In the post "Build 18566: Garrison and Profession Shifts" BlizzPro's Crow (@unlimitedBLACK) gives us some further observations and insights on how garrisons and professions are coming together (and working together) in the Warlords of Draenor beta.

Read on past the jump for a few excerpts and my thoughts on the changes.

YouTube: How To Start a Garrison Mission in Warlords of Draenor

While we know Warlords of Draenor is still in beta we thought the Garrison mission UI was not really that intuitive. We made a few short videos showing how to start as well as turn in Garrison missions.

We also wanted to show off the cool little "mini-animation" that plays when you turn in that shows your follower doing the heroic deed you asked them to do. It's a nice little touch that makes the followers feel a bit more real.



YouTube: How To Turn In a Garrison Mission in Warlords of Draenor

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We've been going through the initial Garrison quests in the Warlords of Draenor Beta and taking pictures. Lots of pictures.

Today we thought we'd give a bit of a sneak peek into the starting Garrison experience in picture form. While we won't write about Garrisons today we can say that we are liking the experience so far.

I'd bet Garrisons are Blizzard's bid to keep people coming back in Warlords of Dreanor and from what I've seen so far the Garrison system is fairly complex and could be very entertaining. Time will tell.

So head past the jump and enjoy Warlords of Draenor's Garrisons in pictures.