Treasure Hunters: Making Gold with Your Garrison [Archive] (Archived)

By Wowhead Last Updated: 2016/09/04 Patch: 6.1.2

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After 6.1, it is possible to acquire followers 'in the wild' (such as from questing) with the Extreme Scavenger trait.

You can recruit followers from the Inn at your Garrison with the trait by specifying that trait to your Inn's headhunter (Akanja/Lysa Serion) and selecting one of the offered followers.

You can randomly reroll this trait onto followers using Follower Retraining Certificate which is obtained from the following missions: Path of the Titans and The Ring of Trials. This item will randomly reroll all the traits and abilities on your selected follower, possibly allowing you to obtain the Extreme Scavenger trait.

You can purchase a Follower Trait Retraining Guide at your Garrison (from Sergeant Crowler/Sergeant Grimjaw) for 1000 Garrison Resources each. This item will randomly reroll all the traits on your selected follower, possibly allowing you to obtain the Extreme Scavenger trait.

You can also get the trait automatically and guaranteed on Harrison Jones. You can acquire that follower by completing the Master Relic Hunter achievement. Also, do not use the above reroll items on Harrison Jones - you risk losing the Extreme Scavenger trait!

What types of missions benefit from Extreme Scavenger?

There are Combat, Patrol, and Treasure missions that all offer gold as a reward. A full list of Garrison Missions that reward gold can be found here.

If you have a level 3 Inn at your Garrison, you are able to unlock Treasure missions that only reward gold. Despite this, often non-Treasure missions can net you even more gold than Treasure missions. In addition, it's not only level 100 missions that have the best gold - with enough Treasure Hunters, you can make a lot of gold off lower level missions as well.

Which missions offer the most gold?

The most lucrative Garrison missions are the Blackrock Foundry and Highmaul Mythic missions that offer in addition to the item reward (i.e. Black Forge). This can net you with 3 Treasure Hunters. However, these missions require many Mythic kills so many players will not access them.

Blingtron's Secret Vault is a Rare mission that can net you with 3 Treasure Hunters.

The Golden Halls of Skyreach is the highest netting Inn (Treasure) mission, and can get you with 3 Treasure Hunters.

A Way Out and Fired Up are the most lucrative sub-100 missions and can net you and respectively with 3 Treasure Hunters.

Sub-100 missions that reward gold are a great way for your un-leveled alts to contribute to your gold making endeavors through their garrisons. You can see a full list of sub-100 missions that reward gold here.

Useful follower recommendations

The following is a list of counters that appear on missions that reward gold, in order from most to least. These are listed in order of how often they are found on missions that reward gold.

For example, it is much more preferable to have the Extreme Scavenger trait on a follower that counters the ability Massive Strike than Group Damage, since the former shows up more often on missions that reward gold. I have also listed the number of missions they appear on, with links to lists of those missions.

Massive Strike: 29 missions.

Wild Aggression: 29 missions.

Danger Zones: 29 missions.

Minion Swarms: 28 missions.

Powerful Spell: 24 missions.

Timed Battle: 21 missions.

Deadly Minions: 18 missions.

Magic Debuff: 18 missions.

Group Damage: 15 missions.

Be aware: while these counters show up the most frequently, that doesn't mean this list will ultimately net you the most gold. In terms of highest amount of gold, not number of gold missions covered, the 3 best abilities to counter are:

Massive Strike

Wild Aggression

Powerful Spell

Comments

Comment by heixia

One of my followers I had before 6.1 suddenly had the gold double trait after I installed the patch. It's really nice to know that you can do multiple followers with the gold trait and it'll double the gold each time! Thanks for the guide!

Comment by InsaneHacker

I appreciate that you put what abilities should be prioritized in the guide. Now I just need to convince myself to dump all my current followers for Extreme Scavengers.

Comment by pat33

It's a nerf from making gold with missions.

Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems that even with treasure hunters the gold yield ain't what it used to be.

From my own experience I could make 500k per month (30 alts), now its avg 240k because all my treasure hunters aren't 100/epic/ilvl 675.

My main as 8 treasure hunters(6 epic) and yield 3.4 k per week
My alts are barely making the 1.7 k/week (till they will get epic)

Conclusion: the faster you'll get your treasure hunters leveled and geared the more gold you will have. Even thought they made this new follower class it's intended to slow you from getting the gold you could normally make before the patch.

I don't see as many gold missions as before.

Comment by Cretan88

Also get the Masterplan addon - much quicker and saves mistakes.

Comment by straz

6.2 issuing a nerf to treasure hunter / gold making across characters.

Big Crates of Salvage are no longer guaranteed from successfully completing level 100 Follower Missions.
Reduced the frequency of high-value gold missions appearing across multiple characters.
As Highmaul and Blackrock Foundry are no longer the latest tier of raid content, Mythic garrison missions for each zone no longer award bonus gold.

Good while it lasted and not entirely surprising given the wow token system.

Gentle push to not go altapalooza.

Comment by lankybrit

This guide is out of date in places.

You don't get 1000g from the Raid missions. Also, Blingtron is 1000g and can be upped to 4000g with 3 Treasure Hunters.

Comment by jjanchan

The once very lucrative "Treasure Hunter" trait will be changed in Legion as part of an expansive nerf to all gold making via Garrison Missions and Naval Missions.

The trait will be changed from:

Treasure Hunter: "Increases the gold gained from a mission by 100%."
to
Extreme Scavenger: "Increases the garrison resources gained from a mission by 200%."

In addition, ALL garrison missions/shipyard missions that award gold have either had their gold rewards removed, or else the gold rewards have been replaced with other rewards (mostly Garrison Resources).

A summary of garrison/shipyard trait changes includes:

Trait

OLD (Warlords of Draenor)

NEW (Legion)

Goblin Crew	Increases the gold gained from a mission by 100%.	Allows naval equipment to be recovered from successful missions.
Dwarven Crew	Increases the gold gained from a mission by 100%.	Allows naval equipment to be recovered from successful missions.
Extreme Scavenger	Increases the gold gained from a mission by 100%.	Increases the garrison resources gained from a mission by 200%.

Comment by Richwarf

This guide is so broken now.

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