A major feature in the WoD expansion is the Garrison. In the expansion, you will get a Garrison Hub that you build in the level 90 zone which also serve as your faction hub in Draenor. Then you will also get Garrison Outposts for the other four zones.
Garrison Outpost do not work like your Garrison Hub. You can’t create and level up additional buildings. Instead you get a special zone wide perk and different quest chains which also reward different followers.
Garrison Outpost can be found in Gorgond (92 – 94) , Talador (94 – 96), Spires of Arak (96 – 98) and Nagrand (98 – 100).
You will be given the option to select the type of Garrison Outpost after several zone introductory quests like the example below.
Depending on your choice you will get a special zone wide ability. The ability will only work with each specific zone ie. Gorgond Garrison ability will only work in Gorgond zone.
Your choice is actually very important if you want it to help you with leveling and I though I would share my opinion on which option is best when you venture into Draenor for the first time.
Lets compare the abilities and choose a winner for each zone…
Gorgond (92 – 94)
You get the choice to build either Logging Camp / Lumber Yard vs Sparring Ring / Savage Fight Club outpost.
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Logging Camp / Lumber Yard
The Logging Camp / Lumber Yard provide you with a vehicle to use the 
Summon Mechashredder 5000, which give you three special abilities…
Abilities: Launch Sawblades, 
Flame Thrower, 
Rocket Boost[/two_columns_1][two_columns_2]
Sparring Ring / Savage Fight Club
This outpost will give the ability 
Champion’s Honor which summons a random champion to fight with you for 1 min then give you a 5 mins buff which could last longer depending on the number of enemies you kill with the champion present.[/two_columns_2]
Winner:
Logging Camp / Lumber Yard is the winner for leveling because the Summon Mechashredder 5000 will allow you to tank and deal very high damage which is great for taking down Rare Elites or clearing packs of NPCs. The best part is that you also get Rocket Boost which will allow you to fly for short duration. You can use it to go over mountains or unreachable areas since you can’t fly at all in Draenor.
Arena’s Champion’s Honor in my opinion is inferior because the champion summon doesn’t seem to deal as much damage as the Shredder. I’m sure in the release both perks will be balanced in terms of damage but I would still choose Lumber Yard to get the Rocket Boost from the Shredder.
Talador (94 – 96)
You get the choice to build either Wrynn Artillery Tower vs Arcane Sanctum outpost.
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Wrynn Artillery Tower
The zone-wide Talador perk is 
Artillery Strike: The Armory will fire 3 volleys over 3 sec. Each volley deals 64000 to 96000 damage to all affected enemies and stuns them for 3 sec. Max 3 charges.[/two_columns_1][two_columns_2]
Arcane Sanctum
Your Arcane Sanctum perk is 
Guardian Orb: Summons a Guardian Orb at your location that electrocutes enemies within 15 yards for 9600 to 14400 damage every 2 sec for 30 sec.[/two_columns_2]
Winner:
Both outposts provide similar type of abilities and both very powerful but I would pick Wrynn Artillery Tower because Artillery Strike comes with 3 charges. This good because this allow you to use 1 charge so you can use it more frequently or use all 3 charges at the same time for a ton of burst damage.
Spires of Arak (96 – 98)
You get the choice to build either Stoktron Brewery / Hearthfire Tavern vs Smuggler’s Den outpost.
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Stoktron Brewery / Hearthfire Tavern
Choosing the Inn-themed perk rewards you with a Brewery. This rewards you with 
Home Away from Home, a teleport to your Inn in Spires and 20% boosted XP in Spires.[/two_columns_1][two_columns_2]
Smuggler’s Den
Once every 10 minutes, a vendor can be summoned who has a chance to sell a variety of interesting wares 
Smuggling Run![/two_columns_2]
Winner:
Stoktron Brewery / Hearthfire Tavern Home Away from Home does seems like an obvious choice for the 20% more XP for the zone but the passive XP buff becomes useless once you reach level 100. Blizzard will likely add new quest or objectives for each zone as there are some areas in the each zones with level 100 npcs so it’s likely that you will continue to use the Perks after you reach level 100.
Smuggling Run item provide with a vendor that can sell you unique food buff such as 
Ogreblood Potion and 
Ravenlord’s Talon which will help you quest faster. You can also purchase an extra follower available only from Smuggling Run vendor and 28 slot 
Gronnskin Bag.
For the long term I would choose Smuggler’s Den but alternatively you can choose the Inn for Home Away from Home until you reach level 100 then you can switch the outpost to Smuggler’s Den for 10,000g. But I probably rather keep the gold and just stick with Smuggler’s Den.
Nagrand (98 – 100)
You get the choice to build either Rangari Corral vs Telarri Tankworks outpost.
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Rangari Corral
Summon a 
Telaari Talbuk or 
Frostwolf War Wolf. This is mount allows you to use all your abilities while mounted. You can also loot while mounted as well so it pretty much a zone wide 100% speed buff.
Telarri Tankworks
You can summon a 
Telaari Siege Engine or Wor’var Demolisher with the following abilities:
Launch Rocket/ Hurl Boulder, Flame Vents, 
High Gear, 
Rain of Death
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Winner:
While the tank provide a ton of damage, Rangari Corral for the mounted combat is the better choice. Mounted combat is a unique experience and extremely fun while at the same time I think you will level much faster with it as well since you never have to get off your mount (except indoor areas).
The tank is also on a 10 mins cooldown while the mount has no cooldown at all.
On a PVP server I think choosing the mount is mandatory or else you will get dominated by other players with the mount. The tank provide lots of damage but you will never be able to catch PVP players with the mount.
Well I hope you find this post helpful and help you make the right choice when you level for the first time in Draenor.
-Dugi
41 replies to "How to Choose Garrison Outpost for Leveling"
Dugi
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Would you happen to know where to change outposts at? I’m trying to change the one in spires but I have no idea where to even begin looking for the guy. I am horde, I went to axefall and nothing. Am I looking in the wrong place?
hi its not released yet, but soon will be it will cost 10000 gold per zone
Thanks for this great guide.
I’d like to point out that the Sparring Ring / Savage Fight Club gives an INSANE damage buff if you know how to use it. Your guardian doesn’t do much damage, but you get a stacking buff for every mob you kill in the minute he’s out, then for the next 5 minutes you get a buff that scales upward for each one in the stack. I was doing on average about 140K DPS if I found good spots to mow down small creatures with AOE. I highly recommend it over the shredder if you like a little bit of a challenge for an incredible reward. 🙂
I hit this one without doing any googling. With my next toon I piced the shredder. Yeah, I like the flying to places I can’t reach, that’s a nice touch, but wholeheartedly agree with you comment.
i picked tank by mistake i don’t want it how do i get rid of it
Go back to telaari station the NPC is there. Pay him 10k gold and you can switch it.
I would just like to add if you choose, I personally agree with Dugi, the corral / mount in Nagrand. If you have a water strider mount, You can over lay that onto your wolf mount.
Example:
first mount wolf
second mount strider.. you can still run on water!
Also I am a hunter and my pet does not go into passive mode even with the strider over lay.
Only thing is if you are running a distance on water (like when I was in Zangar Shore) your pet fslls behind.
Thank you so much! I found this very helpful (and yay I made the right choice for the first two 🙂 )
I should add I’ve only chosen two so far, so this ensures I’ll pick the rest correctly.
I’m a hunter and my pet is active.I’m on my Talbuuk fighting as we speak,and my pet is fighting to,so maybe its bugged for you Tonym144 reload ui if that doesn’t work make a ticket.So to you hunters Ragnari Corral works fine for me.
Oh! >.< Nm. Thanks for the input though….Hunters be mindful
I loved your guide, except…(yes, there’s always the one guy, but this is a valid point.) You suggested the Ragnari Corral over the Telarri Tankworks based on the fact that you can do mounted combat. For hunters, however, this could be a drawback. Those hunters that rely on their pets for extra DPS will be dismayed to find that the pet stays in passive mode and don’t assist you. Unless they fix this, that could make the Tankworks the better choice for hunters.
Thanks Dugi , this article has really helped me on my way from level 90 to level 100
This was concise, easy to navigate (as opposed to the cluttered or verbose guides out there) and super helpful. I’ll definitely be checking out your other guides. Thanks a ton.
On Hearthfire Tavern, there is also the free food buff table, +75 Mastery.
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Great guide!!! I did notice a “typo” I think. Under Spires of Arak (96 – 98) was the line “You get the choice to build either Wrynn Artillery Tower vs Arcane Sanctum outpost”. I believe it should have read, “You get the choice to build either Stoktron Brewery / Hearthfire Tavern vs Smuggler’s Den outpost”. If the coming expansion guide is as good as all your other guides have been, WoD is going to be “Party Time”.
Just wondering about group leveling. My husband and I level our toons on Grizzly Hills game server together. We never play them separately while leveling. So, in this situation, should one of us choose one Outpost and one the other Outpost to get the benefit of both for the group? Now, in Nagrand, we will most likely choose the Rangari Corral so both of us will be mounted on the faster mount.
Sorry about that, I fixed the typo.
If you like to stick together then I don’t recommend you choose different outpost as you will get different quest lines and will have to seperate.
In Gorgond especially the quest lines are completely different for most of the zone depending on the outpost you choose.
Yet again you guys come up with even more reasons to stick with your guides, I feel proud to have been with you for 5 years now, great work and a trustworthy company to deal with, well done and kind regards Mike.
thanks for you the outstanding support 🙂
hi dugi will you be upgrading or patching a new quest helper at all if so can you please get rid of unwanted quests thete pointless like fire hatchery no need for it and few other things and only need to important quest and the next zone quest from cross roads to north from the cross roads as well get rid of the quest on the flying bird where the red blobs and ghost night elfs are as the quest wont take you to the garrison to hand in the quest thank you dugi
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