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Treasure Hunters: Making Gold with Your Garrison

Patch 6.1 added a few new traits to Garrison followers, including the new Extreme Scavenger trait. Similar to the Scavenger trait, this trait increases your yield of gold from Garrison Missions that reward gold. This guide will answer some basic questions about the Extreme Scavenger trait and make some recommendations about how to efficiently maximize your gold intake from your Garrison.

What does the trait do

The Extreme Scavenger trait is an additive percentage increase to the base gold offered as a reward for a mission. In other words, if a Garrison mission rewards 1,000 and you have 3 Treasure Hunters on the mission, you will get 4,000. If you already had a good team for gold missions, getting this trait on them will make those missions even more lucrative!

If you have a 100% chance to complete a mission and still have a spare follower slot, you can slot in a Extreme Scavenger follower who doesn't meet the requirements for the mission - they will still contribute their gold bonus.

How can you get it

There are a few ways to get followers with the Extreme Scavenger trait:
  • 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 1,000in addition to the item reward (i.e. Black Forge). This can net you 4,000 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 2,000 with 3 Treasure Hunters.
  • The Golden Halls of Skyreach is the highest netting Inn (Treasure) mission, and can get you 600 with 3 Treasure Hunters.
  • A Way Out and Fired Up are the most lucrative sub-100 missions and can net you 1,100 and 1,000 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.
  1. Massive Strike: 29 missions.
  2. Wild Aggression: 29 missions.
  3. Danger Zones: 29 missions.
  4. Minion Swarms: 28 missions.
  5. Powerful Spell: 24 missions.
  6. Timed Battle: 21 missions.
  7. Deadly Minions: 18 missions.
  8. Magic Debuff: 18 missions.
  9. 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:
  1. Massive Strike
  2. Wild Aggression
  3. Powerful Spell

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