Garrison: Lunarfall Excavation / Frostwolf Mines Guide (WoD 6.2)
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The Lunarfall Excavation (Alliance) or Frostwolf Mines (Horde) are Special Garrison buildings that allow you to mine Draenor ores in your Garrison, even if you do not have the Mining profession.
Description
Level | Cost | Perks |
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Level 1 |
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Allows players to mine Draenic Stone from mineral nodes in Draenor. Draenic Stone can be converted to work orders for Draenor minerals. |
Level 2 |
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Allows followers with the Mining trait to work here, granting a unique bonus. Also opens a new mineshaft, granting access to additional mining nodes and allows up to 14 work orders at one time. |
Level 3 |
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A final mineshaft allows access to rich minng nodes. In addition, garrison guards will patrol your mine, keeping it clear of hostile goren. Also allows up to 21 work orders at one time. |
Unlocking the Lunarfall Excavation / Frostwolf Mines
In this section, we are going to tell you how to unlock the Lunarfall Excavation / Frostwolf Mines, Level 1, 2, and 3.
Unlocking the Lunarfall Excavation / Frostwolf Mines, Level 1
The mine appears when you upgrade your Town Hall to Level 2. It is locked at first and you must complete a Level 92 quest to unlock it. The quest is given to you at the mine: Things Are Not Goren Our Way (Alliance) or Things Are Not Goren Our Way (Horde). It requires you to clear the Gorens from the mine and kill Stonetooth, their leader.
Unlocking the Lunarfall Excavation / Frostwolf Mines, Level 2
To upgrade the Lunarfall Excavation / Frostwolf Mines to Level 2, buy the
Garrison Blueprint: Lunarfall Excavation, Level 2 (Alliance) or
Garrison Blueprint: Frostwall Mines, Level 2 from
Sparz Boltwist (Alliance) or Rezlak
(Horde). Both NPCs are located next to the Architect
Table in your Garrison's Town Hall. The blueprint
costs 1,000
.
Unlocking the Lunarfall Excavation / Frostwolf Mines, Level 3
To upgrade the mine to Level 3, you need to
loot 500 Draenic Stones from your mine in order
to earn the
Draenic Stone Collector achievement. Miners
can also loot these stones when mining ore in Draenor.
Mining Ore and Carts
The ore nodes in your mine can be mined without having Mining as a profession.
Each of them contain either Blackrock Ore or
True Iron Ore, a few
Draenic Stones, and sometimes a few
Primal Spirits.
The nodes respawn every day (at the time when the
daily quests are reset).
The size of your mine increases as you upgrade it, so you have a lot more nodes
in a Level 3 mine than you do in a Level 1 mine.
To give you an idea, a Level 1 mine can provide you with 15-20
Blackrock Ore,
True Iron Ore, and
Draenic Stones
a day. A Level 3 mine with a follower can provide you with
150x
Blackrock Ore, 150x
True Iron Ore, and
50x
Draenic Stones.
Mining carts start spawning when you upgrade your mine to
Level 2. Each cart can be looted
for extra Blackrock Ore or
True Iron Ore.
These carts can also contain
Miner's Coffee, which increases your
running speed in your mine,
Preserved Mining Pick, which
increases your mining speed in your mine,
Primal Spirits,
and Draenor Archeology fragments. A Level 2 mine can spawn about 5 carts.
A Goren sometimes spawns when you attempt to open a node in your mine. Killing it gives you about 15 of the ore you were trying to gather.
Work Orders
Starting a Work Order costs 5x Draenic Stones, takes
4 hours to complete, and rewards you with 5 of a ore.
You will sometimes get a few
Apexis Crystals as well.
At Level 1, you can only queue 7 Work Orders. At Level 2, this number increases to 14 and at Level 3 to 21. Having a Storehouse Level 3 further increases the number of Work Orders you can place by 15.
Assigning a follower with the Mining trait to
your mine increases the yield of the Work Orders. A Level 100
follower gives you 7 ores per Work Order.
Changelog
- 14 Nov. 2014: On live servers, mining carts spawn after the mine has been upgraded to Level 2, not after assigning a follower to the mine, as was the case during beta.
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