Dear Blizzard,
Please revert this Stealth Nerf Hotfix change immediately:
Please bring back XP to Draenor Garrison Mining / Herbalism for those of us who enjoy doing the lazy alt leveling.
guess that 51 exp really is important to blizzard.
What a dumb change. Itâs not like people who choose to level like this are doing it super fast lol.
Personally, I always thought granting experience from the âfree giveawayâ that is the garrison herb and mining system, was a bit shonky. Experience should be gained by being out in the world where there is even a very slight chance of danger. Just parking a toon and repeatedly collecting ore doesnât seem all that appropriate for a MMO to me.
I mean. just go run and kill a mob. it will net you the same experience and probably take less time than running thru your mine
I admit its stupid to get rid of this as no one was using it to fast level. my guess is they honestly probably figured no one would notice. you might be the only one that did lol
On my last alt, mining and herbalism in a level 3 garrison was around ten times the XP of killing a mob⌠almost like it got missed in the great leveling squish. Iâm not surprised it got nerfed, but removing experience entirely is a pretty strong nerf. 
ahh. so that kinda hints to why they removed it fully. they probably noticed it when doing the final stuff for the SL expansion. Probably just removed it because doing the math to figure out the proper experience wouldve taken time and resources
This is another stupid change. Revert it. You guys are seriously petty with nerfs like this. Itâs already a limited daily amount of xp you can get.
Say WHAT?
That is the biggest load of passive-aggressive b.s. that Iâve se3n since they removed the skill leveling on garrison herbs/mining AND nuked the fishing daily skill leveling into the basement. Again, on the total sly. Gods freaking forbid there should be an ounce of fun or utility left in those garrisons.
/spits in disgust
I will admit I used it for the mats as much as giving a bit of exp on toons I did not play much, just in a way to keep them âactiveâ and more so when only had a little time to play. felt like I was getting them something from time to time. Basically that was probably the last useful thing left in those garrisons. Honestly can hope they revert it, but do not see that as blizzard rather fail then admit to the mistake sadly.
There were bigger fish to fry than this, Iâm sure lmao.
Yeah, Draenor content is pretty neutered now. Follower missions only give follower XP and follower gear (which makes your followers stronger so they can⌠get more follower XP and follower gear, I guess), while on the other hand Legion follower missions give player XP. There is no more potion of accelerated learning, and trying to build up your garrison is a pretty huge gold sink for low level characters.
I liked harvesting XP in the garrison. I had a few alts that I would just burn through their rest XP picking flowers for a few minutes before going back to my mains. It was really relaxing, and very convenient on days when I only had five minutes or so to play.
Completely agree Morfirin, it has been what I have been doing off and when I have had active subs over the past few years sense WOD. They seem to keep killing the garrison completely and when I was working massive hours even that few minutes felt like I got something done and kept me subbing at times. Feels like anything I like in game they like to kill, which has been a on going thing sense WOD, reason why I have not kept a full active account sense WOD, due to all these changes many of which make little sense in the grand picture of things. Still waiting for my druidâs cat form sabretooth form to be returned in some form, even added it back to barber shop, toy item ect? I know many hated it, but I thought it was cool even though they never finished the graphics and they already have the information, so adding it back in some sense would not take much work.
This was the last reason to even get garrisons. It was great for alts that sit a lot. Pick some flowers and mine with your rested each day. Wasnât fast but it was noticeable. I wish they had done something to make them more fun and give a reason to even use them. The only reason I logged into WOW today. Suddenly after 5years or more this was a problem?
it was about 1700 per item on well rested. A day of rest (loomed) you get about 1700 per plant in the garden (stage 2 for me) then a decent amount of the rocks the same. mayb halfway into the mine you see lower xp. still was very decent xp no rested bonus.
My new 50 warrior was using this last week to levelâŚthis method will be missed.
edit: I guess run the math lacking anniversary 10%. that was in play for me as well
they could have buffed non WoD xp on picking if an imba issue lol.
The xp on gathering sucks now. I liked dual gather to speed up leveling. now its jsutâŚmeh.
Inb4 how fast do you want this as its fast already comments from some.
I want it even faster than that.
Taking over 2 months to level using your garrison was just clearly to strong for them.
Talk about pointless nerfs
They stealth nerfed pet battle xp as well. So sick of pointless nerfs. The things/issues that need to be addressed get neglected yet they focus on this crap.
I guess they just want people to mindless quest.
This was a pointless nerf, sad that they thought this was an issue they had to âfixâ.