All that you need is available right in Draenor (or on the AH). Those are your 2 options, that’s it. There isn’t a cache you can buy other than the Huge Ogre Cache that you can send to alts. To do the upgrade to T3, you need 2k garrison resources and 5k gold. The quickest way is to buy the Huge Ogre Cache’s off the AH.
If you don’t have that kind of gold for whatever reason, then your other option is to fly through each zone to collect the treasures and to kill every rare. Every rare nets between 10-20 garrison resources, but the treasures you gather also give GR’s.
Because I like having my garrison for both the extra hearth AND the portal as extra travel options, I’ve been doing this on all my Evokers on all 5 realms I have them set up on. It literally takes me about 3/4 of a day to complete the whole process from the beginning (starting with Khadgar storming the portal) garrison T1. So if you have T2, it will probably take you less time. Make sure to submit whatever mats are today’s request in your Trading Post to get extra garrison resources available while you’re out getting treasures and killing rares.
It’s been a while since I used this but doesn’t the Lumber Mill produce a lot of resources?
30 resources per order x 6 orders/day = 180/day without the special follower.
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Farm all rares and treasures for resources
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Purchase “Huge Ogre Cache” off of the AH for around 12-20k per each x 2. They’re not soulbound and can be mailed to your characters on your realm you purchase them on.
If you farm most treasures and rares you can get to 2k fairly quick in 2-3 hours of work perhaps longer. You can also get a lumber mill, upgrade it, get trees chopped in Gorgrond / Nagrand area fairly quickly too. Set up the work orders and in a few days you’ll have all the resources that you need.
The fastest way if you have the gold though is just purchasing the Huge Ogre Cache. Farm the first 200 resources in the starter zones to get to level 2 though. You can get that in 15ish minutes. Buying 3 caches would be a gold waste unless you’re super rich. >.<
Okay just an update I figured out about the resource drop, but that was for legion resources and was in high mountain so not helpful on Garrison.
Tanaan jungle respawning treasures used to be an efficient way of collecting almost limitless garrison resources, but the last time I visited they seemed rarer than I remembered. Not sure if they were nerfed after WoD, heavily farmed now with CRZs or if my patience with flying around in laps has changed.
Garrisons are like 4 expansions ago. Why try to work on them?