what is the garrison feature all about?

[Raxo]

when do i get to use it?
i see people talking about how many orcs they have in them and i don't really understand.

oh and does common gear have any use at all? did a mission and i was rewarded with a bunch of common gear for some reason.

[Zloth]

You have to play a while before it opens up. It's basically an orc storage mechanism. Stick an orc in there and you can deploy it in some other region later. Also, if you get some orcs for opening a chest or finishing the Blade DLC, then the orcs are stored in the garrison.

Common gear has no use I could find after the first few hours of the game. You can't even sell them, as near as I can tell. I suppose you might somehow beat a captain that's way above the levels of your current gear and get something you could use for a while but it sure never happened to me.

[Raziel]

Originally posted by Zloth:

You have to play a while before it opens up. It's basically an orc storage mechanism. Stick an orc in there and you can deploy it in some other region later. Also, if you some orcs for opening a chest or finishing the Blade DLC then the orcs are stored in the garrison.

Common gear has no use I could find after the first few hours of the game. You can't even sell them, as near as I can tell. I suppose you might somehow beat a captain that's way above the levels of your current gear and get something you could use for a while but it sure never happened to me.

You can sell common gear? lol You just cannot sell your start gear, as its bound to Talion

[EternallyHers]

You can sell Talion's common starting gear once you beat act 3 because there is a new legendary set that becomes the set that is bound to Talion.

[Raziel]

Originally posted by EternallyHers:

You can sell Talion's common starting gear once you beat act 3 because there is a new legendary set that becomes the set that is bound to Talion.

Didn't know that, never gotten to act 3 yet, lmao

[carni]

The garrison is for legal cheating:

1.) Backup your savegame file ... send a legendary orc to the garrison via training order ... restore your savegame file and restart the game => You just cloned the orc. He is back in the fortress, but he is still in the garrison too. You can use it for backup your best orcs or to destroy an orc to get his legendary gear.

2.) Backup your savegame file ... upgrade your normal, low level orcs to the maximum and send them to the garrison ... maybe it costs a lot of Mirian, but nevermind ... restore your savegame file and restart the game. You now have your Mirian back and you still have the upgraded orcs in the garrison. You can deploy them back to the fortress then f.e. You get unlimited Mirian this way.
By combining 1 + 2 you can generate Mirian by destroying the gear.

3.) If you have cloned a lot of good orcs, you can deploy them to another not conquered fortress to repress the enemy captains. You don't have to beat them all. You also can use your deployed orcs as bodyguard or for attacking the fortress.