Prepare for Player Housing in patch 11.2.7 by going back to your Garrison — here’s how

With Player Housing just around the corner — early access launches with patch 11.2.7 on December 2 — players are stocking up on materials across several expansions to prepare to decorate their perfect home. While most craftable decor pieces require very specific items across several expansions, one crucial item for housing has a pretty flexible materials list: dyes that let you recolor decor items. These dyes can be made with herbs across all expansions, which means with that with enough alts you’ll be well-prepared to paint your house red (or blue or green) — you just need to dust off your Garrison Hearthstone.

That’s right: your Garrison Herb Garden is about to become relevant again.

Collect Draenor herbs herbs to make dyes

If you’re interested in housing, you’ll want to pick up plenty of dyes, which will allow you to change the color of your decor (and properly color coordinate). Dyes can only be made by Alchemists or Inscriptions at the dye station at the center of the Alliance and Horde neighborhoods, requiring pigments you can craft 10 herbs at a time. The herbs you need, however, can be gathered across all expansions. For example Black Dye can be made using Fadeleaf, Lichbloom, Death Blossom, among others: but most importantly, Nagrand Arrowbloom.

Your garrison famously — or to some people infamously — had an herb garden where anyone, regardless of profession, could pick Warlords of Draenor era herbs as well as setting work orders to produce even more. By returning to your garrison every day, you’ll  be able to pick herbs on each of your alts to have plenty of materials to make dyes. Because any Draenor herb can be used to make some kind of pigment, visiting the herb garden every day will let you stock up with plenty of herbs you need for when housing launches. With a  level 1 storehouse in your garrison, you will also have access to your warband bank, meaning this process can take five minutes per character per day to leave you stocked up.

Start alts on the Garrison quests with this shortcut

If you have alts who don’t have garrisons yet — such as Timerunners coming over from Legion Remix — you can skip the introduction for Draenor and start directly setting up your Garrison by going to the portal to Ashran in the portal room in Stormwind or Orgrimmar and from there, taking a flight path to where the Garrison will be — Shadowmoon Valley for Alliance and Frostfire Ridge for Horde — and start the quest chain to build it. You can reach level 2 garrison, allowing you to build an herb garden and storehouse, by doing these quests. It will take you less time than it takes to do the introduction to Warlords of Draenor itself.

If you’re focused on player housing, it’s also be a good idea to build the workshop of your profession and an inn. The professions will help you build furniture themed to the expansion, and the inn gives you access to Wooden Mug, a staple of every in home bar.

Now get to farming herbs, because patch 11.2.7 is coming our way soon.