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Comment by Isleier

A Horde npc using Admiral Taylor's Greatsword when the players can't mog it, because a "Alliance-specific colorshift"

Comment by BlizzardCS

There’s an issue that causes Sergeant Crowler and Sergeant Grimjaw to show weird behaviour when fighting against the summonable garrison bosses. The issue also affects their ability to return to their normal location once combat ends. We are looking into this.

Comment by Beltane

The quests started from Scouting Missives are the equivalent of the ones randomly assigned from the War Planning Map, in terms of the possibility of achievement completion and garrison invasion repuation.

For example, both Assault on the Everbloom Wilds and Missive: Assault on the Everbloom Wilds will enable you to complete Burn It to the Ground, Picky Palate and Pillars of Draenor. They both also grant the same amount of repuation (12000) towards garrison invasions, via GarInvasion_Primals.

Comment by charpa

Talked to Sergeant Grimshaw but failed. Now I am not able to speak to him again. What now?

Comment by Zidane3838

Alliance counterpart: Sergeant Crowler.

Comment by Djongov

Ok it's Legion and BFA times so let's talk about some more about these invasions. Real purpose of doing them is mount farming

What's the idea?
The Draenor Garrison can have these invasions from different Draenor civilizations. You want to trigger an invasion of your choosing and earn 1300 points (Platinum) so you can receive 2 bags that each of them has chance of dropping the mounts. The two bags are:

Invader's Forgotten Treasure for earning Gold score (1000)
Routed Invader's Crate of Spoils for earning Platinum score (1300)

They can contain 4 mounts:

Garn Steelmaw
Giant Coldsnout
Shadowhide Pearltusk
Smoky Direwolf

Unfortunately, the drop rate is rather low. ~1 % for each mount. Good news is that there are 2 bags that can drop these mounts and 1 bag can drop more than 1 mount. However, for this to happen you need to be extremely lucky. Most of the time people do 30-40 invasions and they haven't seen even 1 mount to drop.

How to trigger an invasion?
Go to Sergeant Crowler if you are Alliance or Sergeant Grimjaw if you are Horde. They sell these Missive items that can send you on a quest to irritate a specific Draenor faction so they can attack you back in a form of Invasion. From all the types of invasions i've found Scouting Missive: The Pit to be the quickest. Some are really slow and painful and actually pretty boring to complete so i think that Scouting Missive: The Pit is the best one to choose. You will need to go to Gorgrond and kill iron horde around the Black Foundry entrance 50 27 coordinates. To kill enough to complete the Missive quest just takes a few minutes unlike other types of Missives. You can also cruise around to check for Poundfist rare while you are there. Ok so you have completed the Missive quest and you port back to your Garrison. Inside the Garrison building you turn in the quest. Go outside and check out Sergeant Crowler or Sergeant Grimjaw. They should be waiting with a quest to offer you that's called Garrison Invasion!. Start it and the invasion will start.

The invasion itself?
Getting Platinum should be easy. Everything is being one shotted so it's more about mobility. Use Aoe to finish off the mobs quickly. You will see a score counter so you know where you are. Don't worry if by the end of the timer you are not at 1300. After the 7 minute timer ends there are 2 more phases that will award points. Once you defeat the last boss you will be awarded the bags. Open then and hope for mounts. That's it

So let's summarize some of the info:

1. Use Scouting Missive: The Pit to spawn an invasion with least pain involved
2. Complete the invasion with 1300+ score to get 1 more bag that can contain mounts
3. There are mounts that drop from the invasion reward bags - Invader's Forgotten Treasure reward for Gold invasion score and Routed Invader's Crate of Spoils for Platinum. Both bags drop from a single invasion if you have completed Platinum.
4. 4 mounts drop here and drop rate unfortunately is very low. You could do 30 invasions and still not have a single mount. You can have 2 mount drops from the same bag.
5. You can do 1 invasion per character per week which means that you can use alts to help out with the grind.
6. The whole deal takes around 30 minutes if using the guide here
7. Here is a script to check if you can't remember if you have done an Invasion this week
/run for k, v in pairs({Silver=37639,Bronze=37638,Gold=37640,Platinum=38482}) do print(format("%s: %s",k, IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(v) and "\124cFFFF0000Looted\124r" or "\124cFF00FF00Not Looted Yet\124r")) end

Extras:
The invasion reward bags have a low chance to drop Bloodied Iron Horde Banner which you can use to summon an Invasion boss called Commander Dro'gan who also have a 1% chance to drop a mount

Comment by thadjosh76

You pick up the quest inside your garrison directly north of your mission's map. Sergeant Grimjaw is located outside your garrison to your left as you walk outside. For reference, he is right near the garrison cache.

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Sergeant Grimjaw <Garrison Quartermaster>

This NPC can be found in Frostwall (6).

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Sergeant Grimjaw says: The Council? The demons! Sound the alarm!
Sergeant Grimjaw says: Through this rocky ground? Impossible. Sound the alarm!
Sergeant Grimjaw says: Looks like the Iron Horde is making their move. Grunts! Get the peons to shelter!
Sergeant Grimjaw says: Do you feel that chill? Like something stomping on your grave...
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: To arms! To your posts! The Shadowmoon Clan has a score to settle.
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: I never thought I'd tire of smashing skulls.
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: Their leader is here. For the Horde!
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: That was just a test.
Sergeant Grimjaw says: The Shadowmoon Clan shames all Orcs. Every one we kill is a lesson to the rest.
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: No more at the front gate....
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: To arms! To your posts! Our fight today is with ogres.
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: That took care of the lesser ogres.
Sergeant Grimjaw says: What's that sound? Reminds me of a kodo stampede...
Sergeant Grimjaw says: Stand firm, soldiers. Draenor ogres are not unlike Azeroth's.
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: Let's beat these ogres back to Highmaul!
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: To arms! To your posts! And be wary of new wild growth.
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: I'll be pulling thorns out of my armor for weeks...
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: This is it, warriors. Time for axe work!
Sergeant Grimjaw says: Commander, we'll assemble the troops at your command.
Sergeant Grimjaw says: I can feel them down there...
Sergeant Grimjaw says: Keep your eyes open. They might spring from anywhere.
Sergeant Grimjaw says: *sneeze* There's something in the air...
Sergeant Grimjaw says: There's a stench in the air. Demons...
Sergeant Grimjaw says: It must be the Shadowmoon Clan. Sound the alarm!
Sergeant Grimjaw says: There's a chill in the air...
Sergeant Grimjaw says: We'll have to face their scouts first.
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: Here comes their commander!
Sergeant Grimjaw says: Scout! What do you have to report?
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: We.... we made it...
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: They were just sent to soften us up...
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: To arms! To your posts! We face a worthy foe today...
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: Spread out! They'll be coming from all angles!
Sergeant Grimjaw says: Here they come...
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: They're too fever-brained to know they're defeated!
Sergeant Grimjaw says: Finally, a fight...
Sergeant Grimjaw says: Do you feel that?
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: To arms! To your posts! And look beneath you. They'll come from below....
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: Spread out! Don't let them gain a foothold!
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: The goren fled, but I don't think they fled from us...
Sergeant Grimjaw says: This is where they'll attack first...
Sergeant Grimjaw says: Don't let the dark sky fool you. This is a good day.
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: I hope this last one's bigger than the rest.
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: We're in luck! Once again, we can show the demons that the true Horde will not be swayed!
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: That can't be all of them.
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: Spread out! Protect the structures!
Sergeant Grimjaw says: If there's a gronn coming, then goren won't be far. Quick, get the peons to high ground!
Sergeant Grimjaw says: Show the demon-tainted Shadow Council the strength of freedom!
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: We won't go down that easy!
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: Now let's put these demon-spawn out of their misery!
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: Blood and Honor!
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: Drive them out! Do not hold back!
Sergeant Grimjaw yells: For the Horde!
Sergeant Grimjaw says: Remember when they die, don't let them fall on you.

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