Warlords of Draenor - Garrison, will you play bother with it or not?

In Warlords of Draenor, you’ll make a permanent impact on the world with a Garrison: your own personal fortress that you build, staff, and manage. You’ll customize your Garrison’s layout, appearance, and gameplay effects, and attract followers to operate it. The Garrison allows World of Warcraft players to own a larger part of the world than ever before, and opens up a wide variety of interesting gameplay decisions—with as much or as little micromanagement as you wish.
Your Garrison exists seamlessly in the world, but you won’t need to go into an instance portal to visit your home base—as you travel through Draenor, you’ll see your Garrison looming on the horizon.
Read on for more details.

Followers
Followers are NPCs (non-player characters) that you recruit to join your Garrison. You’ll send them on missions to improve your Garrison and earn loot for your character. You can also allocate them to complete tasks—things like crafting or gathering resources, which they’ll do whether you’re online or offline.
Followers have a character level, an item level, and traits that affect missions and tasks. For example, if they have the Mining trait, you’ll be able to assign them to a Mine in your Garrison to gather resources for you. There are common, uncommon, rare, and epic followers, and their rarity affects the number of traits they can have.

Recruiting Followers
To run an effective Garrison, you’ll first need to recruit followers. Some will make their own way to your base, but you can also upgrade your Inn to attract more followers. You can also win followers to your cause as you progress through the game’s story, when completing quests, or simply by coughing up the right sum of gold to hire mercenaries.
When they’re not away on missions, your followers hold down posts at your Garrison, where you can visit them at any time. A major goal for the Garrison system is for followers to be dynamic and interesting—for example, if a follower fails a mission that takes place in a local dungeon, they might be taken prisoner; the next time you adventure in that dungeon, you’ll be able to rescue them.



Missions
Mission Objectives
You’ll send your followers on missions for varied purposes. Successful missions will give you the resources you need to keep developing your Garrison, but you’ll also have the chance to acquire powerful loot for yourcharacter, and your followers will gain experience for each mission they run.
The resources you’ll acquire during missions include both existing crafting reagents and Garrison-specific materials. For example, if you assign a follower to a mining mission, you could receive ore, but you might also unearth stone, a new kind of resource used to construct and upgrade buildings.
Though followers are great for solo play, the system also has multiplayer elements. When you dispatch a party of your followers on certain missions, you’ll also be able to join forces with your guildmates’ followers, even if your guildmate is offline.

Follower Progression

Followers grow in power in a way that mirrors players’ progression. From levels 90–100, followers will gain character levels, which have a significant impact on their abilities and mission success chance. They’ll also increase their item level as you equip them with follower-specific gear; once they’ve reached level 100, equipment will have a larger role to play in their overall effectiveness.



Garrisons & Buildings
Building Functions
Buildings are the individual “pieces” of your Garrison—Stables, Farms, Mines, Armories, and more. They improve your ability to recruit, use, and train followers; to craft; to complete missions; and to run missions more quickly by reducing your followers’ downtime.
Each building in your garrison can be upgraded, which amplifies its mechanical effect and visuals. For example, an upgraded Barracks will grow bigger and more impressive, but it’ll also increase the number of followers you can send on missions at one time (for example, 5 followers at once for a level 1 Barracks, then 7 followers, then 12—though the exact numbers are still in flux).

Customizing Your Garrison’s Look
Buildings in your Garrison can be placed in a number of configurations. You can only place small-sized buildings (primarily crafting-related) on small plots; a larger building, like a Barracks, won’t fit. Bigger buildings can be constructed early on—even a “starting” Garrison has room for a large structure. As your Garrison increases in level, you’ll get access to more and larger building space, and increase the versatility and power of your holdings.
Garrisons are visually distinct depending on whether you’re a Horde or Alliance player, and you’ll be able to place your Garrison in one of several zones on Draenor. You’ll also specify your Garrison’s layout (the physical location of buildings within your Garrison’s walls), and select the buildings you’d like to include. Choosing to “spec” your buildings (more on that below) will also change cosmetic aspects of those buildings, like furniture types and decorations, in addition to imparting different gameplay effects.

Garrisons can be shown off to same-faction players in your party, who can walk around your base, converse with your NPCs, and appraise your layout. You’ll have a reason to show your Garrison off, too: trading resources. For example, if you have extra building resources, you’ll be able to bring them to a friend’s Garrison and exchange them for materials that you need.




So my question is what are your thoughts on this? Do you look forward to seeing it and actually playing it or you think it's just another time sink Blizzard is trying to incorporate to make you spend more time on the game. Perhaps they are trying to appeal to the casual player who likes to do everything else, but raid.

In my opinion this will be quite fun, however I'm concerned how they will present it. I like the idea and I'll definitely "waste" quite a bit of time on this, however I do hope it doesn't require each day for you to spend like 2 hours managing it in order to stay on par with the rest of the people.

P.S. Sorry but I had to cut it a bit short you can read the final part at: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/11502044/Warlords_of_Draenor_Take_Charge_of_Your_Garrison-11_8_2013

 

Well here is something that Blizzard announced few hours ago

So it seems that it will be impossible not to "waste" time on it, however if it's something you can't skip then logically it shouldn't be a time sink right?

Here is something else they have made possible through the garrisons.

The question here however is since they announced that professions won't have as huge impact on raiding what would be the whole point behind all this...

I guess before we get to actually see some real gameplay of the garrison and what the professions will give we can't really say if it's worth it or not.

 

Well they have a whole separate team that is doing all the job that concerns the garrison, so I don't think they will do a sloppy work.
They seem to be saying that they have been working on this ever since Mists of Pandaria was launched, but I findly hard to believe. I think they took the idea from EQII and possible some minor ideas from Neverwinter since in Neverwinter you can put your works to do something and do something else meanwhile.

 

Well you might like this then:

It was announced today. From what I get guild members will be able to do different part of the daily garrison work you can do to make it faster. It should be something along those lines I think.

 

I can't remember at the moment from where they take it, but I think both WoW and EQ took the idea from another game that is about to be released just not sure which one it was.
Still I don't care if they are stealing ideas from each other as long as they are good ideas