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Comment by Sergijus

Garrison Invasions are challenges in your Garrison that allow you to defeat attacking enemies for rewards.
They can be completed solo but you are encouraged to bring your friends because the rewards are greater if you perform better.
Your first invasion comes early on Shadowmoon Valley and Frostfire Ridge with a Tier 2 Garrison--midway through questing, a player's Garrison will be attacked either by a Thunderlord or Shadowmoon force. This is not available with a Tier 3 Garrison but it is also not considered a "real" invasion.

There are 6 types of invasion:
Ogre
Shadow Concul
Shadowmoon
Botani
Goren
Iron Horde

HOW TO TRIGGER AN INVASION
When you kill level 100 mobs (in the areas for Apexis Crystal Quests), you have a chance that the enemies will prepare to attack your garrison in retaliation. At this point, your commander by the Town Hall will have a quest for you.

In order to trigger an invasion, you will need to kill mobs at following locations:
http://i.imgur.com/RVKLBzR.jpg

Note that you need to kill approx 500 mobs, and you can not be in the raid group. Party is allowed.
Once you kill enough of them, you will get notification at your minimap, where you can see mission status. There will also be big yellow exclamation mark there, pretty easy to spot. Once you spot it, head back to your garrison and you will be able to take quest from Sergeant Crowler (A) or Sergeant Grimjaw (H).

Invasion Stages
The invasion has the following stages:
Invasion - Follow the sergeant
Assault - defeat the assault.
The holdout - endure the assault. This part is timed for ~8 minutes.
The calm - go to the town center
Final stage - kill a boss

During the assault, multiple enemy packs spawn in your Garrison.The following unusual things can happen as well:
The enemy assaults a Garrison building—attack them to interrupt the cast.
A terrified townsfolk runs out of safety. They are marked with a green arrow over their head and you run up to them to move them away.
An infiltrator from the opposite faction is in your Garrison. These have a hefty bit of HP.

Invasion Points
During the invasion, you gain points via the following ways:
Killing enemies—trickier ones give more points.
Saving terrified townsfolk.
Killing spies.
Keeping your buildings intact.
Keeping your defenders alive.
Killing the final boss.
When the invasion is complete, points are added for your buildings and defenders.

You need 300 points for Bronze, 600 for Silver, and 1000 for Gold.

Invasion rewards
Silver and bronze rankings rewards only apexis crystals, but if you managed to get gold reward you will get Invader's Forgotten Treasure which can contain 645 items (They can be warforged 651) and one of 4 mounts.
Note that you can get each bag just once per week, yet you will receive apexis each time you do it.

Good luck with invasions!

Comment by Matriste

Invasion quests persist from week to week if you don't do it the week before. Did shadow council with 2 guildies. The quest popped up for me(I DID NOT ACCEPT IT). Logged in Tuesday and the quest is still available!

Comment by Corpseman

Horde Garrison Invasion Tactics
Horde Garrison Invasion 3 player Zone Defense

Comment by presteus

I share my macro to show what Invasion is completed.

/run for k, v in pairs({ Botani = 36171, Goren = 36376, Shadowmoon = 36412, Horde = 36655, Ogre = 36650, Council = 36830}) do print(format("%s: %s", k, IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(v) and "\124cff00ff00Yes\124r" or "\124cffff0000No\124r")) end

Comment by Pawwolf

Here is my Macro for knowing whether or not you have received the Bronze, Silver ,Gold &/or Platinum rewards from doing a garrison invasion for the 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

This shows up:

Bronze: Looted (in red)

or

Platinum: Not Looted Yet (in green)

Comment by johnnysebre

Trying to complete this one solo for platinum at 110, and I cannot succeed so far. I had no trouble for the others (getting 1500-2000 score), but for shadowmoon, both times I tried, I finished at 1200 ish. Anyone else have this issue or tips to get it completed?

Comment by Sincaster

A heads up to anyone looking to solo this as of 8.1.0. The shadowmoon invasions overall give much less Victory points as opposed to every other faction invasion. For some reason, all enemies give +3VP (With the exception of the event enemies). This is massive difference from the normal +5VP every other invasion gives per enemy. If given the option, do not opt to attack the shadowmoon as solo it is more risky and there is a shance you wont hit 1300 for the cache.

Comment by Tinsley91

So, for the other 5 people, besides myself, that are still farming this you can see if you have completed your weekly invasion (and which ranks) in your raid lockout list. No need for a macro anymore!

O (social tab) --> raid --> top right, raid info

Hope this helps someone! Happy farming all! :)

Comment by sallypantsiscool

If Shadowmoon Invasion is not an option from Sergeant Grimjaw or Sergeant Crowler, complete one of the following missives that can be purchased from them in exchange for garrison resources.

Horde: Assault on Pillars of Fate or Assault on Skettis

Alliance: Assault on Darktide Roost or Assault on Socrethar's Rise

Once completed, the invasion will immediately be available from Sergeant Crowler or Sergeant Grimjaw. (This was my experience for the 2 invasions I was missing, but if you still don't see the invasion, you may need to complete both missives or complete them more than once to increase aggro with those factions.)

If you're missing any of the other invasions, the list and map in this Garrison Invasions guide explains which missives are needed to unlock each invasion.

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Shadowmoon Invasion!

Repel the Shadowmoon clan invasion of your garrison.

(Speak with Sergeant Grimjaw again to begin)

Speak with Sergeant Grimjaw (1)

Repel the Invasion (1) (1)

Description

Scouts say the Shadowmoon clan looms close, ready with their necromancy. If I die and rise again, Commander, finish me quickly. I don't want to be a ghoul.

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Completion

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You will receive:

Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:

See if you've already completed this by typing:

/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(36414))

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Garrison Invasions