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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 1057926

This one was both easy and insane. Easy because the sheer amount of possible kills and special mobs shot our points up over the gold achievement by 200 but insane because again, the sheer number of mobs. First time I've come close to death during an invasion. Took a 644 SP, 642 Survival hunter and a rogue. Would keep ranged opposed to a melee in the town center because the mobs are so spread out in this one especially. We had no terrified town folk to run up to the town hall with, just horde opportunist, the Rylaks and spies. Don't forget to bring your body guard if you have the ability to do so. If you're doing this in someone elses garrison, we've found a bug that when picking up one of their followers for patrol, they leave but if you're able to snag one as they're fleeing the town, they'll stay with you.

Comment by varenne

Tactics: each player takes his gate to protect, kill red dots on the map as fast as you can.
Here is Ogre Invasion gold (horde side) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUah0cv27V4

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 Rixanne

Not a complete list, but easier to figure out what missive you need, where it is, and what invasion it triggers.

Invasion, Location, Missive

Goren, Frostfire, Broken Precipice
Goren, Frostfire, Magnarok
Ogres, Frostfire, Stonefury Cliffs
Shadow Council, Talador, Shattrath
Shadow Council, Spires, Lost Veil Anzu
Shadow Council, Spires, Pillars of Fate
Iron Horde, Nagrand, Mok'gol
Iron Horde, Gorgrond (the pit), Siegeworks

Comment by Lilitos

Can anyone advise on the following:
if i kill lets say 200 mobs in Stonefury Cliffs today, and wanna continue killing mobs the next day, does the progress reset? Can this still trigger the invasion, or there is a separate progress each day.

Comment by Lorentary

From what I can gather, invasion quests can be triggered by two things:

There is a small chance when killing any enemy in a level 100 area in Draenor that a garrison invasion becomes available
The more reliable way is to purchase the Scouting Missives from your general. Aside from the chance of triggering an invasion quest from each monster you can also trigger an invasion in the process of turning the quest in (confirmed) this chance seems to be quite high.

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Ogre Invasion!

Repel the ogre invasion of your garrison.

(Speak with Sergeant Crowler again to begin)

Speak with Sergeant Crowler (1)

Repel the Invasion (1) (1)

Description

Scouts report that ogre packs march through Shadowmoon Valley. We've left our impression with them, eh Commander?

Progress

Completion

Rewards

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(36650))

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Garrison Invasions