Reaching that mark of 150,000 Apexis Crystals seems like quite the task, but it can be broken down into a simple to-do list over the course of a couple of days.

Spirit Lodge/Mage Tower: (~6300 Apexis Crystals per entire set of Work Orders)

Approximately 30 minutes of grinding the Grimfrost Ogres should net you enough Ogre Waystones to maintain a full week of work orders! These provide you with approximately 175 Apexis Crystals per work order, 36 times. [Yay, tier 3 Storehouse bonus!] Keep this maintained and you’ll have a solid flow of Apexis, plus Mission Completion Orders which *can* be used at your Shipyard!

Another bonus is how close Ogre Waygates (the main point of the building!) are to the Scouting Missive locations. Example: Nagrand’s is about 15 seconds from both objectives, as well as 3 Voidtalon spawns! This allows for a route of: Garrison > Portal to zone > Garrison hearthstone (will be off CD by the time you’re done) > next zone, at a maximum of 3 if your Spirit Lodge/Mage Tower is Tier 3.

Scouting Missives: (9600 Apexis Crystals per full clear)

As shown, these can be purchased from Sergeant Grimjaw in Frostwall, or Sergeant Crowler in Lunarfall, for 200 garrison resources each. They are quest item versions of the Apexis dailies you ran every day at the beginning of the expansion via the War Planning Map! All twelve each reward you with 800 Apexis.

I’ve found the most efficient and enjoyable missives are the ones that take you to:

Frostfire Ridge – Stonefury Cliffs, Magnarok, Iron Siegeworks

Shadowmoon Valley – Socrethar’s Rise, Darktide Roost

Nagrand – Broken Precipice, Mok’gol Watchpost

Gorgrond – Everbloom Wilds

This leaves out Lost Veil Anzu, Shattrath Harbour, Skettis, and Pillars of Fate. If you have enough Garrison Resources, do them as they’re part of the ‘world tour’, but they certainly feel less time efficient with a lack of mob density or credit per kill/collection.

Tanaan Jungle: ~9800 Apexis Crystals per day

There are 7 bonus objectives that can be completed per day, each in a separate part of the zone. 6 of them will grant you 800 Apexis Crystals, and 1 grants you 2000 – this special quest comes from the Tanaan Planning Map in Vol’mar/Lions’s Watch, and you have two choices for which “Assault on” quest to accept.

After completing that quest, you’ll receive two from your faction-specific quartermaster – one is to complete 2 bonus objectives, rewarding you with 2000 Apexis Crystals, and another is to collect quest items from an area you will be in for the bonus objective anyway. You’ll finish this quest and be 500 Apexis Crystals richer!

Lastly, you’ll have a daily quest from Dawn-Seeker Krisek/Ravenspeaker Thelnaas in your base to collect 10 Fel-Corrupted Apexis Fragments. These can drop from rares and can be looted from treasures scattered across the zone. This rewards you with 1500 Apexis Crystals.

To sum up the path, start off working towards “Unknown Power”/”Unseen Influence”, complete your Assault daily, followed by the quest to complete 2 & the alternative quest item one, then finish off the other 4 bonus objectives and the last of your Fel-Corrupted Apexis Fragments.

Conclusion

As much as it may seem like it’s a massive grind, it might take 2-3 hours to complete absolutely everything in a day. You can definitely space it out to spend less time per day, but spend more days working towards it.

Good luck everyone, and see you in Draenor!