>>542570442
Garrison becomes 99% irrelevant once Legion drops, except for stuff like transmog items, pets, mounts etc.
While it's current you can get some 650 - 685 gear from baleful tokens out of the shipyard, though, and use the small plots for profession-related functions
>>542572124
The shipyard is particularly important if you're gonna go pve because you have to build it to unlock your faction's town in tanaan. That'll give you access to vendors who'll trade 5k apexis for baleful tokens which (just like the ones from shipyard) can roll between 650 - 685 ilvl. They also sell an upgrade token which can pump a baleful item up to 695 ilvl, for 20k apexis. Those upgrade tokens can actually also be found out of random heroic caches too, I got one earlier and slapped it on my hat.
Tanaan rares have a chance to drop baleful tokens as well, and each one also has a chance to drop a specific piece of gear (i.e. the bitch in the fel forge can drop plate bracers). Kill them if you see them, but their spawn timer is long so don't count on them being there.
If you're doing a profession that can produce gear for your class, you'll be able to make 630 items which can then be further upgraded up to 695 through more profession work, but I think that might be kind of expensive.
Lastly, keep an eye out for groups doing SENOR SUPREMO KAZZAK, he drops ilvl 720 gear. Rukhmar also drops 665 gear, but don't count on getting her because filthy fucking huntoids are prone to griefing the fuck out of raids by taming her, which causes her to despawn mid-fight lmao