Breakfast Topic: Most hated daily quests
by Amanda Miller 
Apr 9th 2008 at 8:00AM
Now that the cap has been raised to twenty-five, and a slew of dailies has been added as of patch 2.4, many players are finding themselves spending a few hours on daily quests each day. Personally, there are a few that I enjoy doing most days, including the bombing runs, and some that I'd rather avoid if I didn't need the gold to fuel my rather Outlandish habits.
I'm not sure if I could pinpoint a single culprit though. The longer quests bother me up front, because I get bored spending half an hour each day mowing through the same exercise. As such, the Shadowmoon Valley quests might be my least favorite, because aside from the competition, they take forever.
Which daily quests are giving you a daily headache, and why?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
ace danger Apr 9th 2008 8:11AM
daily skettis escort quest with a slow flyer, mostly because of all the flying around looking for the guy and the kaliri knocking me off when I cloak is on it's 30m cooldown
allanon Apr 9th 2008 8:33AM
The worst daily has to be "A Slow Death." The drop rate on the glands was horrible and takes a long time to get the glands. You then almost always find a bugged group when trying to feed them which causes you to lose one or more of the glands. Ths means back to grind some more glands and try again. Definitely the longest death march of a quest I can think of.
mk Apr 9th 2008 4:24PM
agreed with allanon above me. a slow death is a complete nightmare. the ravager quest is rough when the cave is highly populated, but you can kill everything around you while you do it at least. compared to the netherwing quests, the sunwell dailies are a breeze.
Jimmie Dean Apr 9th 2008 8:14AM
The new daily in Phase 3 of the Isle. The one to open up the anvil. Terrible drop rate and to many people trying to do them. I for one am going to skip this as the new badge loot doesn't help me with the amount of badges I have right now.
Zewt Apr 9th 2008 11:13AM
Word.
brittwilson Apr 9th 2008 12:33PM
I killed 15 or so Naga, didnt get a single freaking key. Unless Im doing it wrong, Im not doing that one anymore. Badge loot can wait IMO.
Epoc Apr 9th 2008 2:14PM
Its not all the naga. Only the myrmidon's drop the key. the spell casting naga do not drop the keys. Quest description below. at most i've killed is 5 myrmidon's to get 3 keys of the several times i've done this quest
http://wowhead.com/?quest=11535
muaddib420 Apr 9th 2008 8:22AM
i'd have to say the skettis bombing run. it's fun to bomb the eggs, but those orange vulture birds aggroing are a real pain. one upside is there's usually an adamantite node up there XD
Bloodthorn Apr 9th 2008 8:28AM
I agree on most of the SMV ones being too long, I usually do the mine ones, the deadly trap and the booterrang ones, just for cash, the skinning one and the crystal one only if I end up picking up the needed materials while doing the others.
KateJaneway Apr 9th 2008 8:29AM
Mana cells, there's always a Tauren there ready to steal whatever cell I am defending against stupid wyrms.
And I am so glad I can skip the dailies in BEM now!
Ama Apr 9th 2008 8:33AM
I've managed to get my epic flying mount lately, so the first thing I did was trying the Netherwing faction daily quests. They are buggy, long and absolutely not worth the hassle... I've finished only two of them :
1. Killing the flying dudes carrying Netherwing relics is a major pain, since they evade 50% of what I am throwing at them.
2. Peons simply won't eat their poisoned food. For 12 camps to poison I needed 16 items (poisonous glands or whatever they are). It's not funny when you have to fly all the way back to the main land and start farming mobs again (drop rate is supposed to be around 30%).
3. Getting 30 crystals... no comments. I've been killing mobs for 15 minutes and I've got 10. Doing a daily quest for 45 minutes is simply ridiculous.
Rippchen Apr 9th 2008 8:49AM
do some more netherwing quests until you reach the next level of reputation. then you unlock 2 or 3 quests in the nethermines which won't take too long. one of them gives 18 gold as a reward.
also if you farm for your crystals while doing the nethermines quests you will have 30 of them in no time.
BillDoor Apr 9th 2008 8:49AM
Unfriendly Skies does infact suck.
A Slow Death is easier when you know where to farm the meat from. I highly recommend Felfire Diemetradons.
Crystals used to be 40, so I don't have any sympathy :) However, you get the best drop rate in the mines, especially from the flayers.
Mirado Apr 9th 2008 10:22AM
I totally agree about trying to shoot those orcs out of the sky. Though, when they bug, they sometime fly back up into the sky without a mount and swim around. Kind of amusing.
As for feeding peons: if you notice a group of peons just standing around doing nothing then they are bugged and won't eat the meat. You have to make sure that you put some meat down for the peons that are mining or whatever.
Saphia Apr 11th 2008 2:07PM
Watch the peons. If they are just standing there, they will not eat the food. There are several groups that are bugged. This isn't a sure-fire way to make sure they'll eat it, but you can do that. I tend to not do that one either, but once you're high enough to do the booterang quest, you'll enjoy smacking those disobedient peons around.
I've leveled two toons up through exalted with them. And I stopped doing the feeding quest unless I was in a party. If you have a friend, both of you can pick up the food. That way, when one of the peons won't eat, you'll have extra. That's the ONLY time I'd do the feeding the peon quest.
Ruleofthumb Apr 9th 2008 8:56AM
Definitely the gathering daily, "Gaining the Advantage". The one where you have to collect Nether Residues from mines/herbs/skinning. Since I'm a miner, there are days when it takes me hours upon hours of looking and mining for eight of these to drop, only to eventually give up. The drop rate is terrible.
Irian Apr 9th 2008 8:48AM
Skettis escort quest. I thought that maybe after 2.4 there'll be less people in Skettis, so it might be easier... So wrong, so wrong. :/
Erika Apr 9th 2008 8:55AM
Well its basicly crap now since there is no potion to get.
Dah Apr 9th 2008 2:05PM
A Slow Death is my most hated. While the glitched "Not So Friendly Skies" is also a pain because of how often you will get evade bugged enemies, A Slow Death is a pain because you have to do so much farming to gather items with a low drop rate at an area separate from all the other dailies. For as long and as much effort as it takes to complete, it just isn't worth it.
Clasifyd Apr 9th 2008 8:44AM
I think my least favorite is the 'Maintaining the Portal' quest. Seriously, who ever goes out to Bash'ir Landing for anything other than this? You couldn't possibly be any further away (from Shatt, that is). After farming 10 or so mobs to get the phasing device, you undoubtedly phase in right on top of a worm or opposing faction member who promptly beats the living hell out of you. Luckily, the mana cubes respawn at an almost insane rate, so it doesn't take as long as some of the quests listed above.