Breakfast Topic: Dailies and you

by Elizabeth Harper Dec 28th 2008 at 8:00AM

I know that daily quests are your best way to gain in-game fame (reputation) and fortune (gold), but despite being fully aware of this fact I can never quite make myself go through 25 of them in a day. No matter how alluring the rewards, available time and limited attention span always conspire to only allow me for a couple of dailies in my regular agenda. And while there are people out there who fill their days with dailies, with the number of daily options, everyone has to make choices on which quests to take and which to drop. So for today's topic: what choices do you make with your dailies? I like to do Defending Wyrmrest Temple (riding a dragon into combat with other dragons just never gets old), pick up the daily dungeon (and/or daily heroic) when I have time, and whatever else I happen to run across in my travels. What are your "don't miss" dailies?

Tags: breakfast-topic, bt, dailies, daily-quest, daily-quests, wyrmrest, wyrmrest-accord, wyrmrest-temple

Filed under: Breakfast Topics, Quests

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)

Clopert Dec 28th 2008 8:07AM

The King of the Mountain one in Icecrown, where you have to robo-gnome-jump yourself to the top of the mountain.

At least I remain interested for most of that quest :)

Lerophon Dec 28th 2008 2:35PM

My favorite by far, it takes 30 seconds and it just makes me laugh everytime i do it

zorren Dec 28th 2008 8:09AM

ive jsut finished the (awsome) oracles chain, so far fave daily is turning into the giant godcat and killing the wolvar

or using the fish to make the seals get "jiggy"

Robert Dec 28th 2008 8:08AM

The two dailies I try to make sure I do EVERY DAY are the Dalaran Cooking and the Shattrath Fishing dailies.

I love me some Northern Spices, and I'm gonna fish til I get a hat and four baby crocs.

Mattimus Dec 28th 2008 8:47AM

I do those, too.. though I only actually do the daily fishing anymore if it's the Baby Crocolisk quest. I've got Chuck, Toothy, and Muckbreath... just need Snarly. I've also got a bank alt completely dedicated to holding all of my fishing hooks from that, so I really don't need to do it everyday if it's not the Crocolisk quest.

I'm also doing the Brunnhildar dailies for a shot at that White Polar Bear mount.

The dailies that are the most fun, for me, are the ones in Icecrown where you ride in a bomber shooting stuff. That's just too awesome for words. I'm already exalted with Sons of Hodir, I'm just saying up an extra 8,000g for the Grand Ice Mammoth (so I still have 10,000g when I've spent my money).

Jay in Oregon Dec 29th 2008 11:57AM

Same here; I always log myself out in the kitchen so I can grab the cooking quest, then through the portal to Shattrath.

I started WotLK by doing the Kalu'ak dailies until I hit exalted, then switched to the Oracles until I got exalted there. When I opened up the Hyldnir dailies I did those until I got the white polar bear mount, then went to the Sons of Hodir. Over the past week, I started playing in Wintergrasp and have been trying to get all 4 PvP dailies done there each day. but it's tricky -- you have to actually WIN at least one game a day...

I want to do the Argent Crusade dailies, but there aren't enough of them, and the massive nerf to Troll Patrol pretty much makes it a waste of time. 5 daily slots for only 350 reputation, with the chance of getting another quest for another 350 if I bust my hump? Yeah, right! They should make the 4 daily sub-quests not be actual dailies -- like how Alchemist Finklestein gives you a daily quest, but in order to START the daily you have to talk to him again -- and bump up the rep reward to at least 500 rep or more.

Maybe I'll start doing Troll Patrol regularly once I hit exalted with the Sons -- THEIR 6 dailies get me almost 2,000 rep a day.

MaxS Dec 28th 2008 8:47AM

I used to do daily heroic and dungeon every day but I got all badge rewards now so I only do them if my friends happen to need a tank.
Most dailies suck as tank. I do daily cooking if it is one of the reasonable ones that don't require farming outside Dalaran. Then I fly to Storm Peaks and do the two dailies in Brunnhildar in hopes of getting my polar bear mount one day. Then I fly onwards to Sons of Hodir base and do the daily where you ride+kill the dragon. After that I a) log on alt b) go to instance/raid c) exit, I just can't force myself to do more dailies as a tank especially since I have inscription shoulder enchant already.

Jariaji Dec 28th 2008 8:24AM

The one where you have to tussle with the proto drake in Storm Peaks is good. The Oracle dailies where you use the crystals or turn into a cat also. The Wyrmrest one, thats about it.

I love dailies the first 10-12 times I do them, and then I lose interest and they become the same old boring routine.

Aubrecia Dec 28th 2008 8:28AM

Cooking daily as often as I can. Chilled meat is a pain, but it's worth it for the raid buff food.

I used to do the drake-catching and Defending Wyrmrest Temple daily without fail, but with the holidays I've fallen out of habit -- that, and recently switching profs has me somewhat preoccupied. I need to get back into the habit of doing them; I want my red drake! But I absolutely hate doing Aces High!, the Malygos training one, and I can't figure out why. I think soloing it is just plain a pain in the ass.

I also try to pick up the daily dungeon or heroic when it's something I enjoy running, like Culling or UK. And, when I'm in the mood, I'll pick up the pvp daily. Since I need to grind a lot of marks for upcoming availability of more pvp mounts for Tauren, it's a nice way to earn some gold at the same time. I don't like doing it as much when it's EOTS or SOTA, though, even if those give me turnins for the For Great Honor! quest. I just can't really use their tokens for anything I really want right now. Though I'd happily buy into a mark-trading system if it meant I never had to run WSG again.

Ravenlock Dec 28th 2008 8:40AM

Well, the Jewelcrafting daily is must for those of us with that profession, ditto the Cooking daily for those of us that raid.

The Overstocked! daily from K3 is both fun and profitable (2-3 mins flight time from Dalaran, 1-2 mins to do, and people still complain that dailies take too long...), and Thrusting Hodir's Spear is one of the most enjoyable quests that I've found, and it'll be a long while before that gets dull.

And, of course, the heroic and normal instance dailies are always on the to-do list.

Bloodletter Dec 28th 2008 8:37AM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but what with the Death's Point Dailies, The Kor'Kron Zeppelin Dailies, The Kor'Kron Camp Dailies, and the Shadowvault Dalies AND the Dailies bombing dailies Icecrown has just about 21 - 25 dailies by itself.

At least I manage to do about 21 dailies just in icecrown in under 3 hours.

Jonny Dale Dec 28th 2008 10:57AM

Not everyone has 3 hours to spend on a computer in their day..

dpak Dec 28th 2008 2:22PM

Some days I do dailies, some day not.
Depends on if I want to run instances, and what is going on in guild chat.

To the comment about the time: You are correct, some people cant tear themselves away from reality tv and sensationalistic
docu-dramas.....average person watches FIVE HOURS OF TV A DAY.

Me, I watch about 3 a week (dvr ftw) and play wow with friends.

VSUReaper Dec 28th 2008 8:41AM

Due to limited time online, I make sure to get most of the Sons of Hodir, and I try to snag the dungeons, alothough sometimes I find I'm not ready to tank the heroic fully (or else the DPS can't get it down in time)

I would do more, but it seems like they are spread out ALL over the place not almost not worth the time to get them all done in one day.

Cyrus Dec 28th 2008 8:45AM

I've done the cooking dailies regularly. Sooo quick and easy, and the more recipes I know, the better.

That's it, though. I did the Sons of Hodir dailies until I got to honored and did all the honored dailies once, but now that I can buy the basic shoulder enchants, that seems like enough. I'll get the rest sooner or later. I've been doing the Troll Patrol daily for the last couple days because I only need a few more points to get to revered. I do the daily dungeons when I can find a group, but I don't spend too much time looking.

As for all the rest, I'll do dailies once I finish all the non-repeatable quests I can find, which could still take a while.

Anorax Dec 28th 2008 8:47AM

I've been concentrating on the Sons of Hodir for the shoulder enchant. I also enjoy doing the Ebon Blade quests. I am also doing the 3 Wyrmrest Accord dailies for the mount.

Bysta Dec 29th 2008 3:00AM

Cookin' dailie, and the Kalu'ak dailies are the must for me.

a tree Dec 28th 2008 9:10AM

As a resto druid the dailies really can be a pain in the a**. So, after I learned you can buy BoE Relics for Sons of Hodir rep, I quit doing those quests and only do the JC one - if I have time and get inspired (I've got the recipies I need, and dragon's eyes are readily available on ah).

Gief dual spec!

SilverPlague Dec 28th 2008 5:26PM

I too do the daily cooking in Dal and the daily fishing also try to get the Sons of Hodir ones (revered shooting for exalted) and the daily H depending on the run, sometimes the reg daily. Once the patch comes out I may have enough relics to turn in to get exalted with Sons of Hodir, but until then.....

Vikingman Dec 28th 2008 10:51AM

I do the Sons Of Hodir Daily's and the 1(sometimes 2) in the Brunhildar village in hope for the bear mount. And im also trying to do proof of demise quest for the achivement and oracles daily's for the achivement there aswell

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