Beating Cheese for Glowergold
by Mike Schramm 
May 13th 2009 at 8:00PM
I could not agree more -- of all of the cooking dailies, Cheese for Glowergold is my least favorite. All of the cooking collecting quests usually involve a little shoulder rubbing with people doing the same quest -- Infused Mushroom Meatloaf is another one where it's usually every man for himself down in those sewers. But none of them are more annoying than Glowergold's quest. I don't know if it's just that the respawn time seems longer, or that there are fewer spawn points and more to collect (you need six glasses, which doesn't seem like much as collecting quests go, but it's a lot while doing it), or that there's no specific place to find the glasses (they're littered around tables, usually in restaurants, around Dalaran). But yeah -- every time the wine and cheese quest comes up, I sigh, knowing that I'm going to be standing in the inn straight across from the cheese shop waiiting for a spawn.But just so this isn't a complete QQ post, let's give you a few tips for next time. That inn is usually where I stand, but it's pretty crowded -- it's definitely worth, after just picking up the quest, looking around the faction inn where you get the cooking daily as there's usually one or two in there. And I didn't know this, but apparently there are a few spawn points downstairs in The Cantrips and Crows tavern (so when you run down there for the Jewel of the Sewers, keep an eye out for glasses also). And there are four spawns in the Violet Hold as well (so you can stop by and grab those while picking up the Heroic and dungeon dailies).
This might help a bit, but the fact is that this is an annoying quest, made more annoying when someone swoops in and grabs that glass you were headed for. Bornakk rightfully says it doesn't need a nerf (and as more people get everything they want out of the cooking dailies, we'll probably see less competition out there), but that doesn't make it any less frustrating.
Filed under: Cooking, Analysis / Opinion, Tips, Blizzard, Quests
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
havitech May 13th 2009 8:09PM
I disagree with the Cheese quest being the worse. It's terrible, that much is true, but Convention at the Legerdemain is even worse. The only item to camp is the Jug of Wine, so there are even more people camping it at once.
The wine glasses are easy to get if you're on a high realm with an unbalanced population. Simple fly into the other faction's inn, and take wine glasses from there. (In fact, I'm not even sure if Horde and Alliance have the same cooking dailies everyday.)
vexis58 May 13th 2009 8:38PM
This. Getting that stupid wine jug can take 10-20 minutes of camping the wine shop fighting other people for the single spawn node.
Cheese for Glowergold is nothing.
delphinus May 13th 2009 8:47PM
I also agree to this not being the hardest quest. I always hang around the Legerdemain Lounge. There's about 4-5 spawn points alone on the ground floor, as well as 3-4 upstairs. Also the Filthy Animal has about 2 on the ground floor with 2-3 upstairs.
If anything is hard, it's Convention at the Legerdemain or Infused Mushroom Meatloaf. Neither are really hard, but both require 4 chilly meats for you to farm.
If anything is the easiest it's Mustard Dogs!. It only requires 4 rhino meats that drop like crazy in the seemingly infinite supply of Rhinos west of Valiance Keep, plus it gives 2 awards.
Really none of the quests are hard in any way.
Kakistocracy May 14th 2009 12:55AM
Definitely, you can easily get at least 4-6 wine glasses in a pass if you go to the enemy inn.
JaneLame May 14th 2009 3:20AM
I play on a very crowded server but this quest was never a problem. Take a walk in the city, tour the zone for a few glasses, what's the problem?
It's actually the BEST and CHEAPEST cooking daily imo, since it doesn't require bringing your own mats like chilled meat or rhino dogs. Since there's no AH in Dalaran you often have to go out of time and waste a HS to get the mats.
nav May 14th 2009 5:13AM
Janelame - while doing the bricks quest for the Argent Tournament do it at the Steps near the Engine of the Maker. Kill rhinos while there and stock up on chilled meat and rhino meat for your cooking dailies. Keep some banked. Problem solved.
Drow May 14th 2009 2:06PM
I would have aggreed with this comment if it was pre-nerf. 12 Chilled meats was a lot. Now, it's easy. I never see tons of people waiting for the jug. You have all day to do it, and it's not nearly as popular now that everyone has all the recipes.
As far as the topic, this is my FAVORITE one. It requires no work on our part, no mats at all. Just run around and gather!
I try to always keep a stack of chilled meat, stack of northern stew, and stack of rihno dogs on me of course, but this saves me a day of farming :)
havitech May 14th 2009 7:25PM
@Drow
At 3:00-3:30AM server time, which is the time dailies reset to the time I leave for work, there are no less than 5 people camping the jug of wine. Same during the morning when I get home from work. During peak hours, it's borderline cruel trying to complete the quest. Maybe it's just my server :|
Doctor Capslock May 13th 2009 8:10PM
It's worth noting that Cheese for Glowergold is the only daily that doesn't require any mats, so from a cheap bastard point of view there really isn't anything to complain about.
Irradiate May 13th 2009 8:41PM
^^This is why it's my favourite cooking daily^^
Lyraat May 13th 2009 10:24PM
Agreed.
Im cheap. This quest requires gathering some wine glasses, easy.
I grab:
*1 downstairs from the room where you get the quest
*1 or 2 on the way out of the inn
*1 or 2 in the cheese shop while waiting for the cheese to respawn
*The rest from Cantrips.
Easy.
Celton May 13th 2009 10:28PM
Seriously, what are you talking about?? The daily quest where all I have to do is collect glasses of wine is by far my favorite. I hate it when I run out of chilled meat or Rhino meat and have to go all the way to Borean Tundra or Sholazar Basin to farm more. You don't even have to leave Dalaran for this quest and the glasses spawn in like 2 seconds. Just check the first Inn where you get the quest, then check the Inn in the center... wait around a bit, run between the two. It's really not difficult or time consuming at all.
havitech May 14th 2009 12:46AM
"Seriously, what are you talking about??"
It's not like different people on different realms would have differing experiences depending on their populations. Oh, wait.
Deathgodryuk May 14th 2009 1:18AM
you might want to find a less populated server, I've never had a problem with this quest.
Shilling May 14th 2009 7:15AM
^^This.
No need to leave Dalaran. Win.
There are actually a lot more wine glasses than people realise. You just have to be willing to walk more than a few feet and keep your eyes peeled.
Dementron May 14th 2009 7:33AM
That's partly why Cheese for Glowergold is my favorite cooking daily by far. That and I like scavenger hunts.
You just have to find spawns that fewer people visit.
sephirah May 14th 2009 8:40AM
I join the group of "no need to farm mats in other zones FTW".
Timothy Jaxon May 13th 2009 8:10PM
This is by far the easiest (and I'm going to catch serious trouble for giving away my spawn points).
There are four glass spawn points in the Violet Hold area - one behind Timear, one behind Lan'delok, and one each on the fishing platforms. There is usually about 10 seconds between spawns at one of the four points. I ride around and have this puppy done in less than a minute.
Rollo May 14th 2009 7:51AM
I like to collect the glass hidden partly inside the pork feast on the table in the horde inn. Many people miss it, and I like to think about how the glass got there. There are also one or two glasses upstairs in the horde inn, where no one ever goes.
danny.stout723 May 13th 2009 8:14PM
There are always 2-3 wine glasses outside the Violet Hold, and most of the time, the wine glasses in the sewers are untouched as well. Getting the cheese for this quest, and the jug for convention are both annoying (though I seem to have good luck most days).
I do enjoy the fact that you need nothing outside of Dalaran for each of those cooking dailies though. It's not hard to get the stuff for the others, granted, but it's still nice.