Breakfast Topic: How consistently do you run your dailies?
by Aiden James Kosciesza 
Apr 20th 2011 at 8:00AM
Daily quests -- love 'em or hate 'em, they've become a staple of WoW's endgame design since their introduction in The Burning Crusade. Some players do all 25 dailies every day, using them as a reliable source of in-game income. Others blast through as many dailies as they need to gain the reputation or rewards they want, then consider their work done; they rejoice in never having to do those quests again. Still others take it slow, doing dailies casually as filler content when they have nothing better to do.
Despite my exhortation to WoW Insider readers to do their dailies, I must confess that I don't always follow my own advice. At the beginning of Cataclysm, I was excited and determined to get all my reps to exalted as quickly as possible, but over time, I got lazy and started to slack off. I only do the Uldum dailies if I happen to be transmuting Volatile Air or digging up Tol'Vir artifacts, and I tend to put off the Tol Barad Peninsula dailies, rationalizing that "they'll be there all day" and I can always squeeze them in. I still try to do Wildhammer every day, but I'm so sick of those quests that it's hard to stay motivated.
Sometimes, to make sure I get my dailies done, I log off in Tol Barad or Thundermar and force myself to do the quests first thing the next day. I find that if I leave my dailies until the end of the evening, they just don't happen.
How do you approach daily quests? Do you stick with them until there's nothing left to gain? Do you see them as easy gold? If you're a slacker like me, how do you motivate yourself to buckle down and do some daily quests?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
MusedMoose Apr 20th 2011 8:05AM
Nowhere near as much as I could. -_- My issue with dailies is twofold - first, my guild's not even started getting ourselves together to get into raids, so I don't have much motivation to build rep with the Cataclysm factions for better gear. Second, I have a ton of alts, and goals for those alts as well, so they often take priority. I'm currently trying to get my fire mage to 85 so she'll be ready to get the "Flame Warden" title this summer, which means I haven't been doing dailies on my hunter at all.
I'm sure I'll pick it up when it becomes more important. Also: setting things on fire from a distance is a lot more fun than just shooting things with a crossbow. ^_^
walkman222222 Apr 20th 2011 9:19AM
Unrelated to your post but this needs to be at the top of the page..... It's 4/20!!!!!
Idaelus Apr 20th 2011 8:05AM
Whats a daily??????
Idaelus Apr 20th 2011 8:08AM
For a more serious answer: when i remember too. :/
Ryan Apr 20th 2011 8:08AM
After doing the Argent grind to crusader twice on the same char (faction transfer - read the fine print). I've had my full of dalies for a long, long time.
One day I will get to the Netherwing dalies. To replace this freakish horde flying mount.
Aspirisis Apr 20th 2011 8:41AM
Oh how I wish I had read the fine print myself. I tried to do them again, especially as a mountain of mounts junky. Unfortunately I got so sick of Icecrown that I couldn't bring myself to do it. Kudos to you for achieving the monumental feat twice.
Abbadon Apr 20th 2011 8:45AM
Your post reminded me... I used to be HARDCORE on the dailies! I was doing the Argent tourney dailies on FIVE toons at one point!!
Nowadays, I only have two toons at 85 (so far). My main just raids 2 nights a week, does his 5 arena matches, and that's about it... I prolly could use a few more cooking dailies to finish out the new recipes, but that's about the only thing he has to work on. On my other 85, I just do the JC daily in preparation for the eventual release of epic patterns.
Noyou Apr 20th 2011 10:21AM
Wow. I could never do AT on more than 2 toons at a time. I have 63 tokens on my lock. I was going to get the 2H mace for my druid (feral). I could easily get the 32 tokens in 3 days or so (probably 4 because there are a couple quests that just don't inspire me at all. One thing I will say- if you have a decent AoE farmer (almost any 85 will do) you could make a ton of gold off of frostweave- at least on my server, it goes for about 50-60g per stack. I would say though as far as the tourney goes I still use it (and like doing it actually) to level my toons from 77-80 but once I hit the magic number I find it hard to go back when I could be getting more xp in the cata zones. Since my warrior hit 85 a week or so ago he hasn't been back there. But I have done it on my mage and lock a couple times. My biggest problem is my stable of toons (7 85s a 73, 33, 27) There is still plenty I like from there as far as pets and mounts go so I will still do it but more off than on unfortunately.
Ryan Apr 20th 2011 10:37AM
@Noyou I did the same levelling my most recent alt.
Level 77 head to tournament grounds, but as soon as Level 80 came I was off to Hyjal. As for the mounts they are lovely.
But if I am to do any grind for a mount it will probably be Netherwing, as I haven't done it before. Anything to be rind of this HORRIBLE lion batwinged 10 polygon horror.
Aruhgulah Apr 20th 2011 11:25AM
Netherwing isn't so bad, actually. Kill a few thousand mobs and get the extra rep drops and you're golden. < /sarcasm >
Aggblade Apr 20th 2011 12:55PM
I know how you feel about Argent Dailies. I've done every daily to get exalted. Gotten every reward from commendations. But still have 4 more mounts to get from the Argent Dailies. It is the longest, hence boring, daily grind in the game. This coming from someone who has completed more than 2,600 dailies!
Arkonn Apr 20th 2011 8:11AM
At the start of the expansion, most days I found I was doing at least 20 per day mainly so I could get my drake from Tol Barad but over the last few months i've kinda given up on doing anything more than the cooking, fishing and jewelcrafting dailies in Stormwind. Occasionally i'll teleport to the Argent Tournament grounds for some Champion's Seals but really, I just don't feel motivated to do much more than that anymore. It all gets a bit same-y after a while.
Weryenbaur Apr 20th 2011 8:10AM
I was so glad to get my Wildhammer rep to exalted so that I wouldn't have to take anymore headache medicine from dealing with a fuzzy screen anymore. Yes, I know you can turn that feature off in the interface, but I don't like detracting from any game experience, good or bad.
Sinthar Apr 20th 2011 8:46AM
Hiya,
You do know you can click the buff it gives you - and you throw up - clearing the 'drunk' effect immediately but will cancel the buff (ofc). Especially effective when flying over the opposite faction :)
Geiss Apr 20th 2011 8:32AM
you can also click off the drunk buff...
Sorcha Apr 20th 2011 8:13AM
I really, really hate dailies.
Calicia Apr 20th 2011 8:15AM
Dailies are part of my early morning routine ... I drink my coffee and do my dailies. I generally just do fishing, cooking and TB. I might do TH if I have time ... the Wildhammer quests only take 10 minutes and their still fun for me.
Besides, I'm in a friendly competition with a mage in my guild to be ranked tops in guild XP and dailies are a good supplement to raids on my weekly grind to the cap.
Christine sessionWorkflowbasketWorkflowbasketSelectionbasketPerson[1]bookingPersonpersonsurname Apr 20th 2011 1:34PM
yeah, its part of my wake up routine.. coffee, dailies, starting in SW, TBP, TB if we have it, then wildhammer, then terazane, finally uldum, cause who doesn't laff at the little guys all stacked up and doing the ugh sound when u hit them:) easy gold..
Ice Apr 20th 2011 8:15AM
After I get exalted or get all recipies+items (like cooking dailies with chef hat) I quit totally.
Not to "brag" but I have enough money and income (and very very few spendings) to not make myself do dailies.
My only sources of spendings is repairs (guild pays most) and enchants/gems. Since I enjoy AH playing a lot more I do that rather than fly around whole day for what, 800g?
I think dailies have grown more useless over the years, and thats good that we dont have to be forced to do them in order to be competitive. I mean they are the "burger flipping of wow, for small cash rewards"..
Specially during cataclysm the daily money income is pretty much worthless due inflation IMO. The amount of work you need to put into like 800g is not worth it.. you could just sell 8 gems in AH to get same amount of gold and save yourself couple hours of flying..?
Maybe rep is the main point nowdays. I'm just glad its not like back in the day: if you didnt do them, you were kinda screwed on some part of the game (pvp enchants? starter pvp gear? BiS raid gear because you had to start from kara not farm badges all day or so?).
I mean heck, some cataclysm dailies give less money than some wrath dailies do! and they are harder and longer to do too!
My only goal from dailies left is Tol barad daily achievement (done all quests at least once) and then I'm done.
Dailies make me want to stop playing, its chore. Its no fun. Specially tol barad ones. Not "hard" but def not fun either.. just tedious or buggy (cough free the prisoner cough).
Swifteye Apr 20th 2011 10:11AM
I totally agree with you: inflation, more than anything, has made dailies utterly worthless.
In the time it takes me to do a handful of dailies, I can farm enough Whiptail to make several thousand gold worth of Fortune Cookies (God bless Tauren Druids, and God bless Inscription only taking tiers of herbs rather than specific ones!).
Rep reward gear? By the time I've done enough dailies to get Exalted on ONE toon, I could've farmed enough sellable mats to afford to fully deck out TWO (or more!) toons with ilvl 346 and 359 crafted gear and the drops from the rares that are always on the AH (Blazewing's Furious Kilt, Sunderfury's Sundries, etc.; those sorts of 346s).
I'm taking my 6th toon through the railroaded Cata quests as it is... it's boring enough when you have to do the same quests in the same order every time and can't skip any lest the storyline get stuck; I can't take repetitive Cata dailies on top of it!