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by Fox Van Allen 
Jan 20th 2012 at 8:00AM
I don't know what it is about them. I certainly don't need the tokens to buy recipes, and my character hardly needs the pittance of gold that completion rewards her. But every day, I still head out on my trusty steed, picking Prickly Pears, grabbing Muddy Crawfish, and murdering thieves. It's just part of my routine, and I feel weirdly incomplete if the server resets before I can get them done.
What about you? Do you run your cooking dailies every day? Do you still make your way to Baradin Hold or Firelands to grind out a reward? Do your characters head to Dalaran or maybe even Shattrath to do their good deed of the day? Let us know.
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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 4)
Noyou Jan 20th 2012 8:33AM
I'm with you. I usually do them first on a couple toons. Reminds me I need to do the Dal and Shatt cooking daily so I can get the Stormchops recipe.
The_4_Ks Jan 20th 2012 8:19AM
Nah. After I get the piece of gear/reach the rep i need to reach, i'll move on.
Blayze Jan 20th 2012 8:25AM
When I can be bothered. All I've got left is the Tournament--two mounts, one tabard and a pony to go.
Metric Jan 20th 2012 8:27AM
I run the Baradin Hold and Wild Hammer dailies on my tailoring/enchanting alt. With a potion of treasure finding they are a great source of cloth and greens.
Aaron Jan 20th 2012 2:22PM
Potions of Treasure Finding are great; I always have one active when I farm cloth. They're can be a bit expensive on the Auction House, but they're almost certainly worthwhile if you have an alt or guildmate who can make them for you.
LynMars Jan 20th 2012 8:31AM
In spurts. Usually when I want to rebuild my gold stash and/or get an reward for rep or currency only available through the dailies. If I'm burnt out on the game in general and taking a break, dailies are one of the first things to fall by the wayside, as I'll only log in for the RP guild meetings and raids I've signed up for, if folks want to run a dungeon, or to just use WoW as an expensive chat program.
With school starting up again, dailies aren't likely to get done, or be the only thing to get done in a session. I do find myself often doing the fishing/cooking dailies, and the JC daily on my jewelcrafter most days I log in, though, on at least one character. They're fast, easy, and do give a tiny bit of money so why not.
One of the things SWTOR could learn from WoW, though? Don't make daily quests group-necessary (at-level, at least) and put the quest givers somewhere easily found and accessible--like by the medical droids and speeder relays of each section, not randomly in the middle of hostile territory surrounded by packs of mobs. There are some really nice side-story quests I haven't bothered with because it's a pain to get a group of 2-4 people together randomly to slog to the middle of a zone to kill elite mobs, and it's not always worth doing them when you outlevel that content. They aren't necessary to grind rep or items or what not, but the desire to do them at all is non-existent because they're annoying more than grindy.
Sort of like elite quests back in classic that you only went back to do for lore master of EK or Kalimdor/for RP gear/just to see how the quest chain ended, because finding a group at level could be rough. At least those weren't dailies, anyway.
neder Jan 20th 2012 8:38AM
Just few in Hyjal, because I am lacking one elemental from the bombing quest for the last achievment. After I get it, I ll run TB for 200 marks and get the drake. And will wait for the next hub.
razion Jan 20th 2012 8:39AM
I find a have a lot more free time nowadays than from when I was going to college. Back in Wrath I would only dedicate myself to doing a few dailies (selecting to do either of the Sholazar sets or Tuskarr dailies, depending on what rep grind I was doing), with little time for anything else. I remember I only finished those rep grinds later on in the expansion, and by the end of everything did I get everything I wanted from fishing and cooking afterwards.
I find I now have a lot of freedom with what I would like to do, to the point where I nearly wish the daily quest cap was removed (or allowed for the cap to be independent across expansion areas, so you didn't have to select with branches of old or new content to 'weed out of the daily rotation' as it were).
First it's Molten Front dailies, followed by several different cooking and fishing dailies, then a try for the White Polar Bear, (and if available) a couple dailies in Deepholm, of course we got to fit time in with the Argent Tournament, leaving me to finish off with as many Tol Barad dailies as I can fit (assuming the Darkmoon Faire isn't around).
The most enjoyable daily I have ever done would perhaps be one of the Ramkahen ones, specifically the one where you get the gigantic mallet and obliterate the pygmies. I'd love to fit in room for it and some of the dailies from the other Cataclysm zones, but unfortunately there just isn't room for it.
My guildies tend to wonder how I manage to do so much while still finding time in the day to run battlegrounds for conquest and solo old dungeons for other things, like mounts.
Tauren Fan Jan 20th 2012 11:41AM
Speaking of Uldum, how is it possible that there is not a daily version of the Gnomebliteration (probably spelled wrong) quest once you complete it the first time? I look forward to that one each time an alt reaches Uldum. I'd trek out there to do that once in a while even if there weren't any rep involved. A giant ball of burning gnomes is reward enough!
Tricia Jan 20th 2012 8:42AM
I always do my dailies at the beginning of the expansion/content patch/whatnot. Usually I get bored or run out of rewards and stop doing them eventually.
Honestly though, I haven't logged on to do a quest since the first day of Winter Veil. I got bored more quickly in this expansion then I have in expansions past.
Nik Jan 20th 2012 8:43AM
The first thing I do when I log in!
Stormwind or Ironforge cooking and fishing dailies on all four of my 85s every day, plus the jewelcrafting one on my JC. Tol Barad or Molten Front to pass the time while waiting for dungeon/LFR queues.
Mycroft Jan 20th 2012 8:45AM
I'm done with them. It actually feels weird, because until I got through all of them, I was doing them every day. I got everything available from the Tol Barad vendors, barring the occasional pvp enchant (which I could grind battlegrounds for as well). I've done AT to get everything, and now only do them sometimes to work towards a pet to sell.
When there were still dailies that got me something, I had a more rigid daily routine. Now that there's nothing left except getting a bit of gold (and even then your partner in crime in the gold-making article department disagrees that they're useful for that), I'm not doing them.
Not only that, I'm not logging on every day, and doing other daily routines. There was even a stretch of three full days when I was having so much fun leveling an alt that I never scanned the AH. Not once!
Mycroft Jan 20th 2012 9:03AM
As an addendum, the beginning of an expansion / patch felt pretty structured in my playtime as well, as I'd also queue up for the one dungeon that had my one piece of gear that hadn't dropped from the previous raid.
Back in Wrath, I'd do AT dailies and then queue for HoR, to try for the offhand from the end (took me two months!), then HToC5 for a few more marks to buy pets/mounts, then a random for the badges.
Start of cata it was pretty much everything daily-related, then BRC to get Corla to drop spell leather bracers (six weeks!), then a random for vp.
Then 4.1 hit and threw me off some, since there were only two dungeons I had a really good chance of getting the one that had the bear guy dropping the spell leather bracers (only took three weeks to win it), and with the changes to daily dungeons being weekly that's when I sorta faltered.
4.2 had no new dungeons, so no new gear from it, so I got off track even further. That's also when I finally started seriously raiding, so I had a good vp income from that too and didn't need as many dungeons. I did the Hyjal dailies until I unlocked everything - since there was nothing worthwhile with the tokens I stopped doing dailies. In retrospect I think they missed an opportunity to have AT-style boe pets or something from here, if they did I'd probably still be running them.
4.3 I already had full raid gear, so I needed nothing from the new dungeons. No new daily quests. With blowing through 5 raid bosses easy on Tuesday night, plus raid finder, I don't ever see the inside of a dungeon anymore. Really my only daily ritual right now is doing a bit of AH work in the mornings and evenings, after I'd finally seen for myself that some professions can actually be leveraged to make money (up til now I'd only had leatherworking on my main, now that I have a scribe on an alt I've discovered fortune cards are like printing money, literally, with the ink and everything)
thenighthawk Jan 20th 2012 8:56AM
At the moment I only do the JC with any regularity
bitssy Jan 20th 2012 9:05AM
Youbetcha! Two realms, one horde, one alliance-a total of 12 toons that do dailies religously every day-that may be all I do, but they sure do get done. Now the darkmoon faire - wow, just not enough daily slots, blizz.....please just allow us to do as many dailies as we can tolerate, be it 5 or 50-i want them all
bloodworthc Jan 20th 2012 9:06AM
Religiously. I quit for a spell after cata dropped, and Life happened. I came back in November and have been loving life. I told myself the only way I'd come back is if I dropped my hardcore status and dedicated myself to having fun. My hardcore old self (since BC) has slowly crept back in but not to the extent it was. I love doing dailies. It's relaxing and doesn't take a ton of thought. at the end of a long day at work, and things around the house, I love taking time for me and letting my mind go. I'm going back and getting old dailies and rep right now; Kalu'ak as soon as I got back, Netherwing, and now Oracles/Frenzyheart. Next, who knows? But I'm having fun.
Qraulusone Jan 20th 2012 9:08AM
I'm with Wollsmoth, after a day of work I find doing dailies relaxing. I can't stop myself from doing the fishing and cooking quests each day, then I'm off to ArgentT, Shadow Vault, Death Rise, Tol Barad and Firelands to knock out 25+ dailies in just over 80mins this includes a bunch quests I can't turn in till next day. I love getting the Get Kraken daily out in ArgentT since you can do it twice to get another tooth (quest) for easy next day turn in. Although I no longer need cooking awards for recipes or Cseals for ArgentT mounts or pets I can't stop accruing more of them. I've been holding my Cooking awards in case Blizz ever gets the idea to complete the chef's hat with a cooks Jacket and set of killer cooking knifes. It probably will never happen but I keep collecting the awards anyways! Crazy Q! /cheers
Redielin Jan 20th 2012 9:16AM
Nope.
Rendarkin Jan 20th 2012 9:19AM
I can grind dailies with laser precision if there is a goal I am working towards (unlocking Molten Core recipes as quickly as I could comes to mind). So I don't do them just to do them, but rather for reward. I've yet to exhaust the rewards (but I'm trying!)
I do JC daily every day for that token. It's probably the most valuable daily in the game.
I have 1 more AT mount to get and the 2 mounts from Tol Barad, so I'm working those two circuits every day I can. I still need to get lucky with that pet from Molten Core, but, man, after a month or two of doing that every. single. day...I'm a little, um, burned out on it.
ejunk Jan 20th 2012 9:29AM
I am doing the Dal cooking daily every day so I can get that chef's hat. this is after finishing the darn/if/sw achievement and getting all the recipes.
I do prof dailies on my other toons for skill ups and despite the fact that number crunching says they aren't a good way to get gold, I do dailies for gold, too because it's 10 times less boring than herb farming.