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World of Warcraft: Dailies in an Hour Thirty
MMORPG.com World of Warcraft Correspondent James Wood writes this guide to getting your character's dailies in a swift hour and a half.
advertisement With the introduction of the Argent Tournament in Patch 3.1, the time needed to finish Northrend-based dailies has been reduced and the potential gold output from completing 25 has risen significantly. And they can all be completed in one hour to one hour and thirty minutes.
The guide has a few requirements: (a) Have your Icecrown dailies unlocked; (b) Be Honored with the Sons of Hodir; (c) Be at least an Aspirant in the Argent Tournament; (d) Use a very fast flying mount and; (e) Have 14 empty bag slots. Anyone who falls under the third requirement will have 4-5 dailies left to do, so another list will be added to the end of the guide to fill that daily quota.
Each of the quests mentioned in the guide's steps rewards a minimum of 13 gold and 23 silver, can be done very quickly, does not require professions and minimizes your exposure to gankers.
- If you are only an Aspirant, Valiant, or Champion-only at the Argent Tournament, check your Wintergrasp timer. Leave when the timer has 50 minutes to 1 hour remaining and you're on the offensive team, then head to Icecrown. There will be an extra section at the end of this guide for the extra dailies.
- Collect these quests at either the Skybreaker or Orgrim's Hammer, depending on your faction: Drag and Drop, Retest Now, Blood of the Chosen, Not A Bug, Volatility (Horde) / The Solution Solution (Alliance), and Keeping the Alliance Blind (Horde) / Capture More Dispatches (Alliance). Head to the Argent Tournament next.
- Once at the Argent Tournament, start Jack Me Some Lumber and A Chip Off the Ulduar Block.
- Aspirants start Learning the Reins and Training in The Field.
- Valiants start The Grand Melee, A Valiant's Field Training and At The Enemy's Gates.
- Champions start A Champion's Battle, Taking Battle To The Enemy, Battle Before The Citadel and Threat From Above.
- Champions with a Secondary Valiant can retake the Valiant quests for other cities.
- All ranks should take A Worthy Weapon, A Blade Fit For A Champion, or The Edge of Winter.
- If you ended up with two lances, destroy one of them to save bag space and use the other to complete Learning the Reins, The Grand Melee or A Champion's Battle.
Depending on your opponent, fights can take a few seconds to 3 minutes per combatant. Against the Valiant or Champion NPCs, engage them in melee until they start walking away. Back up as they do, as their retreat lasts for a certain amount of time and not by the distance made. Charge when you're at the minimum range and hit them with a normal attack when you're close. While you still have the speed buff, distance yourself from the NPC and use Shield Break before returning to melee attacks. Rinse and repeat. - Turn in Learning the Reins, The Grand Melee, and/or A Champion's Battle, then destroy your lance.
- Head eastward and collect the quest items for A Chip Off The Ulduar Block. When you're done with the quest, remove the Goblin Chisel from your inventory.
- Go to Dun Niffelem next, then collect, complete and turn in Polishing the Helm, Thrusting Hodir's Spear, and Feeding Arngrim. End the quests with Thrusting Hodir's Spear to put you back in Dun Niffelem to turn in the quests and make a quick escape before someone takes advantage of your weakened state.
- Complete A Worthy Weapon, A Blade Fit For A Champion, or The Edge of Winter, then go to the Great Tree in Crystalsong Forest.
- Complete Jack Me Some Lumber, then head north to Icecrown. Like the Goblin Chisel, remove the Lumberjack's Axe from your inventory to save space.
- (Champions Only) When someone requests a group for Threat From Above, take the opportunity immediately. If all the members of the group are not near Chillmaw, continue with your previous quest until they are ready.
- Complete Volatility. If any of the Scourge attack you as you're collecting materials for the dummy, add them to your Icecrown Scourge Kills for Training In The Field, A Valiant's Field Training, and/or Taking Battle To The Enemy.
- Go to Ymirheim and kill 8-10 vrykul, then start Assault By Ground. The 3 packs of vrykul that you fight should be enough to fill your quota for Blood of the Chosen.
- Start and complete Assault By Air. After your 4th infiltrator has been deployed, eject from your plane.
- Start, complete and turn in King of the Mountain. The mechagnome's jump can be spammed, so getting to the top should be fairly quick, followed by a quick flight back to the quest NPC.
- Go southwest from Ymirheim to the Argent Tournament camp in Corp'rethar. Take a new lance from the racks near the horses, then complete At The Enemy's Gates and/or Battle At The Citadel.
Low-Flying Boneguard Scouts can be defeated before their first attack with a Shield Breaker + Normal Attack combo, Boneguard Lieutenants can be defeated with Shield Breaker, Charge and 1 Attack. Boneguard Commanders are difficult to solo, often because of the extra mobs that get in the way during the fight. Pull the Commander back to the Argent Camp and stay within range of another horse as the Commander will attack you after your horse dies. - Once done, travel north from Corp'rethar and find a safe spot either on the fields or the cliff to complete Capture More Dispatches or Keeping the Alliance Blind.
- Go northwest to the Shadow Vault and start, complete and turn in Vile Like Fire and Shoot 'Em Up.
- Head east to Aldur'thar. Once you've landed near the Enslaved Minions, drink the Diluted Cult Tonic and kill both minions and the Void Summoners. Kill the groups separately as a bug in Not A Bug can prevent you from collecting Dark Matter if two Enslaved Minions die too close to each other. Collect the Tainted Essence as well.
- Complete Not A Bug and kill some of the mobs near the summoning stone to add to your quota for Retest Now.
- Complete Retest Now. There are different buffs from the cauldrons. The western cauldron gives you attack power, the southern cauldron gives you stamina and the eastern cauldron gives you spellpower.
- Start, complete and turn in Riding the Wavelength: The Bombardment. Unless the Gargoyle Ambushers are attacking you en masse, don't restore your shields or put out the flames. You can kill all the required mobs before your bomber explodes and you're returned to the quest NPC.
- Fly south of the platform and complete Drag and Drop. If you still haven't filled your quota for Icecrown Scourge kills, kill the Bitter Initiates.
- Turn in Assault By Air, then return to Skybreaker or Orgrim's Hammer and turn in all the quests you collected from there.
- Return to the Argent Tournament and turn in your remaining quests.
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If you're a Champion with both Champion and Valiant quests, then that will be 25 quests completed with a total payout of 374 gold and 5 silver if you pick all the Champion's Purses for the quests.
Aspirants will still have 5 free dailies, Valiants will have 4 free dailies and Champions will have 3 free dailies remaining.
Aspirants, Valiants and Champions
By leaving 50 minutes to an hour before the Wintergrasp offensive battle, you guarantee that you will be somewhere within Icecrown before the battle starts. Slay Them All and Defend the Siege can be completed quickly, but Victory In Wintergrasp risks the most time to complete and turn in, pushing your daily time past the hour-thirty mark if your side fails.
If you do succeed, turn in your Wintergrasp dailies, then go to the western end of Wintergrasp and fly to Coldarra. Do Aces High, and then head north into Sholazar Basin. If you have already unlocked the dailies for either the Oracles or the Frenzyheart, do either Chicken Party or Appeasing The Great Rain Stone, then return to Icecrown to finish the rest of the dailies.
If you fail or skip Victory In Wintergrasp, travel east into Dragonblight instead, then do the quest Defending Wyrmrest Temple. Though this quest only awards 9 gold and 96 silver, the time-reward ratio is better than other dailies located nearby. After completing the quest, go to the Borean Tundra and do Aces High, then go north into Sholazar for the quests mentioned.
Even with a few hiccups along the way, pulling off the 25 dailies in one hour and thirty minutes is quite easy. Kudos to Blizzard for making more opportunities to raise cash for our Ulduar repair bills.
I wish they would understand that making things easy doesn't make it fun.
I can't even bring myself to quest normally just for the sake of leveling.
I don't know how the hell you guys run the same freaking 25 daily quests everyday.
You've all been brainwashed to think something like this is fun to do.
Let me start by saying I do play Wow ... even lead a 25 man raid guild. I can't say how much I HATE, HATE, HATE doing dailies. I do them here and there when Im hard up for gold. I don't even know anyone in my guild that actually likes dailies. Not to mention I don't think most of my guild has even bothered to go out to the Argent tourny yet, lol. Don't get me wrong ... the Argent tourny itself is pretty cool compared to most of the dailies. But still .. its repetitive, not to mention in WOTLK they send you all over the GD world to complete them. If it weren't for my guild , I think Id just quit. PvP is bleh, Raiding is ok and content is regurgitated (sp?)
Unfortunately It is one of the best out there and Ive failed to find anything monumentally different that was actually fun to play. LoTRO and EQ2 are both great games but don't offer anything very differnt. SWG had things that set itself apart from the rest now its just a run of the mill game as well. And it seems any "sandbox" game coming out wants to toss an fps type combat in it .... ehh wtf? Starting to feel like a hamster on a treadmill.
When you do it the way the OP does, yeah, you get burned out really fast and I wouldn't call it fun either. I think it's like 'leveling to 80 in 2 days... the actual challenge of doing it is the fun part. How fast can you do your 25 dailies in? what is the max amount of gold you can get by doing just your 25 dailies.. that type of thing. I really don't think there are many people out there that are going to do those 25 dailies every day like that though.
I do, however, love the concept of dailies. I always do my cooking, fishing and heroic dailies, and usually the BG daily and the WG dailies. I also have 1-2 reps that I'm working on as well as the new coliseum dailies.
The question I have for you... about being brainwashed.... what do you do at endgame in other games? Every other game is even more 'brainwashed' than WOW where dailies are only 1 of about 10 options you have at endgame to progress your character. I know in AOC, I wish I had something to do besides raid 1 dungeon and do some pvp seiging. In Warhammer, what is there to do?
Sound so fun.....
I can remember before quitting that I used to log on and complete the cooking dailies, did that for about a week to save enough of the tokens for spices or a new recipe, then it just got too much for me.
I couldn't bear the thought of doing it day in day out just to get more spices.
The idea behind it all is a good one, it's another part of the advancement in the game, but like any MMO it only has a certain shelf life before it expires and becomes something you want to avoid like the plague, but is seen as a neccessity by some and has to be completed.
A guide into maximising your time while completing dailies just shows you the flaw of the whole system, if it was an enjoyable game mechanic why would you want to complete them as fast as possible?
I was never a fan of dailiies because, for me, it was boring
but I do think this guide will be helpful for anyone who wants to make "fast cash"
What a tedious way to spend an hour and a half. Why not do something fun instead?
When you do it the way the OP does, yeah, you get burned out really fast and I wouldn't call it fun either. I think it's like 'leveling to 80 in 2 days... the actual challenge of doing it is the fun part. How fast can you do your 25 dailies in? what is the max amount of gold you can get by doing just your 25 dailies.. that type of thing. I really don't think there are many people out there that are going to do those 25 dailies every day like that though.
I do, however, love the concept of dailies. I always do my cooking, fishing and heroic dailies, and usually the BG daily and the WG dailies. I also have 1-2 reps that I'm working on as well as the new coliseum dailies.
The question I have for you... about being brainwashed.... what do you do at endgame in other games? Every other game is even more 'brainwashed' than WOW where dailies are only 1 of about 10 options you have at endgame to progress your character. I know in AOC, I wish I had something to do besides raid 1 dungeon and do some pvp seiging. In Warhammer, what is there to do?
Oh believe me, Im well aware of the MMO flaw that is endgame. You maybe right all those other games on the market do the same weak shit that WoW does.
Raiding every week, instance pvp all day, daily quests, Orvr grind, Proff grind, alt grind over and over every single one of them has this endgame feature that makes me sick.
Even a game like WAR that I actually sub to, i've tried my hardest not to level any of my four characters to end level.
You say WoW has more options? Gratz!!! it has more repetative options at endgame.... in a genre thats not supposed to have an end!!
I'm glad the game I play doesn't include an Endgame and sadly its the only one with the balls to do so.
GL with that max level grind you guys love so much ill be that way -----------> playing the only true MMO with an ever evolving world that really never ends, Eve Online.
Oh believe me, Im well aware of the MMO flaw that is endgame. You maybe right all those other games on the market do the same weak shit that WoW does.
Raiding every week, instance pvp all day, daily quests, Orvr grind, Proff grind, alt grind over and over every single one of them has this endgame feature that makes me sick.
Even a game like WAR that I actually sub to, i've tried my hardest not to level any of my four characters to end level.
You say WoW has more options? Gratz!!! it has more repetative options at endgame.... in a genre thats not supposed to have an end!!
I'm glad the game I play doesn't include an Endgame and sadly its the only one with the balls to do so.
GL with that max level grind you guys love so much ill be that way -----------> playing the only true MMO with an ever evolving world that really never ends, Eve Online.
Nice way to flame.
Eve has no end game, Eve has everything for you. Good for you. No need to name call or flame other games if you truly love Eve. No one from WoW care to flame Eve by the way. Some play both.
Someone here says there are more options for WoW players when they hit max level, than some other game. That is their opinion. Whether its repettive or not, that is an opinion. Breathing and eating is repetitive, do you want to stop eating and suffocate?
Eve does not have visible character levels, Eve is played out as a giantic player teams vs player teams game. WoW is a different animal, comparing them and praising one by dissing the other, makes no sense. You can say, oranges taste better because hello kitty sucks as a toy, indeed for you.
Max level grind game? Eve has its own form of time killing, mining, ambushing, I do not see how one must be superior to another, it depends on who is paying for the account. Half a million is paying for Eve, a few million for WoW, and they all appears to be willing to maintain the sub. The comparison stops there, nothing superior, nothing more.
Oh believe me, Im well aware of the MMO flaw that is endgame. You maybe right all those other games on the market do the same weak shit that WoW does.
Raiding every week, instance pvp all day, daily quests, Orvr grind, Proff grind, alt grind over and over every single one of them has this endgame feature that makes me sick.
Even a game like WAR that I actually sub to, i've tried my hardest not to level any of my four characters to end level.
You say WoW has more options? Gratz!!! it has more repetative options at endgame.... in a genre thats not supposed to have an end!!
I'm glad the game I play doesn't include an Endgame and sadly its the only one with the balls to do so.
GL with that max level grind you guys love so much ill be that way -----------> playing the only true MMO with an ever evolving world that really never ends, Eve Online.
Nice way to flame.
Eve has no end game, Eve has everything for you. Good for you. No need to name call or flame other games if you truly love Eve. No one from WoW care to flame Eve by the way. Some play both.
Someone here says there are more options for WoW players when they hit max level, than some other game. That is their opinion. Whether its repettive or not, that is an opinion. Breathing and eating is repetitive, do you want to stop eating and suffocate?
Eve does not have visible character levels, Eve is played out as a giantic player teams vs player teams game. WoW is a different animal, comparing them and praising one by dissing the other, makes no sense. You can say, oranges taste better because hello kitty sucks as a toy, indeed for you.
Max level grind game? Eve has its own form of time killing, mining, ambushing, I do not see how one must be superior to another, it depends on who is paying for the account. Half a million is paying for Eve, a few million for WoW, and they all appears to be willing to maintain the sub. The comparison stops there, nothing superior, nothing more.
I am in no way better then anyone else on this forum due to a videogame I enjoy playing.
The poster simply asked me a question and I answered it honestly, If you don't like it tough.
Tbh that wasn't a slam toward WoW but every damn game with an endgame on the market including WAR (that i just now unsubbed to).
Have a good night
Nice way to flame.
Eve has no end game, Eve has everything for you. Good for you. No need to name call or flame other games if you truly love Eve. No one from WoW care to flame Eve by the way. Some play both.
Someone here says there are more options for WoW players when they hit max level, than some other game. That is their opinion. Whether its repettive or not, that is an opinion. Breathing and eating is repetitive, do you want to stop eating and suffocate?
Eve does not have visible character levels, Eve is played out as a giantic player teams vs player teams game. WoW is a different animal, comparing them and praising one by dissing the other, makes no sense. You can say, oranges taste better because hello kitty sucks as a toy, indeed for you.
Max level grind game? Eve has its own form of time killing, mining, ambushing, I do not see how one must be superior to another, it depends on who is paying for the account. Half a million is paying for Eve, a few million for WoW, and they all appears to be willing to maintain the sub. The comparison stops there, nothing superior, nothing more.
I am in no way better then anyone else on this forum due to a videogame I enjoy playing.
The poster simply asked me a question and I answered it honestly, If you don't like it tough.
Tbh that wasn't a slam toward WoW but every damn game with an endgame on the market including WAR (that i just now unsubbed to).
Have a good night
Indeed, this reply makes a lot more sense. Your earlier reply consist of too many "sensitive" words. I do not mean to say the OP is right, I just find your earlier reply a bit too sweeping.
And, have a good night, day, wherever you are. Not everyone is in the States, not now for me.
Not the most efficient way to do the said daily's but put's all the information for those that are thottbot or wowhead challenged in a convenient writeup.