
Now that the cap has been raised to twenty-five, and a slew of dailies has been added as of patch 2.4, many players are finding themselves spending a few hours on daily quests each day. Personally, there are a few that I enjoy doing most days, including the bombing runs, and some that I'd rather avoid if I didn't need the gold to fuel my rather Outlandish habits.
I'm not sure if I could pinpoint a single culprit though. The longer quests bother me up front, because I get bored spending half an hour each day mowing through the same exercise. As such, the Shadowmoon Valley quests might be my least favorite, because aside from the competition, they take forever.
Which daily quests are giving you a daily headache, and why?














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4-09-2008 @ 8:11AM
ace danger said...
daily skettis escort quest with a slow flyer, mostly because of all the flying around looking for the guy and the kaliri knocking me off when I cloak is on it's 30m cooldown
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4-09-2008 @ 8:33AM
allanon said...
The worst daily has to be "A Slow Death." The drop rate on the glands was horrible and takes a long time to get the glands. You then almost always find a bugged group when trying to feed them which causes you to lose one or more of the glands. Ths means back to grind some more glands and try again. Definitely the longest death march of a quest I can think of.
4-09-2008 @ 4:24PM
mk said...
agreed with allanon above me. a slow death is a complete nightmare. the ravager quest is rough when the cave is highly populated, but you can kill everything around you while you do it at least. compared to the netherwing quests, the sunwell dailies are a breeze.
4-09-2008 @ 8:14AM
Jimmie Dean said...
The new daily in Phase 3 of the Isle. The one to open up the anvil. Terrible drop rate and to many people trying to do them. I for one am going to skip this as the new badge loot doesn't help me with the amount of badges I have right now.
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4-09-2008 @ 11:13AM
Zewt said...
Word.
4-09-2008 @ 12:33PM
brittwilson said...
I killed 15 or so Naga, didnt get a single freaking key. Unless Im doing it wrong, Im not doing that one anymore. Badge loot can wait IMO.
4-09-2008 @ 2:14PM
Epoc said...
Its not all the naga. Only the myrmidon's drop the key. the spell casting naga do not drop the keys. Quest description below. at most i've killed is 5 myrmidon's to get 3 keys of the several times i've done this quest
http://wowhead.com/?quest=11535
4-09-2008 @ 8:22AM
muaddib420 said...
i'd have to say the skettis bombing run. it's fun to bomb the eggs, but those orange vulture birds aggroing are a real pain. one upside is there's usually an adamantite node up there XD
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4-09-2008 @ 8:28AM
Bloodthorn said...
I agree on most of the SMV ones being too long, I usually do the mine ones, the deadly trap and the booterrang ones, just for cash, the skinning one and the crystal one only if I end up picking up the needed materials while doing the others.
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4-09-2008 @ 8:29AM
KateJaneway said...
Mana cells, there's always a Tauren there ready to steal whatever cell I am defending against stupid wyrms.
And I am so glad I can skip the dailies in BEM now!
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4-09-2008 @ 8:33AM
Ama said...
I've managed to get my epic flying mount lately, so the first thing I did was trying the Netherwing faction daily quests. They are buggy, long and absolutely not worth the hassle... I've finished only two of them :
1. Killing the flying dudes carrying Netherwing relics is a major pain, since they evade 50% of what I am throwing at them.
2. Peons simply won't eat their poisoned food. For 12 camps to poison I needed 16 items (poisonous glands or whatever they are). It's not funny when you have to fly all the way back to the main land and start farming mobs again (drop rate is supposed to be around 30%).
3. Getting 30 crystals... no comments. I've been killing mobs for 15 minutes and I've got 10. Doing a daily quest for 45 minutes is simply ridiculous.
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4-09-2008 @ 8:49AM
Rippchen said...
do some more netherwing quests until you reach the next level of reputation. then you unlock 2 or 3 quests in the nethermines which won't take too long. one of them gives 18 gold as a reward.
also if you farm for your crystals while doing the nethermines quests you will have 30 of them in no time.
4-09-2008 @ 8:49AM
BillDoor said...
Unfriendly Skies does infact suck.
A Slow Death is easier when you know where to farm the meat from. I highly recommend Felfire Diemetradons.
Crystals used to be 40, so I don't have any sympathy :) However, you get the best drop rate in the mines, especially from the flayers.
4-09-2008 @ 10:22AM
Mirado said...
I totally agree about trying to shoot those orcs out of the sky. Though, when they bug, they sometime fly back up into the sky without a mount and swim around. Kind of amusing.
As for feeding peons: if you notice a group of peons just standing around doing nothing then they are bugged and won't eat the meat. You have to make sure that you put some meat down for the peons that are mining or whatever.
4-11-2008 @ 2:07PM
Saphia said...
Watch the peons. If they are just standing there, they will not eat the food. There are several groups that are bugged. This isn't a sure-fire way to make sure they'll eat it, but you can do that. I tend to not do that one either, but once you're high enough to do the booterang quest, you'll enjoy smacking those disobedient peons around.
I've leveled two toons up through exalted with them. And I stopped doing the feeding quest unless I was in a party. If you have a friend, both of you can pick up the food. That way, when one of the peons won't eat, you'll have extra. That's the ONLY time I'd do the feeding the peon quest.
4-09-2008 @ 8:44AM
Clasifyd said...
I think my least favorite is the 'Maintaining the Portal' quest. Seriously, who ever goes out to Bash'ir Landing for anything other than this? You couldn't possibly be any further away (from Shatt, that is). After farming 10 or so mobs to get the phasing device, you undoubtedly phase in right on top of a worm or opposing faction member who promptly beats the living hell out of you. Luckily, the mana cubes respawn at an almost insane rate, so it doesn't take as long as some of the quests listed above.
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4-09-2008 @ 9:02AM
Dryss said...
You can use the Phase Device anywhere in Bash'ir landing. I recommend using it while standing near the top of a giant stone spine, or on the hilltop with the Image of Commander Ameer.
4-09-2008 @ 11:43AM
Zali said...
I love this one. The motes of mana drop off the worms is great. I usually get enough of the boxes to get the quest done, and then go around killing worms for another 20 minutes or so. I got 4 Primal Mana this morning.
4-09-2008 @ 11:53AM
KateJaneway said...
You can mount up when you're done and come out of phase in the air :)
4-09-2008 @ 3:12PM
JPaterson said...
"Seriously, who ever goes out to Bash'ir Landing for anything other than this? You couldn't possibly be any further away (from Shatt, that is)."
Yeah, not like there's a Sunwell quest in Netherstorm which is even further away than Bash'irs.
Oh, wait...