Best Way to Do Dailies for Gold and FactionPosted by xenith on May 21st, 2009

For most players, daily quests have become a major part of the game for your level 80 characters. They are a good way to earn some gold and to start equipping you characters with some epic items ready for heroics and raiding. Rep items are one way to break out of  the ‘Viscious Armory Check Circle’ (you know, you don’t have the gear to get into Heroic PUGs, but you need Heroic PUGS to get the gear in the first place…). There are some nice purple rewards to be had from exalted rep.

The Daily Grind

Daily questing is a grind, just like leveling from 1 to 80, so the same rules apply when it comes to getting the most bang for your questing buck. You want to be able to knock out the 25 daily quest that you are allowed to complete each day in the least amount of time and you want to do the quests that will get you the best rewards for time spent. Its not just a case of doing whichever quests give the highest rewards. You need to have a plan.

A great way to do this is to use this daily quest guide. This is an in-game guide designed to help you select the best quests to do. It will then show you exactly where to go, what to do and what to kill to complete your quests. You can list quests by level, zone and reputation earned, then see a ‘TomTom’ style hud with waypoints to show you where to go for your next objective for any quest on the list. The guide will also show you which quest chains you need to complete to unlock each daily quest and how to complete it. It will really save you a ton of frustration, figuring out what quests to do and how to do them. You will really cut back on the amount of time you are having to spend doing dailies.

I already made a post about the best daily quests to do for gold. In that post I explained that there are much better ways to make gold in the game, so if that is your only reason for doing dailies, you might want to take a look at my Auctioneer tutorial or the Auction House Mastery video series. The Auction House method is the fastest way to make gold at any level.

But if you are looking to grind reputation and make gold, dailies are your only option. Your first step is to figure out what reputations you need. For most classes, these reputations are worth pursuing for gear:

• Argent Dawn
• Ebon Blade
• Wyrmrest Accord
• Kirin Tor

Kirin Tor Tabard

Unfortunately, the only daily quests for Kirin Tor reputation are the cooking and fishing dailies. If you have the skill, these are dailies you should do .. err  …daily! You get the rep, some gold and you get tokens for high level recipes. I’ve found that selling high level food with good raiding stats on the AH is pretty lucrative. The fishing daily can reward you with treasure items worth up to 100 gold.

The other factions have plenty of dailies available and the level 80 daily quests for these are also the ones with the highest gold rewards. You need to pick the quests that are easiest and quickest to complete so that you can get your quota of 25 quests completed in a couple of hours. Plan your questing so that you can be working on several quests at once by picking a few that are completed in the same general area. Most daily quests will require you to complete a regular quest chain before they become available. Use this daily quest guide to make all this really easy.