New Daily Quest and Events Guide!Posted by xenith on March 26th, 2010

I just found out that Zygor (of Leveling Guide fame) has been working on a new Dailies and Events Guide and that its going to be released pretty soon. I’ve used Zygor’s leveling guides and wouldn’t level an alt without it anymore. Its completely in-game and tells you exactly what to do every step of the way. Plus, if you get ahead of the guide, because you have an xp bonus from heirlooms or refer-a-friend, or just because you went of and did some instances and got xp that way, this guide automatically gets you back on track. You don’t have to try to figure out where to get back in, what quests you should be on and at what stage in the quest chains you need to be at to carry on.  None of the other guides do that.

From what I’ve seen, the daily quest guide will be exactly the same. You’ll be able to follow it to make the maximum gold per day from dailies (about 300g) in less than 2 hours. I also saw that there will be a guide to the Crusader title (yay!) and that in-game holidays will also be included. So, using this daily quest guide, it’ll be really easy to get those holiday achievements in future. I checked out the free trial that’s been available on his site for a few weeks and I’m really excited about it. There’s really only been one daily quest guide available until now. Based on previous experience with Zygor’s stuff, I think this one will be much better.

Now you can’t buy it yet, but you can check out his Announcement video and shiny new web site. While you’re over there, check out the free forums he has up and see how much other folks love his guides and how great his customer service is.

I also hear that just before the launch, Zygor will be giving away $5000 worth of prized in his launch contests, so be sure top check back often! I’ll keep you updated when I find out more.

UPDATE! Price and Prizes revealed (and they’re awesome)!!! Click here to check it out and find out when you’ll finally be able to buy it!

Argent Tournament Dailies Guide for Gold and Rep – Part 1: Becoming an AspirantPosted by xenith on March 5th, 2010

Argent Crusade dailies are actually a pretty good choice for gold. They reward 13+ gold at level 80 and are reasonably quick to do, once you have learned to joust. As always (this is a site about how to make gold in WoW after all) I make the disclamier that dailies are not the best way to make gold in WoW. But if you are also looking for Argent Crusade rep for rewards, Champion’s Seals, achievements, the title, pets, mounts or any other reason, then you can make some gold at the same time. Don’t forget, if you want more and faster ways to make gold at level 80, check out the WoW Gold Stimulus Plan.

Argent Crusade dailies are tiered. You start out as an Aspirant, then a become a Valiant and finally rise to the rank of Champion. To rise to the next rank, you must complete a certain number of daily quests and collect a token for each one. You can rise to Valiant in 3 days and Champion (for a single faction) in another 5. Once you have reach Champion in your home city faction, you can go back and do the Valiant dailies for all the other cities and earn the right to represent each one. Once you are exalted with each city and have earned the right to represent each one at the tournament, you will gain access to special Crusader daily quests (and items). You will no longer be able to do the Valiant quests though. You can just keep doing the Valiant quests by not turning in the final quest to become champion with the last faction. If you do that, you will not get the Crusader title or access to the Crusader items or dailies.

Aspirant

If you have not completed the quests to enable the Argent Tournament dailies for this rank, you will need to do those first. The chain begins at Justicar Mariel Trueheart. He will direct you to the representative for your faction. You will then need to complete three jousting training quests that will teach you how to joust. Pay attention to these. You will be doing a lot of jousting and the better you are, the faster the dailies will get done.

You will then be able to accept the quest Up To The Challenge. To complete this quest, you must earn 15 Aspirant’s Seals. You can earn a maximum of 5 per day from the daily quests that are enabled on the quest givers near your faction reprentative. There are three dailies that you should do each day to earn your seals:

A Blade Fit For a Champion or The Edge of Winter or A Worthy Weapon (only one of these is given each day and rewards 2seals, plus gold). Requires some travel but is generally easy to complete.

Training in the Field – Easy kill quest to kill any 8 scourge in Icecrown. The closest Scourge are just south at Sindragosa’s Fall (73,38) but not all the mobs there count towards the quest. The Cult of the Damned members at Sindragosa’s Fall no longer count for this quest but the necrolords do. You can continue further south to Scourgeholme where all the mobs are scourge.

Learning the Reins – Jousting! You must practice your jousting moves against some stationary targets. This won’t help much with the real jousting at the next rank but at least you will know which button does what!

Do each of these dailies for three days. When you have 15 seals, turn in Up To The Challenge. Congratulations, you are now ready to take the The Aspirant’s Challenge. Accept the quest from your faction guy then go talk to Squire David at the Aspirant’s Ring. When you are ready, go ahead and defeat the Argent Valiant in a joust.

Once you have turned in this quest, you will become and Aspirant and earn the achievement Argent Aspiration. You will be able to start working on becoming a Valiant and earning the right to represent your home city in the tournament. We will cover this in the next post in the series.

If you want the easiest possible way to do all the Argent Tournament dailies and earn maximum rewards, Check out Zygor’s daily quest guide!. It includes a full in-0game, step-by-step guide to earning the Crusader title in the fastest possible time.

Best Dailies to do For Gold and Rep?Posted by xenith on May 28th, 2009

Daily quests can definitely make you some gold if you do the right ones, at the same time as earning reputation for gear and other unique items, like mounts. But are you doing the right ones everyday or just spinning your wheels and wasting your time?

I hear this question a lot. And my best answer really is: there isn’t an answer!

Not the quick, easy quest list you wanted I imagine. I could list out which quests have have the highest absolute gold reward, but that doesn’t take into account how long it will take you to do the quest. What you really want when you are figuring out how to make gold in WoW, is the most gold per hour. The other problem is, that as a pure gold making technique, dailies aren’t the best. Auctioneering and professions are both more lucrative.

If you are looking for other ways to make gold, check out  the WoW Gold Stimulus plan for another guide that covers multiple fast and easy ways to make gold, other than grinding out dailies!

Of course, there are other reasons to do dailies, so combine these with gold making and you have pretty good reasons to do them. But pick the dailies that reward you with faction that is actually useful to you over dailies that have the highest gold rewards and you will be making the best use of your time. I’m going to go out on a limb and pick  ‘Sons of Hodir‘ and ‘Oracles‘ as my recommendations.

Sons of Hodir

Sons of Hodir quests reward 7 gold and change under 80 and 13 gold and change at 80. They are easy to complete so you won’t spend too much time on them. Also you can get faction for the shoulder enchant which becomes available at Exalted. The Oracles quests have a similar gold reward and can also be knocked out pretty fast. You will need to choose them over Frenzyheart during the quest where you have to kill Artruis the Heartless. During the final quest ‘A Hero’s Burden‘, you will need to select which prisoner to save, the Frenzyheart or the Oracle.

Artruis the Heartless

Save the Oracle to do dailies for that faction. If you want to switch factions, simply kill Artruis the Heartless again and save the other prisoner. There is an achievement, ‘Mercenary of Sholazar’, available for reaching Exalted with both Oracles and Frenzyhearts. The main reason for Oracles faction is the Green Proto Drake epic flying mount which is a rare drop from the Mysterious Egg, available from Oracles at Revered. You can also get some tradeable non-combat pets from the egg, which can sell quite well.

A great way to figure out how to make the most out of your daily questing 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. This guide includes a fully optimized questing route to earn the max 300g per day (from dailies) in just over an hour. It lists every step in order and clears the previous one automatically when you complete a step. There is also a ‘TomTom’ style hud with waypoints to show you where to go for your next objective for any quest on the list. 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.

Heads Up! The full guide is a paid guide (and worth every penny). But there is a free trial on the site that you can check out too.

Dalaran Cooking Daily Quests GuidePosted by xenith on May 26th, 2009

UPDATE: Zygor, of leveling guide fame, is about to release an awesome new in-game daily quest and events guide. Check out the announcement video for all the details or see my post about it here!

If you are one of those people who thought that cooking is not for tough guys like you, you are missing out on a ton of gold. The Dalaran Cooking Dailies are your gateway to becoming a famous (and not to mention wealthy!) chef. These quests are the only way to get the highest level recipes and Northern Spices that you need to make them. And you want those recipes because some of those high level food items can really rake in the gold. As an added bonus, you also get some gold and Kirin Tor rep for completing these quests.

You will need to save up your cooking rewards to spend on the high level recipes. Some of the recipes are more *fun* than useful. Go for the useful ones that you can sell to raiders trying to eek out a few more DPS points. These people are desperate buyers! Spellpower food like Tender Shoveltusk Steak or Attack Power food like Mega Mammoth Meal are good ones. If you fish, some of the fish recipes sell very well too, like Dragonfin Filet.

You will make life easier for yourself if you keep a few stacks of Chilled Meat (from any Northrend beast) and Rhino Dogs (cooked from Rhino Meat from rhinos in Borean Tundra and recipe from any Grand Master Cooking trainer) in your bank to use for cooking dailies.

Cooking daily quests are given by Katherine Lee (Alliance) and Awilo Lon’gomba (Horde). Both are in their respective faction’s Inn. They will each give you one of five different quests:

Cheese For Glowergold

Aged Dalaran Limberger

I groan whenever I see this one pop up as the cooking daily. Its not difficult but its a real pain in the ass. Thats because there can be a lot of competition for those half full glasses on wine. Get you trigger finger ready so you beat the 6 other people camping out in the Inn for wine glass spawns. Its so competitive because, even though the quest text suggests they are all over the city, in fact there are really only four main buildings where you can get them; those are your faction’s main Inn and the Legerdemain Lounge bar (on the corner opposite the cheese shop). There are a few in the Violet Hold area (62,66) and also in the Cheese Shop itself (55,34). Check both floors for both these buildings. The cheese spawns one of the tables inside the shop on the ground floor. I have seen it on the one straight in front of you as you enter and on the one to the rightof the door. Just look for sparklies. Once done, use the item the quest giver gave you, and then take it to Ranid Glowergold in the Legendary Leathers shop in the  Magus Commerce Exchange area (37,29).

Infused Mushroom Meatloaf

Infused Mushrrom

Here is where you will be happy if you followed my Chilled Meat in the bank advice. Grab two of them then head down into the sewers for the mushrooms. There are plenty of spawns, especially in the Arena area so you shouldn’t have much trouble. Combine them in the Meatloaf Pan given to you by the quest giver then turn it in to Orton Bennet in Curiosities & Moore (52, 55).

This is a nice easy cooking daily quest unless you have to go out to kill beasts for Chilled Meats. But thats what you get for not being prepared!

Convention at the Legerdemain

Another easy one if you have Chilled Meats in the bank. Grab four of them and whip up 4 tasty Northern Stews using your cooking skill. This recipe is a quest reward for the quest Northern Cooking (linked quest is from Valgarde but it is also available in Valiance Keep, Vengeance Landing and Warsong Hold). Head to the Cheese Shop (55,34) and pick up a jug of wine off the table (look for sparklies). Then just hike across the street and hand it over to to Arille Azuregaze at the Legerdemain Lounge(49,38).

Mustard Dogs

Mustard Plant

This one is easy if you have Rhino Dogs or at least the meats to make them available. Otherwise its pretty annoying since you will either need to go kill rhinos or else port to an old world city and buy some on the AH. If you do need to go farm up some Rhino, try Borean Tundra around (47,40). The Wild Mustard plants grow in Dalaran in any grassy areas. Try Runeweaver Square(50,48) or around Krasus Landing(69,44) (convenient because that is where the turn in is).

Combine the items in the Picnic Basket given to you by the quest giver and hand it over to Archmage Pentarus at Krasus Landing. This is a nice Dalaran cooking daily quest to get because it gives two rewards instead of one. Its the only cooking daily quest that does this.

Sewer Stew

Crystalsong Carrot

Once again, you will need Chilled Meats, four of them in fact (didn’t I mention you should keep chilled meats in the bank?). And you will also need to port down to Crystalsong Forest to hunt for Crystalsong Carrots. This is the only quest that requires you to leave the city so its at iny but annoying. Just use the Portal Chamber in Runeweaver square as instructed by the quest text (cause I know you all read every word of that!) to get down, then use the crystal to get back up once you have your veggies. Finding the carrots is easy enough. They are on both sides of the river at the port in spot and are usually located near a tree. They are pretty small though so keep an eye out for

Once you have all your items, combine them in the provided Stew Cookpot then head down to the sewers and give them to Ajay Green at the inn down there (36,58).

And that’s it for our guide to Dalaran Cooking Daily Quests.

If you want the easiest possible way to do your dailies and earn maximum rewards, Check out Zygor’s daily quest guide!. It includes a full in-game, step-by-step guide to earning the Crusader title in the fastest possible time.

Heads Up! The full guide is a paid guide (and worth every penny). But there is a free trial of the daily quest guide on that site that you can check out too

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.