Sunday, April 26, 2009

Dailies actually worth doing.

This post is going to be on somewhat of a tangent, it involves making gold and saving time doing it, but not with the Auction House or mods. Recently with the release of Patch 3.1 the Argent Tournament was released. Now I know most of you have taken a peak at it but perhaps some of you haven't realised the quick gold from dailies that are available there? (Updated with info from Nick!)

Once you have done enough dailies to reach the Champion status with your home city, and you have done the Black Knight questline you'll be able to do 6 AT dailies that combined reward 1000 argent crusade rep, plus 1500 rep with Sunreavers/Silver Covenant, 500 rep with your valiant faction, and 128 gold per day (or 88g + an additional 1000 rep with a home faction).

I have been able to do these 6 quests in about 15-20 mins so while not a huge amount of gold for your time, added to the reputation gains I think it is more then worth doing. So let's talk about how to do these quests faster to save ourselves some time.

Ok so once you have reached Champion status, you will have access to four quests. They are:

1. Among the Champions (4 jousting)
2. Threat From Above (kill chillmaw)
3. Battle Before The Citadel (fight at citadel)
4. Taking Battle To The Enemy (kill 15 scourge)

And these two specific Valiant's quests from the faction of your choice:
5. A Valient's Field Training
6. At The Enemy's Gate

You will need to accept becoming a Valiant for another faction, this can be done while you are a Champion. For the two Valiant quests you don't actually need to do anything, simply by doing the Champion quests you will complete the Valiant versions as well. (there are also two other valiant quests, but they require you to actually do things besides what the champions quests require.

So for optimal speed in completing these dailies we start immediately after accepting them by throwing a 'lfg for chillmaw' into general chat, then go and start working on doing the Among the Champions. For those of you having trouble with this quest, here is how you do it really easily. Start the match with three sheilds up, accept the dialogue to fight, and immediately throw a shield breaker and then close in with your opponent.

This allows you to start the battle with more defense then your opponent. Next your going to sit there spamming ability one, the sword one. When your opponent turns away to get distance immediately start spamming your charge ability. Once you charge turn and use sheild breaker and get back to your opponent to use ability one again. Rinse and repeat till defeated. Thats it. Make sure you refresh your shield as needed, and at least once a minute or it will dissipate. Once your done with each battle refill your mount to full health and start the next battle.

At some point through this you should have gotten an invite to a group to kill chillmaw, (you were throwing 'lfg for chillmaw' into channel 1 right?). As soon as you get invited to a group that has the required three people leave the Argent Tournament and head to Chillmaw, he spawns southwest of the tournament. Don't worry about completing Among the Champions, the group quest is more important. Should you be there before everyone in the group is there, a little to the southwest are some scourge that can count towards the Taking the Battle to the Enemy quest, use your time to its fullest.

Once your group is there, kill chillmaw, then head south to the Citadel, ask your group if anyone else is going to the citadel too. With luck at least one out of the other two people in your group is going as well, and two people make the Battle at the Citadel very easy and quick. The key to this quest is killing the Boneguard Commander, he's the only one in the kill count thats even remotely difficult. If you have a party member you each take turns charging him, he goes down real quick with 2 on 1.

Finally head back north and finish your 15 scourge kills, I usually go to sindragosa's fall and kill whelps as they go down real quick. Then finish up the Among the Champions quest. That it! Each quest turn in give the option of a writ for 250 rep or a purse with 10 gold. Six quests which reward 13.5 gold plus four 10 gold purses and after you sell the couple of gray loot items, your looking at 128g for 6 dailies and a couple thousand reputation. While I honestly hate dailies, I think these are actually worth doing, plus that undead white horse mount is awesome.

3 comments:

  1. I seldom do daily myself, other than the really easy one, since the flying takes up most of the time, while I can pick up other thing on tradings.

    But I do found the horse duel thing interesting, and now I had one more reason for doing it.
    25g per minutes for something interesting is cool.

    Argent Tournament also give me some thoughts on other aspect (am writing about it), now I had more good content to link up.. Cool

    Thanks for the tips of playing it fast, mate ;)

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  2. After becoming a champion with your home faction, you can become a champion of other factions, letting you repeat the earlier dailies. When you hit champion and are grinding to become a champion with another faction you can have up to 10 dailies to do, with some overlapping quests. The 2 listed below overlap (kill 15 scourge and kill 10 scourge) as well as the commander/LT/scout kills, so you can complete 6 quests in practically the same time as it took to do the 4 in the original post.

    Battle Before The Citadel
    Taking Battle To The Enemy

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  3. very interesting Nick, I had wondered wether this was possible, but from the comments on wowhead it seemed that I would need to give up my champion status in order to be able to do that.

    Nice to know I will have to try it and rewrite my blog post.

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