I’m writing this post to give people a heads up on some quick and easy ways to do dailies. It started when someone said that dailies can take 30-45 minutes, which in my experience is way too long for the dailies offered.
My recommendation is that you play your normal game first and see what dailies you can accomplish just by playing. Very often, I’ll have 2-3 dailies checked off before I even bother to look at them. Just running around.
As an example, if you’re one of those people who follow world events, and you have a daily champion slayer, you’ll get that the first meta event that you finish. If you have daily group event, you’ll need two group events. Again, that shouldn’t represent a problem to those who follow the meta event chains.
Today I had a selection of dailies and I opted to go with daily healer, and daily kill variety, both of which I was able to get in the Thermonuclear Reactor in Metrica province in 7 minutes. Because there’s always dead guys there, and the reactor produces all sorts of different creatures to kill. If you have ambient slayer (which we don’t today) there are plenty of ambient creatures right outside the reactor that you can kill, which would be a relatively fast addition to the ones you’ve already done.
As it happens today I timed it pretty well and the pre-event for the fire ele was starting so I stayed and did it, it got me half my daily for group event completer, but I didn’t finish that.
I did gather in the same area in 4 minutes. That meant I had 3 of my dailies done in 11 minutes total.
I then went into the narrow water channel there, the one that runs north of Hexane Retrograde. There are skelk and barracuda in those waters, easy and fast kills. There are also skelk on shore that you can hit and have them come into the water. I finished aquatic slayer in 4 minutes. That’s 15 minutes for 4 of my dailies.
Now from this point on I can either do one more meta event (for my group event completer), my personal story (if I was going to do that anyway or wanted it done), or the mystic forge, which is easy enough to do.
There are tons of things you can do at the mystic forge that shouldn’t take you much out of your way. I have a character who just has a bunch of 80th level greens on him. I use him to store them and every time a mystic forge one comes up (every few days), I try to get yellows to salvage for ectos. But you can do it with any drops you get in any zone. It’s cheap enough to throw a bunch of stuff in the forge. If you are going for mystic clovers, this is a good time to do them as well, since it count’s to your dailies.
I have 4 of my five dailies, as I said, in 15 minutes. Unfortunately, because I store the stuff, the mystic forge one will only take me a couple of minutes…or any group event.
As you can see, doing the daily, at least today, shouldn’t take anywhere near 45 minutes, as long as you know where to go.
BTW, I started in Lion’s Arch and included travel time to the location in my timing. The cost was a whopping 1 silver 86 copper in travel fees (since I used the gate to get to Rata Sum before porting to the Thermonuclear Reactor. I include this information for those who think it costs to much to get the daily (which is another complaint I’ve heard).
Oh and make sure you do the daily on your highest level character. Not only will you have more placed unlocked to choose from, but you will also get more silver at the end. On completing my daily I’ll get 5 silver back, so it certainly pays for any way pointing I do.
