Guild Wars 2

I never have enough time to do dailies and monthlies. Is there another way I can get laurels? I don’t see any other way.

No, there’s not…but dailies can literally be done in 20 minutes to half an hour. Maybe you just need someone to show you how to do them?

They don’t take 20 minutes to me.
But even if it were only 20 minutes, that’s less 20 minutes I have to actually play the game… I have limited time to play, let alone do chores in game. Know what I mean?

lorazcyk.8927:

They don’t take 20 minutes to me.
But even if it were only 20 minutes, that’s less 20 minutes I have to actually play the game… I have limited time to play, let alone do chores in game. Know what I mean?

so you’re playing an MMO and don’t have 20 minutes. Why are you playing an MMO? Play bro-gamer kind of games like CoD.

I’m EST on an NA server the daily resets at 8 PM. I usually do about half of it that evening then do other stuff. Then the next day I finikitten up before the reset and do other stuff. It generally takes me about 15 minutes to do each half. Also I have noticed that I get a lot of the daily done while doing other stuff without even focusing on it.

Edit: I think they have the word filter cranked up on high for some reason. I’m not sure why they would add a kitten for a word that means to complete a task.

Nuka Cola.8520:

lorazcyk.8927:

They don’t take 20 minutes to me.
But even if it were only 20 minutes, that’s less 20 minutes I have to actually play the game… I have limited time to play, let alone do chores in game. Know what I mean?

so you’re playing an MMO and don’t have 20 minutes. Why are you playing an MMO? Play bro-gamer kind of games like CoD.

Well, that’s about as relevant as a stripper at your great-grandma’s 100th birthday party, but I’ll answer.

What I meant was: even if it can be done in 20-30 minutes, it would mean I now have less time to play the game and have fun, as I had to spend that time doing chores instead of playing.
So if you have 40 minutes to play, now you only have 10 or 20 minutes left to play.

Not that it’s any of your business.

lorazcyk.8927:

Nuka Cola.8520:

lorazcyk.8927:

They don’t take 20 minutes to me.
But even if it were only 20 minutes, that’s less 20 minutes I have to actually play the game… I have limited time to play, let alone do chores in game. Know what I mean?

so you’re playing an MMO and don’t have 20 minutes. Why are you playing an MMO? Play bro-gamer kind of games like CoD.

Well, that’s about as relevant as a stripper at your great-grandma’s 100th birthday party, but I’ll answer.

What I meant was: even if it can be done in 20-30 minutes, it would mean I now have less time to play the game and have fun, as I had to spend that time doing chores instead of playing.
So if you have 40 minutes to play, now you only have 10 or 20 minutes left to play.

Not that it’s any of your business.

But you can do the dailies well playing the game and having fun

Every MMO I’ve ever played has some form of dailies. This game by far has the easiest and least intrusive daily system I’ve yet seen.

What I do when I jump in game is do the thing I’ve been wanting to do (say a fractal or a dungeon or some world boss hunting or whatever) and when I’m done with that, if I haven’t completed my daily by then (it generally gets finished in the course of regular game play) take 5 minutes to wrap it up.

lorazcyk.8927:

Nuka Cola.8520:

lorazcyk.8927:

They don’t take 20 minutes to me.
But even if it were only 20 minutes, that’s less 20 minutes I have to actually play the game… I have limited time to play, let alone do chores in game. Know what I mean?

so you’re playing an MMO and don’t have 20 minutes. Why are you playing an MMO? Play bro-gamer kind of games like CoD.

Well, that’s about as relevant as a stripper at your great-grandma’s 100th birthday party, but I’ll answer.

What I meant was: even if it can be done in 20-30 minutes, it would mean I now have less time to play the game and have fun, as I had to spend that time doing chores instead of playing.
So if you have 40 minutes to play, now you only have 10 or 20 minutes left to play.

Not that it’s any of your business.

There’s a relatively good chance that you can do most of the daily WHILE playing the game and having fun.

I mean what do you do in the game for fun in the first place?

There’s no other way to get laurels, no. The monthly is usually pretty easy to get just by playing the game, imo. The dailies usually require a bit of effort or planning – I’ll go explore/level in a certain area, for instance, in order to finish a regional daily, even if I was originally going to play in a different area. I will occasionally skip a daily if the options are things I don’t really want to do that day or I have very, very little time to play.

For suggestions on where to do some of the dailies, check out http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Daily If there are specific ones you’re having issues with, perhaps post here and people can give suggestions.

If you’re not willing to adjust your playstyle slightly, though, get used to having no laurels. Most of the items are available elsewhere, though I believe it’s the only place to get ascended necklaces.

You’re talking as if I hadn’t tried. I’ve been trying for months. It really takes away from the fun of the game, for me.

What I like to do in game: depends on my mood (isn’t it like that for everyone else?)

Some days I feel like doing a dungeon (if I know I’ll have uninterrupted time to do one).
Some days I feel like enjoying the story in one map (even if it’s a map I’ve already completed to 100%)
Some days I team up with someone who’s still leveling up, and play in whatever zone their character is progressing through.
Some days I want to play a alt character.
Some days I want to run to a area I haven’t been to before (the running there ends up taking all my gaming time that day, so I don’t actually get to play the area until the next day with gaming time).
Some days I have to tweak my build and I go and test it on monsters as I tweak it (this too tends to take all my gaming time that day).
(Etc, I’m sure that gives the general idea)
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Note that my gaming time tends to be interrupted.

Most days, I try to hurry and do the daily (meaning I have to stop doing what I want to do, and go do the daily chores), some times I get it done to 3/5, sometimes 4/5, but then my time gets interrupted. By the time I come back to play (either the same day or another day, depends), the daily has reset and I didn’t get a laurel.

And all the above you mentioned have dailies in them…

There is a dungeon daily, a story mode daily, event daily, veteran killer daily, etc I don’t see how anyone can miss the daily if they just play the game.

maddoctor.2738:

And all the above you mentioned have dailies in them…

As I said:

I’ve been trying for months. It really takes away from the fun of the game, for me. (as I need to stop enjoying the content and focus on completing each achievement)
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Note that my gaming time tends to be interrupted.
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Most days, I try to hurry and do the daily (meaning I have to stop doing what I want to do, and go do the daily chores), some times I get it done to 3/5, sometimes 4/5, but then my time gets interrupted. By the time I come back to play (either the same day or another day, depends), the daily has reset and I didn’t get a laurel.
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If you have lots of free time to play, and your gaming time is not interrupted, and/or if you’re lucky your playing time isn’t around the time the daily resets… then it’s probably easy for you to get the daily done and still have lots of time to enjoy the game. But not all of us are in the same situation as you.

And that’s another problem for me, now that I think about it: a lot of times I can’t get the daily done because the daily resets right smack in the middle of my gaming session.
So if I have 30 or 40 minutes to play, I might only have 15 or 20 minutes to do the daily when you take into account the daily reset in the middle.
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Not sure why arenanet doesn’t make it reset at 3 am PST. Waaaaay less people are playing around that time, surely? Or maybe 6 am PST?

There is a dungeon daily, a story mode daily, event daily, veteran killer daily, etc I don’t see how anyone can miss the daily if they just play the game.

You assume I can do all of those in one day, like you can.

I usually only get the daily 3/5, sometimes 4/5, and that’s when I’m trying my best to do the daily chores instead of just having fun (having fun being the reason I bought the game). If you have lots of gaming time, and/or it’s not interrupted, and/or isn’t around the reset, good for you I guess, but it doesn’t help me one bit, does it?

Ok I get it, there’s no other way to get laurels except for daily and monthly. Question answered.

lorazcyk.8927:

They don’t take 20 minutes to me.
But even if it were only 20 minutes, that’s less 20 minutes I have to actually play the game… I have limited time to play, let alone do chores in game. Know what I mean?

That depends on what dailies we have to get for the day.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Edit: I think they have the word filter cranked up on high for some reason. I’m not sure why they would add a kitten for a word that means to complete a task.

It’s been that way since the beginning. The filter doesn’t recognize spaces. There is an “it” after the word “finish,” so you have the end of the word, “sh” followed by “it.”

Also happens when “it” or “its” follows any word ending with a “t.”