Good evening, afternoon and what ever time you may be reading this at. This is just a little helping hand to those who are having trouble doing their dailies in limited time. Personally, I am a very casual player, but I will come on for about 20 to 40 minutes a day to get my dailies done because I am not adverse to the “chore” feel to it that everyone is complaining about. I have thus posted this to help anyone with time constraints, and please not let this turn into a daily discussion thread; we have enough of those already!
Disclaimer: I do not claim to be superior to anyone reading this thread, and I apologise if I make any blank statements, though I will try to keep these to a minimum.
Following are the ways i do the daily requirements quickly. I will assume that you have at least one 80 at your disposal and have the money to WP, or serveral that you can keep stationed around tha place (which is what I do). I would reccomend using the Gw2 interactive map (search in google) if you are confused about where I mean.
1. Daily kills – I would reccomend waypointing to anywhere near a centaur camp in Kryta, as the mobs are easy to kill and respawn very rapidly. See Kessex Hills, Gerrandan Fields and Harathi Hinterlands.
2. Daily Gathering – My favourite spot is just north-west of Thistlereed Waypoint in Timberline falls. If you follow the hill up, you will see a Veteran Jotun guarding a cauliflower patch. Kill him, and harvest the cauliflowers. Then jump off the cliff into the water (dw this is obvious when you are there). Turn around, and swim into the cave (these is a large opening underwater). You will find a Rich Mithril Vein. If this is not yet 20 gatherings, these are 2 mitrhil nodes at about 5 seconds swin, and sometimes a gold node right infront of the cave.
3. Veteran Daily kills – I would reccomend porting to Irondock Shipyard waypoint in Plains of Ashford. Make your way west and you should come across a cave on your left. Inside, there are 4 to 5 veteran Sparks or Skelks than respawn very quickly, and they should be easy to kill for any moderately geared level 80 as they are only level 12 from memory.
4. Daily dodges – Some of the easiest attacks in the game to dodge are those of the basic Ice Elementals, as they are slow moving and easy to see projectiles. I would reccomend teleporting to somewhere like Wide Expanse waypoint in Dredgehaunt cliffs, and there are about 5 elementals directly south, as well as some jotun to the west.
5. Daily kill variety – this is the only one I can’t be much help for, but the starter zones (such as Plains of Ashford, Queensdale, and my particular favourite Caledon forest) seem to have the largest variety within the individual zone.
6. Aquatic Kills – teleport of Grawlenfjord waypoint in Wayfarer Foothills, and make your way north to the water. There are about 15 white fish (which count) that you can kill easily and some level 3 skelk to the south by the entrance to the cave in which a skillpoint can be found. This can also be done in the same place as daily veteran kills as above.
7. Daily healer – Just north of Nebo Terrace Waypoint in Gerrandan Fields, where a tonne of Human soldiers are lying there, just waiting for a kind soul to come along and rez them. Be warned , a lot of people know this, so be prepared to use swiftness to get from body to body!
8. Daily events – the best place for this is again north of Nebo Terrance Waypoint in Gerrandan Fields, but a lot of 80’s are doing this so it can be difficult to tag. Cursed shore is still a great option, as are the southern areas in Dredgehaunt Cliffs.
9. Daily crafter – just port to your Borderlands in WvW, and even if you dont have a 400 crafting profession, learn one refine some raw materials that you are sure to have hanging around. Raw materials are never part of recipies, only the refined versions, so what you are really doing is clearing space in your materials tab!
10. Laurel vendor – well…. What can i say? Teleport to the nearest city and run to the vendor; nothng could be easier!
And there you have it; a way to get dailies done in limited time. I am open to suggesttions and will update this if i get a chance. I apologise for spelling errors!
A Daily Guide
Good guide but simple way is the doin Fractal for completing daily about %70 to %90 (anyway at least for me after 1500+ hours playing or dunno maybe i’m too lazy).
A good guide, but there are a lot of things to consider as alternatives. First of all keep in mind most popular daily places get crowded easily too. A second reconsideration is to compare speed with effectiveness. You can do the daily in cursed shore too with relativly ease and get much better rewards (ori-nodes, omnomberry’s, rare and exotic drops.
If choosing a low level area I would recommend using a not maxlevel character. The reason is the downscaling and how enemy’ kitten on 80’s in the crowd. I find doing the troll and the boar in Queensdale a lot easier on my level 40 mesmer then on my lvl 80 engineer.
Do not use the crafting stations in WvW. I know it is convinient but you are not doing your world a favor in case of:
A: your world has often a queu and your robbing a spot for a person really willing to fight for your world
B: your world was outmanned but cause people do their daily crafting there this is robbed.
I recommend doing it in PvE crafting stations. All area’s you named are close to a town or close to a starting area (wich has crafting stations). And you most likely either start or end in a town (to use the vendor or the bank).
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For Daily healer, people on my server (Tarnished Coast) are usually jumping off the statue at Divinity’s Reach at Minister’s waypoint. Getting 100% healer daily barely takes long thanks to this. I’m not sure if other servers do it as frequently as TC, but that’s one way to avoid the Blood Fields body rush.
For Daily healer, people on my server (Tarnished Coast) are usually jumping off the statue at Divinity’s Reach at Minister’s waypoint. Getting 100% healer daily barely takes long thanks to this. I’m not sure if other servers do it as frequently as TC, but that’s one way to avoid the Blood Fields body rush.
I have got to get this started on Crystal Desert. This is amazing.
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Why waste time(and silver) hitting all of those locations when you can go to the one-stop-shop for all of your daily needs? Where is this Mecca, you ask? Why, Butcher’s Block, of course!
Located in sunny northwest Diessa Plateau, Butcher’s Block is home to the deliciously named, “Meatoberfest” and, as long as you’re not expecting anything special in regards to drops/salvages, players can knock most days out in limited time.
Daily Events- a single NPC fight, 3 defend events, a gather and a Champion Plains Wurm
Daily Gathering- along with a few nodes around the perimeter, 3-4 close trees and 2 veggies shortly to the northeast
Daily Healer- Wolves constantly down Iron legion Soldiers almost as fast as you can rez, plus Flame & Frost refugees often fall prey to Wurms
Daily Dodger- ^See above Plains Wurms
Daily Kill Variety- Stags, Wurms, Bats, Dredge, Ghosts, Harpies, etc(may have to venture out slightly)
Daily Aquatic Kills- water is 90 seconds to the east(with a speed boost)
The only thing that this area is NOT good for is Daily Veteran Kills, but a quick PvP transport to LA for Laurel Vendor or Crafter is perfect and cheap to hunt Oakhearts at the Ironbridge Waypoint in Gendarran Fields.