red cow rise: Cataclysm Dailies Guide

09 February 2011

Cataclysm Dailies Guide

Love them or hate them, dailies are an important source of rep, gold, and even activity for WoW players. If you're like me, you probably eat up the first two and wish you could spend the third doing heroics, PVP, or playing an alt. In order to be more efficient with my dailies, I've written the following guide for Cataclysm dailies.

**In researching the wowhead links I've found inaccurate or missing information on gold rewards and especially guild reputation. I've been doing the dailies myself to take notes but please let me know if I have any numbers wrong!! (Especially since I have the +10% rep gain from guild level!!)

PRIORITY

This depends on what you want out of dailies. All dailies provide some amount of gold. The cooking and fishing dailies give skill points in those professions. The cooking and JC dailies award tokens used to purchase recipes, and the fishing daily awards a bag that may contain (extremely cheap) vendor trash, a companion pet, or the Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat. Ramkahen, Therazane, Dragonmaw/Wildhammer, and the Tol Barad factions give dailies for rep, which leads to gear, and Tol Barad dailies also award tokens used for gear, PVP items, mounts, and a companion pet.

How and where you go is also affected by the use of portals and hearthstone(-like) cooldowns. Queues for heroics or pvp do take time, not to mention the time spent doing the activity you queued for, so time is also a prioritizing factor.

PREPARATION

Get your rep tabard on. If necessary, keep your 2nd spec gear in your bags. If you accept an invite while questing, put yourself in a safe place before accepting! If you don't want, or have time to do dailies, skip them! Especially if your time is limited, start with the dailies you need most and work down the priority list. If possible, group for named-mob quests to avoid wasting time.

Dailies flowchart

As you may have noticed, there are more quests than you can complete in one day! Hopefully the flowchart should help you utilize your time and 25 dailies to get the most out of your rep and gold grinds. In depth breakdowns of each available daily can be found below - take note that the Tol Barad dailies give the most gold for your time if you don't need to work on rep. I also strongly advise against Ramkahen's Fire from the Sky daily, unless you need the achievement, are ridiculously efficient at it, or are desperate for rep and unable to do dailies with the tabard.

ROUND 1 - one shots

Fishing dailies - (1 of possible 5)

HORDE
Clammy Hands
250 Orgrimmar/40 guild | +1 fishing | Bag of Shiny Things | 16g54s
No Dumping Allowed
250 Orgrimmar/40 guild | +1 fishing | Bag of Shiny Things | 16g54s
A Staggering Effort
250 Orgrimmar/40 guild | +2 fishing | Bag of Shiny Things | 16g54s
A Furious Catch
250 Orgrimmar/40 guild | +1 fishing | Bag of Shiny Things | 16g54s
A Golden Opportunity
250 Orgrimmar/40 guild | +1 fishing | Bag of Shiny Things | 16g54s

ALLIANCE
Hitting a Walleye
250 Stormwind/40 guild | +1 fishing | Bag of Shiny Things | 16g54s
Diggin' for Worms
250 Stormwind/40 guild | +2 fishing | Bag of Shiny Things | 16g54s
Rock Lobster
250 Stormwind/40 guild | +1 fishing | Bag of Shiny Things | 16g54s
Big Gulp
250 Stormwind/40 guild | +1 fishing | Bag of Shiny Things | 16g54s
Thunder Falls
250 Stormwind/40 guild | +1 fishing | Bag of Shiny Things | 16g54s

Cooking dailies - (1 of possible 5)

HORDE
Careful, This Fruit Bites Back
250 Orgrimmar/40 guild | +1 cooking | 1 Chef's Award | 9g40s
Crawfish Creole
250 Orgrimmar/40 guild | +2 cooking | 1 Chef's Award | 9g40s
Even Thieves Get Hungry
250 Orgrimmar/40 guild | +1 cooking | 1 Chef's Award | 9g40s
Everything Is Better with Bacon
250 Orgrimmar/40 guild | +1 cooking | 2 Chef's Awards | 9g40s
Stealing From Our Own
250 Orgrimmar/40 guild | +1 cooking | 1 Chef's Award | 9g40s

ALLIANCE
A Fisherman's Feast
250 Stormwind/40 guild | +1 cooking | 1 Chef's Award | 9g40s
Feeling Crabby?
250 Stormwind/40 guild | +1 cooking | 2 Chef's Awards | 9g40s
Orphans Like Cookies Too!
250 Stormwind/40 guild | +1 cooking | 1 Chef's Award | 9g40s
Penny's Pumpkin Pancakes
250 Stormwind/40 guild | +1 cooking | 1 Chef's Award | 9g40s
The King's Cider
250 Stormwind/40 guild | +2 cooking | 1 Chef's Award | 9g40s

[475 JCs only] Jewelcrafting dailies - (1 of possible 5)

A Present for Lila
40 guild | 1 Illustrious Jewelcrafter's Token | 16g54s
Elemental Goo
40 guild | 1 Illustrious Jewelcrafter's Token | 16g54s
Nibbler! No!
40 guild | 1 Illustrious Jewelcrafter's Token | 16g54s
Ogrezonians in the Mood
40 guild | 1 Illustrious Jewelcrafter's Token | 16g54s
The Lastest Fashion!
40 guild | 1 Illustrious Jewelcrafter's Token | 16g54s

Ramkahen

Thieving Little Pluckers
150 Ramkahen/18 guild | 7g85s
Fire From the Sky
250 Ramkahen/25 guild | 10g46s

ROUND 2 - Tol Barad extravaganza

Tol Barad - available to the controlling faction only

Static Quests - Commander Zanoth / Sergeant Parker - these are available every battle
A Huge Problem
350 Hellscream's or Baradin's/38 guild | 1 Tol Barad Commendation | 18g80s
Swamp Bait
350 Hellscream's or Baradin's/38 guild | 1 Tol Barad Commendation | 18g80s
The Leftovers
350 Hellscream's or Baradin's/38 guild | 1 Tol Barad Commendation | 18g80s

Cluster Quests - one set of these clusters is available, but changes after each battle (it is possible to get all 3 clusters in 1 day)

D-block - Drillmaster Razgoth / 2nd Lieutenant Wansworth
Cursed Shackes
350 Hellscream's or Baradin's/38 guild | 1 Tol Barad Commendation | 18g80s
D-Block
350 Hellscream's or Baradin's/38 guild | 1 Tol Barad Commendation | 18g80s
Svarnos
350 Hellscream's or Baradin's/38 guild | 1 Tol Barad Commendation | 18g80s

Cursed Depths - Private Garnoth / Commander Stevens
Clearing the Depths
350 Hellscream's or Baradin's/38 guild | 1 Tol Barad Commendation | 18g80s
The Imprisoned Archmage
350 Hellscream's or Baradin's/38 guild | 1 Tol Barad Commendation | 18g80s
Learning From the Past
350 Hellscream's or Baradin's/38 guild | 1 Tol Barad Commendation | 18g80s

The Hole - Staff Sergeant Lazgar / Marshal Fallows
Food From Below
350 Hellscream's or Baradin's/38 guild | 1 Tol Barad Commendation | 18g80s
Prison Revolt
350 Hellscream's or Baradin's/38 guild | 1 Tol Barad Commendation | 18g80s
The Warden
350 Hellscream's or Baradin's/38 guild | 1 Tol Barad Commendation | 18g80s

Tol Barad Peninsula - available to both factions: 1 of several possible quests will be available for each section, taking you in a natural loop around the island

Forgotten Hill

First Lieutenant Connor