August News/Discussion

[Concillian]

From the "Ask a Beta Tester" column, comes a question I had been wondering about, too. Are the current crop of Daily quests going to be useful in levelling your toons? The answer is pretty much "no". You get around 3.5g and 9500xp/turnin for a daily. Why bother when you can be charging around Northrend getting around 4-5g and 20,000xp or so per quest. I think there might be a place for Dailies, but I'm a voracious content devourer, so you know where I'll be.

This has more factors than money / XP per quest if you're going to approach it from the optimization perspective... things like:
- population density of new zones (waiting for spawns)
- time to complete quests
- quest density (proximity to other quests)

The SSO island dailies are really high density and have minimal travel time. I can do the non flying quests (I think there are 8) in less than 30 minutes now. My experience with leveling zones is more like 3 or 4 per 30 minutes at best. So it may still be worthwhile to do the dailies if it's easy enough to travel between the isle of QD and Northrend.

I imagine it might be good for alts, who can basically log in, do 8 quests for the day, log out, and retain most of their rested bonus for when you have more time to get them through the Northrend quests. Because I imagine they will make it fairly difficult to travel between TBC locations and WotLK locations.

Obviously from a "see more new content" perspective Northrend is far, far better, but I was more looking at it from the perspeective the article used.