using the Blizzard built in timer to speed up daily tasks

[puppychow]

I've been using the Blizzard built in "timer" to keep track of how long stuff I do takes, since I like to limit my daily multibox play time to 2 hour or less. Its also a great tool to speed up daily tasks, as you can measure how long it takes from day to day.

To access it, click the time in the Blizzard UI on the minimap, I use Fubar so I click the clock on the Fubar task line. There should be a Show Stopwatch or equivalent click, that'll bring up a nice little stopwatch window with stop/go/reset.

For reference sakes, since my shamans are fairly new to 70 (~2 weeks) I do the following:

~8 Isle daily quests, the kill and bombing ones (I skip all the collection stuff except for the berries, there are so many around)
- the two HFP Shattered Sun daily quests (above thrallmar, near where Kazzak spawns)
- Heroic Mechanar, first 2 bosses only

When I first started the Isle dailies were taking me up to 90 minutes, I would stop and PVP a lot though (lol). Now i'm down to a little over 30 minutes each run. The HFP takes under 15 minutes now, and Heroic mech is slightly above 20 minutes (just first boss and the cache, I don't bother after that unless its the daily). I've shaved enough time now that I might add heroic SP to the mix.

This nets me around 4k shattered sun rep (1 more day away from exalted, may drop the HFP ones after that), around 120g each person, plus various DEd materials and rep items. Not bad for a little over 90 minutes a day now.

[Hachoo]

Is there any way to do the SSO quests above thrallmar without going to thrallmar and flying there? (Ie: can you somehow teleport back to that area from QD?)

I only have regular fliers and personally its just a waste of time to go all the way to thrallmar and then from there to the quest location :(.

[Heenan]

I'm pretty sure that after you do the initial quest that ports you there, you have to travel to Thrallmar every time.

I love those quests though. They are very multi-boxer friendly and only take a few minutes. With epic flyers it doesn't take long to hop around and do the Outlands SSO quests.

[Hachoo]

Well yeah of course, but its going to be awhile until i can afford 5x epic fliers...with doing a new team and leveling my pally to 70 it'll be long after wotlk comes out im sure. Right now i have my 5 70 shamans parked in QD doing 8 or so dailies whenever i can log them on between leveling my new priest/lock team, and leaving QD with the shamans just takes too much extra time to be worth it. Thanks anyway though!

[puppychow]

no, the teleport scroll to that area is a one time thing only. However, I usually login, go to the island, do my dailies, scroll back to shattrah, fly to hellfire (go get something to drink while flying :), fly up and do the 2 dailies, then fly straight north to Netherstorm and do the sunfury attack plan daily - very very easy, 5-10 kills and it drops, you get 250 rep PLUS a chance at a badge - then a 20 min heroic mech 2 boss run, hearth back to shattrah, turn in quests, and done for the day.

Kind of works out as a nice little loop.

[McBooty]

It's not a waste of time for me. If I'm doing dailies at all, I'm doing those.
I do them after Sunfury Attack Plans (one alt goes down to pick up Rediscovering Your Roots and Ata'mal Armament whilethe others flight path it to Cosmowrench. Meanwhile they get started on collecting Bloodberries and Mana Remnants while waiting for their summon) and the Blade's Edge Mountains Ogri'la quests. After the two Throne of Kil'jadaen quests I'm off to do Rediscovering your Roots and Ata'mal Armaments. THEN I head downstairs to do SSO ground-level crap.