$$$ Dailies $$$

This is a work in progress. Making revisions as I go.

Goal: Highest gold per minute ratio possible for a nightly daily session with 5 mixed classes that cannot exceed 2 hours.

Ideal: Do 25 dailies in 2 hours.
Reality: Do 12 dailies in 1.5 hours.

Like most of WoW, I start my day in Shattrath, usually at the battlemasters, which is convenient since both Harbringer Haronem (Multiphase Survey) and Lord Torvos (Sunfury Attack Plans) stand right above the Alliance and Horde battlemasters respectively. You can do the Multiphase Survey in any order since Oshu'gun is so close to Shattrath I just fly to and from.
Let me hit the vendor. Once I repair, I'll be good to go.
Lets hop on some non-epic flying mounts and apply crusader aura. As we fly to skettis, let me tell you that the dailies described in this post earned me two epic mounts last month. I'm not just the author, I'm a client too! 7.7k until I can edit out the 'non-' part of the first line of this paragraph and buy epic mounts number 4 and 5.
Once you arrive at Skettis, give Sgt. Doren a crisp salute (Fires over Skettis) and start looking for the worst scout in the history of Draenor (Escape from Skettis ). How you look for him will depend on your realm's ruleset, population, and the time of day. In my case, I'm a high pop balanced PvP server and I play during prime time. Therefore, the prisoner is always in motion; all 3 spawns are camped constantly and groups are organized in /1 to keep track of the faction camping each of the spawns. I pick a spawn point I can claim through force or diplomacy and camp it until he pops. Your Mileage May Vary.
Once you've handed in the two Skettis quests (R.I.P. UMP), hop on the free nether ray to Ogri'la (Required Honored with Sha'tari Skyguard and to do quests in Ogri'la requires a long quest line from Mog'dorg the Wizened).
Accept Wrangle, Bomb, Banish, and Simon. If you see any rays on the way to an Apexis Relic, go ahead and wrangle it. Once you arrive at the relic, toss in 35 Apexis shards to play mega-simon.
If you complete through six colors, you'll summon the Apexis Guardian for the non-daily Guardian of the Monument. He'll also summon if you fail I've found, but the point is to complete the Emanations quest. You don't have to kill him for quest credit after the first time (since the previously linked quest is not repeatable) however, I STRONGLY urge you to do so because he drops both an Apexis Crystal and a level 70 green guaranteed. The crystal and 50 shards can be turned directly into a Large Prismatic Shard:!: once you hit Ogri'la Revered by sharding an Apexis Cloak.
On your way to your Forge Camp of preference (Wrath :thumbup: , Terror :thumbdown:, make sure you wrangle any rays on the way. You can bomb and banish however works for you and all toons in range will get credit. Check the spoiler for my method.
[spoiler]I put my slave accounts on their epic land mounts and my master account on an epic flying mount. I then fly into a camp making sure I turn and stop enough so the slaves can keep up. I use a lot of vertical axis in my route because follow doesn't check the z-axis so it's easy to dodge bombs up and down without losing the alt-trailer. I do one quick lap around a camp throwing bombs my main as the trailer aggros all the mobs in the camp. I try to grab a hound or two who's patrolling nearby to make it a 5-pull or better. Once I have them rounded up, I turn off follow then drop a portal with one of the slaves and spam my AoE button. When the pull is all banished, the slaves all sit down for a nice spot of tea and manna biscuits courtesy of the mage while the main continues to spit words to your moms cuz he came to drop bombs. Depending on how crowded it is and how on point my game is, I can do the entire banish quest with the four characters on the ground and the entire bomb quest with the main account flying above bombing while they kill and never have to land the main until they're both done. I usually get knocked off my mount or finish one or the other first though. [/spoiler]
If you haven't gotten five rays by now, fly around and finish that quest on your way back to Ogri'la to hand in all four quests. Take this opportunity to repair and vendor. If you've got the rep, you can buy an item for an Apexis Crystal and 50 shards to disenchant as well. I believe the 4-crystal&100-shard epics are shardable as well, but I don't have the rep yet to find out.
(This is where I would do the IQD part 2 portal opening quest where you steal 10 crates, but with 5 chars, that's 50 crates to steal and that's too much work for me so I skip it. If you haven't done it ever, do it at least once just to experience the phase device.)
Mount up, apply crusader aura, and fly to Netherstorm's Manaforge B'naar. Kill one blood elf outside (or more if you're unlucky) and loot the Sunfury Attack Plans for Lord Torvos.
Mount up again and fly across the Twisting Nether (don't look down! :S ) to the Throne of Kil'jaedan. Talk to Magistrix Seyla and pick up Blood for Blood and Blast the Gateway. Here's a handy tip for Blast the Gateway:
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Want to yell HADOUKEN when you start this quest? Then bind a key to summon FIVE FIREBALLS AT ONCE!!!
ok, it's not as cool as it sounds, and is actually a pain to set up but is worth it in the long run.

Create a macro that reads:
/use Sizzling Embers
and name it something short and easy, like 'se'.
Then create a keybinding for this macro (protip: native keybindings do not require action bars, very useful for people who play their accounts individually and like to use the action bars for normal single player abilities like me) one of two ways:

Method 1: Using /script commands in game (easy to use if your keyclone setup passes parens and capitals (which mine doesn't)):
/script SetBindingMacro("Binding","Macro")

Example:
/script SetBindingMacro("ALT-/","se")

To save this binding to your bindings-cache.wtf file on logout, run:
/script SaveBindings(GetCurrentBindingSet())

Method 2: If you're not down with scripting, add this to the end of each \World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\YourAccountName\bindings-cache.wtf file for every account you need it on:
bind ALT-/ MACRO se

:!: Make sure you only edit that bindings-cache.wtf file when you're not logged in, as logging out overwrites any changes you make.


Note: In the macro named 'se', "/y Hadouken!" is optional.
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Bid farewell to that hottie Seyla (she could ride my dragonhawk anytime!) and make your way towards the Isle of Quel'Danas through whatever means is fastest for you. I mage port to Shattrath, portal to Silvermoon, then fly. Soon there will be a portal right to IQD from Shat. If you find a better route, let me know. Route management is the best way to save time.
You can do the Multiphase Survey in Nagrand on the way through Shattrath if you haven't yet, or after the IQD dailies when you're done.
The IQD daily routine will be changing as the different phases go by, but at the time of this posting (April 2008 ), my realm has just started phase 2 of the Reclaiming missions, so I do the convert the sentries quest which is always available in some form, and then I kill some demons. I was doing the Dead Scar bombing by mass clicking the alts all at once, then taking 3 flights to complete it on my main, but here's a great link to a post by Nepida, Distraction At the Dead Scar bombing macros. I haven't tried them yet but they look promising. Once again, I skip gathering the mana residue because it involves farming drops five times. While 20 remnants isn't that many, it's keeping track of them that's not worth it.
Hand those three quests in, then take the time to open all the SSS sacks and reap the pile of garbage green rewards to dust.

Net time: 90 minutes
Net quests: 12 per character.
Net gold: 600g, plus shards and dust (1 prismatic and 15 greens guaranteed).

I'm about 7500g from my 4th and 5th epic mounts. When I get that next week, I'll be able to cut the travel time way, way down so I can start working the Netherwing dailies in. I just wanted to start collecting other people's experiences doing dailies.

How do YOU make the most out of dailies with multiple accounts?

Edit: Revision 1. Let me know if the spoilers are over the top.

Very nice write up. My four are only in their 40s but I can't wait to try this once they're 70.

nice work on methods. I get stuck in bgs too much so gold per hour very low.

A few things to note...

Flight path from Skettis to Ogrila requires Honored with the Skyguard faction.

Ogrila quests require a bunch of pre-req quests to be done before they open up - http://www.wowwiki.com/Ogri%27la

Banish The Demons quest requires Honored with Ogrila.

Need to be Revered with Ogrila to purchase cloak.

Sunfury attack plans is a random drop from the blood elves in Netherstorm - might be the 1st one, might be the 30th one.

The IQD quest Distraction At the Dead Scar is a pain - its a bombing run quest, but the mount moves very quickly, and you need to land the killing blow with the charge to get credit. Will most likely require several attempts to complete, since you'll be competing with many others to get the killing blows.

Hope this helps...

Cheers,
Stealthy

due to the time I spend doing other things I now limit what dailies I do down to which is easiest for the classes that I have or the most rewarding.

For example:

on my hunter (flying machine) and druid (flight form, duh) I put them in a party then have my hutner follow my druid when I do the bombing runs in BEM and skettis. I then do the banish demons and aether rays on my hunter with my druid in tow (resto so cant kill well). I have recently been skipping the crystal attunement one.

The next set are the new shattered sun dailies of which I do the gas readings or w/e its called near oshu'gun in nagrand on all my chars (thish I often do later due to competition) same with the residue quest. mining on hunter in shadowmoon or netherstorm, skinning on druid in nagrand (thick clefthoof leather) and herbing on my rogue, usually in shadowmoon or netherstorm. I then do the dread'scare bombing runs and the 2 other dailies just on my rogue and sometimes hunter. The third daily (killing demons near the portal) I again group up my hunter/druid for. same with the felblood quest in hellfire. The rest are a hit and miss depending on time or effort, such as the pvp dailies(rarely do them) and the instance dailies which are very hit and miss so unless we doing a guild run I dont bother anymore really. Oh and I almost forgot the new mana-cell one, this is also a 'if I have time' but it comes before the instance ones.

Its not the best but it doesnt take me too long and I usually end up with 150-200g across 3 characters (rogue has no flying mount)

*edit* party members get credit for kills in dead scar just fyi, so its easier than it sounds but you will likely still have to run it 2-3 times. which I often have to do just solo due to competition/crowds

Thanks Marv, have edited :)

Cheers,
Stealthy

[quote='Stealthy',index.php?page=Thread&postID=4855 1#post48551]A few things to note...


The IQD quest Distraction At the Dead Scar is a pain - its a bombing run quest, but the mount moves very quickly, and you need to land the killing blow with the charge to get credit. Will most likely require several attempts to complete, since you'll be competing with many others to get the killing blows. [/quote]

Use the linked macros and there is no difference between doing it on 1 char and 5 since you accept the flight at the same time. In addition they use the minimap ping thing to have your clones attack below while your main can manually target. Using these it is actually easier to multibox this quest than to single box it.

[url='http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=5545']Distraction At the Dead Scar bombing macros[/url]

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Originally Posted by Nepida',index.php?page=Thread&postID=48560#post485 60]

[quote='Stealthy',index.php?page=Thread&postID=4855 1#post48551]A few things to note...


The IQD quest Distraction At the Dead Scar is a pain - its a bombing run quest, but the mount moves very quickly, and you need to land the killing blow with the charge to get credit. Will most likely require several attempts to complete, since you'll be competing with many others to get the killing blows. [/quote]

Use the linked macros and there is no difference between doing it on 1 char and 5 since you accept the flight at the same time. In addition they use the minimap ping thing to have your clones attack below while your main can manually target. Using these it is actually easier to multibox this quest than to single box it.

[url='http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=5545

Distraction At the Dead Scar bombing macros[/url]

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Thanks for that Nepida - going to give this a go tonight! :)

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Originally Posted by Nepida',index.php?page=Thread&postID=48560#post485 60][url='http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=5545

Distraction At the Dead Scar bombing macros[/url]

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This is the kind of feedback I was looking for. Keep it coming! :thumbsup:

Block of text crits you for 100000!

Night write up tho, need this on the wiki please!

very nice write up!

i have the same route as you do for pre-2.4 dailies, although i only do the 4 ogri'la (banish, bomb, wrangle, simon sez) and the 2 skettis (bomb, escort) dailies. i generally do them in 40 minutes, which nets me ~300g across all 5 toons.

i do not have a set route for the new 2.4 dailies yet :( which is why this is an awesome post! hope u keep it updated as the servers complete the phases :)

tnx Accipitradea!

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Originally Posted by 'Majestic_Clown',index.php?page=Thread&postID=4864 1#post48641

Block of text crits you for 100000!

Night write up tho, need this on the wiki please!

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Well, 10,000 actually. It took some major edits to cram this post under 10,000 characters so it would fit in a single post. I just created an account on the wiki and will start to move some of this post there.

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Originally Posted by Nepida',index.php?page=Thread&postID=48560#post485 60]Use the linked macros and there is no difference between doing it on 1 char and 5 since you accept the flight at the same time. In addition they use the minimap ping thing to have your clones attack below while your main can manually target. Using these it is actually easier to multibox this quest than to single box it.

[url='http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=5545

Distraction At the Dead Scar bombing macros[/url]

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I made a video of me doing this quest in one run tonight (way after primetime to reduce competition). I'll encode it tonight and post it.

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Originally Posted by Accipitradea',index.php?page=Thread&postID=48720#p ost48720][quote='Nepida',index.php?page=Thread&postID=48560# post48560]Use the linked macros and there is no difference between doing it on 1 char and 5 since you accept the flight at the same time. In addition they use the minimap ping thing to have your clones attack below while your main can manually target. Using these it is actually easier to multibox this quest than to single box it.

[url='http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=5545

Distraction At the Dead Scar bombing macros[/url]

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I made a video of me doing this quest in one run tonight (way after primetime to reduce competition). I'll encode it tonight and post it.[/quote]

that would be interesting to see.

@your sig; BTW, Equilibrium was a cool show :)

As promised, here is an unedited (no music, sorry), low res, terrible camera work of me spamming the Dead Scar macro linked above. I did this late at night (1am) to avoid the crowds that plague getting credit for the multi-hit mobs during primetime.

Distraction at the Dead Scar bombing run (17MB)

My google video upload failed :(
If you're hesitant to click the link for any reason, don't bother clicking. It's not worth your time.

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Originally Posted by Accipitradea',index.php?page=Thread&postID=49288#p ost49288]As promised, here is an unedited (no music, sorry), low res, terrible camera work of me spamming the Dead Scar macro linked above. I did this late at night (1am) to avoid the crowds that plague getting credit for the multi-hit mobs during primetime.

[url='http://www.carlgames.net/wow/DeadScar5bomb.mpg

Distraction at the Dead Scar bombing run[/url] (17MB)

My google video upload failed :(
If you're hesitant to click the link for any reason, don't bother clicking. It's not worth your time.

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Very cool! Would love to see someone do this at Halaa! :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Accipitradea',index.php?page=Thread&postID=49288#p ost49288]As promised, here is an unedited (no music, sorry), low res, terrible camera work of me spamming the Dead Scar macro linked above. I did this late at night (1am) to avoid the crowds that plague getting credit for the multi-hit mobs during primetime.

[url='http://www.carlgames.net/wow/DeadScar5bomb.mpg

Distraction at the Dead Scar bombing run[/url] (17MB)

My google video upload failed :(
If you're hesitant to click the link for any reason, don't bother clicking. It's not worth your time.

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Awesome use of the minimap-pinging :)

How do you get them to fly all exact at the same spot? Which accept-macro do you use for that to start the flight?

It's all in the one mega-macro linked above:
Distraction At the Dead Scar bombing macros

I did the Ogri'la pre-req quests over the weekend and my first bombing run experience. I found it easiest to just fly around with my main doing the bombing as well but I tend to just stick to one spot. There were a lot of people on my server doing the quest and I was getting a little sick of a netherdrake streaking by me as I watch the target explode just before my bomb falls on it.

When you approach the camp the first "island" on your right. I park my team against the north wall but far enough forward so they get credit for any targets destroyed in that area. My main then just circles around and keeps hitting the targets, they respawn quickly enough so between the dodging and bombing there is almost no downtime.

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Originally Posted by 'thinus',index.php?page=Thread&postID=50616#post50 616

I did the Ogri'la pre-req quests over the weekend and my first bombing run experience. I found it easiest to just fly around with my main doing the bombing as well but I tend to just stick to one spot. There were a lot of people on my server doing the quest and I was getting a little sick of a netherdrake streaking by me as I watch the target explode just before my bomb falls on it.

When you approach the camp the first "island" on your right. I park my team against the north wall but far enough forward so they get credit for any targets destroyed in that area. My main then just circles around and keeps hitting the targets, they respawn quickly enough so between the dodging and bombing there is almost no downtime.

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Good tactic for Orgila bombing quest:
Ride up to canonball stack on land mounts. Dismount on main, move away from alts. Mount up on flying mount (main only), target canonball stack and bomb it, immediately dismount. All your party should get quest update. Your main might get hit by a few fel blasts but your alts should be fine. Heal / eat / bandage as required.

Cheers,
Stealthy

Alright, since I've been lurking for a long time, time to contribute a bit.

Currently I'm 5boxing 1 holy priest and 4 elemental shamans, works really well.
Anyhow. Dailies:

18 Dailies in 2 hours (could be 3 hours too, depends on the BG daily, but 17 dailies in a bit under 2 hours)

I start in shattrath, Pick up daily BG, pick up the goggles quest in nagrand and sunfury attack plans quest.
Then port to isle, pick up all the quests there (reanimating 5 robots, using ur crystal at 3 places, killing a bunch of demons, killing archers/locks/knights, bombing quest and boat fire bombing quest, and also the GATHER quest at the smith after phase 3 where u have to loot 5 'axes' in SMV and make them into cleansed something at the forge there. The only reason I do that quest is because it gives you a 300 ap proc consumable usable in sunwell, which I need for raiding, and the quest itself nets 20g each, so 100g for a gathering quest aint that bad since droprate is good.

Anyway, pick up all the quests and do all of them, then hand them in, you won't have the the last gathering one, cus its in SMV.

After the isles quests are done i use the scroll to port to shatt, then I fly to nagrand and do the goggles quest, from nagrand I fly back and fly to skettis, in skettis i do the escape from skettis quest and bombing quest, then I fly to SMV to do the sunwell gathering quest. Once I looted all those items I fly north to HFP to do the 5 growing fireballs and the kill 4 demons quest (those 2 at kazzak). From there I fly north again to Netherstorm and pick up the sunfury attack plans.
Then I fly to ogrii'la, pick up banish more demons, the mega-simon quest, the bombing quest and the aether rays.

Aether rays are easy enough for me, 3 frostshocks + use item. Then for bombing I dont do anything special. I have 5 epic flying mounts to my alts just stay on follow while I bomb everything. After bombing I just dismount and kill 15 demons (with portal up ofcourse). for Megasimon I place my priest in the middle, and alt on each 'button', do the quest, kill elite, loot shard and possible epic, then its off to getting more aether rays.

After those dailies are done I hand them in and my shamans use astrall recall (priest hearthstone will be on cooldown) so I signup on the daily BG and play until I win (that way priest also gets back to shatt without HS). After that daily i go into isle again to deliver the gather quest from SMV, and done :)

This nets me around 1.5k gold per day in about 2 houres if you include the loot (greens disenchant, blues etc)


Oh and, maybe handy for people, I made an 'all in one dailies macro':

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/use [noflying] Wrangling Rope
/use [noflying] Shattered Sun Banner
/use [noflying] Attuned Crystal Cores
/use [noflying] Astromancer's Crystal
/use [noflying] Fel Siphon
/use [noflying] Multiphase Spectrographic Goggles
/use [flying] Skyguard Blasting Charges
/use [flying] Skyguard Bombs
/use Flaming Oil

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This will work for ALL the dailies (that I do, so the ones mentionned above) except for the skaar bombing one, I use a separate one for that (the one mentionned by OP)

Hope it helps :)


edit: typos

Pretty much what I do except for the bombing in Blades Edge I leave 4 toons on the gound next to the turn in thing for shards and i have them drop all thier totems and then i just fly around with one of the toons and do the bombing. I dont have epic mounts so its a mess otherwise.

It's so easy now it makes me wanna create another 5 lvl 70's so i can bump it up to 3k in 4 hours . . . . . mmmmm goldz.

On "Distraction at the Dead Scar", I just head in and kill things on foot. They seem to have adjusted the undead spawn rate, so its a bit more hectic than normal, but with a prot pally to gather them up, I can still get all my kills on foot.

I only have one lvl 70 to do dailies on yet, but as far as the Dead Scar bombing goes I just bind the 'bomb' to one of my mouse thumb buttons and bomb like crazy, or well aimed and calculated anyway.
Get everything done in one run easy, so with multiboxing i figure as long as I get them all to fly relatively close to each other I can just bomb everything on my main and not worry about my alts.

One trick for the bombing runs while boxing is to click two of your followers first, then your main, then your other two. That way you'll have two ahead and two behind your main, close enough to pick up the credit. Initially I had my main going first but then the last guy would only get partial credit due to distance.

[quote='Bena',index.php?page=Thread&postID=54846#po st54846]One trick for the bombing runs while boxing is to click two of your followers first, then your main, then your other two. That way you'll have two ahead and two behind your main, close enough to pick up the credit. Initially I had my main going first but then the last guy would only get partial credit due to distance.[/quote]

Actually the best way to do this is to use the macro Nepida provided so all your toons enter flight at the same time:

[quote='Nepida',index.php?page=Thread&postID=47918# post47918]map these to a key, then talk to the dragonhawk flyer guy.


[b]main:[/b] [i](allows you to target manually, useful for killing the casters)[/i]
/stand
/dismount
/script SelectGossipOption(1)
/use Arcane Charges


[b]clones:[/b]
/stand
/dismount
/script SelectGossipOption(1)
/use Arcane Charges
/script Minimap:[b][/b]PingLocation(0, 0)[/quote]

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