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.