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Breakfast Topic: Have dailies replaced old fashioned grinding?
One of the stated goals of making daily quests so vast and varied in WoW is to help out those people who would rather quest for money than grind primals all day and night. A good goal, and definitely one that I support. Questing is usually a lot more entertaining than grinding out piles of motes.However, to me it doesn't seem like dailies have replaced grinding as a way of making money. It works fine as an alternative, but it doesn't quite stand up to other ways of generating gold. Dailies make it easier to get money, but it doesn't seem to me like it's the best source of income, contrary to what most people say about daily quests. Dailies allow you to make one hundred gold in an hour, but farming the right primals can get you quite a bit more. Even Fishing in the right places, as Eliah pointed out to me, can double or triple what you could make in that time through daily quests. Let's not forget that the gold generated by daily quests has inflated the market on some items required in crafting, making it even more profitable to grind out the raw materials.What are your thoughts on daily quests as a replacement for old fashioned farming and grinding? As an alternative? Have they done their job well as another option for generating gold, or have they just thrown the market off? Is it possible for anything to actually usurp grinding raw materials as the number one money maker?
WoW Insider Show Episode 34: Blizzard's listening in
Q: How many Warlocks does it take to change a lightbulb?A: Just one, but he needs two other people to click on it.Yes, that's the kind of quality humor that you'll hear on this week's podcast (and the best joke is right at the end of the show). It's now available for listening on WoW Radio and also in iTunes. This past Saturday, Turpster joined me, Eliah Hecht, and Matthew Rossi for a little discussion about all things WoW in the past week. We got in some good discussion about speccing as a mage and lots of other reader emails, as well as: A chat about just how much information Blizzard keeps about us Whether old world PvP nostalgia is just that, and what can happen with world PvP in the future Will Naxxaramas' migration to Northrend mean Tier 3 is going bye-bye? And we chatted about the "brutal" ratings required on Brutal Gladiator items in season 4, and why they're there. Plus of course instant feedback from the IRC channel, and the usual wackiness. If you liked the show or have a comment for us, feel free to send along a note to theshow@wow.com, and we might even read it next week live on the virtual air. Thanks for listening, enjoy the show.
WoW Insider Show live tomorrow afternoon on WoW Radio
The WoW Insider Show returns to the virtual airwaves tomorrow afternoon at 3:30pm EST as usual, and this show is going to be a good one: not only will Turpster and I be on, but Eliah Hecht (he of the great Death Knight review posted recently) will appear via voice, as will the one and only Matthew Rossi. And we'll be chatting about all the news in the last week of Warcraft, including but not limited to that silly rabbit who tried to trick the GMs, Naxx maybe going bye-bye, and Chilton's nonsense about nostalgia.And we'll be answering your questions and queries as well -- you can email the show at theshow@wow.com, or just join us live in IRC over at irc.mmoirc.com. Listen live tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 pm EST over on WoW Radio -- with Rossi and Hecht on, it's sure to be a barnburner.
HKO Insider Show episode 31 now available
The latest episode of our weekly podcast is now up and available for your listening pleasure over at WoW Radio (and it seems like Duncor's been messing with the show titles over there). WoW Insider's Eliah Hecht, John Petricelli sat down with me and "the inimitable" Turpster last Saturday and chatted, as usual, about the biggest news in the past week of Hello Kitty Online. On the agenda: Lots of talk about everything to be found in the new Sanrio Magic Terrace instance, including Eliah's great writeup about all of the monsters and pet cards you can find in there. What we think of all the new daily quests on the Sunny Well Isle, including that one where you have to make a bombing run to pass out cupcakes to unicorns. All the unofficial changes in the latest patch as well, from the sound effect of Hello Kitty's gardening power to Badtz-Maru's new emote animation. Plus, we read a little reader email (you can email us at theshow@wow.com), and we tracked Turpster's progress in his (probably) never-ending quest to level up a character to 70 before Wrath of the Lich King -- if he doesn't make it, he'll be banned from the Flower Kingdom forever.Definitely check out the podcast if you need something to listen to while you redecorate your Hello Kitty house!
WoW Insider Show live this afternoon
Yes it's Saturday once again, and that means that we'll go live this afternoon on WoW Radio with episode number 31 of our weekly podcast. This week, the talk will no doubt center around the biggest thing that happened in the last week of Warcraft -- yes, of course I mean patch 2.4. We'll have impressions of the content so far, a look at the official and unofficial changes, and a general breakdown of just what the heck happened to Azeroth on Tuesday.I'll be on the show along with Turpster, and this week from WoW Insider we'll have Eliah Hecht on the show for the first time ever, as well as John "BigBearButt" Petricelli. It should be a lot of fun -- to join us, tune into WoW Radio this afternoon at 3:30pm EST (and join us on IRC if you'd like -- we'll be on irc.mmoirc.com in the #wowradio channel). Feel free to email us questions or comments as well: theshow@wow.com is the address for that.It's a patch 2.4-stravaganza on the WoW Insider Show today, so come for the 2.4 impressions and wrapups, and stay for the punch and pie!**Punch and pie may not be included.
