World Quests and Daily Quests

Daily quests, or dailies, are repeatable quests you can take and finish once per day. Their givers show blue exclamation and question marks instead of the yellow ones of normal Quests. Dailies appear in many parts of the game and pay out Reputation and Renown, profession progress, seasonal event rewards and pet battle rewards.

• Weekly quests can be done once a week; they often reset on Tuesday on US realms and on Wednesday on EU realms.
• Monthly quests are rare; the best known are the profession quests of the Darkmoon Faire, which is only open one week a month.

The new day starts at the same moment across a whole region, chosen to fall early in the morning local time. The times are fixed in Coordinated Universal Time, so the local hour can move by one when daylight saving time begins or ends.

Before dailies, the only way to climb high with a faction was to grind monsters or turn in items from them again and again. Daily quests gave players a steadier path:

World quests arrived with Legion as a bigger version of the old daily system. Each one is a standalone quest that joins your log when you enter its area and leaves when you go. They are voiced: a short talking-head pop-up sets up the task and another one plays when you finish. They rotate on different timers, some lasting a few hours and some several weeks, and everyone in the same region sees the same set, although some only show for certain professions or after certain quests.

• From Dragonflight on, world quests reset twice a week instead of daily, because players felt pushed to do them every day.
• Kinds include world bosses, rare and elite monsters, PvP objectives, pet battles, profession tasks, dungeon or raid tasks, Skyriding races and Special Assignments (added in patch 11.0.2).
• Since patch 8.1.0 most world quests cannot be completed in a raid group, and Group Finder groups for them delist themselves at 5 players; epic world bosses are the exception.

Each expansion has its own unlock. In the current expansion, Midnight, world quests in Quel'Thalas, Harandar and the Voidstorm open after you finish the leveling campaign in every main zone and earn these achievements: Eversong In Reprise, For Zul'Aman!, One Does Not Simply Walk Into Harandar and Breaching the Voidstorm. The storyline Arator's Journey is also required, and the Coiled Isle needs the quest Nature of Her Wounds.

World quest rewards differ a lot and depend on the kind of quest: gear, gold, reputation tokens, profession materials and expansion currencies are common. Many of them scale with your character's progress, such as the item level of gear. With War Mode on, gold and currency from world quests get a 10% bonus.