As you may have seen in the news, ESO has an anniversary event that gives bonus rewards for every daily quest in the game.

All the daily quests are listed here on UESP, but some here’s a guide to doing them in the most efficient manner. Even when it’s not the anniversary event dailies give extremely valuable rewards, so being able to do them efficiently is useful!

Writs

Writs are the easiest thing to do at any level. With a bit of advanced preparation you can claim 48 boxes in 30-40 minutes and get riding training progressing as well!

Every character you have should be certified for all six writs. I know the quest says you can only certify for one at a time – what it means is you can only do the certification quest one at a time. Once the certification is done you can go on to certify for the next until you’ve certified for all of them. If your character is already at least rank 10 in the crafting you can skip through all the extra stuff and just get the certification, so it can be helpful to decon some stuff ahead of time.

Craft bag is helpful for this but if you don’t have it just make sure each character has a stack of jute, maple, and iron ore, and style materials for a style they know (all characters start with their racial style and you can buy materials for this for 15 g at the vendor). Also try to have some Ta, a few of each essence rune, and Jora, Porade, Jode, and Notade (which can be purchased from the vendor for 30 g). You can store these in the bank until you know what you need.

On your provisioner craft 20ish of all of the possible level 1 writ foods, the list of which is found here. Only craft ones for the factions you’ll be doing writs on. On your alchemist craft 20ish of each of Sip of Health, Magicka, and Stamina as well as Sip of Ravage Health, Magicka, and Stamina. Put these in your bank along with 20ish of each alchemy mat.

Get the addon Dolgubon’s Lazy Writ Crafter if you’re on PC.

Park your characters in a city with convenient access to the writ pickups and crafting stations. Rawlkha and Vivec are popular for just this reason, but the slow loading screens will make the whole process take longer. I suggest Shornhelm in Rivenspire, Hew’s Bane, or Velyn Harbor in Malabal Tor (although this location requires you to do a quest line in order to unlock the stations).

Now just… do the writs! Pick up the quests, craft what’s needed, grab the food and potions out of your bank (Lazy Writ Crafter will automatically grab what’s needed) and turn them in. Even if you get nothing of value from the boxes, the 300 g (level 3) to 664 gold (cp160) more than pay for the materials you put into it.

Don’t forget to do riding training on each character since you’re logging onto them anyways! This will make actually playing these characters later on much more pleasant.

Solo Quests

There are many repeatable quests in Tamriel that cannot be shared and do not require a group to complete. If you’re doing this during strange times of day or just don’t like people, these are the ones for you.

Many shareable quests can also be completed solo but to maximize your questing you may wish to do these in a group. I’ll cover these quests in the next section – it’s up to you whether to solo them or try to share them!

A lot of the daily quests here drop motif pages on their own. I suggest focusing on the zones that drop motifs you already want, in order to increase your chances of getting the right thing!

Dark Brotherhood Sacraments

These are picked up at the Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary in the Gold Coast – they require the Dark Brotherhood DLC. He’ll tell you to assassinate one of three targets.

Non-shareable Group Quests

Craglorn Dailies

Craglorn dailies are listed here. You can repeat all of these per day. Most of them are designed for groups of four, although they can be soloed if you’re pretty good at your character. They have a chance to drop Yokudan motif pages.

Pledges

Undaunted pledges are dungeon daily quests. You must be level 45 to pick them up. More information about joining the Undaunted and doing these pledges is here.

Trial Weeklies

Trials weekly quests do give the gift box… if you get a coffer! When you enter a trial you’ll be given a quest to complete it. The first time you complete it you get a purple coffer. After that there will be a 7 day cooldown where you don’t get the coffer anymore. When you get the coffer you will also get a gift box during the anniversary event.

Battleground Daily

At the battlegrounds area on the Vvardenfell docks, you can pick up a daily quest to complete a battleground. These give AP and gold.

Shareable quest etiquette

Most daily quests are shareable. What this means is, you will be given a random daily from a selection of two, six, up to fifteen quests for some quest givers. That is the only daily you will be given from that quest giver. However, if someone else got a different daily from that selection, they could share it with you and you could complete that one too, until you completed every quest in the selection. While most of these dailies can be done solo, without any group, joining a group and sharing the quests can greatly increase your coffer to time ratio.

If you want to do this, here’s what you should do:

Go to the quest giver. Check which quest he gives you today. Do not pick the quest up. If you pick the quest up you will not be able to accept anyone’s shares! You can only have one daily quest from each quest giver active at a time, if you pick up your version you won’t get the shared quests! If you accidentally pick up the quest you can safely drop it. But do check which quest you got and make a mental note.

Join the group for the set of quests you want to do if you haven’t already. Or make your own! There are addons that can auto-share quests and auto-invite people to your group if they type a phrase (for example “x” or “dolmen” or something). I haven’t used any of these so I won’t make a recommendation but they can make your life easier if you are going to run a group.

The group leader should ask for a specific quest. For example if you’re doing the mage’s/fighter’s/undaunted dailies he may ask if anyone can share the Auridon ones. If you have the quest he asks for pick it up and share it (quest journal > f). If the group leader doesn’t seem to know which quest to ask for next, and yours isn’t done, offer to share yours by name.

Once you know which quest the group is doing (whichever one has been shared and accepted by you and the group lead), immediately start traveling to that location. If you don’t have wayshrines watch the map for another group member to travel to the correct wayshrine, then right click on their name from the group screen and travel to player. Once you’re at the location try to wait for the group to, well, group up again, so that everyone is in place, before starting combat, so that everyone gets credit. However other groups may be around (probably will be during Anniversary) so if the boss starts before everyone gets there just be sure to get your hits in.

Once the quest is complete travel back to the quest giver, turn the quest in, and then rinse-wash-repeat. If you miss a share for any reason (were a bit slow to get the quest turned in, afk, etc.) don’t be afraid to ask for a re-share. You may not be the only person who missed it!

A lot of times people use jargon to refer to the quests like “Poachers” for “Meat for the Masses” (poacher’s encampment is the name of the world boss you kill) or “Folly” for “Looming Shadows”. If you’re not sure what people are asking for don’t be afraid to ask for clarification. You may get teased a little – after all, these quests have been out two or three years. But you haven’t been doing them two or three years! So it’s not your fault you don’t know.

Shareable Quests that do not require a group

Guild Dailies

The Mage’s, Fighter’s, and Undaunted guilds offer daily quests in their guild halls at capital cities (Mournhold, Elden Root, and Wayrest). The Mages will have you retrieve an item from one of fifteen public dungeons, the Fighters will have you close three dolmens in one of fifteen zones, and the Undaunted will have you go to a particular delve in one of the base game zones. In addition to a lot of ornate items these can drop Draugr motif. There are fifteen of each of these! One for each zone!

Wrothgar Delve Dailies

These are picked up at Morkul Stronghold in Wrothgar – they require the Orsinium DLC. The questgiver is inside the largest longhouse. He will send you to one of the delves in the zone with a special mission. The coffer has a chance to drop Trinimac Motifs.

Rye’s Reaquisitions and Heists

In Hew’s Bane the Thieves Guild has some dailies. You have to unlock these by completing the first few stages of the TG questline. The first, from the bounty board outside the sanctuary, has you go to a delve or a world boss in Hew’s Bane. The second, from the khajiit inside the sanctuary, has you complete a difficult theft event. The second one has a chance to drop Thieves Guild style motif pages.

Vvardenfell Exploratory, Hunt, and Relic Quests

These quests have prerequisites that must be completed before you can pick up or receive a share of these dailies. So plan ahead and get a few quests done in Vvardenfell before the event! This article explains very clearly where to go and what to do.

Clockwork City Exploratory, Tarnished, and Blackfeather Court Quests

This forum post explains the deal with these. Like the Vvardenfell quests they have some pre-requisites.

Cyrodiil Settlement Quests

There are five settlements in Cyrodiil that offer PvE quests. The PvP Quests in cyrodiil do not provide coffers, but these do. In order to pick these up your faction must own the settlement. You may not be able to safely travel to all of the locations if your faction is weak in Cyrodiil, so if you have a choice of campaigns pick one your faction is strong on. Otherwise I suggest the 7-day CP campaign as it’s pretty quiet and the having champion points will help you get through the dailies faster.

Anvil Bounty Board

The anvil bounty board gives quests for the delves in the Gold Coast. There are two of these.

Shareable Quests that require a group

Kvatch Bounty Board

The Kvatch Bounty Board gives quests for Arena or Folly. These require a group to complete. There are two of these. Arena drops Order of the Hour motif pages and Folly drops Minotaur motif pages.

Wrothgar World Boss

The Wrothgar World Boss Dailies are picked up in an inn outside Orsinium. There is one for each world boss. They usually require some additional things like harvesting meat or so on. They drop Malacath motif pages.

Vvardenfell World Boss

These quests have prerequisites that must be completed before you can pick up or receive a share of these dailies. So plan ahead and get a few quests done in Vvardenfell before the event! This article explains very clearly where to go and what to do.

Clockwork City World Boss

Repeatable Quests that do not give the coffer

Cyrodiil PvP Quests

Thieves Guild Jobs

Dark Brotherhood Contracts

Hadran’s Caravan Quests