Key Takeaways

• World of Warcraft offers a wide variety of activities, from dungeons to reputation grinds.
• New World: Aeternum provides freedom and enjoyable grinding with easy-to-complete events and activities.
• Elder Scrolls Online boasts the best community, worldbuilding, and crafting system for immersive grinding.

The world of MMORPGs is paved with dozens of great titles that fill gamers’ lives with joy and also, some stress, especially when the grinding becomes unbearable. But there are some titles that can make grinding quite enjoyable, especially if at the end of the road, there are some juicy rewards waiting to be secured.

Here are MMORPGs with the best daily grind, selected from a wide range of titles and handpicked due to their best qualities such as balance between work and reward, time invested, mechanics, reward pools, and other details that make them quite enjoyable. From a classic that never dies to the most stylized MMORPG based on a nearly four-decade-long franchise.

8 World Of Warcraft

A Classic That Always Renews Itself

• Things to grind: Levels, reputation, and gear.
• Best features: Wide variety of activities to complete, solo or with groups.

In many aspects, World of Warcraft is the best MMORPG, and some even consider it the father of all modern MMOs. With its unique art style, vast lore, and thrilling storytelling, it has gained millions of fans and is about to celebrate its 20th anniversary, which is quite a lot for a live service game.

One of the best aspects of WoW is that its grinding system has evolved with its fans. In the beginning, it was all about the occasional dungeon and raiding, then, it went through several changes, especially after Cataclysm kicked the board. Nowadays, it is filled with daily activities to enjoy, like the Radiant Echoes, daily quests, and of course Faction Reputation grind.

7 New World: Aeternum

Just Relaunched, With Lots Of Content

• Things to grind: Gear, Weapon Mastery, Trade Skills, Events
• Best features: Leveling at your pace, no linear quest line, even crafting

After relaunching like New World: Aeternum, Amazon’s first original IP has become quite good, to be honest. With dozens of things to do, from leisurely hunting and fishing to crafting furniture and playing music in cities, the game allows players a lot of freedom to play however they please.

And the grinding is not so harsh either, since Expeditions, Raids, and even Seasonal Events are quite easy to complete. PvP is optional and even Faction Quests can be grinded without having to fight other players. Its Season Pass can be leveled up quite fast, thanks to its Activity Card that works with Stamps, which are obtained by completing several activities in the game.

A Relaxed Experience, In A Vast World Full Of Lore

• Things to grind: Levels, Skills, Conqueror Levels, Crafting Levels, Gear
• Best features: The best community, with lots of players willing to help each other. Easy to grind quests. The best Worldbuilding.

Ever since its launch back in 2014, Elder Scrolls Online has been enjoyed by millions of fans of TES, and Zenimax has done quite a good job keeping the balance between fun and grinding in the game. With occasional expansions being released, the game doesn’t have a content vault, which means all the content is available for players to enjoy at their leisure.

It has one of the most interesting and immersive Crafting systems in the game, where players can craft unique items depending on the materials they use to make them. Grinding for levels, improving your crafting skills, and chasing after loot are added to the fact that all skills are leveled and evolve. And since the game offers mod support, getting the Skyshards you need to improve them is quite easy.

5 Throne and Liberty

The Natural Heir Of Lineage 2

• Things to grind: Gear, Weapon Mastery, Various Power Boosting Items
• Best features: Fast-paced, but still relaxed, lots of quests and World Events with hundreds of rewards.

Throne and Liberty recently launched globally, and the community has grown quite a lot ever since. But it’s not only the thousands of active players participating in the many recurrent events happening every hour that makes the game so attractive for fans of MMORPGs, but its grinding system which is quite enjoyable.

Players can spontaneously group up to grind open-world dungeons, participate in events, and complete contracts, all while enjoying the game’s fast-paced combat system and its easy-to-understand Gear Progression.

4 Black Desert Online

A Game That Allows You To Be A Merchant Or A Powerful Adventurer

• Things to grind: Leveling, Profession, Items, and Horses
• Best features: One of the best Profession systems, players can get rich and buy Top Gear easily

Imagine that a game allows players to become absolutely powerful, by being a Horse Breeder, a Merchant, or a Chef. Black Desert has that strange combination of factors that make its grinding system quite enjoyable. Since players get money from professions and trading, and they can ultimately invest in new gear sold by other players, then the more money they have, the easier is to get top Gear.

On the other hand, players’ characters can level up as they improve in their Profession Mastery levels, not only as they fight enemies while farming resources, but also as they complete requisitions from NPCs. But perhaps one of the most enjoyable grinds the game has is the Horse Breeding and Trading systems, which allows players to capture wild horses, and breed them until they have the fastest mounts.

3 Lost Ark

Good To Turn Off Your Brain And Grind

• Things to grind: Gear progression, Daily Activities
• Best features: One of the best cooperative grinds ever made

Ever since Lost Ark became global, it has brought a lot to the MMORPG table, with its Diablo-like hack’n’slash gameplay, and its enthralling story. The beautiful scenarios, cool visual effects, and dynamic combat help a lot to relieve the tension of grinding for hours.

The cooperative play this game has is quite good, making completing tedious tasks a walk in the park. Even daily grinds become enjoyable when playing with friends, especially if those friends have higher Gearscore levels and can carry you around.

2 Path Of Exile

Extremely Complex, But The Grind Is Rewarding

• Things to grind: Gear progression, Daily Quests
• Best features: Lots of things to grind, and a less punishing RNG system than in most games

Path Of Exile is another great game that allows quite a freedom of choice for players. A game that changed the way hack’n’slash games are made thanks to its flow chart style character progression system, which opened up many paths for players to create powerful and cool builds. In terms of grinding, PoE is quite moderate: Several NPCs grant Daily Quests which players can complete to get cool gear and valuable items. Some players find the RNG system of the game harsh, but it’s actually not as much as other MMORPGs like Lineage 2, which is a nightmare.

The game is also good since it allows for a lot of chill-like grinding, or more like mindlessly killing beasts to get the drops you need. The game has lots of currencies, of different kinds and values, and they can be exchanged at certain NPCs for good gear, but it is mostly that: getting more gear, reaching the resistance cap to avoid being annihilated by monsters from the end-game, and getting Divination Cards, and into Unique farming can be done without too many issues. More so if done in groups: the manier, the merrier.

1 Final Fantasy 14

Beautiful, Huge World To Explore, Lots Of Dailies To Grind

• Things to grind: Leveling, crafting, and gathering.
• Best features: Great environment, cool guild system, great character progression and dynamic storytelling

What is it that people love so much about Final Fantasy 14? The answer might lie in its progression system, based on the classic FF classes, which have been considerably expanded throughout the years, with new classes added with every DLC. On the other hand, the grinding system allows players to hit max level, and then dedicate themselves to level up Crafts, which are the professions in the game.

Gathering and crafting go hand in hand, and similarly to most MMORPGs, it is quite common to have every gathering and crafting skill. So, players will be mostly grinding that, which is not so bad after getting used to it. Then, Daily Tasks such as Treasure Hunts, Mini Cacpot, and the Tribal quests, for example. Of course, there are also lots of weekly quests and activities as well, but they are not as time-consuming as in most similar games.