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Online RPGs like MapleStory and 모비노기 have daily chores to complete. The more chores pile up, the harder it becomes for players to keep up with both the game world and real life. Developers release quality-of-life patches to simplify these tasks and ease the burden, but even small chores can feel overwhelming when you’re juggling both worlds.

To make dailies less of a burden and keep the game enjoyable, I think you need to set priorities, focus on them, and stay flexible about how you play. Pick only the chores you can manage, and be willing to let the rest go. That’s how you keep a game from feeling like work and continue enjoying it in the long run.

Even chores you normally find manageable can feel unappealing, depending on how you’re feeling that day. When that happens, I simply skip them. I’ve found that forcing myself is more stressful than I expect—enough to put me off logging in at all.

In MapleStory, a game I enjoy playing, there are 4 daily chores:

Daily Gift, daily quests, Monster Park, and grinding to the meso cap.

■ Daily Gift

Daily Gift offers a variety of rewards for defeating 300 monsters within your level range each day.

I always do this one for the Karma Black Cubes and White Bonus Potential Cubes.

■ Daily Quests

Daily quests are split between Arcane River and Grandis quests.

I select only Grandis quests in the scheduler, and I do them only when I feel like it.

Completing daily quests rewards you with plenty of EXP, Symbols, and 에리온 Fragments, so they’re worth doing every day. Still, I found it stressful to force myself through them when I wasn’t in the mood. That’s why, on days when I don’t feel like doing daily quests, I skip them.

■ Monster Park

Monster Park lets you earn plenty of EXP each day by running a dungeon suited to your level.

Monster Park Extreme used to give more EXP than Monster Park. After it was removed, that EXP became the reward for clearing Monster Park 5 times, making 5 Monster Park clears each week a must.

So I make sure to clear Monster Park 5 times each week.

Beyond that, just like with daily quests, I only do more runs when I feel like it.

■ Grinding to the Daily Meso Cap

I don’t enjoy grinding, so I’m happy to skip grinding to the daily meso cap altogether.

When I feel like doing dailies	When I don’t feel like doing dailies
Daily Gift O	Daily Gift O
Daily Quests O	Daily Quests X
Monster Park O	Monster Park X
Grinding to the Daily Meso Cap X	Grinding to the Daily Meso Cap X

That’s my approach summed up in a simple table.