Wotlk Leveling/collection quests while multi-boxing

[Boxingforfun]

I am currently boxing 3 level 72 characters. I've found that wotlk offer alot of collection quests that are a real pain for multi-boxing and are adding tons of time to my level 80 goals. Are there any tips or tricks out there to skip some of these or any guides that will show the most efficient paths to 80 for us multi-boxers?



Any suggestions would be great!

[Maxion]

I'd say its way too early to expect any such guide to exist yet.
My suggestion is to either skip those quests for now until you know you need to do them, or just do them as you go along.
They are very painful, but may be worth it if the reward is good or if it's an important chain (those are the only ones I do on my boxing teams myself).
I haven't even started questing in Northrend on my boxing team yet though, lvling my main first.

Be glad you only have 3 characters, might make the quests seem a bit less painful to think about how it would be with 5 ;)

[Ualaa]

The people who are exclusively questing and have skipped the collection quests are running out of quests.
Just looking at these forums for that conclusion.

So, either do some of the collection quests, as many of those then open up kill quests.
Or do the kill quests and skip the collection quests and get your remaining exp's elsewhere.
The two options are mindlessly grind, preferably adding in herbs, mining nodes and skinning to at least make your toons a lot of gold in the process.
Or run instances; even if you cannot beat a given boss you can clear trash to them and reset. Eventually you'll get bosses down too.

The process of leveling up isn't boxer friendly in this expansion.
But then blizzard designs their games with the intent that 99% of the player base will end up spending 99% of their time at maximum level.
So to really experience Wrath, you need to be 80 and see what it has to offer at that level.
The grind up might be a pain, but you'll get there...

[elo]

You need to drink more. Alcohol makes the collection quests much more tolerable. No, you still don't level fast, but with enough drink you don't care either. :)

[Notes]

So far I've done every collection/loot quest, and so far it was worth it. Drop rates have been high so far, had a few 100% drop quests in a row wich made it more of a kill quest rather then a loot quest 8) (needed 15 shards, so 65 kills later I was done: 20K xp for the quest and 35K xp for the kills made during the quest.. not a bad deal ;) )

Just a little heads up to just go and do them, it's worth it in the end, due to teh follo ups

[Tehtsuo]

I'm finding that the more items you need for a quest, the higher the drop rate. I know, it's crazy, right? Anyways I've been avoiding the ones that only require 3-5 drops, except when they lead to a good chain. When you go to a new quest hub, do some research and find out what the quest chains are like. Some collection quests are the first in a long line of NON-collection quests. Some are first in a long line of MORE collection quests.

Examples:

Lurielle (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=24117) Her first quest is to collect 15 items. However, they're 100% drop, and then you get 7 really easy kill/use item quests!

Hidetrader Jun'ik (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=27037#starts) Do all his quests, then you get to do the Conquest Pit quests from Grennix Shivwiggle (http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=27719)

[puppychow]

There was a collection quest I really liked from the pirate island in Fjord -- you had to go kill some bears and get "bear musk". The nice thing was when a bear dropped a musk, it dropped for EVERYONE in the party. There have only been a handful of collection quests like this, virtually all of them are the same ol "1 drop per kill".

Don't really understand it, it discourages people from grouping since you spend longer killing stuff, I really wish Blizzard would change their quests so all collection quests drop an item for everyone in the party. Would not only encourage people to group up, especially in heavy camped areas, but would be great for multiboxers :)

[TheBigBB]

Some of the collections aren't as bad as they seem at first. There's a murloc quest in Borean Tundra where you kill orcas for 7 orca blubber, and it seems stupid and annoying like you would want to skip it, especially since it's not needed. However, the drop is 100% and they drop 2 half the time. I only had to kill about 23 orcas to complete this across 5 characters.

[emesis]

I haven't been to Northrend yet, but I've been doing the Death Knight quest series on my 5-box RAF team and have been amazed at how boxer friendly the quests are. So far, I'm about 2/3 of the way through the series and at Level 60/61/61/61/61 (Yay for RAF and lols at granting levels within the team to pump up the leveling). The collection quests have either had a TON of items close together (the Saronite Dagger quest) or been 100% drops from easy mobs (there's one quest to get 20 crusader skulls, was worried about doing this five times, but the skulls are 100% drops from both Scarlet military and the hilarious level 30-40 citizens of the town).

I don't expect that Blizzard did anything for the sake of boxers, but certainly don't appear to be discourging boxing/leveling in groups. I suspect the high drop rate on many collection quests is deliberate - low drop rate collection quests are hated by all - whether boxing or not.

[Basilikos]

I'm encouraged to hear this so far. I'm not going to bother touching 70-80 content for another week, considering how packed my server is, but it's good to have this information ahead of time anyway. I'm especially interested in the whole, "The more you need, the faster you get them" concept since that is really the way it should be (IMO).

[Frosty]

I'm not going to bother touching 70-80 content for another week, considering how packed my server isI broke down and checked it out last night.. I'd forgotten how many rude people really play this game. :S