A list of the perfect quests for multiboxers?

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Hi guys, :)

In my brief experience multi-boxing so far, it's become clear that the many 'gather' quests are a nightmare for multi-boxers.

Does anyone know of a list of the best quests to take for multiboxers?

Thanks. :D

[OzPhoenix]

Source,

I don't think anyone has yet put together a "no-gather" questing guide. And yes, if a quest asks you to go gather 75 "gorilla hairs" it's a real PITA and a slowdown on leveling.

That said, here's some general tips I could offer:

Azeroth Even without RAF, the XP rate in Azeroth has been boosted so much now that you shouldn't need to do any collection quests at all. Just switch leveling zones when you run out of kill quests and/or run a dungeon or two; there's enough options within Azeroth to always drop those pesky collection quests.

Outlands Outlands is extremely multiboxer friendly. Recently I ran a 5xPaladin team through there and I can tell you that two-thirds of all the quests in each zone were kill quests (this tracked against the Questing achievement for each zone - for example I had 70 of the 105 Hellfire quests completed when I moved on to Zangermarsh). Again, the XP has been boosted and the result is you'll never ever need to do a collection quest. My most recent team finished (hit 68) in Netherstorm, without having done a single Outlands collection quest.

Northrend Here's where you hit the brick wall, and if you've been around on these boards a while, you'll know many of us have had a whinge about this once or twice (or more.... lol). You hit essentially a three-pronged problem:

1. The XP per level is huge. 1.6m XP per level is a lotta questing.

2. The bullk of all quests are collection quests - Northrend seems to favour them about 2:1.

3. Quests are chained tightly, meaning that skipping a single collection quest could mean missing out on several follow-up quests.

There's not a lot of options here short of manning up and just plowing through them. You have the dungeons route of course (and 2xTriumph badges for the daily non-heroic dungeon), assuming your team can do them (you'll need the holy trinity setup of Tank, Healer, DPS for all Northrend dungeons, heroic or otherwise).

The other strategy, and I'm using this for my Paladin team right now, is to skip zones. Normally, if you were to do every quest in every zone, you'd hit 80 around the time you reach Storm Peaks (or earlier) with 2 complete zones still to finish. So what I'm doing is skipping Borean Tundra, Grizzly Hills (except for the kill quests) and Zul'Drak (again, except for the few kill quests it has). These are three of the most collection quest heavy zones in Northrend.

I completed all quests in Howling Fjord and Dragonblight, which of course involved doing some collection quests (though I ignored one particularly stupid one in Dragonblight which had no follow-ons). While this doesn't actually get you out of doing collection quests, it does at least minimize them.

Also, there's some dailies which open up to you which are useful and easy to multibox, for example in Grizzly Hills and also the "Defending the Wyrmrest Temple" in Dragonblight.

With a mixture of skipping zones, daily dungeons, daily quests and targetted collection quests, you should be able to get through Northrend without completely hating the leveling experience there.... hehe.

Hope this helps.

[Siaea]

Yea, you can get away with it until Northrend, and from there you pretty much have to suck it up. Like Oz said, if you skip them you'll potentially miss entire quest lines (Wrathgate comes to mind).

[OzPhoenix]

Yea, you can get away with it until Northrend, and from there you pretty much have to suck it up. Like Oz said, if you skip them you'll potentially miss entire quest lines (Wrathgate comes to mind).

Yeah, Wrathgate was one of the big reasons why I included Dragonblight on my list of "suck it up and do it" zones. In fact, I just ran through the Battle for the Undercity last night on my team.

Borean Tundra, Grizzly Hills and Zul'Drak on the other hand don't have anything like it so can be safely skipped in the main.

Storm Peaks is on the "must do" list, at least for the first half to open up Sons of Hodir, and Icecrown has to be done because of all the phasing opening up certain factions and the like.

[thefunk]

The wrathgate quests made me see WoW in a new light - the formula became a bit stale until i saw this and thought "more please!"

I hope they do similar questlines in heroic vanilla ;)

[Powerwar]

As others said, up to northrend you can go kill quests only.

I play alliance with full heirlooms (20% extra xp ) and basically do one level per zone in northrend doing 98% kill quests. For horde it may be a completely different story, but at least as alliance it's possible to level full northrend without doing a single collect quest.

Follow this and you will need to do practically no collect quests at all unless you want to unlock some specific quest chain.

1 ) Start from Howling Fjord area. Boost at the alliance keep gates until you reach lvl 70 and 20% extra.
2 ) Do the kill quests and single item collect quests. This includes quests where you need to go to X and pickup item Y, or kill X for item Y to open a slave cage.
3 ) Move to the second alliance keep there. Do the zeppelin quests and the /raise hand on mule quest. Near the alliance keep there is a place with burning drakes, do the two kill quests there.
4 ) Move to the last alliance keep. do the yeti in the mine quest and take the flight point. I think there were no other kill quests there.
5.0 ) if you are not still lvl 71 then enter UK and kill the first packs of trash. You can kill them even with 5 DPS group until you reach the room with the dragons. You can do the armaments quest while you are at it.
5 ) congrats on lvl 71

6 ) Move to borean thundra.
7 ) Do the alliance keep kill quests and the farmsteed near the keep kill quests.
8 ) Do the kaluak or whatever their name is kill quests. there are 3 places where you get such quests in that zone.
9 ) Do the kirin thor kill quests. A gnome in the alliance keep tavern will send you to them.
10 ) Do the gnome place kill quests. There are 2 or 3 if I recall properly.
11 ) Do the coldara shield kill quests and the data collect quest where you need to go around and gather magic data from buildings. These are 2 or 3 quests in total.
12 ) Do to the zigurat and do the kill quests there.
13.0 ) If you are not still lvl 72 then get the nexus quest where you have to retrieve a book. Enter the nexus and kill the miniboss, then collect the book. Keep killing trash until you ding.
13 ) Congrats lvl 72.

14 ) Move to Dragonblight
15 ) alliance keep kill quests first. Then the wanted quests.
16 ) Go to 7th Legion front and do the kill quest there, then follow the chain that will send you to the temple.
17 ) Do the kill quests at the temple.
18 ) Go to ruby or whatever dragonshrine and you will see a quest giver there. Kill the hawks and the big hawk group kill quest.
19 ) Go to stars rest and do the kill quests there. Also there is a place near stars rest where there is a kind of spirit giving kill quests.
20 ) You should have the ebon dragonshrine quest chain unlocked by now... just go and do it.
21.0 ) If you are not still lvl 73, then enter UK or Nexxus and kill trash until you ding.
21 ) Congrats on lvl 73

22 ) Move to Grizzly hills.
23 ) Do thekill quests that unlock the worg trappers chain.
24 ) Do the worg trappers chain. The final quest on the horse sucks big time, but that's it.
25 ) Do the seeds collection quest... 5 herbs per toon, it unlocks some kill quests and gives nice ring as reward.
26 ) Move to the other alliance camp in that area and do the horse "collect" quest. Park your slaves near the quest giver... unmounted, and go collect the horses with your main. They will all complete the quest.
27 ) Do the giant boulders throwing quest. Just make sure your slaves follow your main and they will complete it. Follow the chain.
28 ) do the kill quests you get there, skip anything that looks like collect quest.
29 ) Go do the other giant guy quest where the cursed tree giants roam. Also there is a kind of campament where you get one kill quest and you can enter the place where you save indiana jones.
30 ) Do the kill quests from the dwarfs in the dwarf encampment.
31.0 ) If you are not lvl 74, then enter some instance and kill trash.
32 ) Congrats on lvl 74. In fact you should be lvl 75 or almost lvl 75 by now.

33 ) Move to zul darak and do the kill and wanted quests you will get.
34 ) You will be sent to the other camp where there are no kill quests, but there is a scourge place near where you can find a giant and two argent crusade dudes that will give you a kill quest or two + some find someone quests. Do them.
35 ) Go to the main camp and do the kill quests there.
36 ) Do the circle of anguish arena quests or the most of them you can do.
37 ) Go battlegrounds or instances until you reach lvl 76.

38 ) Move sholazar basin
39 ) Do the hunting quests.
40 ) If you are not lvl 77 then go BGs or instancing until you ding.
41 ) Do Freia kill quests. you can do the entire chain if you want. Just the last quest with the giant you need to move your toons one by one because the stupid giant never follows, at least mine doesn't.
42 ) You should be at lvl 77 and 40 - 50% by now.

43 ) Move to Icecrown the alliance keep that is near dalaran.
44 ) Do the kill quests there.
45 ) You should be near lvl 78 by now.

46 ) Go battlegrounds or do some instances until you ding lvl 80.

That's it with practically all collect quests skipped except 2 or 3 of them that you can also skip if you want.

Note that you will skip lots of content following this "guide". It's only a good option if you are not leveling your first team because you will want to unlock factions and other stuff that you will not unlock if you follow these points.

[OzPhoenix]

Sounds like Alliance get a few more kill quests then we Horde do. Borean Tundra in particular is just one boring collection quest after another for Horde.

Obviously this is confirmed proof that Blizzard favours Alliance over Horde....
/target tinfoil-hat ;-)