Gathering Quest, Yes or No?

[xThaGrouchx]

Alright so it's my 2nd day Dual-Screening and I am running 2 Warlocks which is actually really good and working for me. But when it comes to questing I hate it! I have the macros for sharing quests but is it worth doing the quests that are like "Pick up this item off of a mob" or "Pick up this many plants on the ground"? Should I just skip them? I grinded all the way to lvl 11. Just need some advice!

Anything Helps Yall!
Thanks!

[Ughmahedhurtz]

No. With the changes to quest and level XP, you don't need to bother.

I skipped half of STV, all of badlands (except uldaman) and almost every collection quest and I'm still ahead of the old solo leveling guides. It's awesome.

[kllrwlf]

Yes... if you enjoy that sort of pain.

I skip most collection quest. The one that I complete are the ones that I can buy... Dreadfang Venom, Arakkoa Feathers... or if they have a really high drop rate.

[Diamndzngunz]

Yes and No. No because the drop rate sucks ass on most of them.

Yes Because some lead to mad XP and Quest Chains.
Yes Because sometimes the drop rate is like 75%

[Notes]

Most drop quests are very doable, I just use Free For All, loot with my main, and if I see a quest item drop, I loot it with the add that still needs it. Sure, it takes more time, but I also check if the follow up is worth it. Farming 25 items took me an hour last night, but the chain goes on untill lvl 52, and at 46 now..
(ooh and I had a world epic drop for me :thumbsup: )

[schlange]

What is the best quest guide to use for dual-boxing. Is there a Horde quest guide that shows the gather quests vs kill quests?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I use Jame's Horde Leveling Guide for mine (the old version as I remember where I can cut corners when boxing). Joana's works OK too, though it costs money.

[Tehtsuo]

Collection quests are situational. If you need them for a quest chain with a really rad reward at the end, yeah you want to do them. If the things you need to kill are plentiful and close together, maybe (depending on if you have an AoE group.) If you can trade the items to your alts, yes (Although these are very rare.) Otherwise, just doing collection quests cause they're there.... no.

[Sun]

lol...well if you get bored as heck doing instances like I was then do all quests for awhile. But I basically did all instances as soon as I could. I stopped at Uldaman then started doing quest out of boredom. Then my last was Sunken Temple for the experience plus I wanted that trinket you get for the Shamans. And oh was that a trip, dealing with multiple mobs at once. Scarlet Monestery gave me alot of experience as well in how to deal with multiple mobs. All in all, quests of any kind do not give you the experience you will need for harder instances.

PVP though will always occur while doing quests. The only times I ever die is because of ?? higher level players ganking my group. If your into keeping track of those gankers...then get "OPIUM" addon. I love that program. I can always go back to see who PKed me and then look them up in the armory later to see what level they are.

[Mosg2]

My toons are 75% of the way through 69 now (4 Shaman) and I did *every* quest post 60 including all of the crappy collection quests. I was scared to hit like 68 or 69 and be done with all the quests through Shadowmoon Valley... And with good reason! I did 20% of level 67 in Auchindoun doing the questline to bring Thrall to Outlands and now I've only got a dozen quests left in Shadowmoon.

If I hadn't of done all of those collection quests I'd have been left with 30-40% or more of level 69 with no quests to do. Now, I love my instancing but I'd rather just quest it all the way up :)

[Toned]

Skip collection quests 60+ unless it's a great reward or ubr chain with phat lewt. 66-70 Grind in Sethekk Halls you're going to need the rep anyways :) Then go back out and do all the 66-70 quests @70 for mass gold.

[Atorifan]

I've spent hours doing collection quests times 5. One reason, rep, I want a different epic ground on each toon when i can gather the money. The other reason is, instances are preferred, they rarely have resources beyond cloth in them. So while I might spend hours doing collections, that's 5 mithril/truesilver/gold mines I might have missed, at an average or minimum. It's a ton of leather, flowers and random drops that i might otherwise not have found. It's a tradeoff. But playing the game, sort of in the 'intended' way is fun to me.

I sometimes go back and do grey quests just for the rep alone. It's crazy fast. Some I've skipped, I can recommend skipping the lightforge ingot, part of the morbent fel questline. That was pretty near an hour, and most all swimming. Even with water breathing, it's s l o o o w. Lining up the 4 shamans and doing the 4 x earthshock (a/k/a shotgun), easily 'single' shotted mobs, but meh. Even the shaman specific reagents barely made that one worthwhile.

Taking my time, experiencing content, some I might never have before is fun. I'm at 47 with about 8 days played. I'm not feeling this x level to y level experience void others have repeatedly commented on. I still have to go back and do arathi, but I've finished nearly each zone, as I have in the past. Although I'm writing off theramore, as many of those quests result in no rep. The mines are too scarce. And I have levelled past mats I might have needed, by the time I started it. I still ahve to finish rfd since I got the gear I wanted pre bring the light quest was available. But that 500 sw rep is too nice to avoid.

I'm more feeling a rep pinch, as only the human is SW exalted. So, I know I skipped all of westfall, but I am really needing to finish the SW exalted, then one Dar and one IF. Which as I go back to the start or grey zones, I'll likely only do one char for collections, and share all quests that are kill. As long as one toon is exalted with one of the 3 missing, different, I'll be set. I still need honored with Timbermaw, just for the two ench patterns, and w/e other prof patterns (though I'll never make/equip them)

Since I'm over fond of lengthy posts, it's a game. If it's fun and legal do it.

[Trama]

Don't mean to bring this thread back from the dead, but I had this exact same question. I have been struggling through Mulgore doing the starting quests, I am almost level 10 on my 4 shaman. Collecting 32 swoop feathers almost made my head explode. 32 Harpy claws as well. The very thought of collecting 240 Bristleback Tusks in The Barrens make me feel slightly sick to my stomach. I think I will hit up RFC at 12 though and see how that works.

Does anyone know of an addon or another clever way to manage collection quests? Unless I swap windows I have trouble seeing how many of each that I still need.

[Gurblash]

Get Quest Helper... it will make your life 10x better.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Get Quest Helper... it will make your life 10x better.Not in Mulgore. Some of the quests in there just suck. The swoop feather one is particularly painful.

[Icetech]

I do bout 50% of the gather quests... if i know the drop rate is ok i will do em, like today i did both yeti hide quests in feralas.. wasn't too bad.. and nice grinding there:)

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Oh, I just remembered something. If you're mostly questing, as hunters you will quickly outlevel your pets. So, for you all-hunter boxers, I'd say do some of the collection quests when you see your pet lagging behind. ;)

[OzPhoenix]

The only collection quests worth doing as a 5-boxer I think are:

1) Extremely high drop rate (virtually 1 for 1).
2) Start of an extremely good kill-quest chain.

Beyond that, in the 1-60 trip with heightened XP gain now, as others have said, they can all be dropped on the ground, spat on, stomped on, and generally treated as the contemptible time sinks they really are.

[Kyle K.]

I would agree that they are a complete waste of time, but having said that... are they worth doing in the starting zones, on your way to 1-12? I know with my Druids the Tauren starting area is absolutely hammered with collection quests which will become tiring, but, should I be doing them, or just work on some kind of grind out of the starting area? I would like to stay in Mulgore since Druid trainers are located there, but with such a massive amount of collection, I might go crazy.

Thanks

[OzPhoenix]

I would agree that they are a complete waste of time, but having said that... are they worth doing in the starting zones, on your way to 1-12? I know with my Druids the Tauren starting area is absolutely hammered with collection quests which will become tiring, but, should I be doing them, or just work on some kind of grind out of the starting area? I would like to stay in Mulgore since Druid trainers are located there, but with such a massive amount of collection, I might go crazy.

Thanks

Kyle - I know how you feel since my Shamans are Taurens. It's just one collection quest after another in Mulgore. Really your only option there is to go walking off to the Orc starting area in Valley of Trails (which is also collection-quest heavy anyway) or suck it up and get through it. Once you have zone options it gets better. The Undead starting zone is not so bad, but your walk to it is going to be even longer (short of buying a UC port).

[Fragmad]

Alot of people says no. I say YES. You might take a _little_ longer to level, but if you skip all gatherquests, you skip tons of questchains. You can skip them, but then you will need to instance to make up the exp, alteast in Azeroth.

[thet3rminat0r]

Most gathering quests i Just skip but there are some where the drop rate is really high around 90% and you only need a few of them then in my opinion it is worth doing.

[Ifalna]

I do em if I need em.

If I am a bit low on exp, which I find happens often in outlands, or if they lead to a large chain. Or if I just need to level skinning and LWing and might as well get some exp out of it!
My 4 yo brother used to do some for me while I sat beside him reading or whatnot, but getting your own small child who likes to kill velociraptors is not recommended, they are rather slow after all, and have difficulty turning.

When it comes down to it, if I need to, or am in the mood, I do them. Most of the time, I don't.

[Kaynin]

Pre-outlands

If the reward is worth it, yes. Otherwise no.

Outlands

Do all quests.

[OzPhoenix]

Like Kaynin, I expext my stance will change in Outlands. In order to get the epic flyer (times 5, argghh) money together, the best way I can see to do it, is do every last quest, ensuring that I have at least 2 full zones of quests to do AFTER I've already hit 70, so that the quest XP turns into gold.

There's also rep involved too.

[Knobley]

It would be cool if we could put together a list of the collection quests that are worth doing (either because drop rate is good or because they're part of a desireable quest line), and a list of collection quests that should be avoided.

[McSpuds]

There is a great addon to help sort out those gathering quest that are just one or two quests or are part of a very long chain that makes them worth doing. Get "Lightheaded" and to plus it up, use the addon called quest helper.

Lightheaded will show all the future quests in the chain and thier loot.............. makes sorting out what to complete or to dump.

[Qlimax]

I think that some of the quests you will encounter are really tutorials for end-game type material. I try to do all the quests I can, for in the end, I'll learn something new that will eventually pay off when I reach 70. Also, when you get to the end-game chains (68-70), you will already have built up the patience. Such as the Shadowmoon Valley chain, the gear you achieve is pretty decent for something that you will have been used to. Collection quests such as the termites in the Plaguelands and the Cones in Terokkar are very annoying to me, but sometimes Ill be in the mood to do them. Its almost as if you don't think about it. So my final advice is do whatever you're in the mood for; afterall, this is your leisure time ;P.