Khatovar: I noticed last night, in Vas'jir at least, the formula seems very strong: "now that you've done our twelve quests, go talk to my buddy over there, who just might have twelve more for you!" I can see how it might benefit Blizzard to do it this way, it's efficient quest development, but it does create a feeling of linearity which might not appeal.

I don't think I have a problem with difficult instances, but then, I haven't experienced Cataclysm difficulty yet. My favorite multiboxing memories are of successfully taking down bosses that were a brick wall for me, like Lokken, Paletress and Nadox. All those had only a single difficult issue to deal with, of course. If taking down an instance is possible after some iteration on the problem, writing some macros, adjusting an addon, etc., I should be happy.

Great news on the change to collection quests, even if it doesn't work all the time. Last night I was reminded why I dislike goblins -- so many of their quests involve picking up bits of something they built which subsequently exploded. I've learned to fear them. The change sounds like it should help a lot though.

MiRai: My password has vanished into the ether, and the 'send me a new one' link isn't connecting with my Hotmail account. Dunno why, nothing is showing up in the Junk folder either. It's enough of a break in continuity anyway that I don't mind using a different nick.