WOTLK pet peeves

[puppychow]

There are tons of collection quests. Most involve important quest chains too, like for example the one in Dragonblight that leads to Alexstrazsa and "the movie" involves at least 10 collection quests. My team is 73, I've done 70 quests in Howling Fjord, 70 in Dragonblight, and 20 in Borean (also cleared UTK, Nexus, and both Azjol instances) and I'd guess at least 30-40% of the quests I've done are collection quests.

Most are really not too bad, usually 5-6 items from mobs that drop 100% (but one at a time). There are a few however that are maddening, like the ancestor-bones one in Howling Fjord -- you have to collect 5 bones from mobs that are camped constantly and spawn rarely, and the drop rate is close to 30%.

When I level my DK team I am skipping ALL collection quests, they are just too frustrating. The only ones to do are in dragonblight, get every quest done in that zone since there is a fairly significant story line that opens up when you do.

Re: the XP issue, I think I've noticed that as well, although I've only multiboxed. Its very frustrating that my team is only level 73, whereas I see people who play as much as me already 76 or 77. Oh well, I'll be able to solo heroics hopefully at least

[Frosty]

Okay, some people are saying there aren't that many collection quests and others are saying there are tons. Which is it?

I'm going to take both sides and divide by 2 and say there is an average ammount of collection quests! :P

[TheBigBB]

#4: PHASING. The idea is pretty awesome and I love it when playing solo, but man, it kind of sucks when you get put into seperate phases as a multiboxer. You tab around a lot trying to get everyone sync'd up.

I have this problem a little bit, but all I do is push forward on the alts to move them into the fog and they appear within 2 seconds next to my leader. I have arrow keys set for followers to move separately.

[Redbeard]

In response to what you said about no rep from instances...

I know that there is a system where you wear a reputations tabard and then when youre in ANY instance it gives you rep... but its not for all factions. Let me try to find a link about it, i think it was called champion or something like that.

Found it, source: http://wotlkwiki.info/index.php/Championing
Guess its only for level 80 dungeons though.

"Championing" is a system for earning Faction reputation for certain Northrend-based Factions.
The system makes use of Tabards available from certain Factions at Friendly reputation. By wearing a Faction's Tabard, one gains the Champion buff for that specific Faction and can then gain reputation for kills in any level 80 Dungeon, regardless of the Dungeon's native reputation.
For example, if a player wears the Tabard of the Kirin Tor in Utgarde Pinnacle (or any other level 80 Dungeon), each kill will grant Kirin Tor rep.

Currently only four major Neutral Factions in Northrend can be Championed:

• Kirin Tor: Wearing the Tabard of the Kirin Tor grants to Champion of the Kirin Tor buff.
• Knights of the Ebon Blade: Wearing the Tabard of the Ebon Blade grants to Ebon Champion buff.
• The Argent Crusade: Wearing the Tabard of the Argent Crusade grants to Argent Champion buff.
• The Wyrmrest Accord: Wearing the Tabard of the Wyrmrest Accord grants to Wyrmrest Champion buff.

[Heenan]

#5: TAILORING BONUS. Ok, so tailors can sometimes get extra cloth from mobs. AWESOME!!!! Except only the tailor can loot it. I usually just loot everything on my tank and tab around for quest items. I thought the loot system was completely bugged up every time my mage would have extra frostcloth to loot. I must have missed out on stacks and stacks of frostcloth too I love this feature of course, more cloth = awesome. I just need to work out a system where my mage is always looting mobs too.

FYI, this really sucks with 4x tailors :P

[pinotnoir]

There are a TON of collection quest. MORE SO than BC. And whats really a pain in the ass is trying to get the items while 30 other people are doing the same quest. If you skip them it will cause you to miss huge chain quest. So far I have skipped some and completed others. If it takes too long for the item to drop I only do it on 1 guy and drop it.

[TheBigBB]

There aren't more collections that I've found, just that we are putting a lot more pressure on ourselves to do the 70ish quests than we actually NEED to.

For example (on alliance side), in Hellfire you had to collect these insignias or whatever, like 12 of them, off those Orc mobs in the SE to get open a quest to kill the Drilmaster for some nice-at-the-time blues. This quest took a LONG time and was annoying as hell. The droprate was seriously like 10%. The reason I think most boxers wouldn't have worried about that in the past year is because we all know that if you just forget about it and skip it totally, you end up with way better gear at 70 anyway. But since we're all new to WOTLK, we feel like, oh shit, 80 stamina on some blue item, must do quest! Not so. At 80 all the items you get will be that way. No shame to skip it if you hate collections.

As it stands, we all will have such a huge headstart on this content by playing it from release that I don't know if sitting there and grinding out collections is a bad idea regardless.

[Tehtsuo]

My biggest problem so far is the darn vehicles. No follow really puts you in a tough spot.

[Frosty]

My biggest problem is I'm a slacker and 2 of my toons are still 67. :S

[BobGnarly]

My biggest problem so far is the darn vehicles. No follow really puts you in a tough spot.

Agree, that is a pain. However, so far (almost 74) I've been able to find place to position the rest of the team so that they get credit for the kills. And, the vehicle missions are actually kind of fun so I don't mind doing them a few times if I have to.