I made the mistake of raising this in the Suggestions Forums of WoW, thinking that perhaps being outside of General would help. Alas, as much as I wrote in a constructive way, it turned into the usual wow forums flame wars.

The question I'd like to ask is, how is everyone else going with Northrend leveling and all the collection quests out there?

I must admit, I've been really disappointed with it myself, as it seems so strange that in an MMO, so many of the quests should penalise groups. The fix seems so obvious to, simply converting collection quests from player to group drops.

My Shamans have hit 80 now, so I'm not writing this post from a QQ-point-of-view since I'm over the hurdle. That said, I can't see myself ever leveling the other groups I go to 60-70 with using RAF, because I just can't see myself ever doing Northrend as a group level again (I'm solo leveling a pally to join my Shammies and enjoying it much more).

So, how'd you do? Did you skip collection quests (if so, just what quests did you do??), grind instances? Or like me, just sucked it up and plodded through it?

PS: I compared with a guildie of mine. He singled boxed a Hunter, 70 to 80 with roughly 60 hours play time. My Shamans took just over twice that.