Quote Originally Posted by OzPhoenix View Post
Three problems with that in my opinion.

1. Northrend is made up of so many very very long quest chains. Skip an opening collection quest and you could be skipping a dozen follow-ons.

2. Some quest chains open up phased areas etc, which you'll need later on for chants and such.

3. Blizzard annoyingly made most quests in Northrend collection rather than kill, and stupidly made all but one of them (one in Borrean Tundra) single drop rather than group drop (ironic that an MMO penalises group-leveling).

My current team is 2 levels off Northrend now, and if there's a faster way to level beyond just sucking it up and wading through mountains of boring collection quests, I'm all ears.

Indeed, in Northrend you have very long questchains. But some collection quests are negligible.
I assume you wont use wowhead all the time to find out if that collection quest have a long quest chain and its worth to do it.

So you have to appraise, if a quest is part of a big story or is it just a "Collect 20 fish, cuz iam hungry".
I skipped all collection quest which seems to be unimportant or important quests with more then 15 items.

A substitution for skipped collection quests are instanceruns.
Dont forget to do the daily quests. I am 75 atm and i do 5 daily quests per day.

PS: For essential boring quests say following to you: "I will take hours, it will be shitty, but i will do it via the relaxed way". Watch TV or Movies, do phonecalls per skype.