Time for a suggestion on official forum?

[Shodokan]

I listed this in my account closing reasons. I requested that they make it so every collection quest drops one item per party member when an item drops. That would take most of the sting out of collection quests for boxers IMO.

All collection quests in cata are 100% drops. At least in the new zones from my experiences.

[Multibocks]

Yes but do they drop for everyone in a group?

[Shodokan]

Yes but do they drop for everyone in a group?

I haven't checked. But technically killing 5x faster with 100% drop rate quests is the same as a kill quest in old school nagrand, nothing to complain about imo.

[Owltoid]

I haven't checked. But technically killing 5x faster with 100% drop rate quests is the same as a kill quest in old school nagrand, nothing to complain about imo.

No, not really. You're still limited to mobs spawning whereas in Nagrand they all shared the kill. You can easily kill much faster than things will spawn which means it's not like true kill quests.

[moosejaw]

I liked EQ2's collection quests. Everyone got the items at the same time when they dropped and quest items did not consume a bag slot. Also you didn't have to loot them, when you killed the mob you got a raid warning if the quest item was there or not. Made for very fast collections.

[daviddoran]

Seconded. Simply making collection quests all group lootable would be a giant leap forward.

[Multibocks]

Post in the thread to bump it please

[Hivetyrant]

Should this be in the suggestions forum?

[OzPhoenix]

It's bothered me that blizzard rewards people for grouping up in all areas of WoW except one, leveling. I've done two expansions now boxing and solo leveling thru all of WoW. Solo I can quest level in about 2/3rd the time it takes to do a team.

One: kill exp is substantially higher. Yes a group kills faster, but mob density limits kill speed. A group just has to do a lot more running to even compete.
Two: collection quests fucking suck as a group. Sometimes they will let everyone loot the item, but typically it's one loot per kill.

Now as I see Cataclysm coming closer I'm excited to level my first group, but honestly I don't look forward to the groups after that. I'm not in beta now, so these issues could be fixed already, but I doubt it.
To prevent exploitation they could implement a timer that reduces xp gain based on your kill rate. The other issue I just don't see much exploitation occurring.
The positives of this for non boxers is that friends can level together and not feel like they are dragging each other down. Thoughts?

I have been railing against this for ages now and have submitted a Suggestions forum thread for it about 6 months ago it was.

I am completely agreed with you. It's downright flabbergasting that an MMO of all games, almost mandates solo leveling by the use of anti-group collection quests.

However, I have no hope at all that it will ever be changed I'm afraid.

[Lyonheart]

i added my two cents! ( on the beta forum )I agree 100%