I haven't hated collection quests so far. I have ONLY done 1/3-1/2 of Hyjal.

One was get 3 items, the items didn't despawn. You had to go to each char and click on it, but it never moved. Easy.

One was getting a drop from mobs. It was about 80% drop rate. But, because of respawn rates, I couldn't loot the mobs fast enough. I had to back up and make them stop spawning so I could loot. Instant mob spawn with unlimited firepower is really nice.

Sure there was one that made you pick up little things off the ground. Kinda sucked, but I just went to a place where there weren't many people (like almost none) and with infinite firepower, I could kill the mobs quickly. They didn't respawn too fast. Just the clicking on the little things sucks a little.

Everyone already figured out how to make the collecting little animals quest too easy. "/tar Animal#1, /tar Animal#2", IWT, win.

One other quest would let you pick up the items on 1 person and turn it in..... Nice.

Another has you pick up items at about 90% drop rate, but mobs are TINY and with firepower, you can AOE them down and you spend more time doing IWT than anything else.

So overall not really bad. I already want to skip boxing of Harrison Jones. I will see it single box so I don't have to deal with it, but I would like to see it for lore/fun.

I am very willing to skip collection quests if I can. But Cata seems to make quests VERY, VERY linear, so you kinda can't skip too many without missing out on large parts of content.