Quote Originally Posted by valkry View Post
Leveling up via questing is decent. There aren't a massive amount of collection quests, and the first zone Mount Hyjal gets you to at least lvl 82. Another option is leveling up via battlegrounds. If you have full wrathful from lvl 80, you will dominate lvl 82 onwards.
Maybe I am remembering incorrectly, but there seemed to be a ton of collection quests to me. Maybe it wear the fact that they couldn't be avoided due to the INCREDIBLY linear nature of the Cataclysm quest system.

The most annoying part about the collection quests is that over half of them are ground spawn items that take forever to respawn. I didn't mind the chests and things that would give an item to each character, but those meat and food and barrels o' beer collection quests clicking ground items and having to do 12 of each... on each character... painful man, painful.

I actually got so disgusted with the leveling that I stopped at 90+% at 84 just because I was so irritated. I came back 3 months later to finish it to 85, but it was a terrible experience.