Quote Originally Posted by 'wowphreak',index.php?page=Thread&postID=73469#pos t73469
OzPhoenix curious about why yeh feel brd was a waste?

I grabbed just about all the quests I can for brd and gonna run thru it about 3 times to get all the quest done
Some good info on it here http://pc.gamespy.com/guides/wowat60/alliance/brd.html

3 of my chars are going at 51 they might end up at 52 before I get all the pre requisite quests done with another one 70
1. So many of the quests were collection quests. After 3 runs I still didn't have 5 lots of all the drop materials I needed to complete the quests.

2. A number of the encounters are designed for a much higher level than the rest of the instance. In particular Command Garshak (presumably its Alliance equivalent as well), Archelmach (the guy next to the Repair bot plans), and the Thunderbrew recipe quest. If I'd been high enough to complete these, I'd have been so high that I'd have been getting bugger all XP from the trash mobs to get to them. Overall I found my XP/hr rate to be miserable inside BRD and not even close to what I was comfortably achieving in outside questing. One good quest for example, the MC attunement, can't even be done till level 55 (at which point most of the rest of the instance is worthless).

With a 70 in the group this might be different because he could presumably burn down the harder quests while the other guys are still getting good XP for it - but with an all 54 group it was a real bust.