Ideally, collects should have no one else in the zone if possible. Otherwise, pathing is going to be messed up by people pulling and killing spawns (one of the Relic collects shows this right when you zone in due to a player obviously training the zone in). Another thing I have noticed is that mounts show up pathing all over if people are in the zone and using them. That is easy enough to correct, though.
For doors, any door that is set to opentype 157 needs to be changed to 105 and have invertstate set to 1 for them to work correctly (steamfontmts and dragonscale for example).
As for collecting good pathing grids, it is a really good idea to use a rogue for collecting if possible. Many zones are accessible via a level 51 rogue on the Mayong Server. The reason it is good to use a rogue, is because you can move around most zones fairly freely as long as you consider anything you get near to make sure it can't see you. If you want good pathing, you will need to wander through the zone one section at a time so you get good pathing collects. The further away you are from an NPC, the less updates you get and the more choppy your pathing will be for them. But, if you move from spot to spot in a zone, you can get some pretty nice pathing collects. It does take a while to do that properly.
I am sure pathing will need to be cleaned up no matter what, but with a really good collect, that cleanup could be minimal. The collects we have so far are really great either way. If someone was planning to do some major work on a zone to make it fully playable, I would highly suggest making sure you have as good a collect as possible though.
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