boosting in the new SM?

[MiRai]

I think that got slowed down a lot by the removal of HGWT. Having to physically fly across continents takes significantly longer than logging out and logging onto an alt strategically stationed near an instance.

All you need is a 2 person flying mount and just fly to the instances stone and summon your group.. sure its slower than just summoning them the old way but dose not take that much longer.

I've never used HGWT and I've always used leroy's method. I don't have any record breaking times to show off, but I also didn't boost anything in Cata up to 80 because I barely played this expansion solo. Flying to each instance with a two-man mount and summoning your team should literally add less than 40 minutes of overall time while boosting from 1-80.