Jeddius,
It's neat to know that you found my little blog useful, no question there was way to much time spent running around (I love travel form) trying to find a decent cluster of non-collection quests.

I recently Instance boosted a duo (Priest / Shaman) up from 8 to 60, 1-8 was quested (All of the Valley of Trials quests, collections included). 1-60 was 16 hours, 27 minutes, and 33 seconds so almost twice as fast as when I went the quested route. I do think that with a higher level supplying portals / cloth / and the AD 30 x quest components it would be possible to go 1-60 quested in about a bit over a day, though if you have that kind of support boosting is probably a more efficient use of one's time.

*Addendum, I realized I did stop in my boost run to do the Cauldron series and half of the AD 30 x quests since I'd accumulated the requisite bits along the way. Skipped the cloth quests since I had not been looting until BRD.

-Stav