Yeah, read that thread.

As you'll see, I follow same route more or less. I'm questing til 10 (what a grind)---just did new pair tonight. I then hit VC. The route back to start sucks, but I just need to suck it up for about 4 runs and it's easy to get to.

@15 it's stockades (thank you for shortness) and the rest is just like Souca said.

I try to bail from an instance when exp takes a dive. For instance, doing Strat past 55 is a bit much. I can hit 60 much faster by just going to Ramparts. And unless you like the same thing over and over, you'll be ready for something fresh after 10 levels in Strat.

For strat, I enter via service entrance and do the undead run to baron. I get a level and change per run and it takes me about 30 minutes and I loot often. Best of all, I get about 10 chances to be disappointed from no mount dropping.