ST vs SM at 41+

[Stabface]

ST is much better xp/time than SM for L40 and above, maybe even sooner. Just zone in, take a left up to the dragons. With an 80 tank you can pull all the dragonkin/whelps and kill them in 1 go, takes <5 minutes. Then I go grind dailies or ghost ride the whip for the other 40 minutes I'm locked. It takes 3 sets of 5 runs for 40-45ish with RAF. Normally I just like to push through while leveling but this is fast enough that taking a break is acceptable.

[Multibocks]

I highly suggest doing the instance quests if you are PLing, or heck doing it the normal way, as I turned in a level 25 quest from stockades for 11kxp. That's over a third of the level in one shot. Love that shit!

[Starbuck_Jones]

Yea, even with SM Cath, I found it better to just run it 5x, get locked out and watch an episode of something on Netflix or Hulu than to bounce around and try to avoid it. Same thing happened with SFK and now Sunken Temple. I left SM at 35. 15 levels of that place is enough for me. It was still fast, but time to move on. In ST I do the lower 2 levels that are all the bog men and the dragon level. I dont mess with the troll levels as they are like the asshats in ZF and run away and never come back when they get low on hp. Not worth the time to chase them down. ST is nice because you can leave your toons right at the zone in and get XP from any level as long as you pull to where your standing above or below them.