I'm alliance and when I started my setup, I screwed up my RAF setup, so I just waited till it ran out before I started boosting. I ran my alts around the starting zone a bit to get them all to 10, then grinded them through Deadmines till 15, then from there I grinded them through the Stockades instead of making that long run to SFK. At the time, I only grinded them up to lvl 20-25 to meet up with my old alts that have been sitting up at those levels also so I can run same class teams. Once I get my Pally team up to 80, I'll go back and work on my old alts some more. I used my BM hunter to grind them with. He's still in his S1 Gladiator set, so he survives on his own pretty well. Once I rounded up a sizable mob, I'd toss down an Explosive Trap to get the first hits, then sick my bear on them casting Thunderstomp to draw off aggro, then lay down Volley. Running Stocks, I've hit the instance limit this way quite a few times, so I'd have about 20-30 minutes atleast of downtime when I made the fast runthroughs. Thats when I didn't loot the corpses, but just went in for the xp grind.