Yeah, I farmed BRC to 82 @ about 700k / hour, so it was working out pretty good.

The trick I found for the second boss that worked really well was just to use my tank to bounce back and forth between the beams to break each of them just for a bit. This usually gave my DPS enough time to pound the boss down either before the adds spawned, or right after.

All the other bosses in the instance are a joke. It's a great way to get to 82.

I'm off to Deepholme now, and am going to farm Stonecore tonight. I've heard it's not that bad, and if it gets terrible, I can bring in a guildy for a bit to run and try to get the gear it takes to make the instance trivial.

The gathering quests in Hyjal suck. Plain and simple. The phasing isn't too bad.

Good trick I found for the jousting portion though - once you get all your guys through the first mounted quest (you have to do them 1 at a time), you can just turn that in, and leave them parked on the ledge while you do the remainder with your main. The followers will all get credit. Pretty easy 100k or so.