RAF used to be 1st to 60th.
And with a semi-geared level 70 toon (ie., Burning Crusade era in say full quest gear or maybe normal instance gearing or auction house purchased gear), you would have no problem at all in boosting lower level toons up to 60th.
From 10th to 45th or so, the instances were so trivial that anyone at 70th should do them with ease.
The 45th to 60th level boosting is a bit harder, but should be doable.
An actual tanking toon is a strong asset and will speed things up.
You can pull half of the instance (or all of it) in one massive pull.
And survive running the mobs most of the way back to zone in, or close to where the lowbies (toon's being boosted) are...
And then kill the mobs with your version of Consecration/Retribution Aura or Swipe/Thorns or Death & Decay, etc.
If your toon is a level 70 Hunter, instead of a 70th tank or mage...
You severely lack both the armor/survival mechanics of a tank and the AoE of a mage.
So your pulls cannot be immensely huge.
But a level 70 can boost pretty much as quickly as any other toon in lower instances.
And in the higher ones, you'd basically just kill small groups rather than pull massive groups... and regularly move the lowbies up to keep them in range.
If your boosting toon is 70th...
You're not likely going to be running instances much higher than level 60 (say Hellfire as the instance hub), at least not in a boosting (solo the instance with your toon) capacity.
You could likely clear a level 58-62 instance fairly easily with a group of 4x 58 + 1x 70, but you would be relying on the lower toons playing effectively in a support role.
So your 70th toon (Cat or Bear) will be rather effective at lower stuff.
You'll boost/get the lower combinations to 60th with ease.
But from 60th to 70th, you'd likely quest or pvp faster than boost in instances.
RAF goes to 80th now, instead of 60th.
But you can still get a lot of combinations to whatever level you can quickly boost to.
There aren't really a whole lot of Bear specific talents that your Kitty spec wouldn't have.
A Kitty spec essentially uses the same stats Agi/Sta, so gearing is very similar.
For the instances that you'd boost through, ie be high enough to basically solo, a kitty specific spec who happens to be in Bear Form would likely be easily sufficient.
You can of course go Bear Form and pick up some of the Bear specific talents.
That lets you do larger AoE pulls...
But these talents are more of a requirement for a Bear Tank, that is doing current level content... rather than a Bear or Cat that is boosting lower stuff.
If you like to do massive pulls...
You'd probably run wide of mobs, being able to almost touch many mobs without aggroing them.
With the option to Stealth past a bunch.
Then possibly cast a HOT spell on yourself.
Aggro a mini-boss or whatever...
In Scarlet Monastery (Cathedral) which you'd run from say 20th to 45th (might leave at 40th... and the levels of instances did change a bit with Cataclysm, but it was 20th to 44th for me during RAF)... basically attack the last guy, then run the swarm of mobs to almost the zone in area...
Well massive pulls would be Bear Form to survive...
Alternatively you could small pull groups of 8-10 or smaller mobs.
And just very quickly (likely one or two shot) each mob.
And down the group fast.
And move to the next group.
It isn't necessarily as quick as the massive pulls, but it is very effective.
For questing, where the group of toons takes the quest...
And the level 70 kills stuff with ease, while grouped with the lowbies...
Who get very little experience per kill, but the quest is completed extremely quickly...
And they get full experience for the quest turn ins...
I'd think Kitty would be drastically faster than Bear form.
If the content is trivial to you.
Bear and Cat will both work well.
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