I ran a ton o dungeons and quests over the weekend trying out different zones and methods for leveling

From best to worst

Without grandfathered RAF... Boosting would not have been viable... Only the experience for completion made it tolerable

On my non RAF team members once the rested burned out they got left in the dust

Best case I was getting 250,000ish from lvl 60-80 in TBC per dungeon pushing 1-1.2 mil an hour

Without RAF was maybe 200,000-300,000/ hour with rested exp in there as I rotated teams in and out

I was getting almost no exp from trash and 300ish exp from bosses...was in the 6-9 thousands for bosses pre nerf

I did almost all the dungeons in both normal and heroic and also a Raid including all the quests in TBC dungeons

I slogged through 20 of one just to get over the lvl 80 hump

If I wasn't used to the old exp gain rate and in a hurry to level before the RAF runs out...

Gathering actually started to look good at 1k +per harvest on non RAF but was tedious with several characters and until flying was just good as a supplemental exp boost

Questing is beyond slow with a team as invariably there are the quests where gathering 20 of something per toon blocks the quest line and takes forever with 5 toons

Best case was approximately 200-400,000 per hour with the RAF 300% on quest turn-ins generating that generous rate in lvl 40-60 zones

I briefly tried boosting with my 110 to speed things up trying to churn out higher completions of quests....but here too but the exp reduction was so not worth it... even when others tagged mobs to get credit in the zone...exp suffered mightily

Running dungeons at level through LFD was slow...The instant queues 5 boxing made it almost equal to questing when choosing specific dungeons

I ran about a dozen stockade dungeons in a row and by the end I was getting really good at not dying!

Trying to do random ones for the extra experience reward is ok as long as a long dungeon like Dire Maul doesn't pop

Again without RAF on my fill in characters...they got very little experience even at level standard non boosted leveling in dungeons

Standard completions are like finishing 3-4 quests at 45,000ish without RAF

I would say it took me 15-20min for stockade and 45min to an hour if I have to try to crowd control or get long dungeons Wailing caverns and Dire Mauls

80-90 was better as I ran a ton of stormstout for the completions boosted at about 10min per run...that is the quickest one to slog through

Now onto my next leveling team and first random was wailing caverns....grrr

As I am getting better boxing my teams it seems one and done per dungeon if doing all the quests through LFD is the fastest for me on dungeons I know well...

Pre and post 7.3.5 leveling is a whole different animal...

I liked leveling new characters but now...not so much...

Really wondering if I will be able to finish up the non RAF toons all stuck at 40ish....after the RAF toons leave them behind when they get to TBC and Wrath at 60

I was hoping to level the new allied races properly to get the heritage armor without any boosting with the freebie 110 boosts from the expansion...

but now I dunno...