"A watched pot never boils"; a watched lowbie lvls slowly ;) The less you think about it or realize it, the quicker it will be/seem to be; worked fine for me, I've barely realized I've been plvling it and my shaman's already just shy of 37 and had 1day 10hours /played when I checked last night.

Also I don't bother counting xp/hr cuz alot of things can throw that calculation off from quest rewards to discovery experience to rested exp/party makeup/etc. I don't think anyone breaks 40k an hour at best though at those lvls, and that's an SM-area number, yer not quite there yet so I'd assume it's at least average