Leveling Strategies

I've decided to change my leveling strategy a bit. Before I would do most of the quests that are yellow, orange, or red and even the green ones for XP. I tended to do all of them too, even if the collection quests were a pain in the ass because of low drop rates or whatever. Now that I'm concentrating on leveling as quickly as possible, I'm trying something new.

Since I basically know that at level 58 I'm heading to Outlands and getting the awesome gear out there, I really don't need many of the quest rewards from Azeroth. So now that my guys are 43/44, I'm hanging out in Tanaris (the disparity is because I had to use a main to farm for some gear out of Zul'Farrak (Zumrah's Vexing Cane and Bad Mojo Mask). Those items were exceptions because the mask will make them look at the same (and it has good stats) but the cane is simply awesome and will be used for the next 15 levels at least. My new strategy is to do quests in the zone I'm currently in that are kill quests or other easily obtainable objective quests (Gadgetzan Water Survey quest for example). I'm skipping most collection quests unless I know for a fact that the drop rate is extremely high (for an example, see Encrusted Tail Fins). Let's see if this will increase my leveling rate any.

I have a sneaky suspicion that it will.