Rajaah
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Both IIRC. I know I did both. Progression gives all the major EXP (like 20% for a partisan cheevo and 8% for a merc cheevo during 111-115). Collections I remember being more about getting a whole bunch of AAs, though that might have been because I was capped on levels whenever I'd do those.
I wouldn't worry about specifically doing collections too much, they're kind of a PITA and mainly for completionists. Just keep a lookout for sparkly things and consume them as you get them, every so often you'll get a bunch of AAs from that. There are also Overseer missions if you want to do that lame minigame every day when you log in, that'll get you another 10% EXP or so per day. However Overseer is one of the things that burned me out on the game, and since you're trying to see the sights and spend some time in all the expansions, Overseer isn't something I'd recommend in this situation.
Fight Fire mission (first mission in Burning Lands) is a good thing to farm, since it can be beaten very quickly (can't remember exactly what the trick was but I imagine it isn't too hard to figure out, think it involved triggering the boss right away without clearing, then hitting him with bard knockback-lull and having the bard run all of his adds off, leaving the boss an easy single-pull....or something along those lines). It has a chance of dropping any one of four evolving items (cloak, boots, ring, shoulder, I want to say) and all four are pretty much BIS for TBL and maybe also TOV once they're maxed-out. However it can take a bunch of clearings to get all four of them. I think we'd get an armor drop like every 3 runs or so. Then just wear that stuff while leveling and it'll max out on its own after a while. Try to get all of them so you're getting 4x the evolving at any given time. Since you're doing group stuff and not raids, the evolving armors might even keep being good into COV. Might even want to jump ahead and do this mission a bunch of times, then go back to ROS after that with your new stuff. If it's better than what you have now at tier 1, that is. Bear in mind that they won't evolve until TBL+ zones. So if only a marginal increase, then just wait till TBL and do it then.
TOV has this massive earring quest that requires tons of grinding (about 50% more than the four TBL items) and I don't recommend that one. The result is another BIS item and it does get some use out of TOV itself, but overall the quest is just a PITA.
Once you get to COV, another thing good to farm is Morwenna Undertow in Cobalt Scar. Underwater named, very strong. Surrounded by other mermaids that are yellow at 115 (and thus very good EXP). Morwenna herself only comes with one add and it's easy enough to break them off and split it, then just bounce around taking out mermaids. Morwenna can spawn from any of like 5 or 6 mermaid spawns, so she pops up a lot. Has something like a 1/3 chance of dropping a NON-LORE type 5 heroic dexterity aug that's BIS for like...every equipment slot for any melee class or tank that wants DPS. I farmed like 20 of them. Yeah, it took me a month or so of farming her for like an hour every evening. It was a huge DPS increase though.
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