Most of the leveling in vanilla is grinding anyway. all the quests do is give you a little bonus at the end for grinding the shit. But honestly take a average quest like the STV troll ears which have you killing about 30 mobs to get all 15 ears. Thats like 6-7 K exp plus the ~2 k you get on hand in. So if you can kill shit fast in this game, such as a huntard or some other class with little downtime, chances are youre gonna get more exp just by grinding shit than all the running back and forth all the fucking time wasting time. I would really liek to see a breakdown of the kill vs quest exp 1-60.
Dont get me wrong I do quests, im just wondering if pure grindage would be better exp wise or should I say if youre lazy, hehe. The problem is youre lacking the quest rewards and gear you get from quests so thats a definite issue. Plus you still have to run/hearth back to sell the shit you collect too.