So what are the chances of a dev posting a sneak preview video of the questing in action ? Please ? Pretty please with sugar on top ?
questing in general is faster then simple grinding for terms of leveling... but not sure to the extent with HB's questing ability.. so we will see... i figure it will be close to equal .. then when you add in heirloom items well ya you get the picture LOL we can just keep our fingers crossed and see right? I'm just happy that i will have pretty much 2 weeks straight to mess around with it since my school is done this week and doesn't start backup til june 1st.
In my experience (without RAF), grinding is usually faster than questing. Hopefully there will be a "mixed mode" which will allow Questing, Grinding and PvP concurrently in order to maximize exp per hour.
For me personally, questing won't be about speed. It'll be about not making it obvious you've botted. If you grind your way to 80 and somebody notices you haven't even got the "100 quests competed" achievement yet your statistics show that you've killed 50,000 beasts you end up looking like a tit.
Only when you dont' know how to quest correctly Questing yields faster xp than grinding -- provided you pick up multiple quests and drop the ones that take too long to complete.