It's faster to level without heirlooms, simply because all the 1-90 quest packs don't take into consideration that you have heirlooms. Meaning you will end up wasting a fuckton of time gaining little or no xp. A fix for this would be making a plugin to check your level, and move you, or maybe just adjusting the levels in the profiles.. Any ideas?
Most profiles (mine, kicks, cava's) all have level checks. They are not proactive, as in they check every waking moment, but they check somewhat often. We have to program them to work for people without heirlooms, otherwise we have to write 2 versions (or more depending on the amount of heirloom bonus you have). Some of my early profiles, the longer ones for starter, less than 30, areas, contain checks every turnin to double check your level. Once you break 30 or 40, the zones get smaller, and need to finish areas becomes more and more required to make sure you get to the correct level for the next area or two. Is it possible to make a plugin that auto switches? Yes. Is it feasible for efficiency? Eh.... If the profile gets switched, and you have 15 completed quests in your log that dont get turned in, and get abandoned, thats pretty counterproductive to the work you did to get there...then we need to write profiles that just do turnins for all quests in an area...eh...
