Lvl 75 in HyjalFollow

Wrong again http://www.wowwiki.com/Sholazar_Basin_quests

I was mining at 75 in Sholozar with no quests available, that's why i went to Hyjal.

I give up drinking and promise to be a good boy, you make it very hard for me. So i'm looking foward to see the pictures.

http://www.wowhead.com/zone=3711/sholazar-basin#quests:0+1+2

I'm in Sholazar now, and all the quest-givers have a grey (!) for my level 75 Mage. I checked at both Nesigwary Base Camp and River's Heart.

"When it comes to grinding out mobs which are 5 levels higher than you, and questing in a level appropriate zone, you are going to level significantly faster questing in a level appropriate zone."

This is opinion, not fact.

One does not exclude the other. I'm assuming you possess the evidence to support your own opinion? Otherwise your opinion would not be a fact either.

Well I changed strategy and moved to Deepholm, a guildy summon me and the goal was...JC Trinkets drops.

I started to grind Mercurial ooze and troggs and it took 45 mins to have 3 of them including the 2 Tanking one. I ding 79 and went back to Hyjal for more Mining and green Cata drops, then I met Blazewing (rare elite) and it drops me BOE leather pant lvl 346. I just had to interrupt "wingbuffet" and it was an easy kill. I sold 14 cata greens, gems and cloth for staggering amounts of gold. This was fun and would do it again on other alts.

I was laughing so hard at your answers, i had too put it in my sig. But if you want me to take it off i will.

I changed it, this one is hilarious also.

Jame's guide (which is free) also mentions that the highest xp/hour is achieved by doing quests in a certain order (which is what his guide is all about), not by grinding away on mobs above your own level.

Mobs five levels above you have increased mitigation and health, and they hit harder, increasing your downtime. This is amplified greatly if you grind expansion content from a level below that expansion (e.g. grinding mobs in Northrend at level 65).

I'd say the current way to achieve maximum xp/hour would be to run quests while queued up for dungeons. The dungeon bonus coupled with the high kills/hour and the efficiency of doing quests while grinding mobs (most quests require you to grind mobs) would undoubtedly provide more experience per hour than just killing stuff that takes longer to kill. That's been my personal experience throughout the years, anyway, as I always try the grind route when a new expansion is released and it hasn't paid off yet.

Now, grinding mobs above your own level obviously have some benefits, such as the items they drop which can usually be sold for more gold than the items from the previous expansion, and can provide you with some early upgrades. Those early upgrades, however, would increase your xp/hour by a lot more if you went back to doing level appropriate content as you'd effectively "out-gear" it.

In the end, though, it's all about preference. Some don't mind grinding away on stuff, some don't mind it if they gain something from it and others, like me, are tired of mindless grinding and want a more efficient way to the level cap.

Play the game the way you want to play it.

I'm pretty positive a free leveling guide would mention if killing stuff was suddenly more efficient than killing stuff while completing quests.

Jame's guide used to have some "kill mobs or run dungeons until you ding" sections in it. Not because it was more efficient than doing quests, but because you ran out of quests to do in a zone back then. This was before Cataclysm and the zone revamp. Sometimes you just ran out of quests to do until your level increased enough to unlock new ones.