I see lots of vague answers to this from people who are not leveling fast themselves. So let's skip that.
Someone who knows, please let us in on the secret. Just skipping dialogue and crafting nodes isn't enough. I know this. The travel time from point to point in quests alone is half the time required, and these people leveled at least 10x as fast as new players questing.
I honestly like questing, and would like it if they some how made doing them result in faster leveling than it currently is.
But, and this is important, it would be nice if I could take a break from it when I feel down from not getting a level after several hours, do whatever these people were doing to level up, get a level or 2, then go back to quests. And heck, then if I didn't like a quest, I could abandon it rather than feel tethered to it for pitiful XP.
Thanks for any help.