Regarding Exp Rates with Bots:
If you are running a full raid (which, 60+, you often are, as you clear your way into a raid zone) you can gain Exp quite fast, to the tune of an AA every 20 minutes or so.
If you run a single group, I believe it is about on par with a regular Exp group, except you get all the exp. Bots don't plan offtaking well, don't plan healing well (I play a cleric and the druid always jumps the gun on heals), don't mez, won't back away from rooted mobs, won't position at all. Rather then healing the most injured party member, if more then one person needs a heal, they go down the group list (really noticable when the fighter at 60% gets hit with a heal, and then 4-5 seconds later, the enchanter at 20% gets hit with a heal)
That being said, I think the point of playing with bots isn't about leveling, or leveling fast, but instead raids; that's why they exist. Even when I max AA's, I'll keep playing if I haven't managed to destroy the toughest raid-encounters, done the quests I want, collected the clickies I want.
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