Ganking is Out of Control
I don't know what it's like leveling a Horde character, but leveling an Alliance is a horrible experience. I have had my alt killed four times in the last hour at Valiance Keep. I've had my quest NPCs killed repeatedly as well. There appear to be Alliance 80's here looking for the Horde ganker.
Look at the General forums. This is not an isolated incident. Horde are ganking low level characters 24 hours a day, every day. Even with the 7x exp, some time needs to be spent in the starting zones - but now they're not war zones; they're griefing zones. These gankers are making it impossible to play the game and level quickly. A simple quest can take over 30 minutes waiting for NPCs to respawn or getting killed repeatedly. I know this is a PvP server, but this isn't PvP. It's nowhere near a fair fight. It's a handful of players makibng leveling painful. This is a game; it's supposed to be fun. Waiting for your NPC to respawn as you make your fourth run back to your corpse isn't fun. The GMs need to address this behavior - even if it's just saying, "It's PvP; deal with it."