Does elemental ever surpass enhance @ leveling speed?

[Slaytanicus]

My ultimate goal is to be resto and I've been leveling so far as enhance and just heal all instances i do. I'm looking to get to 80 asap and just want to make sure I'm doing everything I can to achieve that goal. The argument that I should go elemental @ 70 so I can build +spell gear for resto @ 80 doesn't phase me...there's too many quest rewards that will allow me to build a good enough enhance set to level with and do dailies and still get my resto gear.

Thanks

[Bainz]

Go Elemental when you get Lava Burst.
Glyph.
Lightning Bolt - Flame Shock - Lava Burst - Dead.
Next Mob.


Very, very easy.

[Tigercat]

Go Elemental when you get Lava Burst.
Glyph.
Lightning Bolt - Flame Shock - Lava Burst - Dead.
Next Mob.


Very, very easy.

This is pretty much it. I had every intention of leveling 70-80 as enhance, gearing for enhance, and raiding as enhance. I hit level 75, decided to respec elemental for a level using my shitty caster gear just to play with lava burst, and haven't looked back since.

Nowadays I pew pew at the Ulduar bosses I thought I'd have to melee. Just being able to sit back and actually enjoy the sheer hilarity of the XT-002 encounter instead of worrying about other melee getting bombed makes it all worth it.

[Pokchop]

Went elemental at ~60. Usually kill mobs before they even get near me. He is pimped out with heirlooms however.