I'm a believer! I used this to great effect on Twisted Stumps on Outcast while making the final push to level 30. Much to my delight I spawned a level 38 stump. It's a very good thing I had 2 stellar healers. It took me, as a 29, somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes to kill. At the time I never paid attention to just how much rep I got. I only knew it was enough. Going back to crop the picture to post here I got a major shock.
Not only did I hit level 30, but take a look at the rep on that thing! 615 after a 123 point crew bonus? Even without said bonus it was a shocking 492 rep. Can you imagine if I'd done that with a 50% crew bonus? It woulda been something like 748 rep!
Yes people, this method really does work! Thanks so much again for posting this. (Those two days I turned 30 and was working my staff quest? I plowed through an insane 40,000+ rep. Yes, I'm serious, and I did it using this.)
And yes, my healers did get rep too, in fact one of them mentioned getting well over 100 rep for just this one kill.