the problem is he says he is not into the macro thing....so not sure if he wants to do the afk thing.....
Bards are just about the best pl'er though at higher lvl's so you could like he said make/buy a bard and do it that way.
Other than that, check out allakhazam.com for all your lvl/zone needs.
For best places to level? I'd say either find ways to get to hotzones or like he said, read more posts in the forums. They hold alot of great info on mobs/zones and leveling techniques.
As for kiting, it's actually a piece of cake.... you just need to practice it a bit and then you will not leave it alone. The "kiting" part is the easiest part of it once you get down the basics of snaring all 4 mobs without being hammered. If you want an easy place to learn to do it, then just go to a newbie or low lvl zone and practice it till you get it down, then step up to higher zones. PoN at your lvl is not very hard once you get down the spawn locations of mobs that do not wander IMO. For PoN though, I do not recommend quad kiting because most of the zone is plagued with wanderers. Root and Rot or charm kiting works very well though.