This is about an alt, but I have fun playing her and I want to try to stop being a complete huntard, so please bear with me...
I'm working
on getting my level 42 hunter toon put back together into something that's playable right now. She was my very first toon, and I had no idea what I was doing...besides weird gear (a lot of Agi, but also tons of Str and Spirit) she's had the same windserpent pet pretty much forever, and I specced her Survival all the way. <.< Fun, but I really wanted to do something different.
I fell in love with the blue crab skin on an Alliance alt in Westfall, so I picked up Claw 6 and then went and tamed one of the blue crabs in Stranglethorn Vale, and I will be sticking with him for a good long time. He seems like he'll make a slightly better tanking pet than my windserpent, with the higher armor, and I think I'll enjoy having a short, out of the way melee pet instead. (He's much bigger than I expected, though!)
The biggest problem I've noticed so far is that he seems so...slow. The only time he moves at a decent pace is when I have Aspect of the Pack on, and I don't really enjoy having him constantly dazed--right now I'm working around this by switching aspects as he gets close enough to attack, but
I plan to put the point into Bestial Swiftness as soon as I can.
I am going BM instead of SV now, mostly because I think it'll be awesome to have a big red crab (and I think the talents there will be most useful for him as a little crabtank)...how I have my points right now is this: