I Am Jack's Complete Lack of Surprise

Leveling of Lÿnn the BElf Hunter is coming along nicely. I attained level 33 last night in Stranglethorn Vale. STV is a great place for questing. It is quest laden between Grom'gol Base Camp and Booty Bay. Our guild now has two level 70's which are Alenko and Kelviel's characters from other servers that they transferred. They are Gurch and Khanjin. Gurch was kind enough to run me through Gnomeregan last night to get my Gnomer pants which have +18 Agi. It took a little less than 20 minutes or rather it would have if I hadn't f'd something up. The equivalent Alliance side quest reads like this: Go kill end boss of Gnomer. So we ran through, passing as much as we could and went on to kill the end boss. I dropped from party to warp to my bind point since my Hearthstone was not cooled down. It was once back in Org that I realized the Horde quest reads: get safe combo from last boss, open safe and get rig plans.
There I sat with the combo in my inventory and no plans. Luckily enough Gurch logged off in Gnomer. So he logged back in saving the instance so I could warp back in and open the safe. Phew!!
[Triprunner Dungarees] Yay!! Thanks Gurch. He was also kind enough to make 3 Runecloth Bags for me which greatly upped my bag space. He donated a blue crossbow that was in his bank (I think reserved for his own hunter) which coupled with the 20G that Khanjin spotted me makes me set for a long time.
The preceding levels have brought me some wonderful abils:

• FEIGN DEATH!! I imagine I'm annoying Alenko with that by now. I said it a lot a few nights back when I was drinking and gaming. It truly is huge. Anything that can completely wipe all threat... you gotta love that
• Intimidation- One big threat move for pet to help them command a mobs attention... and stun them for 4 seconds
• 2 points in Bestial Discipline which doubles the focus regen rate of my pet which means more claws and usually having focus ready when growl coolsdown. All-in-all a flat increase in pet's abil to tank. Partnered with Intimidation and Feign Death and I die a lot less
• Dash Rank 1- pet focus move that ups his run speed by 40% for 15 sec. A nice way to sprint up to the mob and start tanking
• Re-spec to move one point out of Bestial Swiftness and drop it into Unleashed Fury- 4% increase in pet damage per point
• Did I mention Feign Death?

There may be more but going through levels quickly I kinda forget. I had a good laugh a couple nights back. Alenko told me that he and Kelviel believe I am rushing ahead in levels to avoid getting left behind. He was spot on. When last Alenko and I were leveling together as Xyln and Kerikov, I chose to switch chars and I ended up several levels behind him. Kerikov and Bayard (Kelviel's Anub'arak char) both made it to 70 and I ended up switching back to Xyln and caught up in time for them to take a break. I missed out on some fun 5-man's due to my switch and I don't want to miss out again. They have no intention of racing to 70 so I have no fear. If I get a chance tonight, I will be doing some more STV questing and hopefully attaining level 35. That is the level of the blue crossbow Gurch gave me. Level 1 crossbow skill will mean a lot of misses. All that will happen after I head north of Hillsbrad to kill a quest mob. The quest will net me a spiffy new +agi hat that doesn't look like my current hat, a witch hat.
Current spec next level will be the last retro point in Ferocity and the level after will be the first point in Frenzy, a crit triggered buff that ups pet attack speed by 30% for 8 sec. By the time I put the last point in, my pet will have this buff almost continually each fight. Ferocity feeds Frenzy which feeds Ferocity. The last part of the talent puzzle will be Go for the Throat, pet gains 50 focus for each of my ranged crits. 50 focus generates 2 Claws and 2 more chances to crit. The coup de grâce (Alenko and Kelviel will be proud) comes a level 60: Devilsaur Tooth guarantees the pet's next hit will crit. The item is from the hunter level 50 Sunken Temple class specific chain. Pop this before a fight and pet will start with 30% increase attack speed (translates to 30% increased white damage). By that time, I will also have Ferocious Inspiration, whole party receives a 3% buff to all damage, and Serpent's Swiftness (this talent would make me damp were I female), 20% increase in both of our attack speeds (that's right, 5 points and my white and pet's white damage increases by 20%. The stat is truly, as stated, attack speed increase and not a damage increase) so that means pet crits more often and I crit more often.
/pitch wood
Well once this cools down, I think I'll post a gratuitous feather preening post about what feeds what, like the Ferocity feeds Frenzy thing before.