You and Me and Kitty Makes Three

I leveled from8.5 to 12.5 mostly without incident last night. I am now the owner of a shiny new pet cat. Thank goodness. I was pretty sick of getting my ass handed to me by the level 5 critters I randomly attacked. Ok, so the critters didn't really kill me but I was dying more often than a naked priest. It was mostly due to my impatience but I no longer have to worry.
My new cat came equipped with Claw Rank 2 so I should be set for a while. I really miss Dash. I think the first rank of Dash can be trained around mid-20's and at that is a small increase in speed. Bestial Swiftness, 30% increase in pet movement speed while outdoors for one talent point, is looking mighty good in light of this. I believe I can take that point at level 20. Looks like I will have to respec in the end, anyways.
I say that the levels came mostly without incident. The one big problem I had last night is that BElf hunters need to get the pet quests in their starting area and I was in Durotar. I quickly realized why the Horde have the zeppelins for moving between major cities. It was Blizzard's way of apologizing for making Horde cities overly difficult to navigate. Undercity looks very cool with the sewer theme but it has twice aggravated the hell out of me while I was searching for something. I finally got warped back to BElf land and spent another boatload of time looking for the hunter quest giver. With other races, the hunter trainer is at the first or second town which is right in line with the path towards each race's starting city. Not BElf. There's a shack way out of the way. My pissfarting tour of BElf land wasn't a complete waste. I did collect a bunch of !'s along the way. It's easy to snag all the quests in new areas now; quest givers are nooberifically marked on the minimap since V2.3. Woot!
My damage by the end of the evening was listed at 17.x for autoshot and pet weighed in at 11.1. I guess it'll be a while before I see one of those 1500+ aimed shot crits.