Respec for Maevyn
I decided on a respec. You can always check Mae's latest spec through her portrait at bottom right but I've followed my heart and: wait for it: swapped The Beast Within with Scattershot! This makes her a 40/21/0! I did it mainly to try out scattershot and see how good it is. I just have a feeling that it would be more useful in day-to-day farming/grinding/trying to kite elites than The Beast Within which is only(!) 10% more ranged dps and immunity from snares. I still of course have Bestial Wrath and the Big Red Kitty effect and 50% more pet dps is not to be sneezed at (mental note: can I use it help pet hold agro?). As with all these things, I can always respec back if I don't like it. I'm sure Beast Within is a great PvP talent but I don't PvP.
I have used Scattershot twice on level 65 spiders because Blink was not totally holding agro: methinks he will be needing some dps talents in order to maintain the attention of whatever he is fighting. Whereas before I would spam Disengage I used Scattershot and it is very effective: it Just Works and the monster immediately starts wandering aimlessly, giving you four seconds to get back to range and send the pet back in.
It has some other small advantages: apart from being able to blast something that is right in your face instead of lash at it with a raptor strike, it will be great for finishing off runners that run through the Hunter dead zone.
Scattershot stops Mae/pet from fighting as any damage breaks the disorientate effect so I have to remember to explicitly reengage (e.g. why is she just standing there? SHOOT IT!). It also makes a nice breather in which to drop a freezing trap and conveniently the pet won't keep fighting and break it.
The respec cost 20g plus a g or two to retrain Aimed Shot back up to rank 7. Really annoying how you have to do this on each respec but now I have misdirection I want Aimed Shot to partner it.
Group or Forever Farm
Following on from a comment here from Nibuca I did some research into daily quests. Apparently to get the lucrative Ogri'la (Shangri'la for Ogres) I have to do some five man group quests. I find it annoying to be forced into grouping for these things, there is already enough content that I consider academic without these artificial barriers to make me socialise.
I'll contemplate finding a non-raiding guild with people in a similar situation. I had an invite a few weeks ago from a guild called 'The Nearly Deads' and I like the name. I told the guy I don't raid and he said they were casuals and that was ok.
Without grouping it seems the only way to get exalted with the Skyguard and a Nether Ray mount is to repeat the egg bombing quest once a day for the next 114 days. Absolutely not worth it. The Nether Ray has a vile looking face, all sharp teeth, and there's no way I will be commuting to Skettis every day for three months to do a less than exciting quest. I'd rather ride a regular epic mount.
Another moan: apparently we won't be able to fly for the first eight levels in the next expansion. They say this is to make people explore the land properly but methinks it is to make their level design easier. Sod you, I'm going to grind to level 78 without leaving the starter area and then fly everywhere SO THERE!
Blade's Edge
Decided to continue questing in Blade's Edge Mountains. First quest, killing six spiders, netted 9 gold. Kerching. The Blades Edge map looks like a rat maze, if you didn't have a flying mount it would take you about an hour to get from one corner to the other.
Hacking Project
The TBags addon dumps a complete inventory/bank listing into a .lua file that would be very easy to parse and do things with. It only needs an application...
Peter's Moblog
I would say finish up whatever quests you have in Nagrand down to your last big group quests. Its nice area and the gold is good and for a hunter its appealing there in the zone.
Shadowmoon has a ton of quests for gold and great to do. I still have a tone there to do. Netherstorm is FUN. The quests are fun and having a pet that will buffer you some for those mobs that like to steal your mana. Mana things seem to sum up netherstorm thus lots of mote of mana there too.
For the Skyguard other than the bombing and the other quests in Terokkar i do know you get reps for killing the Skettis like 5 reps each. But thats like a grind too to grind out reps daily doing that.
You should find a group doing the Quests to kill the 5 Dunn Giant orges so you can access the daily quests in Ogri'la which gives access to the other Skyguard quests next to the camp there in Orgri'la. But getting those 5 quests hurdle done is something you really need to do to get beyond that to daily quests.
Lots of nice questing in the last 3 zones though, its just up to what you like. I've barely done much quest there since i'm kinda working much on reps and getting gear for my paladin.