I thought I'd report back on the progress of my hunter team. I'm currently in the middle of a switch from paladin, restoshaman, balancedruid and 2 elemental shaman to paladin, resto-shaman and 3 hunters. I'm currently sitting at level 72 (2 days, 1 hour played - thank you RAF :-P) and I must say that this team is by far the fastest I've levelled with so far. This is (obviously) in part because there's only three of them (3 hunters), which means I can do all quests, including collection. Collection-quests still suck, but not as bad, and pet-tank + mana-independence + tracking is a very good combination for questing. For the first time in a while, I'm actually having fun levelling, which is an experience I haven't had since vanilla (I usually hate the levelling part, but actually like the gear-grind).

So far the only annoyance is the low availability of guns in the game and the sound of them. I might actually switch to bow/cross-bow only for the sound, despite the negative impact it has on crit (they're all dorfs).

By the way, does anyone know of a tourguide format guide for the later zones in northrend? I really wish there was kopp/joana used the tourguide-style instead of the metamap stuff.