Yea, my old main (lvl 70 hunter) had hwl gear and doesn't use any of it now lol. I really wanted to get them the gear just because it kind of was my main goal on my hunter too. Not to mention the look of the hwl gear looks better than the gears from TBC. In TBC, I'm not too worried about gear because I have friends on the server that run Kz sometimes to gear alts, and I should be able to jump in on one of the alt runs if they need little more dps.

My hunter didn't really start replacing stuff until I got into the higher 60's (around 66 if I remember right I started to see hwl gear being replaced) Most items was enchanted too, I guess that kept them on him longer than they would have been, but for hunters, there wasn't much replacing my gear because most quest rewards seem to be for shaman lol. There was even post on the forums about there not being any good quest rewards for hunters. Warlocks might have it better and might get more useful rewards from the quest in TBC.)

On which trade skill, i was thinking about tailoring because there are some nice epics that can be just crafted. Also to be true to form lol, Engineering would be nice for pvp, but potion making would be more useful imo and better for profit (though profit is not the goal )

My Hunter skills:
Mining Maxed
Jewel crafting 280ish

Ziie (none atm but considering)
Tailoring
Skinning

Xiie (none atm but considering)
Potion Making
(what ever gathering pants skill is called)

Because of the epic crafted items that can be made, It might be good to have both Ziie and Xiie as tailors, but its seems like a little waste because I could do another trade skill with one of them.

Ziie