I am lvling my first BM, and I am liking it for the pace I can keep, and for how I can take on mobs 4 lvl higher and not die all of the time.
But I would put at least 12 points early into the mm tree as a minimum.
mortal shots (+crits)
mproved hunters mark (mele bonus)
go for throat (pet generates 50 focus with a ranged crit).
And if your going to pvp at all for me it would be hard to do without scattershot, hugely useful it will get you distance from mele characters and goot for pulling guys off of mounts and stopping flag carriers. And oddly scatershot works well with aimed shot since scatter shot will give you time to cast the big hit. But that is 21 points up the MM tree so there would be some serious trade offs.
But I would put at least 12 points early into the mm tree as a minimum.
mortal shots (+crits)
mproved hunters mark (mele bonus)
go for throat (pet generates 50 focus with a ranged crit).
And if your going to pvp at all for me it would be hard to do without scattershot, hugely useful it will get you distance from mele characters and goot for pulling guys off of mounts and stopping flag carriers. And oddly scatershot works well with aimed shot since scatter shot will give you time to cast the big hit. But that is 21 points up the MM tree so there would be some serious trade offs.