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Go with whatever benefits your range the most. NO strength, little spirit, lots of agi, int, and stam.

Remember the cardinal rule: Every weapon, no matter how much it is suited for a caster, melee, or anyone else in your group, unless it is a Mace, is a Hunter weapon. Roll "Need" immediately. Hell, even if it's a mace, roll "Need". You'll be sure to get lots of group invitations once you're decked out with a few weapons with interesting "Chance on melee hit" procs or +Healing/spell damage.

Ok, less tongue-in-cheek...
As you level, use whatever weapon or pair of weapons you find that give you the best total boost to your AP. STA is the next most important stat, followed by INT or MP/5.

Your racial bonus with axes is almost worthless, so don't pass over a sword or dagger with better base stats based on that racial ability. And don't worry about your weapon skill either. If you find a better weapon of a type you haven't used in a few levels, or ever, it'll only take a few minutes of beating on green or grey mobs to build your skill up to a respectable level for those rare times when you'll need to swing a weapon in melee. Put on AotM, send Pet, and run in and melee on those green/grey mobs, and you'll see how fast your skill will climb.

I've got the same question .
I'm a 24 Draenei hunter, BM spec .
I'm currently using a 2H sword [don't remember what it is or the stats on it] .
I guess I should try other weapons to see what suits me best, but I just don't want to spend the extra money[or time], then decide I don't like the weapon .

I really am at a loss ...
Polearms, duel-wield swords, axes ...
2H weapons ...
There's alot of choice, and I just don't know where to go from here .

At lvl 55 I have expirimented with a wide variety of set ups . My main piece of cutlery is a Frenzied striker pole arm with an Impact enchant . I also run with a duel wield 1h sword and dagger combo enchanted with elemental slaying . I do Elemental Leather Working so the second set of blades is just for killing elementals for materials .

At any rate , scince you are reluctant to give up that nifty 1h. axe. try a dagger in the off hand to get in those quick strikes to complement the slightly slower axe . Just my opinion . In the long run however , I would suggest looking into Polearms . They really tend to offer good hunter stats and although a little slower , they do good DPS and mongoose bite crits are pretty gnarly . Get one of those pork stickers with an enchant on it and I'm sure you will not be un-happy .

Ya, that's another thing. Considering all stats equal, should a hunter just go for higher damage and completely ignore dps/speed on a weapon? Ideally, you're only doing one strike before getting to range again, so speed shouldn't matter right? Or is that completely wrong? Seems logical to me. Stats first of course, then damage second, not dps.