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Too bad there are greens in outlands better than the dragonstalker set. I don't know how you'd expect to collect the set by now anyway.

In order to get all 8 pieces of tier 2 you would have to do a lot of raiding that would be virtually pointless for most people. You say outlands is far off, but tier 2 is level 60 content, while outlands is level 58. And in the time it takes to get from level 58 to 63, where greens are better than t3 gear, you're going to do maybe 1-3 raids IF you have a lot of help from people who are willing, and are likely to get 1/3 of the set. You are right on the math, and the question is the proc chance. However, I estimate it to be low at 60, and lower at 70.

Another difference is that the t2 bonus only affects hunters. Meaning if you're in a raid which has 3 warriors, 1 enh shaman, 3 rogues, a feral druid, and 4 hunters (amongst casters and healers), the bonus to the gear would be 1800 AP, whereas it would take only 600 agility to get that via expose weakness over all 12 physical DD. And you buff the tanks, which means they deal more threat, which means everyone else can deal more damage.

Even if you get the gear, and the bonuses don't stack, I'd recommend getting EW talent, since you will likely replace the gear anyway, and when the gear proc isn't up, the talent likely will be.
As to the talent choices, I would really recommend levelling BM or MM (BM more than MM). Survival does not buff your pet much at all, and with a pet that has low health and threat output soloing is a PITA. You can always respec at 70.

Rush from 1-70 using BM and whatever quest gear you pick up, then worry about gear and spec. For the majority of stuff, by the time you try to get a group together to get something done, you could be a few levels beyond where whatever you were trying to get is actually useful.