This may be common knowledge, but I think a few people may not know it. If uve lvled a hunter, then u know how much of a drag it melleing to 10 for your first pet. Well when ever I lvl my hunter alts now i realized that alot of the monsters in the first starting zones walk slower then you, so if you fire ur weapon at max range then jump backwards and let it fire again, you can continue this and pretty much kill the mob before it reaches u without even a first raptor strike, i find the mob usually dies faster that way as well.
soorry for the wall of text!