For months past on the gside .. I slugged through with a very inept set of specs. Today on dside with a baby warrior level only 18 now I asked around and got some advice from Mirabellia/Erollos.
Now what I am saying is a spec for crifting not to go level up but this is so working for me .. 8 points into reaver! it is the bomb! and that simple for you lowbie tank/crafters
You will get an instant cast necrotic wounds and if youa re feeling saucy a blood fever ... for a finisher you can use earthbust if you do a tad in riftblade.
Again this is not a huntning spec just a nice lowbie crifting spec that mira helped me discover that allows you to range and stay alive.
Buying a second spec or whatever with reaver and riftblade as 2 o them has worked extremely well .. sure you do 3 dps .. but you get plaques aka marks now.
Again thanks mira for helping me out with this as a level 16 at the time.