Beast Mastery Hunter DPS Guide - Dragonflight 10.0.2 (2024)

FAQs

What spec is best for Hunter DPS? ›

For Hunters, Marksmanship is the best PvE spec.

Beast Mastery and Survival will not be as good, with a minor exception for Beast Mastery at very early gear levels (explained below). If you want to play one spec for all PvE content, go for Marksmanship.

Beast Mastery is a strong single-target spec. It is quite simple in its execution and it is an ideal spec for someone new to raiding, or just WoW in general.

For non-Beast Masters, we recommend picking up either a Gorilla, Scalehide, or Courser pet, as each one has a strong defensive ability that allows you to either reduce damage or dodge incoming attacks.

Best AoE DPS (in perfect settings)Marksmanship Hunter achieved 32.67% more AoE DPS than Beast Mastery Hunter when there was no movement or lag. Simplest GameplayMarksmanship Hunter has fewer damaging abilities which could indicate a simpler rotation.

Tame beast is only supposed to fail if you lose aggro on the target for any reason, though it oftens fails for seemingly no reason at all. Cast will complete, you'll still have aggro yet you will not tame the target.

What is the Best Pet for Beast Mastery Hunter? All pets do the same damage, but we recommend using a Spirit Beast for almost all situations. It is Tenacity so it gives you extra health and a defensive, and it has Spirit Mend which is a small heal on a 30-second cooldown.

Just putting a little message out there for all of you who haven't actually found out yet; if you're running Dire Frenzy, there's actually a soft haste cap of around 18-20% that allows you to comfortably keep up three stacks of Dire Frenzy during Lust/Hero.

Versatility: Increasing all your damage and healing done also decreases all damage taken. This can provide a bit of survivability that is sometimes needed for hunters.

Is haste good for MM hunter? ›

Haste: Increases your auto attack speed, increases focus regeneration, reduces the cast time, and the cooldown of Aimed Shot. Not bad, but we have better stats choices for MM. In AoE situations, make sure to have enough haste to be able to cast 2 Aimed Shots and 1 Rapid Fire during your Volley window.

1. Anubisath Idol (Humanoid) The value you will get out of this pet is insane, as befitting the best battle pet of WoW. With high survivability and reliable damage output, the Anubisath Idol has a varied enough move kit that will carry you through the bulk of your PvE pet battles.

Marksmanship Hunter Overview

From a playstyle perspective, Marksmanship is relatively simple with only a few central abilities you must understand to play the spec optimally.

Best Races for Marksmanship Hunter

The best races for Hunters tend to be Orc, Troll, Mechagnome, Tauren, and Dwarf, though depending on your gear, setup, and situation, many races can be competitive and ultimately, your Race is less than 2% of your DPS and therefore does not matter for the majority of situations.

Four levels of skill are generally recognized today in American military and civilian shooting circles: unqualified, marksman, sharpshooter, and expert.

For a total beginner to the class, although each specialization has strengths and weaknesses, we recommend Beast Mastery as the best Hunter leveling spec.

Personally I feel it is a bit staggering spec, feel a bit bumpy to play, far away from my favorite, but I know there are very many MM hunters that swear to the spec and loves it. the rapidfire build was ok to play for m+ not super fun but ok. The aimedshot build is far better, but its also super boring to play.

The ocelot is one of the hardest animals to tame in the game, mainly because it's such a rare one to find in the wild.

Also yes. It has a hidden 35% damage reduction aura to your pets. This is still a damage increase since you have a 2nd pet also doing damage rather than just the one.

What pet does the most damage in taming io? ›

Lynxes are primarily damage focused pets, with an attack stat of 30.

Sends your pet into a frenzy, increasing attack speed by 30% for 8 sec, stacking up to 3 times.

Cast Barbed Shot when the Frenzy buff on your pet is about to expire or when you're close to 2 charges of Barbed Shot. Refresh it as late as possible without dropping it. This is a higher priority than not wasting Bestial Wrath cooldown reduction.

Hunters are exceptional at leveling, and are perhaps the single best class for solo leveling in WoW. Hunter pets are just the perfect tool while leveling, and Hunters have a base power level that is significantly higher than most classes. Leveling as a Hunter should be safe, efficient, and easy to do.

It's purely a thematic difference. There is no DPS difference between any pet in BFA. However, there is a competitive difference when not using an Exotic Pet because Exotic Pet families have an extra family ability. This will ALWAYS be extra utility, not DPS.

Best Covenant for Beast Mastery Hunter

Kyrian with Pelagos/Forgelite Prime Mikanikos is the best general setup for Beast Mastery Hunters. Its damage is better than Night Fae on single-target, and superior on large AoE and in Mythic+ where it also buffs your teammates significantly.

Up to five pets can be kept active at once, depending on the hunter's level. In order to tame any more pets, existing ones must either be stabled or abandoned. I'd like to stable my pet here" option, and drag the pet's icon from an active slot on the left to a stable slot on the right.

Probably around 30% for safety. Crit % helps with this too, as auto Crits have a chance to refresh a barbed shot. So you're just looking for a comfortable amount of both until 30% haste becomes easy to get (last raid tier normally).

There are many reasons for aiming for the 20% haste soft cap, such as keeping 100% Enrage uptime during Recklessness and smoothing out the rotation overall. In general the value of haste starts dropping off at 25-30% therefore I would recommend always simming to find the highest value for your current gear.

stacks additively and is capped at 500 (equivalent to 83. 3% cooldown reduction).

Is BM better than MM in PvP? ›

MM does well in 2s and BGs, BM does well in basically everything. BM will suffer from pets being CCed, which MM won't be as likely to since your pet is less consequential. BM has a hard stun that doesn't break on damage, MM has a disorient and a knockback. MM also has the advantage of binding shot being baseline.

What is the best stat for Hunter? Without a doubt, Mobility is the best stat for Hunter. Since the Hunter's class ability (their dodge) scales with Mobility, it's easily one of the stats you want to prioritize for pretty much every Hunter build.

The reason why versatility might be better than mastery is because mastery may only affect a single source of damage within your damage profile, whereas versatility or critical strike increase all of the damage sources in the damage profile.

Most of Unholy Death Knight's damage comes from Minions, which makes Mastery your best secondary stat. It also scales very well in AoE, as most of your AoE abilities do Shadow damage. Haste - Haste is going to be your main focus when it comes to secondary stats in single target, mainly due to Summon Gargoyle.

There isn't a haste breakpoint we need to get to. Its just at 9% thats when haste starts to get lower on the priority list and crit/mast heavily takeover. Also, because steady focus is the "best" DPS wise. Assuming you can maintain sufficient uptime on it.

The Bal pet has only 2 rarities, EPIC and LEGENDARY. The odds of dropping a Bal Pet are 0.0126% (63/500,000) per hit for an EPIC Pet, and 0.0054% (27/500,000) for a LEGENDARY Pet.

If you abandoned your pet in error it cannot be recovered. Your pet may also abandon you if it is unhappy. Visit the Classic Wowhead Hunter Pet Guide to learn more about pet happiness.

Unhappy (Red frowning face) : Your pet is unhappy and will only do 75% damage during fights. Each level spans about 350 happiness points. So if your pet just dropped from Happy to Content, it will require food for 350 happiness to get it to maximum happiness.

Why do hunters have dogs? ›

Hounds are used to pursue running game (rabbits, deer) and gun dogs are used to locate camouflaged hiding game (grouse, pheasant) or retrieve flying game (ducks). Hunting hounds bring the hunter to the prey. They have keen noses that detect the presence of game and track the scent.

For maximum DPS, a ferocity pet is the optimal choice. Although you may have a particular fondness for your Sporebat, he's not going to make you shine as well as a wolf would in tonight's raid. Ferocity pets are the undisputed kings of overall DPS.

Although pets can only be upgraded to Tier 4 by pet breeding, you can train your pet from tier 4 to tier 5 with a 100% chance. To train a pet to tier 5, you need a tier 4 pet with level 10 and your character must be at least level 60. You can then obtain the quest “[Pet] Domesticated Squabbles” from your Black Spirit.

As a result, Revenant is the most build-rich out of the Hunter subclasses. A good build will have constant abilities, a near-permanent 25% damage buff, 40% DR, and enough crowd control to keep GM Nightfall enemies at bay. Revenant is a criminally underrated PvE subclass with a high PvP skill ceiling.

What is the best stat for Hunter? Without a doubt, Mobility is the best stat for Hunter. Since the Hunter's class ability (their dodge) scales with Mobility, it's easily one of the stats you want to prioritize for pretty much every Hunter build.

Troll is the best Classic WoW Horde Hunter race for PvE, while Orc or Tauren is the best Classic WoW Horde Hunter race for PvP.

Lady Efrideet is the only other remaining Iron Lord. By all accounts, she is likely the oldest and most powerful of the Hunters.

Crit soft cap: Varies

We hunters love to crit, and we crit more often than most classes out there, with base unbuffed crit chances going up to and over 60%. Because we have a reduced chance to crit mobs with a higher level than us, our crit chance against raid bosses is actually 104.8%.

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Survival hunters will always have the 10% attack speed buff from Hunting Party and another 3% attack speed increase from the Pathing talent. This means that the base cast time of Cobra Shot before haste is 1.765 seconds.

To start, the best Hunter spec for solo leveling in Dragonflight is Beast Mastery. The Hunter specs are all viable for leveling to some extent, of course, but BM is simply on another level for folk who want to level quickly and easily.

Jim Corbett

Corbett is perhaps the most famous dangerous game hunter of all time. He was a colonel in the British Indian army and throughout his career he was called upon to hunt man-eating tigers and leopards. Between 1907 and 1938 he killed 19 tigers and 14 leopards.