Beast Mastery Hunter Mythic+ Guide (2024)

Tier Set

• 2-Set: Bestial Wrath summons a Dire Beast for 15 seconds.
• 4-Set: Your most recently summoned Dire Beast now obeys Kill Command and can benefit from Beast Cleave.

Single-target

Opener Rotation

• Since Kill Command has 2 charges your goal is to cast as many Kill Commands as possible without overcapping on charges, while also weaving in Barbed Shots as to not overcap on those as well. Below is an example of how your opener looks like using one of the recommended Killer Cobra or Explosive Venom specs and depending on the number of Barbed Shot resets and assuming you aren't playing Killer Cobra, among other factors:
• This assumes that Dire Beast is cast on cooldown.

• Use your active trinkets, Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power and racials like Blood Fury or Berserking after using Bestial Wrath.

Priority List

This is a general priority you aim to maintain throughout the fight.

1. Cast Kill Command if it's available.
2. Cast Barbed Shot if Kill Command is on cooldown.
3. Cast Kill Shot if available.
4. Cast Cobra Shot if Kill Command and Barbed Shot are on cooldown.

Multi Target

2 Target Opener Rotation

• Below, you can see an example of how your opener looks like using the recommended Tyrannical or Fortified talent spec and depending on the number of Barbed Shot resets, among other factors.
• This assumes that Dire Beast is cast on cooldown.

• Use your active trinkets, Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power and racials like Blood Fury or Berserking after using Bestial Wrath.

2 Target Priority List

1. Keep up Beast Cleave.
2. Cast Kill Command if it's available.
3. Keep up Barbed Shot on both targets.
4. Cast Explosive Shot if talented.
5. Cast Cobra Shot if Kill Command and Barbed Shot are on cooldown.
6. Cast Kill Shot if available.

3+ Targets Opener Rotation

• Below you can see one variation of the AoE opener rotation on 6 targets which assumes you wait a bit for the tank to gather mobs

• Use your active trinkets, Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power and racials like Blood Fury or Berserking after using Bestial Wrath.

3+ Target Priority List

1. Keep up Beast Cleave.
2. Cast Kill Command if it's available.
3. Keep up Barbed Shot on at least 2 targets.
4. Cast Explosive Shot if talented.
5. Cast Cobra Shot if Kill Command and Barbed Shot are on cooldown.
6. Cast Kill Shot if available.

Tracking Thrill of the Hunt and knowing when to use Barbed Shot.

• Unless you have 1 point in Scent of Blood, never cast 2 Barbed Shots back-to-back.
• Outside of Bestial Wrath you want to cast at least one spell between Barbed Shot casts.
• During Bestial Wrath you want to cast Barbed Shot as little as possible and focus on resetting Kill Command through Cobra Shot.
• High Thrill of the Hunt uptime comes from doing these things and just naturally spacing out uses of Barbed Shot.

Below, you find an example on how to correctly manage Barbed Shot casts.

Maximizing your damage output during Bestial Wrath.

• Ensure you are going into Bestial Wrath with at least 1 charge of Kill Command, but having 2 is best.
• Make sure you don't focus starve by weaving in Barbed Shot during this window and not letting it over-cap on charges.
• Try to line this damage window up with either of the buffs provided by Huntmaster's Call. These are quite large and Bestial Wrath windows are further buffed by these.

• This is not a fixed rotation; This is just one example of how to play during your Bestial Wrath window. War Orders procs can increase your amount of Kill Command resets without needing to cast Cobra Shot along with Wild Call increasing the amount of Barbed Shot resets you can have.

Understanding Mechanics

Rotational min-maxing is just one aspect of mastering a specialization, but there are numerous other key mechanics that influence your performance. Use the following guides to improve them.

• Pandemic
• Spell Queue Window
• Stat Diminishing Returns

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Affixes

Learn how to effectively handle various Mythic+ Affixes as a Beast Mastery Hunter. Depending on the level of the Mythic+ Dungeon, you contend with up to two additional Affixes alongside Fortified and Tyrannical.

• Entangling
  • Disengage and Aspect of the Cheetah.
    • Posthaste automatically clears entangling when you Disengage.
    • If Disengage is not up and you need to escape quickly you can also use Aspect of the Cheetah.
• Incorporeal
  • Scare Beast, Freezing Trap and Counter Shot.
    • Scare Beast works great.
    • Freezing Trap also works well if you can guarantee landing it.
    • Interrupt them with Counter Shot.
• Bolstering
  • Tar Trap and Binding Shot
    • Either of these can be used to help your take start kitting once mobs start getting high stacks of bolster.
• Raging
  • Tranquilizing Shot
    • You can utilize Tranquilizing Shot to remove Raging from one mob every 10 seconds.
• Spiteful
  • Tar Trap, Binding Shot and Intimidation.
    • Use Intimidation to crowd control specific Spiteful enemies.
    • Utilize Tar Trap and Binding Shot to crowd control multiple Spiteful Shades simultaneously to keep them away for a few seconds.
• Sanguine
  • Bursting Shot and High Explosive Trap.
    • Use High Explosive Trap if talented to force enemies out of Sanguine Ichor.
    • You can utilize Bursting Shot too but this requires an extra talent point and for you to be in melee range.
• Bursting
  • Aspect of the Turtle
    • This is the only standout button you can use as it immunes all stacks of Burst.

Understand your secondary stat priority and the tertiary stats needed for optimal performance during Mythic+ dungeons as a Beast Mastery Hunter. For more detailed information, visit the Stats and Attributes guide.

All secondary stats are affected by diminishing returns. Click here to learn more!

Tertiary

• Avoidance - Great stat to reduce the damage intake of "Area of Effect" abilities.
• Leech - Provides additional healing through damage dealing. The damage of your pets does not heal you thus Leech is an awful tertiary for you since most of your damage is coming from your pets.
• Speed - Niche tertiary that can be very useful and has been proven useful in the past. Makes playing certain mechanics a lot easier.

Trinkets

Below you can find active and passive alternatives to the recommended trinkets. Do note that some trinkets are better than others depending on the scenario.

Active Trinket alternatives

• Storm-Eater's Boon
  • Roots you in place during the active, so you have to able to use it without risking death.
• Mirror of Fractured Tomorrows
  • Strong 3 minute on use.
• Algeth'ar Puzzle Box
  • Provides a large amount of Mastery with a channel time on a 3 minute cooldown.
• Ashes of the Embersoul
  • Strong 2 minute on use with a minute haste penalty after.

Passive Trinket alternatives

• Whispering Incarnate Icon
  • Is better or worse depending on how many people in your group are using it.
• Pip's Emerald Friendship Badge
  • Solid trinket with a small amount of stats passively, with a larger proc.
• Ominous Chromatic Essence
  • Is better or worse depending on how many people in your group are using it.
• Controlled Current Technique
  • Solid single-target trinket, loses a bit of value on AoE.

Simcraft

To find the best combination of gear available to you or identify the best possible upgrades, visit our Simcraft guide to learn how to utilize Simcraft easily and effectively.

• 1x Blue Silken Lining
  • It's a good choice if you have over 90% health most of the time and during your cooldowns.
  • The optimal slots to craft on are Neck, Waist, and Boots depending on your available gear.
• Adaptive Dracothyst Armguards
  • High uptime on a good chunk of stats.
  • Safer pick that won't have a downside unlike Blue Silken Lining.

Honorable Mentions

• Elemental Lariat
  • Good to use if you have access to the maximum amount of gems, and decent in multi target scenarios especially if your Blue Silken Lining uptime is not great.

Remaining Sparks

• Make sure to apply Alchemical Flavor Pocket if you have an additional crafted item equipped to keep your food buff even if you died.
• Crafted items are 525 item level and regular items are 528 on max item level therefore it's not beneficial to equip crafted items outside of your 2x embellishments unless you don't have access to other high item level gear on that slot.

Phials

1. Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage -- For maximum DPS.
2. Phial of Tepid Versatility -- For less DPS but more survivability.

Food

1. Grand Banquet of the Kalu'ak
2. Deviously Deviled Eggs

Combat Potion

1. Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
2. Residual Neural Channeling Agent
   • Can be used while being dead if your potion is ready.

Health Potion

1. Potion of Withering Dreams -- For a big burst of healing
2. Dreamwalker's Healing Potion -- For less healing upfront but an additional small heal over time.

Weapon Rune

1. Completely Safe Rockets

Augment Rune

1. Dreambound Augment Rune -- Requires Reputation
2. Draconic Augment Rune

Sockets

1. Skillful Illimited Diamond or Fierce Illimited Diamond -- Unique, made by work order
2. Keen Neltharite

For min-maxing a Beast Mastery Hunter in Mythic+, different racial traits can provide a tremendous benefit to your characters. If this is not your top goal, picking a race that fits your style works just as well.

• Stoneform -- Dwarf
  • One of the most potent racials in Mythic+ currently and historically.
  • Use-cases:
    • Bursting stacks.
    • Splinterbark on Overgrown Ancient (Algeth'ar Academy).
    • Deep Chill from Glacial Proto-Dragons (Halls of Infusion).
    • Withering from Fetid Rotsingers and Brackenhide Shapers (Brackenhide Hollow).
    • Earthen Shards from Sentinel Talondras (Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr).
    • Stolen Time from Infinite Timereavers (Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr).
    • Dragon Strike from Chargath (Neltharus).
    • Bold Ambush from Qalashi Hunters (Neltharus).
• Shadowmeld -- Night Elf
  • Also one of the most potent racials in Mythic+ historically.
  • Use-cases:
    • Cast Shadowmeld when Forgemaster Gorek (Neltharus) targets you with Blazing Aegis, this completely negate the mechanic for you and the rest of the group.
    • Run past basically any mob and then cast Shadowmeld to make them reset. Even works on mobs that have stealth detection if you get enough distance before you Shadowmeld.
• Blood Fury -- Orc
  • Strong racial for damage both because of Command and Blood Fury which lines up with Call of the Wild.
  • 20% reduced Stun duration on you which can be useful in some Mythic+ dungeons.
• Escape Artist -- Gnome
  • Free yourself from roots.
• Rocket Jump -- Goblin
  • Do a small jump in the direction your character is facing.
  • While you're in the Rocket Jump animation you are placed on a global cooldown until your character lands.
• Berserking -- Troll
  • Strong DPS racial that lines up with Call of the Wild.
  • Reduce the duration of movement impairing effects by 20%.

Recommendation

Dwarf and Night Elf aren't the overall best racials in terms of DPS but their abilities have such a big impact on your Mythic+ experience that you need to use either of them if you're serious about pushing keys with your Beast Mastery Hunter.

Discover recommended macros for Beast Mastery Hunter during Mythic+ dungeons and watch a quick video guide on creating simple macros for your character.

Macro Import Guide Video

#showtooltip/cast [@cursor] Binding Shot

#showtooltip Tar Trap/cast [@cursor] Tar Trap

Below, you see a screenshot of the author's User Interface for their Beast Mastery Hunter, outlining which addons are used and how they are utilized in Mythic+ dungeons to make your life easier.

Credits

Written By: Shodam

Reviewed By: Soda, Rycn