As everybody else has said, BM is currently the best hunter spec for PvE. MM is very gear-reliant, something I'm given to understand BM isn't. Marksmen can be quite useful against bosses due to the insane single-target damage once you get to the right stage, but MM quickly breaks down during trash fights.
Our 5 Recommended Pets
- 5 Recommended Pets For Beast Mastery. Spirit Beast (Tenacity) This will be your go to PvE pet for both Dungeons and Raids assuming the fight is not high movement.
- 5 Recommended Pets for Marksmanship and Survival. Crane (Tenacity) This will be your go to PvE pet for both Dungeons and Raids.
For players who plan to play PVP Battlegrounds, the Best Hunter Specs will be Marksmanship and Survival as they can output some really good damage.
Overall, hunter is in a very good place right now with MM getting buffed. It's one of the easiest specs (BM) to play becuse you have the confort of a ranged with mobility of a melee and most of your damage comes from pet which can ignore some of the mechanics.
DPS Rankings
- Fire Mage. 119K (100%)
- Destruction Warlock. 108K (91%)
- Arms Warrior. 108K (91%)
- Shadow Priest. 105K (88%)
- Beast Mastery Hunter. 105K (88%)
- Affliction Warlock. 103K (87%)
- Demonology Warlock. 99K (83%)
- Frost Death Knight. 97K (82%)
Marksmanship is performing a bit better overall than Beast Mastery at the start of Shadowlands, but the balance will almost certainly shift at some point once we get the crit and haste needed to really start to shine. While Beast Mastery itself has not changed too much during the Shadowlands Beta, some things have.
All recent researches say that the best DPS classes for the Shadowlands are: Warlocks, Hunters, Death Knights (DK), and Rogues. All these classes have certain advantages with different amount of aims. They are most effective in Raids, Mythics, and in PvP.
While the core rotation of Marksmanship hasn't really changed much, we've received a large talent overhaul going into Shadowlands which changes some things in our core rotation. In its current state, Marksmanship is the best performing Hunter spec (subject to tuning).
Beast Mastery Hunter is a ranged spec that has very high mobility that can do all their damage while moving. Thanks to pets, this is one of the best classes for soloing content. The weakness of this spec is that depending on your pet to deal the majority of your damage means if your pet is stuck, you don't do damage.
Infinite stars seems ok, but pretty RNG in the proc rate and distance.
Icy Veins was recently updated to say that a potentially competitive build centering around stacking Dance of Death traits, Crit and the One With the Pack talent is emerging. Dance of Death by itself does not sim very high though.
As for the traits question, primal instincts further stacks more mastery with each duplicate and is more valuable to stack than feeding frenzy. It increases your burst damage heavily, its also a crazy good trait in m+ with 1x rapid reload.
Feeding Frenzy: It's not worth stacking more than one Feeding Frenzy in most cases since the extra second on Frenzy does not stack, but sometimes it will still be worth it depending on your other options.
Easy answer: most stat/stamina/health-wise abilities will stack numerically. The only things that don't are the ability altering traits, such as “increased chance of X” happening. You could have three traits that increase the chance of X ability but it will not count past the first.
Human is the best Classic WoW Alliance Rogue race for PvE. Gnome or Dwarf is the best Classic WoW Alliance Rogue race For PvP.
Rogue would also work, but given their adaptability and survival skills, hunter works too. The best class for all races is monk; that's just facts.
When all things are considered, the race you choose won't make a great deal of difference. If you're a casual player, picking your favorite race should be your priority. If you're more of a serious player, though, and you care about min-maxing, race really does matter.
Best Horde Races for Beast Mastery Hunters
Destiny 2 Best Hunter Subclass
- Arcstrider (Good for all game types) Who doesn't want to beat Hive over the head with a stick? The Arcstrider Subclass has you wielding an Arc Staff and slicing through your foes with it.
- Gunslinger (Good for PVP) Why use a stick if you can use a gun?
- Nightstalker (PVE) Wait, you can use a bow?
Based on Base stats, Racial Traits and viability in PVP and PVE content we consider Gnome for Alliance and Undead for Horde to be the Mage Class Best Race. Humans and Trolls are also a good second choice if you prefer those racial traits.
Hunters can learn how to use bows, guns, crossbows, thrown weapons, daggers, axes, fist weapons, swords, polearms, staves, two-handed axes, and two-handed swords. The only weapons they cannot use are wands and one-handed and two-handed maces. This allows them to wield two one-handed weapons at the same time.
Marksmanship Hunters are the only Hunter spec that have the option of not using a pet. It's typically the go-to spec for any player that does not like using or managing pets, but still want to play Hunter.
Dismiss Pet is a hunter ability learned at level 10 that sends the hunter's
pet away temporarily. It can be resummoned using [Call
Pet].
Dismiss Pet
- Dismiss Pet.
- Unlimited range.
- 3 sec cast.
- Temporarily sends this pet away. You can call it back later.
Yes, Animal Companion benefits Beast Cleave BUT only when the AC is visible AND only if there are targets to “beast cleave onto” within range of the AC itself.
