Introduction
Welcome to the Method Beast Mastery Hunter guide written by me, Qenjua. I've been a Hunter main for the past 8 years. I’m occasionally streaming both Progress as well as high Mythic+. If you want deeper insights into this class, that the guide might not be able to provide, you can find my coaching on: https://metafy.gg/@qenjua. Feel free to join my Metafy Group for my UI, as well as some tips and tricks for Hunter.
Beast Mastery Hunter Overview
Beast Mastery Hunter is a ranged spec with very high mobility and can do all their damage while moving. Thanks to their pets, this is one of the best classes for soloing content. This class also grants a bunch of unique utilities such as, Binding Shot with Horsehair Tether, Freezing Trap, Misdirection, and Primal Rage, as well as an immunity Aspect of the Turtle, a Freedom with Master's Call and a damage redirection ability with Roar Of Sacrifice.
For AoE Damage, BM Hunter has Beast Cleave and Dire Cleave for sustained passive cleave damage as well as Kill Command with Kill Cleave and Wild Thrash for active AoE damage.
The weakness of this spec is that it depends on your pet to deal most of your damage, which means if your pet is stuck, you don't do damage. Dark Ranger Hero Talent tree can help a lot with shifting some power away from pets. Also, pet travel to the next target might take some time in fights where you must switch targets. Beast mastery hunter also tends to sacrifice a lot of single target damage to get access to the entirety of your AoE damage which is also limited to the area around your current main target.
What has changed
Patch 12.1 Changes for Beast Mastery Hunter
- Every single Cobra Shot talent has been nerfed, including the Hogstrider-Talents for Pack Leader.
- A rework of Heart Of The Pack -> Razor Sharp. This is buffing our Pets’ “special” attack. Decent since this damage is also eligible for Beast Cleave.
- Beast Cleave has been buffed to 55% and Kill Cleave nerfed to 20%.
- Beast Cleave now lasts 10 seconds.
- Removed Wild Instincts. This talent was insanely strong in AoE scenarios, effectively multidotting the entire pull for free.
- Reworked/Nerfed Piercing Fangs. We will not ever play this talent in any situation.
- We received a huge buff to our Auto-Attack damage.