Beast Mastery Hunter Gearing Guide

Season 3 Tier Sets now give you a different bonus depending on the Hero Talent Tree chosen:

Season 3 Pack Leader Tier Set:

• (2) Set Bonus: Pet damage increased by 5%, and Beast damage increased by 15%. Summoning a Beast grants 6% haste, mastery, or critical strike chance based on the Beast summoned for 8 sec.
• (4) Set Bonus: Summoning a Beast while under the effects of Lead from the Front rouses the nearby wildlife into a Stampede, charging your target and dealing Physical damage to up to 8 enemies over 7 sec.

Extremely powerful Tier Set, granting us a lot of passive stats, as well as the visually and thematically stunning 4 Set Stampede. Even though powerful, Stampede currently has a big amount of issues with hitting the target, or not proccing when it's supposed to. You can read up on how to handle those issues in the Rotation and Playstyle part of the guide.

Season 3 Dark Ranger Tier Set:

• (2) Set Bonus: Black Arrow arrow damage increased by 10% and Bleak Powder damage increased by 20%. The cooldown of Call of the Wild is reduced by 60 sec.
• (4) Set Bonus: Withering Fire's Black Arrow damage increased by 50%. Consuming Deathblow has a 50% chance to cause all Black Arrow barrages during your next Withering Fire to fire 1 additional Black Arrow.

Besides the passive bonuses to Black Arrow, this Tier Set cuts the cooldown of Call of the Wild in half, allowing for much more frequent bursting. The 4 Set essentially stacks up between usages of Call of the Wild allowing us to spew out a whole lot of Black Arrows every time we are in our cooldowns.

You should still prioritize the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Beast Mastery Hunter, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

Our best Trinket combination is Astral Antenna (from Loom’ithar in Manaforge Omega), and Ara-Kara Sacbrood (from Ara-Kara, City of Echoes).

Other good trinkets from Mythic+ include:

• Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker - Operation Floodgate
• Empowering Crystal of Anub'ikkaj - Dawnbreaker
• So'leah's Secret Technique - Tazavesh: So'leah's Gambit

Other good trinkets from Raid include:

• Araz's Ritual Forge - Forgeweaver Araz

On Pack Leader we want two pieces of gear with the Dawnthread Lining Embellishment, which increases critical strike rating when above 80% HP.

On Dark Ranger we want two pieces of gear with the Duskthread Lining Embellishment, which increases versatility when above 80% HP.

Best slots for our crafted pieces are Wrists and Gloves, due to their lower stat budget and bad alternatives.

The stats we want to apply to our crafted Gear are Critical Strike and Haste.

Alternatively you could Craft a Weapon with Ascendance, which increases a random secondary stat, every 8 seconds you remain in combat. Pair this embellishment with a pair of crafted Wrist or Boots with Writhing Armor Banding to double up the Ascendance value of your weapon.

This is a decent alternative during early Season, if you do not have access to an early Mythic-difficulty weapon.

Reshii Wraps

Reshii Wraps is a new Cloak released in Patch 11.2 and will be the only cloak you use (and the only one that can drop from any content in Season 3). You gain access to it via a quest chain and completing chapter 3 of the main patch storyline.

The Reshii Wraps are upgradable via Ethereal Strands and can have secondary stats of your choice added to it.

To add a secondary stat to the Reshii Wraps you use a Fiber in the Fiber Socket of the Cloak. The highest quality version of the Fibers requires a work-order to a Tailor.

When picking a Fiber, I strongly recommend simming your character for the best stat for your current gear and intended content. If you just want a quick recommendation for which Reshii Fiber to use, then use Pure Chronomatic Fiber (Haste).

To find out more about the Reshii Wraps, you can read the Method Reshii Wraps Overview Guide.

Best D.I.S.C Belt & Miniature Titan Disc Effects

This new belt is acquired through a short series of quests, starting in Dornogal close to Brann. After obtaining the Durable Information Securing Container you are able to activate the item and choose one of your unlocked powers to be active. Unlocking powers can be done by finding the associated Titan-Discs in different Delves. Each Delve has the chance to drop a certain Titan-Disc at the end-of-Delve Chests. (The Delve does not have to be Overcharged, in order for the respective Titan-Disc to drop).

The item level of this belt can be upgraded every week, to a maximum of 701, tho it is already recommended to use the item as soon as you unlock it.

Recommended Titan Discs for Beast Mastery Hunter:

• In Single Target situations you want to use: Static Charge (you can find the respective Titan-Disc in the Sidestreet Sluice Delve in Undermine)
• In AoE situations you want to use: Static Charge

For more information about unlocking the DISC belt and the different Miniature Titan Disc effects available, check out Method's D.I.S.C Belt Guide.