Beast Mastery Hunter Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 2 Beast Mastery Hunter Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Barbed Shot causes your pets to Stomp one additional time at 50% effectiveness.
• (4) Set Bonus: Stomp causes your next Cobra Shot to either benefit from Beast Cleave at 30% effectiveness, or strike your primary target for 20% additional damage, stacking up to 4 times.

Tier Set Discussion:

The 2-Set Bonus is giving us some nice passive damage. Nothing amazing.

The 4-Set essentially does 2 different things. It buffs Cobra Shot massively in Single Target, OR gives it the opportunity to Cleave through Beast Cleave at a total of 120% of the Cobra Shots damage.

The set overall looked pretty cool and strong, but since they nerfed everything surrounding Cobra Shot as a whole, the Tier Set basically just gets Cobra Shot back to where it was in Season 1.

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.

Since Season 2, Catalysing an Item keeps both the stats and potential cantrip effects, while turning the Item into a possible Tier-Set piece.

Keep in mind that the BIS-List shows Items for all 5 tier slots! You are only required to catalyse 4 out of the 5 named Items.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

Even though we do not have a 2 minute cooldown, most of Beast Mastery Hunter’s damage is still tied to Bestial Wrath. On-use trinkets can be used to capitalize on bigger burst windows, especially when paired with damage amps, or external buffs like Power Infusion or Bloodlust. Therefore, it is always best to use an on-use Trinket to sync up with Bestial Wrath whenever possible.

The best combination of Trinkets is Voracious Heart of Ula'tek and Font of Venomous Rage from Ula’tek, both inside The Venomous Abyss Raid.

For pure Single Target, you can replace Keeper's Seething Core with Zul'jin's Guillotine Technique.

Recommended Active Trinkets:

• Voracious Heart of Ula'tek - 90 second on-use Agility Trinket
• Font of Venomous Rage - 4 minute on-use damage trinket. This might be valuable for progression down the line. You do not need to line this up with Bestial Wrath. Instead you want to use it at the end of your Liquid Luster Combat Potion!
• Lustrous Golden Plumage - 2 minute on-use Versatility Trinket

Recommended Passive Trinkets:

• Keeper's Seething Core - Passive Haste proc Trinket.
• Zul'jin's Guillotine Technique - Passive single target damage proc Trinket.
• Gebbo's Bottomless Bag - Passive random secondary stat proc Trinket.
• Lightspire Core - Passive Mastery stat-stick, increased by standing in a procced lightbeam.

Our best Crafted Items are a Belt (Farstrider's Trophy Belt) and Bracers (Farstrider's Plated Bracers), due to the low stat budget on both slots, and the lack of better alternatives from other sources. We want to craft both pieces with Crit and Mastery, and use the Arcanoweave Lining Embellishment!

Most of the “usual” crafting spots are occupied by special raid items with a cantrip effect, or higher item level from the final 2 bosses in the raid.

Since the New Bonus Roll system in season 2 allows you to gain access to a Mythic Quality Weapon, it is NOT recommended to craft a Weapon!

During Progression/ early on in the Season, I recommend to always craft on your worst equipped item, considering you do not have a short term better item in sight.

Nebulous Voidcores (Bonus Rolls)

The Midnight Season 2 Bonus Rolls (Nebulous Voidcore) will be available from the start of the season as an alternative reward from your Great Vault. More sources for the bonus rolls will become available later into the Season.

Nebulous Voidcore Bonus Rolls let you target specific loot from a Raid Boss or Mythic+ Dungeon; once an item is received via Bonus Loot, that item is removed from the Bonus Loot Pool.

Keep in mind that Bonus Rolls award you with an Item that is 1 entire Gear track above the difficulty that you use it on. Rolling on a Heroic Raid Boss for example awards you a 1/6 Myth Track Item. Rolling on a Mythic Raid Boss awards you a 6/6 Fully Upgraded Myth Track Item.

This has a huge impact on our Great Vault choices, and also on the way we want to consume Bonus Rolls in general.

If you have access to Mythic Raid Bosses, you can use Bonus Rolls in order to receive fully upgraded Items and therefore gain a massive advantage in Mythic Crests.

If you only have access to Heroic Raid Bosses, you want to use your Bonus Rolls to acquire the special Cantrip Items from the final Boss of the Raid. Keep in mind that these Items will indeed be Mythic Track.

For most players, it will be the correct choice to simply bonus roll Ula’Tek on Heroic, whenever your vault does not provide you with a valuable 6/6 Mythic alternative!

Omnium Folio

The Omnium Folio is a new player power system, released in Midnight Patch 12.0.7 and active for the duration of the Midnight WoW Expansion. By completing a weekly quest, you will unlock more of the Omnium Folio upgrade Tree and can choose from a number of player power enhancements.

Recommended Omnium Folio Powers for Beast Mastery Hunter:

Single Target:

• Row 1: Rune Of Unleashed Fire
• Row 2: Rune Of Void-Tainted Shell
• Row 3: Rune Of Lingering
• Row 4: Rune Of Masterful Cunning
• Row 5: Rune Of Overload

AoE:

• Row 1: Rune Of Unleashed Fire
• Row 2: Rune Of Void-Tainted Shell
• Row 3: Rune Of Lingering
• Row 4: Rune Of Masterful Cunning
• Row 5: Rune Of Overload

For more information on this system, check out Method’s Omnium Folio Overview Guide.