Introduction
Welcome to the Method Beast Mastery guide written by me, Qenjua. I've been a German Hunter main for the past 5 years. I’m currently raiding in Honolulu, streaming both Progress as well as high Mythic +.
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 utilities such as Binding Shot, Tar Trap, Freezing Trap, Intimidation, Misdirection, and Primal Rage, as well as an immunity (Aspect of the Turtle). For AoE Damage, BM Hunter has Beast Cleave for sustained damage.
The weakness of this spec is that it depends on your pet to deal most of your damage means if your pet is stuck, you don't do damage. Also, pet travel to the next target might take some time in fights where you must switch targets. Beast mastery hunter also has a limited ability to do AoE damage since our pets are only cleaving next to them.
What has changed
Season 4 Changes
There have been no major changes for BM Hunter in Season 4. There have been no talent changes made and the voted for Tier set remained the same as Season 3, resulting in no changes that impact gameplay.
Changes in Patch 10.2.5
There were no Hunter changes in Patch 10.2.5.
Changes in Patch 10.2
General Hunters changes:
- Hunter’s Mark is now a semi-Raidbuff. It increases the raid damage done by 5% while the target is above 80% HP.
Beast Mastery changes:
- Aspect of the Wild removed, and replaced with Savagery, which increases Kill Command damage by 10% and increases the duration of Barbed Shot and Frenzy by 2.0 seconds.
- Snake Bite removed
- Master Handler reworked. Now reduces the cooldown of Kill Command by 0,5s every time a Barbed Shot deals damage.
- Call of the Wild reworked. It will now also refund a charge of Barbed Shot and Kill Command every time it summons pets.
- Choice nodes for Call of the Wild reworked (Wild Instincts/Blood Frenzy)
- Wild Instincts now applies a stacking debuff on your target every time you use Kill Command during Call of the Wild. For each stack of this debuff, your pets will deal 3% increased damage to your target, up to 10 stacks.
- Blood Frenzy applies Beast Cleave to all your pets during Call of the Wild. Additionally every time Call of the Wild summons pets, ALL your pets will use Stomp.
- In addition:
- Thrill of the Hunt / Dire Command are now 2 point talent nodes instead of 3 point nodes.