Method Beast Mastery Hunter Guide - Stats Races And Consumables

Stat Priorities

Stat Ranking

Weapon Damage > Agility > Mastery > Haste >= Crit > Versatility

Stat Outline

Agility: Increases the magnitude of your attacks and abilities. Three secondary stats are currently better than Agility. In general you want high item level pieces with the correct stats. But you might want to use lower item level gear with the correct stats until you reach your best in slot gear.

Mastery: Your mastery is called Mastery: Master of Beasts, increasing the damage done by all the pets and creatures you summon, as well as all of our “Shots” at half effectiveness. This includes your main pet, Dire Beast, and more. It generally gains more value in AoE situations because you have more pet damage in your DPS breakdown compared to pure single target scenarios (Beast Cleave, Kill Cleave, Stomp, etc.)

Haste: Increases your auto attack speed, increases focus regeneration, and reduces the cooldown of Kill Command and Barbed Shot.

Critical Strike: Increasing your chance to critically hit with all spells and abilities, as well as increasing the critical strike damage of Kill Command with Go for the Throat. Critical Strike chance also has positive interactions with Serrated Tips, simply giving you more of that stat whatever source you’re getting it from. It also synergises with sources of Critical Strike damage, like the Dwarf Racial, or Banshee's Mark.

Versatility: Increasing all your damage and healing done also decreases all damage taken. This can provide a bit of survivability that is sometimes needed for hunters.

As for tertiary stats: Avoidance is the best one, since it reduces your damage taken from a lot of different abilities.

Speed is a neat stat to have on your gear, making you move a bit faster.

Leech can be avoided, since most of the Leech value will go on to our pets.

Races

Horde:

Pandaren: Pandaren doubles all stats gained by Food buffs. Those buffs are really strong early on in an expansion.
Tauren: Since your main stat priority is catered around critical striking, Tauren’s 2% critical strike damage is really strong in every scenario. War Stomp also provides a casted AoE stun, which can be useful in a lot of content.
Orc can be a strong contender (especially in AoE) thanks to Command passive, which gives you pet damage and Blood Fury that can be lined up with your cooldowns.
Haranir later in expansion

Alliance:

Pandaren: Pandaren doubles all stats gained by Food buffs. Those buffs are really strong early on in an expansion.
Dwarf is the best race for Alliance for the same reasons as Tauren, the difference being the active ability Stoneform providing a 10% physical damage reduction with an added omni-self dispel on a 2 minute cooldown. Dwarf is definitely the best overall option, and I highly recommend it!
Night Elf is another option, granting 1% Haste during night time, and 1% critical strike chance during the day. The active ability is Shadowmeld, which lets you drop threat from all targets instantly. You can use that ability a lot in Mythic + and even on certain raid mechanics, to completely interrupt or ignore them.
Haranir later in expansion