Marksmanship Hunter Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 2 Marksmanship Hunter Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Explosive Shot lasts 1.0 sec longer and deals 5% increased damage.
• (4) Set Bonus: Aimed Shot and Rapid Fire damage increased by 5%. Each time Explosive Shot causes a burst of damage, the cooldown of Aimed Shot and Rapid Fire is reduced by 0.5 sec.

Tier Set Discussion:

Entirely Passive Tier Set, focussed around buffing Explosive Shot. The extra second on Explosive Shot grants us an extra explosion over the duration, effectively buffing its damage way more than just 5%.

The Tier Set does however have a slight effect on our Rotation. Since the explosions from Explosive Shot grant us cooldown reduction on Aimed Shot and Rapid Fire, we want to cast them on different targets whenever possible in order to spawn as many explosions as possible, and therefore profit from more cooldown reduction.

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 Marksmanship 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+

Marksmanship Hunter is highly focussing on dealing their damage inside Trueshot, therefore it is always best to use an on-use Trinket to sync up with your Cooldown.

The best combination of Trinkets is Voracious Heart of Ula'tek from Ula’Tek and Zul'jin's Guillotine Technique from The Coiled Altar, both inside The Venomous Abyss Raid.

Keep in mind, that even though Voracious Heart of Ula'tek has a 90 second cooldown, you always delay it to sync it with Trueshot!

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 line this up with Trueshot, while using another on-use trinket!

Recommended Passive Trinkets:

• Zul'jin's Guillotine Technique - Passive single target damage proc Trinket.
• Keeper's Seething Core - Passive Haste 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 Marksmanship 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 Critical Power
• 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 Critical Power
• Row 5: Rune Of Overload

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