Marksmanship Hunter Gearing Guide

The War Within Season 2 Marksmanship Hunter Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Your spells and abilities have a chance to hit a Jackpot! that increases your auto shot damage by 200% and reduces the time between auto shots by 0.5 sec for 10 sec. Casting Trueshot always hits a Jackpot!
• (4) Set Bonus: Consuming Lock and Load also fires an Explosive Shot at 300% effectiveness.

Entirely Passive Tier Set bonus that is granting us more Lock and Load procs by increasing the amount of Auto Shots. This plays well into talents like Precision Detonation.

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.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

Good Raid-Trinket options include:

• Eye of Kezan
• Geargrinder's Spare Keys
• House of Cards

The Mythic+ Trinkets you should aim for are:

• Signet of the Priory - Priory
• Azerokk’s Resonating Heart - The MOTHERLODE!!
• Ravenous Honey Buzzer - Cinderbrew Meadery

On top of that there are some competitive Trinkets from Delves. They are generally good early on in a season:

• Mechano-Core Amplifier
• Funhouse Lens
• Suspicious Energy Drink

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

The best slots for our crafted pieces are Wrists and Cloak, due to their lower stat budget and bad alternatives.

The stats we want to apply to our crafted gear are Critical Strike and Mastery.

Alternatively, you could Craft a P.0.W. x2 with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension, which increases a random secondary stat, every 8 seconds you remain in combat. Pair this embellishment with a pair of crafted Glyph-Etched Vambraces with Writhing Armor Banding to double up the Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension value of your weapon.

This is recommended if you do not have access to an early Mythic-difficulty weapon.

Corruption Helmet Enchant

With this week’s reset, you will be able to revisit “Horrific Visions”, to unlock powerful Helmet enchants, which are purchasable from a Vendor. In order to be able to buy the enchants, you will only be required to complete a small series of quests.

Our best Corruptions are:

-Greater Rune of Gushing Wound for any kind of Single Target / Priority damage
-Greater Rune of the Void Ritual for any AoE scenario

Puzzling Cartel Chips - Dinars

With this week's reset, and the Turbo-Boost-Event being live, you will be able to receive powerful gear pieces from Raid, or up to Myth-Track Mythic+-Trinkets, by completing the associated weekly quest and earning Puzzling Cartel Chips. The first weekly quest will reward you with 3 Chips, while every following weekly will reward only one Chip. Every Piece of gear is exchanged for 3 Chips, making you able to buy up to three different Items.

Items you should prioritize spending your Puzzling Cartel Chips on are:

Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker - Our best passive trinket from Mythic+
The Jastor Diamond - Special effect Rare-Ring from Raid
"Tiny Pal" - Special effect Weapon from Raid
House of Cards - Good on-use. Also highly valuable on Beast Mastery specialisation.
Signet of the Priory - Our best on-use trinket from Mythic+
Eye of Kezan - Our best passive trinket for prolonged combat, both ST and AOE.
Test Pilot's Go-Pack - Special effect Rare-Cloak from Raid

The items shown are somewhat in order of importance. Make sure to sim your character to find the biggest increase, based on your personal gear-status, before taking any choice!

Cyrce’s Circlet

Since the Item level of this ring is so high, it will always be worth using it up until you get a high item level replacement Ring. The key is always to sim it!

The gems you want to put in are:

• Stormbringer's Runed Citrine
• Fathomdweller's Runed Citrine
• Legendary Skipper's Citrine

Other options:

• Windsinger's Runed Citrine
• Thunderlord's Crackling Citrine