Beast Mastery Hunter Class Guide - MoP Classic

Welcome to our Mists of Pandaria Classic (MoP Classic) Beast Mastery Hunter Class Guide for Phase 1, it focuses on getting you up to speed with the Spec for PvE content, Dungeons and Raiding. The guide includes key information for what has changed going into MoP, the best Talent builds, Major Glyphs, your Rotation, Gearing and Consumables for Beast Mastery Hunter (BM Hunter).

Table of Content:

• Changes from Cataclysm to MoP
• Talents
• Rotation & Abilities
• Gearing & Consumables

What’s New for Beast Mastery Hunters in Mists of Pandaria Classic

Hunters are receiving a lot of class changes coming into Mists of Pandaria but for the most part these aren’t game breaking changes. Most of them are buffs or Quality of Life changes, making hunter way smoother to play. Here are the biggest one:

• No more melee weapons.
• Wing clip, Parry, Raptor Strike and Aspect of the wild are deleted.
• No more range limitation. You can use your ranged attacks even in melee.
• Ranged attacks can be dodged, so you need a bit of Expertise.
• Rapid Fire, Bestial Wrath now have a reduced cooldown.
• Kill command has a 25-yard range.
• Revive pet is way faster.
• Beast cleave is a new passive, allowing your pet auto-attacks to cleave after Multishot.
• Trueshot Aura is now unlocked for every spec.
• Stampede is a new offensive cooldown, calling all your pets to attack your target.
• No more talent trees for pets.

Is Beast Mastery Hunter Good?

Beast Mastery is still one of the best leveling specs, allowing you to play an easy to learn specialization with your pets dealing a lot of damage. But, at max level, Beast Mastery falls off pretty hard in the first tier. It gets a lot better in later patches like SoO, but for the first few months you might be lower on the damage meters than the other specs available to Hunter, and other specs in the game.

Best Talents & Glyphs for Beast Mastery Hunter in MoP Classic

As for a lot of classes with the new revamped talent system, you can pretty easily set up 2 talent builds: one for Single Target, usually more for Raids, and AoE, more for Dungeons and Challenge mode.

Beast Mastery Hunter Raiding Talent Build

This is your standard BM Hunter Raiding Talent Build for single target. Most of the choices can be swapped around depending on the fights and the utility requirements, so here’s a quick explanation on how each talent can be changed.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Chimera increases your mobility but if you are at risk of being snared, slowed, or need a better instant burst of speed, Posthaste is a better choice. Binding shot is just great all around, Aspect of the Iron Hawk gives an incredible 10% DR but if you need the burst healing you can pick Exhilaration.

Dire Beast is the best single target choice but if there is a lot of cleave involved, you can take Thrill of the hunt.

And finally, swap Glaive Toss for Barrage in fights with a lot of adds.

Best Beast Mastery Hunter Raid Glyphs

Regarding Major Glyphs, you will want to obtain Glyph of Deterrence, Glyph of Animal Bond and Glyph of Disengage. Other options are Glyph of Ice trap, Glyph of Liberation, Glyph of Endless Wrath.

There are very few good Minor Glyphs, the ones worth noting are Glyph of Direction, Glyph of Fetch, Glyph of Aspect of the Cheetah, Glyph of Aspect of the Pack.

Beast Mastery Hunter Dungeons & Challenge Mode Talent Build

In the BM Hunter Dungeon Talent Build, we will have the same reasoning as the raiding talent build when it comes down to utility choices and for the DPS choices. However, Thrill of the Hunt can be swapped with Dire Beast if you feel like you have enough cleave in your group.

Best Beast Mastery Hunter Dungeon Glyphs

Regarding Major Glyphs, you will want to obtain Glyph of Deterrence, Glyph of Animal Bond and Glyph of Disengage. Other options are Glyph of Ice trap, Glyph of Liberation, Glyph of Endless Wrath.

There are very few good Minor Glyphs, the ones worth noting are Glyph of Direction, Glyph of Fetch, Glyph of Aspect of the Cheetah, Glyph of Aspect of the Pack.

Rotation for Beast Mastery Hunter in MoP Classic

Single Target Rotation & Priority

1. Maintain Hunter’s Mark.
2. Maintain Serpent Sting.
3. Use Stampede on Cooldown.
4. Use Rapid Fire on Cooldown.
5. Use Bestial Wrath on Cooldown.
6. Use Rabid (Ferocity Pet Spell) on Cooldown.
7. Use Dire Beast on Cooldown, preferably synched with Bestial Wrath.
8. Use Kill shot whenever you can.
9. Use Kill Command on Cooldown.
10. Use Glaive Toss on Cooldown.
11. Use Focus Fire with 5 Frenzy stacks.
12. Spend focus on Arcane shot if you have 70+ Focus.
13. Cast Cobra shot.

Beast Mastery Hunter Opener

Regarding Openers, you want to place Hunter's Mark, put your traps (Snake Trap and Explosive Trap) before pull, cast Cobra shot 2 seconds before pull, use Bestial Wrath, Stampede, Rapid Fire and Rabid, Dire Beast, Kill Command, Glaive Toss, and continue with the single target rotation.

AoE Rotation & Priority

1. Maintain Best Cleave.
2. Cast Explosive Trap on Cooldown.
3. Cast Barrage on Cooldown.
4. Follow with the Single target rotation, replacing Arcane shot with Multi-shot.

Best Gear & Stats for Beast Mastery Hunter in MoP Classic

Best in Slot aren’t as big in Mists of Pandaria Classic. Reforging is the new hype, so you can tailor your gear better than before.

The gear you should aim for are: Trinkets, Tier Sets and Weapons.

The best weapons you can find pre-raid in the first phase are:

• Klalith, Fangs of the Swarm, Raigonn, Gate of the Setting Sun.
• Amber Sprayer of Klaxxi’vess, The Klaxxi, Exalted.
• Tempestuous Longbow, Siege of Niuzao Temple, General Pa’valak.

The best pre-raid trinkets are:

• Relic of Xuen if you have Inscription.
• Searing Words, Darkmaster Gandling, Scholomance.
• Windswept Pages, from Temple of the Jade Serpent.

MoP Classic Beast Mastery Hunter Stat Priority

Reach your Hit and Expertise cap, so around 7.5% for both. Then, Agility is your best stat. As soon as a gear piece gives you more Agility, it’s a good idea to equip it.

After that, it goes: Critical Strike, Mastery and then Haste. Note that for Beast Mastery Hunters, secondary stats balance isn’t as important, most of the time a higher item level item is the best choice regardless of secondary stats.

Best Consumables, Enchants & Gems for Beast Mastery Hunter in MoP Classic

The following tables outline the recommended Consumables, Enchants and Gems for Beast Mastery Hunter in Raiding and Dungeon content.

Consumables

Enchants

Gems

We hope this guide helped you improve your Beast Mastery Hunter Gameplay and better understand the spec. To check out all of our MoP Classic content, such as Class Guides, Tier Lists and more, you can browse our full library of MoP Classic Guides.