Welcome to the Beast Mastery Hunter guide for World of Warcraft the Burning Crusade. In this guide, you will learn about playing a Beast Mastery Hunter in dungeons and raids. The guide includes Talents, Gems, Enchantments, Gameplay & Skill rotation tips.

Table of Contents

• Talents
• Gems
• Enchants
• Professions
• Rotation
• Consumables
• Stat Priority
• Pets
• Pre-Raid BiS
• Best in Slot

Talents

Below build has a few talents that could be changed due to personal preference while remaining effective. We choose Efficiency because Marksmanship or Survival Hunters pick Improved Hunter's Mark. You can change these talents depending on how many Hunters you have in the raid.

Gems

• Meta: Relentless Earthstorm Diamond
• Red: Delicate Crimson Spinel or Bright Crimson Spinel as an alternative
• Yellow: Smooth Lionseye or Rigid Lionseye
• Blue: Shifting Shadowsong Amethyst or Infused Shadowsong Amethyst

Enchants

• Head – Glyph of Ferocity
• Shoulder – Might of the Scourge, Greater Inscription of the Blade or Greater Inscription of Vengeance
• Cloak – Enchant Cloak - Greater Agility
• Chest – Enchant Chest - Exceptional Stats
• Bracers – Enchant Bracer - Assault
• Gloves – Enchant Gloves - Superior Agility
• Legs – Nethercobra Leg Armor
• Boots – Enchant Boots - Dexterity
• Weapon – Enchant 2H Weapon - Major Agility
• Ranged – Stabilized Eternium Scope

Enchanters can also benefit from Enchant Ring - Stats on both of the Rings.

Professions

Leatherworking is a great option. Not only is it useful for your group with Drums of Battle & Drums of War, but you can also craft armor on almost every stage of your progression.

Engineering is another good option which provides Guns, Ammo, Scopes, and Goggles.

Combining Engineering and Leatherworking is probably the best choice, assuming you have an alt or gold for the mats.

Gathering professions don’t work so well with Hunters due to their other tracking abilities.

Other options would be:

• Jewelcrafting for easier access to better gems and some starter trinkets. A better choice if you want to make gold.
• Alchemy to make the consumables and transmutes.
• Enchanting to make armor enchants and unique ring enchant.

Rotation

Maintain Hunter's Mark on target. The rotation consists out of Steady Shot, auto-attacks and Kill Command with buffs like Rapid Fire and Bestial Wrath. Also, you can maintain a Scorpid Sting on the target (other are buffed by Marksmanship’s Improved Stings). Rotation can be managed by the following macro:
Consumables

• Flask: Flask of Relentless Assault
• Elixir: Elixir of Major Agility & Elixir of Major Mageblood (better combo than Flask, but doesn’t persist after death)
• Potion: Super Mana Potion & Super Healing Potion
• Oil: Superior Mana Oil
• Healthstones
• Food: Warp Burger, Spicy Hot Talbuk
• Pet food: Kibler's Bits
• Drums (LW): Drums of Battle, Drums of War
• Ammo

Stat Priority

• Hit (9%)
• Agility
• Attack Power
• Crit
• Intellect & MP/5
• Stamina

Pets

Best pets for raiding in terms of DPS are Cats, Ravagers, and Scorpids. Your pet will require the following skills:

• Active: Bite, Claw, Gore, Scorpid Poison (depending on which pet you choose)
• Passive: Avoidance, Cobra Reflexes, Great Stamina

Pre-Raid Best in Slot

Slot	Item
Head	Gladiator's Chain Helm
Neck	Choker of Vile Intent
Shoulders	Beast Lord Mantle
Back	Vengeance Wrap
Chest	Ebon Netherscale Breastplate
Wrist	Bracers of the Hunt
Hands	Handguards of the Steady
Waist	Ebon Netherscale Belt
Legs	Wyrmscale Greaves
Feet	Boots of the Endless Hunt
Main Hand	Sonic Spear
Ranged	Gladiator's Heavy Crossbow
Ring 1	Truestrike Ring
Ring 2	Shaffar's Band of Brutality
Trinket 1	Darkmoon Card: Crusade
Trinket 2	Bloodlust Brooch

Best in Slot