Beast Mastery Hunter The War Within 11.2 Guide

Welcome to the Method Beast Mastery Hunter guide written by me, Qenjua. I've been a Hunter main for the past 6 years. I’m occasionally streaming both Progress as well as high Mythic +. If you want deeper insights into this class, that the guide might not be able to provide, you can find my coaching on: https://metafy.gg/@qenjua. Feel free to join my group as well on: https://metafy.gg/groups/qenjuas-hunter-hideout-FvPiEwA7TLa. There I will be sharing updates on my UI, as well as some tips and tricks.

Beast Mastery Hunter is a ranged spec with very high mobility and can do all their damage while moving. Thanks to their pets, this is one of the best classes for soloing content. This class also grants a bunch of unique utilities such as Implosive Trap, Binding Shot, Freezing Trap, Misdirection, and Primal Rage, as well as an immunity Aspect of the Turtle. For Aoe Damage, BM Hunter has Beast Cleave, Kill Cleave and Dire Cleave for sustained damage.

The weakness of this spec is that it depends on your pet to deal most of your damage means if your pet is stuck, you don't do damage. The newly reworked Dark Ranger Hero Talent tree does help a lot with shifting some power away from pets. Also, pet travel to the next target might take some time in fights where you must switch targets. Beast mastery hunter also has a limited ability to do AoE damage since it is only hitting around your main target.

Patch 11.2 Changes

For Patch 11.2 Beast Mastery has received changes on several talents, as well as Hero-talents. I will list the most important changes here:

General changes:

• Our Mastery now buffs our “Shots” at reduced effectiveness, basically just increasing overall damage instead of pure pet damage.

Hunter tree changes:

• Harmonize and Blackrock Munitions on the Hunter tree now grant us an alternative to Explosive shot, instead just increasing pet damage by 6%

Beast Mastery tree changes:

• Dire Beast is no longer an active button, but rather just procs on bleeds.
• Huntsmaster’s Call now procs after 6 Dire Beasts with much lower effectiveness.
• Wildspeaker is a new Capstone talent that works similar to our old Dragonflight S3 Tier-Set, allowing Dire Beasts to also Kill Command alongside your main pets.
• Bloodshed changed position in the tree and got changed into a potent bleed that summons Dire Beasts at a higher rate. The damage amplification on your target got removed.
• Killer Instinct now increases Kill Command damage by 16% instead of buffing it while the target is below 35%. This has a severe impact on our power during execute phases, and makes Call of the Wild a lot less desirable.

Pack Leader changes:

• Better Together no longer reduces Howl of the Pack Leaders cooldown to 25 seconds, but instead increases pet damage and frenzy attack speed bonus by 3%.
• Shell Cover has been buffed to work as a sort of dynamic damage reduction.

Dark Ranger changes:

• The Bell Tolls now increases our damage every time we use Black Arrow, stacking up the more Black Arrows we use.
• Bleak Powder no longer requires Beast Cleave to be active, automatically spreads the Black Arrow dot, and also grants us Beast Cleave if you damage 3 or more targets through the new Umbral Reach node.
• Soul Drinker now increases Black Arrow and Bleak Powder damage.
• Phantom Pain has been buffed to 30%.

Patch 11.1.7 Changes

For 11.1.7 there are no significant class changes for Beast Mastery Hunter, but we do get access to the new powerful D.I.S.C. Belt. To learn more about unlocking the DISC belt, you can read Method's DISC Belt Guide. For Beast Mastery Hunter specific recommendations you can head to the gearing section in this guide.