Beast Mastery Hunter DPS Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities - The War Within (11.0.2) (2024)

The buttons below can be used to select between curated Single-Target andAoE/Mythic+ loadouts. You can also use the switches below to add or removeindividual talents you may also be using.

To see our recommended Talent Builds in detail, visit the Talent page:

Dark Ranger
Single-Target Pack Leader
Single-Target Dark Ranger
Dungeons/AoE Pack Leader
Dungeons/AoE

Talent Selections, etc.
A Murder of Crows	Barrage	Beast Cleave
Bloodshed	Bloody Frenzy	Call of the Wild
Dark Ranger	Dire Beast	Killer Cobra
Killer Instinct	Pack Leader	Savagery
Scent of Blood	Venom's Bite	Wild Call
Wild Instincts

Single-Target RotationAoE RotationBeast Mastery Explained

• Casting Kill Command as much as possible, both on single-target and AoE.
• Managing your Focus — Never capping it but also ensuring you have enough Focus to cast Kill Command off cooldown.

• All the same goals as the single-target Rotation.
• Maintaining Beast Cleave (by using Multi-Shot) at 100% uptime, ensuring that all your pet abilities are constantly dealing AoE damage.
• Being extra careful with Focus management to ensure that you can always refresh Beast Cleave as late as possible while simultaneously casting all your Kill Commands on cooldown.

Important Note: Because the in-game "auto-cast" system for Hunter pets isvery slow, it is recommended to put these 3 lines into macros for all ofyour offensive spells.

• /cast [@pettarget]Claw
• /cast [@pettarget]Bite
• /cast [@pettarget]Smack

We recommend adding these 3 lines to the end of your macros.

This ensures that you will always cast your pet's Basic Attack on cooldownsince Blizzard's automatic cast will delay each cast by up to 0.1 seconds. Itis a very small but real DPS increase. There is no reason not to do this, evenif Blizzard eventually fixes it. For more macros, please refer to ourBeast Mastery Hunter macro page.

I recommend that yougrab my Barbed Shot Helper WeakAura. Itwill pop up when it is time to cast Barbed Shot automatically, and itlets you focus on the rest of the Rotation.

In the Single-Target and AoE sections, you will find a highly detailed priority list breakdown of the Rotation, as well as optimal openers.

1. Ensure Hunter's Mark is active on the target from you or anotherHunter in the group!
2. Use Bestial Wrath around 1 second before combat begins.
3. Use Dire Beast
4. Use Kill Command
5. Use Barbed Shot
6. Use Kill Command
7. Use Barbed Shot
8. Use Black Arrow
9. Use Kill Shot
10. Use Call of the Wild alongside yourPotion and stat-granting on-use Trinkets.
11. Use Explosive Shot as a fillerwhen Bestial Wrath is over.
12. Proceed with your normal Rotation according to the priority list below.

This priority list describes the optimal single-target Rotation for Beast Mastery Hunter

1. Use Barbed Shot to refresh Frenzy when it is about tofall off.If Call of the Wild is off cooldown, spend allof your Barbed Shot charges before pressing it, if Frenzyhas fewer than 3 stacks.
2. Use Dire Beast on cooldown.
3. Use Black Arrow on cooldown.
4. Use Call of the Wild on cooldown. Make sure to dump all of your Kill Command's first.
5. Use Bestial Wrath on cooldown.
6. Use Kill Command on cooldown.
7. Use Kill Shot if Serpent Sting has less than 6 seconds remaining.
8. Use Barbed Shot on cooldown.
9. Cast Cobra Shot during Bestial Wrath to generate Kill Command resets.
10. Use Explosive Shot on cooldown. Do not cast it during Bestial Wrath, we want the Focus to generate Kill Command resets with Cobra Shot instead.
11. Use Kill Shot on cooldown.
12. Use Cobra Shot when you have nothing else to do.

1. Ensure Hunter's Mark is active on the target from you or anotherHunter in the group!
2. Use 2 Barbed Shots on two different targets.
3. Use Multi-Shot to activate Beast Cleave
4. Use Dire Beast
5. Use Bestial Wrath
6. Use Black Arrow
7. Use Kill Command
8. Use Multi-Shot to refresh Beast Cleave
9. Use Kill Command
10. Try to fill in with Explosive Shot and your Kill Shot proc when it is not going to cost you any of Kill Command's cooldown.
11. Proceed with your normal Rotation according to the priority list below.

This priority list describes the optimal AoE rotation for Beast Mastery Hunter

1. Use Barbed Shot to refresh Frenzy if it is about tofall off. You should always multidot it, as this is a huge DPS increase,particularly with Master Handler specced.If Bestial Wrath's cooldown is less than 12 seconds, you should also use a Barbed Shot to bring it off cooldown as a high priority.If Bestial Wrath is off cooldown, spend all of your Barbed Shot charges before pressing it, if Frenzyhas fewer than 3 stacks.
2. Use Multi-Shot to apply and maintain the Beast Cleave buffon your pet. You should try to refresh it as late as possible, generally,but without wasting other globals. This is not an exact science — Sometimes it is sensible to refresh early if you knowthat another, urgent global is coming up like a Frenzy refresh. Typically, it is best to leave the refresh as lateas possible and squeeze other globals in ahead of it. Remember that Multi-Shot's actual damage is quite pathetic, andits only use is to get Beast Cleave going.
3. Use Black Arrow on cooldown.
4. Use Bestial Wrath on cooldown.
5. Cast Kill Command on cooldown. You should try to "snipe" targets below 35% HP with your Kill Commands,as they (and the resulting Kill Cleave) will deal 50% increased damage thanks to your Killer Instinct Talent. It isalso technically optimal, but a very small gain, to cycle your A Murder of Crows debuffs on different targets, by ensuring that every 5th Kill Command is on a target that has no Crowsactive. The amount of brain-power required to do this optimally, considering its small gain, is probably not worth the effort.
6. Cast Barbed Shot on cooldown.
7. Cast Cobra Shot during Bestial Wrath to generate Kill Command resets.
8. Use Dire Beast on cooldown.
9. Use Explosive Shot on cooldown.
10. Use Cobra Shot when you have more than 80 Focus.