Beast Mastery Hunter Leveling Guide
Beast Mastery Hunter Leveling Guide
11.1.5 - Nightfall
Last Updated:April 22, 2025|Changelog
Welcome to the Beast Mastery Hunter leveling guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.1.5! In this guide, you find a small overview of good talents to pick, a simplified rotation as well as a shopping list to prepare you for your leveling journey!
If you are already level 80, don't hesitate to check out the Mythic+ or Raid guide instead!
Talents
Beast Mastery Hunter
Pack Leader Level 70
Spec Tree
- Animal Companion
- Your extra pet.
- Beast Cleave
- Your main cleave passive.
- Call of the Wild
- Is your main cooldown every 2 minutes.
Class Tree
- Natural Mending
- Makes the cooldown of your Exhilaration less than 60 seconds.
- Misdirection in combination with No Hard Feelings gives your pet a large amount of damage reduction for 5 seconds.
Hero Talents
- Pack Leader performs better than Dark Ranger while leveling due to the fact that Howl of the Pack Leader is entirely passive.
- Every 30 seconds, reduced to 25 once Better Together is talented, you will summon 1 of 3 beasts to aid you on your next cast of Kill Command.
- Your Bestial Wrath is buffed further once Lead From the Front is talented, adding more damage to you and your pets.
Leveling Talent Points
Milestones: 0 / 10
- Choose Pack Leader as your Hero Talent.
- Pick Better Together.
- Pick Hogstrider.
- Pick Horsehair Tether.
- Pick Lead From the Front.
- Pick Pack Mentality.
- Pick Dire Summons.
- Pick Fury of the Wyvern.
- Pick Ursine Fury.
- Pick No Mercy.
- Pick Shell Cover.
Rotation
Beast Mastery Hunter
Single-Target
- You want to cast as many Kill Command as possible during your opener.
- Always use Bestial Wrath on cooldown.
- Don't overcap on Kill Command charges.
- Use Dire Beast over Barbed Shot.
AoE
- In general, you want to always keep up Beast Cleave and use Call of the Wild every time you do a huge AoE pull.
- Always cast Multi-Shot to proc Beast Cleave.
- Cast Kill Command whenever it's available.
- Don't overcap on Focus.
- Use Bestial Wrath on cooldown.
Shopping List
Beast Mastery Hunter
Milestones: 0 / 12
- 20x Phial of Tepid Versatility
- 40x Fried Bonefish
- 40x Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
- 80x Potion of Withering Dreams
- 4x Completely Safe Rockets
- Dreambound Augment Rune -- Requires Reputation
or - 10x Draconic Augment Rune
- 20x Goblin Glider Kit
- Nice to either prevent yourself from dying to fall damage or to fly over small gaps without mounting up.
- 20x Gunshoes
- Use to gain a 200% movement speed & water walking buff for 25 seconds.
- Use the "walk" toggle to slow down if you want to hand in quests.
- Buy 1x Light-Step Hoofplates and use it as your mount equipment.
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Banner of Cooperation
- Alliance/Stormwind: Banner of Cooperation
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Standard of Unity
- Alliance/Stormwind: Standard of Unity
Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.
- Horde/Orgrimmar: Battle Standard of Coordination
- Alliance/Stormwind: Battle Standard of Coordination
Credits
Written by: Shodam
Reviewed by: Soda