Beast Mastery Hunter Leveling Guide

11.0.5 - The War Within

Last Updated:October 24, 2024|Changelog

Welcome to the Beast Mastery Hunter leveling guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.0.5! 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

Patch 11.0.5 - The War Within
Beast Mastery Hunter
Pack Leader Level 70
Pack Leader Beast Mastery Hunter leveling talents

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 Black Arrow is a 30 seconds cooldown and Vicious Hunt is just a passive that is going to always be active.
  • Every other Kill Command will now also cast Vicious Hunt.
  • Your Call of the Wild gets buffed enabling Vicious Hunt to always be active.

Leveling Talent Points

  • Talent point allocation
    • 1. Level 71
    • 2. Level 72
    • 3. Level 73
    • 4. Level 74
    • 5. Level 75
    • 6. Level 76
    • 7. Level 77
    • 8. Level 78
    • 9. Level 79
    • 10. Level 80
Milestones: 0 / 10
1. Level 71
  • Choose Pack Leader as your Hero Talent.
  • Pick Wild Attacks.
2. Level 72
  • Pick Frenzied Tear.
3. Level 73
  • Pick Furious Assault.
4. Level 74
  • Pick Pack Assault.
5. Level 75
  • Pick Howl of the Pack.
6. Level 76
  • Pick Pack Coordination.
7. Level 77
  • Pick Den Recovery.
8. Level 78
  • Pick Covering Fire.
9. Level 79
  • Pick Tireless Hunt.
10. Level 80
  • Pick Cull the Herd.

Rotation

Patch 11.0.5 - The War Within
Beast Mastery Hunter

Single-Target

  • You want to cast as many Kill Command as possible during your opener.
Beast Mastery Hunter Single-Target leveling 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.
Beast Mastery Hunter AoE leveling opener
  • 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

Patch 11.0.5 - The War Within
Beast Mastery Hunter
  • Consumables
    • 1. Phial
    • 2. Food
    • 3. DPS Potion
    • 4. Heal Potion
    • 5. Weapon Rune
    • 6. Augment Rune
  • Utility
    • 7. Goblin Glider Kit
    • 8. Gunshoes
    • 9. Mount Equipment
  • Experience Gains
    • 10. Banner of Cooperation
    • 11. Standard of Unity
    • 12. Battle Standard of Coordination
Milestones: 0 / 12
1. Phial
  • 20x Phial of Tepid Versatility
2. Food
  • 40x Fried Bonefish
3. DPS Potion
  • 40x Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
4. Heal Potion
  • 80x Potion of Withering Dreams
5. Weapon Rune
  • 4x Completely Safe Rockets
6. Augment Rune
  • Dreambound Augment Rune -- Requires Reputation
    or
  • 10x Draconic Augment Rune
7. Goblin Glider Kit
  • 20x Goblin Glider Kit
    • Nice to either prevent yourself from dying to fall damage or to fly over small gaps without mounting up.
8. Gunshoes
  • 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.
9. Mount Equipment
  • Buy 1x Light-Step Hoofplates and use it as your mount equipment.
10. Banner of Cooperation

Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.

  • Horde/Orgrimmar: Banner of Cooperation
  • Alliance/Stormwind: Banner of Cooperation
11. Standard of Unity

Buy this Banner on your faction's Guild Vendor.

  • Horde/Orgrimmar: Standard of Unity
  • Alliance/Stormwind: Standard of Unity
12. Battle Standard of Coordination

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

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