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Marksmanship Hunter Leveling Guide

11.0.5 - The War Within

Last Updated:October 24, 2024|Changelog

Welcome to the Marksmanship 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
Marksmanship Hunter
Sentinel Level 70
Sentinel Marksmanship Hunter leveling talents

Important Talents and Abilities

  • Rapid Fire + Aimed Shot Kill Shot
    • Your Core damage dealing abilities.
  • Multi-Shot + Trick Shots, Volley, Salvo and Explosive Shot
    • You full AoE kit.
  • Trueshot
    • Main offensive cooldown with about 1:30~ cooldown due to Calling the Shots.
    • Useful for larger enemies or bigger pulls.
  • Survival of the Fittest + Exhilaration + Aspect of the Turtle
    • Your main defensives.
      • Remember that all these defensives also affect your Pet.
  • Tar Trap + Implosive Trap + Binding Shot
    • Your AoE crowd controls, useful to control larger pulls you make during leveling.
  • During leveling you will not play Lone Wolf and instead you use a Pet, especially if you're playing solo.
    • Your Pet serves as your tank, so always cast Misdirection on it if available.
    • Get a Tenacity and Ferocity Pet for Fortitude of the Bear and Primal Rage respectively.
      • You can have both of these Pets available, summoning your Ferocity Pet whenever you have lust ready and Tenacity pet when you don't.
    • Wilderness Medicine + No Hard Feelings are picked to help keep your Pet alive.

Hero Talents

  • For leveling in The War Within you pick Sentinel as a Marksmanship Hunter since it performs better than Dark Ranger on short lived enemies.
  • Mainly provides you with the Sentinel passive that proc stacks on your targets.
    • Multiple talents within the tree increases the amount of stacks you will put on your targets.
    • Overwatch is important during leveling and will often instantly kill off any mobs below 20% with Sentinel the stacks you've put on them.
  • Lunar Storm also helps out, especially on larger pulls.

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 Sentinel as your Hero Talent.
  • Pick Sentinel Precision.
2. Level 72
  • Pick Invigorating Pulse.
3. Level 73
  • Pick Overwatch.
4. Level 74
  • Pick Lunar Storm.
5. Level 75
  • Pick Extrapolated Shots.
6. Level 76
  • Pick Don't Look Back.
7. Level 77
  • Pick Release and Reload.
8. Level 78
  • Pick Eyes Closed.
9. Level 79
  • Pick Sideline.
10. Level 80
  • Pick Symphonic Symphonic Arsenal.

Rotation

Patch 11.0.5 - The War Within
Marksmanship Hunter

Single-Target

  1. Use Kill Shot if available through Deathblow.
  2. Cast Rapid Fire on cooldown.
  3. Cast Aimed Shot if two charges are either off cooldown or about to be off cooldown.
  4. Use Explosive Shot on cooldown.
  5. Use Arcane Shot if you have the Precise Shots buff active.
  6. Use Kill Shot if the target is below 20% health.
  7. Cast the rest of your Aimed Shot charges.
  8. Use Arcane Shot if nothing else is available.
  9. Cast Steady Shot if you're too low on Focus and everything above is on cooldown.

AoE

  1. Use Explosive Shot on cooldown.
  2. Use Salvo on cooldown.
  3. Place Volley on your targets to activate Trick Shots.
  4. Use Multi-Shot to activate Trick Shots if it is NOT currently active.
  5. Cast Rapid Fire on cooldown.
  6. Cast Aimed Shot on cooldown.
  7. Use Multi-Shot if nothing else is available.
  8. Use Kill Shot if your target is under 20% health.
  9. Cast Steady Shot if you're too low on Focus and everything above is on cooldown.

Shopping List

Patch 11.0.5 - The War Within
Marksmanship 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
  • 5x 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: Solwinas

Reviewed by: Shodam

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