Marksmanship Hunter Leveling Guide
Marksmanship Hunter Leveling Guide
11.1 - Undermine(d)
Last Updated:March 4, 2025|Changelog
Welcome to the Marksmanship Hunter leveling guide for the World of Warcraft patch 11.1! 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
Marksmanship Hunter
Sentinel Level 70
Important Talents and Abilities
- Rapid Fire, Aimed Shot, Kill Shot, Arcane Shot
- Your Core damage dealing abilities.
- Multi-Shot + Trick Shots, Volley, Salvo and Explosive Shot
- Your 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.
- Tar Trap + Implosive Trap + Binding Shot
- Your AoE crowd controls, useful to control larger pulls you make during leveling.
- Swap Improved Spotter's Mark to Unbreakable Bond if you want to play with a pet.
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 to increase the usefulness of your Sentinel stacks on your enemies.
- Lunar Storm also helps out, especially on larger pulls.
Leveling Talent Points
Milestones: 0 / 10
- Choose Sentinel as your Hero Talent.
- Pick Sentinel Precision.
- Pick Invigorating Pulse.
- Pick Overwatch.
- Pick Lunar Storm.
- Pick Don't Look Back.
- Pick Release and Reload.
- Pick Sentinel Watch.
- Pick Extrapolated Shots.
- Pick Sideline.
- Pick Symphonic Arsenal.
Rotation
Marksmanship Hunter
Single-Target
- Cast Rapid Fire if Bulletstorm and In the Rhythm are not up.
- Use Aimed Shot if empowered by Moving Target and Streamline.
- Use Arcane Shot if you have Precise Shots stacks.
- Cast Rapid Fire on cooldown.
- Use Explosive Shot.
- Cast Steady Shot if you're too low on Focus or if everything above is on cooldown.
AoE
- Use Multi-Shot to activate Trick Shots if it is NOT currently active.
- Cast Rapid Fire if Bulletstorm and In the Rhythm is not up.
- Use Explosive Shot if you can follow it up with a Aimed Shot on the same target.
- Cast Aimed Shot on cooldown.
- Cast Rapid Fire on cooldown.
- Cast Steady Shot if you are low on Focus or everything else is on cooldown.
Shopping List
Marksmanship Hunter
Milestones: 0 / 12
- 20x Phial of Tepid Versatility
- 40x Fried Bonefish
- 40x Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power
- 80x Potion of Withering Dreams
- 5x 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: Solwinas
Reviewed by: Shodam