PVE Beast Mastery Hunter Guide (TBC 2.4.3)

Game: The Burning Crusade
Content Type: Gaming Guides

Welcome to the Beast Mastery Hunter guide for World of Warcraft the Burning Crusade 2.4.3. In this guide, you will learn about playing a Beast Mastery Hunter in dungeons and raids. The guide includes Talents, Gems, Enchantments, Gameplay & Skill rotation tips.

Talents

Below build has a few talents that could be changed due to personal preference while remaining effective. We choose Efficiency because Marksmanship or Survival Hunters pick Improved Hunter’s Mark. You can change these talents depending on how many Hunters you have in the raid.

Gems

Meta: Relentless Earthstorm Diamond
Red: Delicate Crimson Spinel or Bright Crimson Spinel as an alternative
Yellow: Smooth Lionseye or Rigid Lionseye
Blue: Shifting Shadowsong Amethyst or Infused Shadowsong Amethyst

Enchants

Head – Glyph of Ferocity
Shoulder – Might of the Scourge, Greater Inscription of the Blade or Greater Inscription of Vengeance
Cloak – Greater Agility
Chest – Exceptional Stats
Bracers – Assault
Gloves – Superior Agility
Legs – Nethercobra Leg Armor
Boots – Dexterity
Weapon – Major Agility
Ranged – Stabilized Eternium Scope

Enchanters can also benefit from Stats on both of the Rings

Professions

Leatherworking is a great option. Not only is it useful for your group with Drums of Battle & Drums of War, but you can also craft armor on almost every stage of your progression.

Engineering is another good option which provides Guns, Ammo, Scopes, and Goggles

Combining Engineering and Leatherworking is probably the best choice, assuming you have an alt or gold for the mats.

Gathering professions don’t work so well with Hunters due to their other tracking abilities.

Other options would be:

Jewelcrafting for easier access to better gems and some starter trinkets. A better choice if you want to make gold.
Alchemy to make the consumables and transmutes.
Enchanting to make armor enchants and unique ring enchant.

Gameplay & Rotations

Rotation

Maintain Hunter’s Mark on target. The rotation consists out of Steady Shot, auto-attacks and Kill Command with buffs like Rapid Fire and Bestial Wrath. Also, you can maintain a Scorpid Sting on the target (other are buffed by Marksmanship’s Improved Stings) Rotation can be managed by the following macro:

#showtooltip Steady Shot
/script UIErrorsFrame:Hide()
/castsequence reset=3 Steady Shot, Auto Shot
/castrandom [exists,target=pettarget] Kill Command
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear(); UIErrorsFrame:Show()