Beast Mastery Hunter DPS Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — Dragonflight 10.2.6

• Casting Kill Command as much as possible, both on single-target and AoE.
• Managing your Focus — Never capping it but also ensuring you have enough Focus to cast Kill Command off cooldown.
• Maintaining 3 stacks of Frenzy by using Barbed Shot intelligently.

• All the same goals as the single-target Rotation.
• Maintaining Beast Cleave (by using Multi-Shot) at 100% uptime, ensuring that all your pet abilities are constantly dealing AoE damage.
• Being extra careful with Focus management to ensure that you can always refresh Beast Cleave as late as possible while simultaneously casting all your Kill Commands on cooldown.

Important Note: Because the in-game "auto-cast" system for Hunter pets is very slow, it is recommended to put these 3 lines into macros for all of your offensive spells.

• /cast [@pettarget]Claw
• /cast [@pettarget]Bite
• /cast [@pettarget]Smack

We recommend adding these 3 lines to the end of your macros.

This ensures that you will always cast your pet's Basic Attack on cooldown since Blizzard's automatic cast will delay each cast by up to 0.1 seconds. It is a very small but real DPS increase. For more macros, please refer to our Beast Mastery Hunter macro page.

I recommend that you grab my Barbed Shot Helper WeakAura. It will pop up when it is time to cast Barbed Shot automatically, and it lets you focus on the rest of the Rotation.

In the Single-Target and AoE sections, you will find a highly detailed priority list breakdown of the Rotation, as well as optimal openers.

1. Ensure Hunter's Mark is active on the target from you or another Hunter in the group!
2. Use 2x Barbed Shots
3. Use Call of the Wild
4. Use Bloodshed
5. Use Bestial Wrath
6. Use Barbed Shot to get it off 2 charges.
7. Use Death Chakram
8. Use Call of the Wild
9. Use Kill Command
10. Use Barbed Shot
11. Use Kill Command
12. Use Death Chakram
13. Use Dire Beast
14. Proceed with your normal Rotation according to the priority list below.

This priority list describes the optimal single-target Rotation for Beast Mastery Hunter.

1. Use Mirror of Fractured Tomorrows alongside Call of the Wild, and ideally your Potion. It is worth delaying the Mirror for Call of the Wild at the 4, and 8-minute marks.
2. Use Witherbark's Branch alongside Call of the Wild, while using Mirror of Fractured Tomorrows on cooldown outside of it.
3. Use Ashes of the Embersoul alongside Call of the Wild, and ideally your Potion.
4. Use Witherbark's Branch alongside Call of the Wild, and ideally your Potion. To play this Trinket optimally, you want to collect the spheres it spawns in a staggered fashion. Collect the first two immediately, then collect the last one when the buff is just about to expire, thereby extending its buff.
5. Use Darkmoon Deck Box: Dance during Death Chakram. It lines up naturally with every 2nd Chakrams cast.
6. Use My'das Talisman during Death Chakram. It lines up naturally with every 2nd Chakrams cast.
7. Use Bandolier of Twisted Blades during Death Chakram. It lines up naturally with every 2nd Chakrams cast.
8. Use Barbed Shot to refresh Frenzy when it is about to fall off. If Bestial Wrath is off cooldown, spend all of your Barbed Shot charges before pressing it, if Frenzy has fewer than 3 stacks. If Bestial Wrath or Call of the Wild are off cooldown, spend all of your Barbed Shot charges before pressing them, if Frenzy has fewer than 3 stacks. If Call of the Wild is off cooldown, spend all of your Barbed Shot charges before pressing it, if Frenzy has fewer than 3 stacks.
9. Cast Kill Command if it about to reach 2 charges.
10. Use Call of the Wild on cooldown.
11. Use Stampede on cooldown.
12. Use Bloodshed on cooldown.
13. Use Bestial Wrath on cooldown.
14. Use Death Chakram on cooldown.
15. Use Kill Command on cooldown.
16. Use A Murder of Crows on cooldown.
17. Use Steel Trap on cooldown.
18. Use Explosive Shot on cooldown.
19. Use Barbed Shot to prevent it from reaching 2 charges. With Wild Call specced, cast Barbed Shot at just "1.4" charges, meaning when its second charge is about halfway towards coming off cooldown. You should also use it on cooldown if you have Call of the Wild active. You should also cast Barbed Shot if doing so would reset the cooldown of Bestial Wrath. 1 Barbed will take off 12 seconds, and 2 of them will take off 24 seconds. With Savagery specced, you can just mindlessly cast Barbed Shot off cooldown.
20. Use Dire Beast on cooldown.
21. Use Kill Shot on cooldown.
22. Apply and maintain the Serpent Sting DoT on your target. You can refresh it when it has 5 seconds remaining.
23. Use Cobra Shot when you have nothing else to do.
24. Use Wailing Arrow on cooldown, provided that you will not drop Frenzy during its cast time.

1. Ensure Hunter's Mark is active on the highest-health target from you or another Hunter in the group!
2. Use Multi-Shot to get Beast Cleave going on your pet early.
3. Use 2x Barbed Shot, on different targets.
4. Use Call of the Wild
5. Use Bestial Wrath
6. Use Multi-Shot
7. Use Kill Command
8. Use Barbed Shot, ideally on a third target.
9. Use Kill Command
10. Use Multi-Shot
11. Use Death Chakram
12. Use Kill Command
13. Use Dire Beast
14. Use Wailing Arrow, or save it for an interrupt.
15. Proceed with your normal Rotation according to the priority list below.

This priority list describes the optimal AoE rotation for Beast Mastery Hunter.

1. Use Mirror of Fractured Tomorrows alongside Call of the Wild, and ideally your Potion.
2. Use Ashes of the Embersoul alongside Call of the Wild, and ideally your Potion.
3. Use Witherbark's Branch alongside Call of the Wild, and ideally your Potion. To play this Trinket optimally, you want to collect the spheres it spawns in a staggered fashion. Collect the first one immediately, then collect the other two when the buff is just about to expire, thereby extending its buff. Doing this properly is a ~1.5% DPS increase over simply collecting them all. Try your best, but do not fret if you cannot play it perfectly every time.
4. Use Darkmoon Deck Box: Dance during Death Chakram. It lines up naturally with every 2nd Chakrams cast.
5. Use My'das Talisman during Death Chakram. It lines up naturally with every 2nd Chakrams cast.
6. Use Bandolier of Twisted Blades during Death Chakram. It lines up naturally with every 2nd Chakrams cast.
7. Use Barbed Shot to refresh Frenzy when it is about to fall off. If Bestial Wrath's cooldown is less than 12 seconds, you should also use a Barbed Shot to bring it off cooldown as a high priority. If Bestial Wrath is off cooldown, spend all of your Barbed Shot charges before pressing it, if Frenzy has fewer than 3 stacks. If Bestial Wrath or Call of the Wild are off cooldown, spend all of your Barbed Shot charges before pressing them, if Frenzy has fewer than 3 stacks. If Call of the Wild is off cooldown, spend all of your Barbed Shot charges before pressing it, if Frenzy has fewer than 3 stacks.
8. Use Multi-Shot to apply and maintain the Beast Cleave buff on your pet. You should try to refresh it as late as possible, generally, but without wasting other globals.
9. Use Bestial Wrath on cooldown.
10. Use Call of the Wild on cooldown.
11. Cast Kill Command on cooldown.
12. Use Explosive Shot on cooldown.
13. Use Stampede on cooldown.
14. Use Bloodshed on cooldown.
15. Use Death Chakram on cooldown.
16. Use Steel Trap on cooldown.
17. Use A Murder of Crows on cooldown.
18. Use Barbed Shot to prevent it from reaching 2 charges. With Wild Call specced, cast Barbed Shot at just "1.4" charges, meaning when its second charge is about halfway towards coming off cooldown. You should also use it on cooldown if you have Call of the Wild active. You should also cast Barbed Shot if doing so would reset the cooldown of Bestial Wrath. 1 Barbed will take off 12 seconds, and 2 of them will take off 24 seconds. With Savagery specced, you can just mindlessly cast Barbed Shot off cooldown.
19. Use Dire Beast on cooldown.
20. Apply and maintain the Serpent Sting DoT on your target. You can refresh it when it has 5 seconds remaining.
21. Use Barrage on cooldown, provided that Frenzy or Beast Cleave will not expire during its long channel.
22. Use Multi-Shot if Beast Cleave has less than 2 GCD's remaining on its duration.
23. Use Kill Shot on cooldown.
24. Use Cobra Shot when you have more than 80 Focus.
25. Use Wailing Arrow on cooldown, provided that you will not drop Frenzy during its cast time.