Beast Mastery Hunter DPS Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — 12.1

When playing Pack Leader Beast Mastery Hunter, your first Kill Command cast after every Bestial Wrath will spawn a Stampede, a 30-ish-yard long "line" of beasts that charge at your target. It deals heavy damage to all enemies inside it over 7 sec. Aiming and positioning this is key in many situations. Firstly, you should position your character so that the line extends through not just where the mobs currently are, but if they are moving, where you think they might be going. This is essential to making optimal use of Stampede. Think of it as you getting a single stroke with a paint brush, and you need this single brush to cover as many of the mobs as possible.

The final node of our Apex Talents does have some rotational aspects you should know. It incentivizes you to never cast two Kill Commands back-to-back. Instead, you should always try to weave another ability in between them to maximize coverage of that 30% buff.

In addition to this, the initial tiers of Nature's Ally cause Bestial Wrath to do a significant amount of damage. This does not change our rotational priorities, but is worth knowing.

Bestial Wrath is our only cooldown. It has a 30-second cooldown and 15-second duration, and it is the vehicle of many of our Hero Talent mechanics.

It does heavy damage on its own, and buffs all of your damage by 20% for its duration. In addition to this, several talents like Killer Cobra, Wildspeaker, Bloodshed, Thundering Hooves and Scent of Blood amplify it further. The vast majority of your damage is done in these Bestial Wrath windows.

For Pack Leader, Bestial Wrath activates your Howl of the Pack Leader, causing your next Kill Command to summon a Beast. In addition, your first Kill Command inside Bestial Wrath will also launch a Stampede. This is a roughly 30 yards long "line" of beasts that charge at your target, and it gets placed when you press the Kill Command.

Because this effect is placed the moment you cast your first Kill Command in Bestial Wrath and does not move, and because it is a long line that originates from your character position, aiming and positioning this line is essential, particularly in AoE situations.

You want to place Stampede in such a way that it will cover as many targets as possible, for as long as possible.

For Dark Ranger, the Bestial Wrath button gives you a Black Arrow proc, and turns into Wailing Arrow once activated. You get one use of Wailing Arrow, which deals heavy damage and gives you a Black Arrow proc. We want to use this when the Withering Fire buff (the Dark Ranger capstone talent) is about to end, to sneak another Black Arrow into that window.