WotLK Classic Beast Mastery Hunter Spec, Builds, Talents, and Glyphs
On this page, you will find out the best PvE talent choices and builds for your Beast Mastery Hunter in WotLK Classic, as well as advised glyphs.
Beast Mastery Hunter Talent Builds for PvE
For Hunters, Beast Mastery is the overall least viable PvE spec. While Beast Mastery can do excellent burst damage, in the vast majority of situations they will be lose to both Survival and Marksmanship at similar levels of play.
Leveling Builds
If you were looking for leveling builds, please refer to our leveling guide for Hunters.
Beast Mastery Standard Raiding Talent Build
This is the standard talent build that you should take for raiding and dungeons as a Beast Mastery Hunter. Beast Mastery has several weird interactions with certain talents that can make the tree particularly non-intuitive at first glance.
The first thing you might notice is only 4/5 points in Frenzy.
4 points is all you need to maintain 100% uptime on the buff, making the 5th point unnecessary.
Other talents such as
Catlike Reflexes and
Cobra Strikes
actually have similar issues, although there is still benefit in the 3rd point for each talent.
Finally in the MM tree,
Go for the Throat has the same issue, where
1 point is all you need to essentially give you pet limitless Focus.
For filler points, the points in Spirit Bond and
Endurance Training
are only taken to progress up the tree. Everything else is required, although again there is
some debate about the effectiveness of the third point in both
Catlike Reflexes
and
Cobra Strikes. You could opt to take 3/3 in
Improved Arcane Shot
instead.
One common question is why does the tree skip Aimed Shot?
Beast Mastery's tree offers no damage increases to Aimed Shot, meaning
Multi-Shot
actually does exactly the same damage as Aimed Shot, just for slightly more Mana. That
Mana efficiency is not worth a talent point.
Glyphs
Major Glyphs
Glyph of Steady Shot increases the damage of your
Steady Shot
by 10% while
Serpent Sting is active. Steady Shot is your main filler
spell, and this is a solid DPS increase for all Hunter specs over other glyphs.
Glyph of Serpent Sting increases the duration of your
Serpent Sting
by 6 seconds. Since you need to maintain a 100% uptime, this will save you multiple
casts over an encounter.
Glyph of Bestial Wrath reduces the cooldown of your
Bestial Wrath
by an additional 20 seconds. With your talents, this brings your Bestial Wrath to just over
a 1-minute cooldown, making it an even more powerful cooldown.
Minor Glyphs
Glyph of Mend Pet slightly increases your pet's happiness, which
means you should not need to feed it anymore. It is a nice quality of life glyph.
Glyph of Feign Death reduces the cooldown of
Feign Death
by 5 seconds.
Glyph of Revive Pet makes it so you no longer get spell push-back
when taking damage while casting
Revive Pet.
Changelog
- 18 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Phase 2 release ahead of Ulduar raid release.
- 01 Sep. 2022: Page added.
This guide has been written by Impakt, an Officer in BDGG, the #2 North American guild on retail. In addition to live WoW, he has also been a classic theorycrafter and enthusiast for many years. You can watch him stream on Twitch, or follow him on Twitter.
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