WotLK Classic Marksmanship Hunter Spec, Builds, Talents, and Glyphs
On this page, you will find out the best PvE talent choices and builds for your Marksmanship Hunter in WotLK Classic, as well as advised glyphs.
Marksmanship Hunter Talent Builds for PvE
For Hunters, Marksmanship is the best PvE spec once you have raid gear. Marksmanship specifically takes some Armor Penetration and other stats to really scale well, but will eventually outpace Survival for the top spot. At the start of Wrath however, Survival will be a strictly better spec in terms of personal DPS.
Leveling Builds
If you were looking for leveling builds, please refer to our leveling guide for Hunters.
Marksmanship Standard Raiding Talent Build
This is the standard talent build that you should take for raiding and dungeons as a Marksmanship Hunter. Unlike some other trees, there are no free points as a Marksmanship Hunter. For optimal DPS, this is the tree you take.
The first thing you might notice is only 1/2 points in Go for the Throat, but
1 point is all you need to essentially give you pet limitless focus.
Every single talent taken is a DPS increase. There are almost no DPS talents skipped
except for talents like Improved Arcane Shot, which is a poor
choice as MM given that you will drop
Arcane Shot from your rotation shortly anyway
once you have enough ArP.
The only potential choice to make is if you have enough Hit or not. In later raids,
you will have so much hit on your gear that Focused Aim
is no longer necessary. In the case, you should replace it with 3/3 points in
Improved Hunter's Mark.
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 Kill Shot reduces the cooldown of your
Kill Shot
by 6 seconds. Kill Shot is your hardest hitting ability by far, so getting more in per fight
is an excellent choice.
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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