Classic Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot
On this page, you will find the best PvE gear and best in slot items for your Hunter DPS in WoW Classic.
If you were looking for TBC Classic content, please refer to our TBC Classic Hunter gear and best in slots:
Gearing Strategy for Hunters
While a clear best in slot (BiS) list is always available in WoW Classic, the items contained might be extremely hard or expensive to get. Thus, we will try to give at least one alternative, for most slots in the list, so that you can pick where and how to farm them.
Season of Mastery Lists
As WoW Classic's Season of Mastery consists of Phases that are separate from the regular branch of Classic, we have created unique gear lists for its pre-raid and Phases. In addition, you may find it useful to look over our Fire Resistance Gear guide for your specialization, which is applicable for either version of Classic.
WoW Classic Phases
As stated by Blizzard, WoW Classic will have six phases, starting with Molten Core, Onyxia's Lair, and Maraudon, and ending with Naxxramas and the Scourge Invasion.
We will be linking best in slot gear lists for every raid tier in this guide, which can be helpful in order to understand how to progress from hitting Level 60, to getting pre-raid best in slot and from then to clearing all raid tiers.
Naxxramas Hunter BiS
This is the gear we recommend for Hunters in the
Naxxramas patch. As with the rest of WoW Classic, this
will be optimized for Marksmanship Hunters where Aimed Shot
and
Auto Shot are your main damage sources for single target.
Naxxramas is the final destination of the original World of Warcraft, and as such carries the best gear and the most difficult bosses.
Hunters Tier 3, Cryptstalker Armor is perhaps one of the most iconic Hunter sets of all time, and is excellent for Hunters in WoW Classic. The full 8 pieces are quite strong and definitely worth using, both for the set bonuses and the stats that they provide. However, it is not worth switching to the tier 8 set until you have most of the pieces if you are currently using the full 8/8 T2 set.
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Quiver | BiS: ![]() |
From the same quest chain as Rhok'delar |
Alternative Gear for Hunters
Hunter PvP Best in Slot Gear
You can find our recommended gear for PvPing as a Hunter in the link below.
Frost Resistance Gear for Hunters
In order to smooth out the Sapphiron encounter, it is advised that most players use a good amount of Frost Resistance gear, in order to reduce the high raid damage intake to manageable levels. We made a list with good options for almost every slot, so that you can face down the undead dragon while prepared:
Nature Resistance Gear for Hunters
This is not a normal set that you would ever wear, but is required for some classes in AQ 40 when fighting Princess Huhuran. It will be up to your guild or raid group if this is a required set or not.
Special gear for Hunters
Some items, which are not powerful enough to be in the best in slot list, have special properties that make them very valuable to acquire for specific encounters or as a weapon swap mid-fight. We will list the most notable special items for the current phase, and their effects and application below.
Gnomish Battle Chicken summons a chicken that attacks your enemies for 1.5 minutes, with a cooldown of 30 minutes. The chicken scales with your Engineering skill (Level 60 at 300 skill), and buffs your group with 5% increased Attack Speed through Battle Squawk. This is what makes it well worth using while grouped.
Arcanite Dragonling summons a dragon that attacks your enemies for up to 1 minute, with a cooldown of one hour. The dragon scales with your Engineering skill (Level 60 at 300 skill) and causes a stacking debuff that increases Fire damage taken, which makes it worth using in later raids to boost Fire Mage damage.
Skull of Impending Doom is given as a quest reward from completing Forbidden Knowledge in the Badlands. While generally undesirable, if you need to run somewhere fast, it can be a useful item to have.
Furbolg Medicine Pouch is sold by Gorn One Eye when you reach Honored status with Timbermaw Hold. This is a great item that you can swap during combat to provide you with a significant 1000 heal over 10 seconds. For comparison's sake,
Heavy Runecloth Bandage heals you for 2000 over 8 seconds, but requires you to channel it, and you cannot take any sort of damage in the channel duration.
Tidal Charm allows you to instantly stun an enemy for 3 seconds. It has a 50% drop chance from Prince Nazjak, who spawns around 25,84 in Arathi Highlands. Due to his very high respawn timer it might be hard to get this trinket, but the stun it provides is a life saver and duel winner.
Linken's Boomerang allows you to potentially disarm or stun an enemy when used, which makes it useful in certain scenarios, especially in PvP. Its rewarded from the Un'Goro Crater quest It's Dangerous to Go Alone.
Luffa removes a bleed effect, such as
Garrote, from yourself when used. You get this item from the Searing Gorge quest Incendosaurs? Whateverosaur is More Like It.
- The Alliance-only
Crystal of Zin-Malor allows you to kill yourself easily, and you do not get durability loss if you die from its effect. This can occasionally be useful, such as when you regret getting on a fly path after you are already flying or if you need to talk with the Blackrock Depths key ghost NPC. You get it from starting the quest Tormented By the Past.
Hunter Pre-Raid Best in Slot (BiS) List
In order to get ready for raiding, it is recommended that you follow this guide
in order to learn which gear to gather for maximizing DPS before ever setting foot
in raids, and probably also before getting your first epic loot. Even so, expect
to get a few pieces that you will have a hard time replacing, such as Blackhand's Breadth,
Royal Seal of Eldre'Thalas, and
Tarnished Elven Ring.
Changelog
- 02 Dec. 2020: Updated for Phase 6.
- 06 Aug. 2020: Reworked for Phase 5 BiS with alternatives.
- 15 Jul. 2020: Added link to Ahn'Qiraj BiS.
- 25 Apr. 2020: Added missing weapon.
- 14 Apr. 2020: Updated for Zul'Gurub.
- 13 Mar. 2020: Updated with Arathi Basin gear.
- 12 Feb. 2020: Revamped page for Phase 3.
- 10 Dec. 2019: Added link to PvP BiS section.
- 05 Nov. 2019: Added Raid BiS list.
- 22 Oct. 2019: Updated Pre-Raid BiS to include Dire Maul.
- 25 Sep. 2019: Updated list to specify what is BiS, and made some changes to reflect 1.4 drops.
- 12 Jun. 2019: Page added.
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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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