Beast Mastery Hunter DPS Amirdrassil Raid Guide — Dragonflight 10.2.7
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Beast Mastery Hunter for each boss of the following raid: Amirdrassil. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.2.7.
Introduction
Below, you can find class and spec-specific advice for every fight in Amirdrassil. If you are looking for a general overview of the Raid that is not spec-specific, check out our dedicated Amirdrassil, the Dream's Hope guides.
On this page, you will find Beast Mastery Hunter specific information to deal with each boss in the Amirdrassil raid. These are not complete encounter guides but specific tips for doing the bosses as a Beast Mastery Hunter.
This page assumes that you already understand most of the mechanics of each encounter. These can be found on the full raid guide, so what is contained here are details specifically tailored toward Beast Mastery Hunter and how you can deal with each fight as best as possible.
All recommendations are progression-based tips and will not necessarily be the best for an overall DPS ranking.
Talent Builds By Boss
To make importing talents easier, I have aggregated the builds into the list below into three main builds. Taking these as a baseline, you can handle all raid encounters in this tier.
Dragonflight Raid Talent Builds for Beast Mastery Hunter
Single Target Raid Build for Beast Mastery Hunter
This build is the default single target build for Beast Mastery Hunter.
If your fight lengths are multiples of 2, like 2:30, 4:30, 6:30, then you may prefer the Call of the Wild build:
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Be sure to make use of the 'Copy Export String' button to import the build directly into your game!
AoE Raid Build for Beast Mastery Hunter
This build suits the AoE-heavy encounters in the Raid. Note that going for this build incurs a pretty heavy single-target DPS loss, which may not always be worth it.
Suggested Encounters:Be sure to make use of the 'Copy Export String' button to import the build directly into your game!
Heavy AoE Raid Build for Beast Mastery Hunter
This build suits extra AoE-heavy encounters in the raid, where you are spending nearly all of the time doing AoE damage.
Suggested Encounters:- Tindral — If your teammates are leaving the Roots mostly to you, which is unlikely..
Be sure to make use of the 'Copy Export String' button to import the build directly into your game!
General Defensive Usage Notes
Beast Mastery Hunter has several defensive spells that you should plan to use and rotate
throughout mechanics. You should opt to use the smaller cooldown spells often
as needed with incoming mechanics and save bigger cooldowns like Aspect of the Turtle
for large incoming damage.
Exhilaration
Survival of the Fittest
Fortitude of the Bear with a Tenacity Pet summoned.
General Cooldown Usage
Beast Mastery Hunter has a few cooldowns to think about using optimally on the fights in Amirdrassil:
Call of the Wild — Our main, 2-minute cooldown. Not used in all builds.
Bloodshed — Our smaller, 1-minute mini-cooldown.
Bestial Wrath — Barely counts as a cooldown, with its ~50% uptime/~30-second cooldown, but it is still important to ensure you have it for certain key moments.
In addition to the general rotation, you want to keep in mind that your goal is to use your cooldowns as often as possible during an encounter. With that in mind, your secondary goal is to use them at the correct time.
I highly suggest using some Addon or WeakAura to track the estimated time to
die of your target/boss target.
Method
Raid Tools has this as an option if you are already using this addon.
By tracking time to die, if you know that you can only fit one more cycle of
your cooldowns in before the boss dies, you can choose to hold these cooldowns
to better line up with Bloodlust, your Potion, or even your other
cooldowns, trying to look for opportunities to stack all of them.
Gnarlroot
Defensive Usage
- Try to be liberal with defensive cooldowns during the intermission,
especially if you are running far to soak
Splintering Charcoal and debuff branches with
Ember-Charred.
Cooldown Timings
- Optimal DPS entails making sure all of your cooldowns, mostly just
Bestial Wrath with my recommended build, are prepared for every add spawn.
Mechanical Tips
- On Mythic, there are larger adds that need to be focused down. Make sure you are ready to swap to these as they are about to spawn.
For more information, please refer to our Gnarlroot guide.
Igira the Cruel
Defensive Usage
- If you are targeted with
Blistering Spear make sure to use at least
Exhilaration before it hits if you are low on HP.
- Consider using
Aspect of the Cheetah if targeted by
Slicing Torment. This can make it much easier to dodge the circle with the increased movement speed. Note that the travel time on the jump is based on distance from the boss, so it is usually a good idea to use Turtle to run far as well.
- After each intermission the boss deals increased damage. This
means it is more critical to have good defensive usage after each
subsequent intermission. By the end of the fight, you should be quite
liberal with uses of
Exhilaration.
Cooldown Timings
- Spears spawn constantly. You should always ensure that
Bestial Wrath is up for them, which should happen fairly naturally. You want to pre-activate
Beast Cleave ~1s before they spawn, so that you can snipe maximum damage on them with
Kill Command.
Mechanical Tips
- Try to position yourself at a far enough distance away so that
dodging
Twisting Blade is easier.
- During the intermission make sure you are mindful of your positioning so you
do not get accidentally knocked back into a
Marked for Torment circle. Soaking more than once will be deadly.
For more information, please refer to our Igira guide.
Volcoross
Defensive Usage
- While soaking
Flood of the Firelands deals a relatively small amount of damage, shortly after the boss will channel
Serpent's Fury. This is your best candidate to use your defensive cooldowns.
Cooldown Timings
- No specific timings to mention.
Mechanical Tips
- When soaking
Flood of the Firelands be sure to position yourself so that you get knocked back in the correct direction. The direction is determined based on the position of your character and the center of the soak.
For more information, please refer to our Volcoross guide.
Council of Dreams
Defensive Usage
- Be sure to use a defensive if you are ever soaking
Barreling Charge. Depending on how many people are also soaking
Exhilaration should be enough, or if it is very few people consider using
Aspect of the Turtle. You will still get the debuff.
Cooldown Timings
- No specific timings to mention.
Mechanical Tips
- Be sure to pay attention to boss health to kill them as evenly as possible.
- Make sure to have good boss frames set up so that you can clearly
tell remaining duration on your
Barbed Shot. Note that
Barbed Shot will charge your pet to its target, reducing uptime. While multidotting is absolutely worth it, it is not worth sending your pet across the arena to do, so pay attention to the boss positioning.
- As a ranged spec you should generally be focusing Pip or Aerwynn over Urctos. This boss should fall naturally to cleave since he should always be tanked on one of the other two.
For more information, please refer to our Council of Dreams guide.
Larodar, Keeper of the Flame
Defensive Usage
- Be sure to progressively use more defensive abilities for each cast of
Raging Inferno as it does ramping damage for each subsequent cast.
- You should consider using at least
Exhilaration when you soak
Falling Embers in Phase 2.
- Pay attention in Phase 2 if you get targeted by
Flash Fire. You should use
Exhilaration to help get this absorb off you quickly before you explode when it expires.
Cooldown Timings
- Consider delaying cooldowns around picking up the
Blazing Coalescence orb. This does deal a bit of damage when picking up but also gives you increased critical strike chance for 10 seconds. The buff is not super important to plan around, but it is worth paying attention to these spawns around your cooldowns since they need to be soaked regardless.
Mechanical Tips
- If you are targeted by
Scorching Roots be sure to not get hit and kite this effectively so your group members can easily purify it with the Seed of Life.
For more information, please refer to our Larodar guide.
Nymue, Weaver of the Cycle
Defensive Usage
- Use a defensive when targeted with the Bomb and placing it out of healer range.
Cooldown Timings
- No specific timings to mention.
Mechanical Tips
- While fighting the Cycle Warden. Nymue is effectively immune, so you should just focus the adds and not worry about the boss.
For more information, please refer to our Nymue guide.
Smolderon
Defensive Usage
- Depending on the strategy used, you can save
Exhilaration to help heal off your
Overheated debuff quickly. You might be stacking with group members for this, and if so, you typically want all of these to be healed off at once, so be cautious.
Cooldown Timings
I would suggest the following for cooldowns on Mythic difficulty. It assumes you are lusting the third Amp phase.
Note that if you are receiving Power Infusion from a Shadow Priest,
it is better for you to adjust to their preferred timings than vice versa.
- 0:00 - Everything except
Call of the Wild and Potion.
- ~1:10 (int 1) -
Call of the Wild/
Bestial Wrath/
Bloodshed/
Mirror of Fractured Tomorrows
- ~2:50 (int 2) -
Bestial Wrath
- ~4:30 (int 3) - All Cooldowns + Potion +
Mirror of Fractured Tomorrows
- ~6:00 (int 4) - Whatever you have.
Mechanical Tips
- Before the intermission starts you will get knocked back and spawn 5
Ignited Essence orbs you need to soak. Soak them all within a short time of one another, as the buff does not extend on each pickup.
For more information, please refer to our Smolderon guide.
Tindral Sageswift, Seer of the Flame
Defensive Usage
- Falling Stars are the primary defensive-point to consider, but if you find yourself stacked with more than 1 other person on Root spawns, you might want to use one there, depending on your HP.
Cooldown Timings
- Generally speaking the fight works out naturally well for our 2-minute cooldowns if you use things on cooldown as you get them. You should always have these for every intermission burn phase.
- Make sure you prep
Beast Cleave for when the adds are spawning.
Mechanical Tips
- You can
Disengage the root, but you will explicitly not want to do this on Mythic unless you would die to a Fire Beam otherwise.
For more information, please refer to our Tindral guide.
Fyrakk the Blazing
There are no specific Hunter-tips for this boss.
Defensive Usage
- No specific defensive usage to mention.
Cooldown Timings
- Pull, start of Phase 2, second add set, and with Phase 3 Lust.
Mechanical Tips
- If you are assigned to immune-soak in Intermission 1, make sure to have
Aspect of the Cheetah ready for this.
For more information, please refer to our Fyrakk guide.
Changelog
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Season 4.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.5.
- 04 Dec. 2023: Updated with new builds accounting for recent changes.
- 14 Nov. 2023: Clarified the T31/T30 Builds, and added strings for T30 builds.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Page added.
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This guide has been written by Azortharion, a Hunter Theorycrafter and Guidewriter since 2014 who is widely considered one of the best Hunters in the world. He is an accomplished player with hundreds of top parses for all Hunter specs throughout the game's history. He is also the Founder and Admin of Trueshot Lodge, the Hunter Class Discord. You can find him on his stream on Twitch and his channel on YouTube. He also has his own personal Discord server where you can freely ask him any Hunter questions you may have!
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