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Beast Mastery Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot in Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.0.1

Last updated on Oct 15, 2018 at 09:50 by Azortharion 182 comments

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General Information

This page is a gear reference for Beast Mastery Hunters. It lists your best items, with an emphasis on trinkets, and gives you gearing advice.

The other pages of our Beast Mastery Hunter guide can be accessed from the table of contents on the right.

About Our Author

This guide has been written by Azortharion, the main theorycrafter of the spec for many years. He is an accomplished player with dozen of top parses for all specs throughout the game's history. He is also the Admin of Trueshot Lodge, the Hunter Class Discord, and you can watch his stream on Twitch.

1. The Importance of "Simming Yourself" as a Beast Mastery Hunter

At this stage in the game, there are so many variables and so many layers of optimization that you can apply to your character, that there is no way for a guide or anything else to tell you exactly what gear you should wear. This is why we always recommend simulating your own character using Raidbots. The website can help you choose set bonuses, Azerite traits, trinkets and combinations thereof in a way that is tailored completely to your specific character. Learning to use this tool is essential to maximizing your potential, as there is simply no other way to take all the variables into account.

2. Best Dungeons for Beast Mastery Hunter

This is a table containing all the currently available dungeons, and listing how many good items each dungeon can drop. We classify a "good item" as pieces that have a high amount of one of your best stats on it (Critical Strike or Mastery). This will help guide you on what dungeons to focus on when farming for upgrades.

Dungeon Item Slots
Tol Dagor Weapon, Helm, Shoulders, Bracers, Gloves, Legs
Freehold Weapon, Bracers, Finger, Trinket
The MOTHERLODE!! Weapon, Cloak, Legs, Finger
Atal'Dazar Weapon, Cloak, Belt, Boots
Kings' Rest Weapon, Finger, Trinket
The Underrot Belt, Legs, Finger
Temple of Sethraliss Gloves, Weapon, Chest
Shrine of the Storm Gloves, Trinket
Waycrest Manor Cloak, Boots
Siege of Boralus Belt, Finger

3. Stats

Many people have a tendency to overthink the distribution of their secondary stats. An important thing to remember is that a higher quantity of stats is nearly always better than a better quality of stats. Because of this, wearing higher item level gear with worse stats tends to be better than lower item level gear with great stats. Keep this in mind when considering gear.

4. Trinket Simulation for Beast Mastery Hunter

BM Trinket Simulation

You can see the spreadsheet source for this simulation here.

⋘Macros and Addons
Simulations⋙

5. Changelog

  • 15 Oct. 2018: Updated the list of good dungeons and their items.
  • 07 Sep. 2018: Updated the trinket simulation.
  • 30 Aug. 2018: Updated the trinket simulation to include the recent SimCraft changes to RPPM.
  • 26 Aug. 2018: Updated the trinket simulation to include buff to the Tiny Electromental in a Jar.
  • 24 Aug. 2018: Updated the trinket simulation to include various World Quest trinkets.
  • 23 Aug. 2018: Added a link to the origin spreadsheet for the simulation chart.
  • 21 Aug. 2018: Updated Trinket simulations.
  • 18 Aug. 2018: Changed the BiS list to a more generally useful list of good dungeons to farm, as this will be relevant throughout the entire expansion.
  • 17 Aug. 2018: Updated the Best in Slot ring.
  • 16 Aug. 2018: Updated the best in slot helmet.
  • 12 Aug. 2018: Updated for Battle for Azeroth launch.
  • 20 Jul. 2018: Updated Celerity of the Windrunners' Haste level from 2% to 3%.
  • 18 Jul. 2018: Updates to the BiS list and Legendary ranking.
    • Updated Golganneth's Vitality to just be an Argus Personal Loot drop.
    • Revised Legendary ranking and added Soul of the Huntmaster and Kil'jaeden's Burning Wish to it.
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