Beast Mastery Hunter DPS Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.1.5
On this page, we list the best gems, enchants, flasks, potions, and food you can get for your Beast Mastery Hunter in World of Warcraft — Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.1.5. We also give budget alternatives.
1. Best Gems for Beast Mastery Hunter
You should use 
Kraken's Eye of Agility in one socket, and
Deadly Amberblaze (or the cheaper 
Deadly Solstone) in
all other sockets.
2. Best Enchants for Beast Mastery Hunter
| Slot | Enchantment | |
|---|---|---|
| Rings | ||
| Weapon | * Enchant Weapon - Masterful Navigation without  Dance of Death |
* Crow's Nest Scope with Dance of Death |
*Weapon Enchants are extremely close in performance and the best one can vary wildly with your gear, even beyond our generic recommendations above. We recommend simulating your enchant options using RaidBots.com for the best results.
3. Consumables for Beast Mastery Hunter
3.1. Best Flasks and Potions for Beast Mastery
Flask of the Currents should be used for raids.
Your potion should be the 
Battle Potion of Agility for all
situations.
Warlock Healthstones and 
Coastal Healing Potion should be used when
at low health.
3.2. Best Food for Beast Mastery
You should eat the 100 Agility feasts 
Bountiful Captain's Feast
or 
Sanguinated Feast whenever possible. Otherwise, eat the 85
Agility food, 
Boralus Blood Sausage.
3.3. Augment Runes for Beast Mastery
If you can afford it, you should use 
Battle-Scarred Augment Runes to
increase your primary stat. Since there is a finite amount of these runes
available, you should make sure to use them wisely and to stock up on them
for when you need them.
4. Changelog
- 14 Apr. 2019: This page has been reviewed for Crucible of Storms and no changes are necessary.
- 22 Feb. 2019: Updated the optimal weapon enchant, and updated the baseline Gem/Enchant recommendations to Critical Strike.
- 11 Jan. 2019: Updated the optimal food to use.
- 10 Dec. 2018: This page has been reviewed for Patch 8.1 and no changes are necessary.
- 09 Nov. 2018: Added note about using Gale-Force Striking for Mythic+.
- 14 Sep. 2018: Updated gems, enchants and food.
- 30 Aug. 2018: Updated the optimal potion to use.
- 17 Aug. 2018: Added the mention of using an Agility gem.
- 16 Aug. 2018: Updated the optimal healing potion to use.
- 13 Aug. 2018: Updated the optimal gems to correspond with the stat priority.
- 12 Aug. 2018: Updated for Battle for Azeroth launch.
- 22 Jul. 2018: Updated the optimal single-target potion.
- 21 Jul. 2018: Reverted the optimal flask, as the Flask of Falling Leaves was nerfed.
- 20 Jul. 2018: Reverted the optimal gem, as it was nerfed.
- 18 Jul. 2018: Various updates with old-world gems, enchants, and consumables.
- Updated the optimal potion to use.
- Updated the optimal flask to use. Added note about Belt Buckles to the Enchants table.
- Reverted the optimal potion to use, as Blizzard has nerfed the old one.
- Updated the wording on the Healthstones/Healing Potion paragraph to say "and", as you can now use both of them at once.
- Removed Belt Buckles as they were hotfixed.
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