Beast Mastery Hunter DPS Mythic+ Guide — Shadowlands 9.0.5

Mythic+ Dungeons, especially high ones, are arguably the highest level of competitive PvE content that WoW has to offer aside from Mythic raiding.

In Mythic Dungeons as a Hunter, you will be responsible for a large part of the group's total damage output, while in a Mythic Raiding group, you may only be responsible for maybe 7% of it. The skill and execution from the individual players in the group is much more important.

Aside from just doing damage, in Mythic+ you will be responsible for many things to make the group's run faster and easier. Interrupting, offensively dispelling enemy targets, soaking mechanics, using your traps and stuns are all much more common in Mythic+ than your usual Mythic raid.

In this guide, we will talk about getting the most out of your Hunter in Mythic+ dungeons, including the best way to set up your character, how your rotation may change, and tips and tricks for using your abilities in the most optimal way.

If you are unfamiliar with Mythic+ and its associated general mechanics, you can read more about it on our dedicated Mythic+ page below.

Note that for a more general overview of Talents for Beast Mastery Hunter, please visit our dedicated Talents page.

These are our recommended talents for Beast Mastery Hunter in Mythic+.

Level	Choices
15	✗ Killer Instinct	✓ Animal Companion	✗ Dire Beast
25	✓ Scent of Blood	✗ One with the Pack	✗ Chimaera Shot
30	? Trailblazer	? Natural Mending	? Camouflage
35	✗ Spitting Cobra	✓ Thrill of the Hunt	✗ A Murder of Crows
40	? Born To Be Wild	✓ Posthaste	? Binding Shot
45	✓ Stomp	✗ Barrage	✗ Stampede
50	✓ Aspect of the Beast	✗ Killer Cobra	✗ Bloodshed

Soulforge Embers is the best Legendary for Beast Mastery Hunters in Mythic+. It has by far the best single-target and AoE DPS of any Legendary, and it has no equal in either respect.

For more information on Beast Mastery Hunter Legendaries in different situations, please check out our page below.

The best Covenant for Beast Mastery Hunter in Mythic+ is Night Fae.

Kyrian is reasonably close to Night Fae while still being clearly worse, Necrolord is far behind, and Venthyr is the worst Covenant for Mythic+.

• For Night Fae, you should choose Niya (generally recommended) or Korayn (AoE-heavy scenarios) as your Soulbind.
• For Kyrian, you should choose Pelagos as your Soulbind.
• For Necrolord, you should choose Bonesmith Heirmir as your Soulbind.
• For Venthyr, you should choose Nadjia the Mistblade as your Soulbind.

A lot of considerations go into the important choice of Covenant, so we very strongly recommend that you read our full Covenants page below.

For the most part, your rotation will remain the same as normal in Mythic+ dungeons. Because of the nature of dungeons, however, with mobs dying constantly and there sometimes being downtime in between packs, we recommend taking the following extra considerations.

Note that the information below specifically pertains to Mythic+. If you require more general information, you should go to the main Rotation page below.

1. Activate Aspect of the Wild.
2. Use Multi-Shot to send your pet in and start Beast Cleave.
3. Activate your Covenant Ability, such as Wild Spirits.
4. Use Barbed Shot
5. Use Multi-Shot to refresh Beast Cleave.
6. Use Barbed Shot on a different target than the first one.
7. Use Bestial Wrath
8. Use Multi-Shot
9. Spend your two Barbed Shot charges on applying Barbed Shot to two new enemies.
10. Proceed with your normal AoE rotation.

You should always end a Mythic+ mob pack with 0 charges of Barbed Shot remaining. This is partly to get the most out of its Bestial Wrath cooldown reduction so that you can have Bestial Wrath for the next pack. If you are using Stomp, you will also get more value out of the talent by maximizing the Barbed Shot casts that you do.

Keeping up 3 stacks of Frenzy is still a very high priority. However, it is worth keeping in mind that mob packs in Mythic+ usually last for only a short time. Additionally, the most important damage tends to be front-loaded, since most packs have mobs of varying health levels. This means that later on in a pack, there is less damage to be done. Because of this, and the reasons above, we recommend focusing on refreshing Frenzy as soon as there is less than 8 seconds remaining on Barbed Shot's cooldown. This allows you to have 2-3 stacks much earlier in the pull than if you were to wait till the last moment to refresh. It still allows you to refresh to a higher stack count as long as you cast it as soon as the cooldown is gone. The basic point is to maximize the average amount of Frenzy stacks per pack.

Intimidation is a 5-second stun. It can be used to interrupt otherwise uninterruptible effects on dangerous mobs, and in high Mythic+ situations, it should be used almost on cooldown to try and negate such casts.

Freezing Trap plays the same role as Intimidation for the most part, allowing you to interrupt dangerous casts that cannot be interrupted normally. It can also allow you to remove dangerous caster mobs from the equation. If there are caster mobs out of position hitting your group, those are ideal targets to be trapped until they can be pulled into the remaining group.

Counter Shot is your main interrupt and will be used often in any Mythic+. As you get to know the dungeons, you should know which spells are worth spending your valuable, long-cooldown interrupt on, and which ones you can safely leave to those with shorter cooldowns. Chances are that you will have one of the only ranged interrupts in your group. Using this on caster mobs that are out of position in order to force them to run for the tank is extremely valuable.

Feign Death is an extremely powerful spell in Mythic+. It can be used to effectively nullify a lot of targeted effects that mobs and bosses channel on you. It can also be used to nullify targeted spells where you can see that it will land on you before the cast finishes. Using Feign Death can cause the boss to pick another target, or completely stop casting the ability.

Finally, and perhaps above all, sim yourself using the DungeonSlice Fight Style on Raidbots.

When choosing your trinkets, we recommend simulating yourself on Raidbots using the Patchwerk option for raids and single-target, and DungeonSlice (Mythic+/AoE Fights) Fight Styles. Usually, we recommend using trinkets that proc stats, rather than single-target damage dealers.

You can also get a quick overview of good Mythic+ Trinkets on our Gearing page, specifically the Simulation chart for multi-target scenarios.