Welcome to our Rotation page for Beast Mastery Hunters. On this page you will find everything you need to know about actually playing the spec in Raiding and Mythic+ scenarios.

If the rotations below seem overwhelming to you, you might benefit from visiting our Easy Mode page which outlines a close-to-optimal rotation in simpler terms.

The content on this page is purely PvE-related. If you are looking for PvP Rotation Tips, please visit our PvP page below.

Important Abilities, Procs and The General Rotation of Beast Mastery Hunter

The Beast Mastery rotation revolves around casting Kill Command on cooldown, as well as numerous other abilities, while regulating your Focus with Cobra Shot. On AoE, you need to Multi-Shot regularly to maintain the powerful Beast Cleave buff on your pet.

You will also have to use Barbed Shot at carefully considered intervals to stack up and maintain your pet's Frenzy buff at 3 stacks.

Our tier set has no impact on our rotation in any way. It will passively increase your damage in the background, and your priorities are the same.

Use the buttons below to select your talents to see how that changes the rotation. This affects both the single-target and multi-target rotation.

Active Talents	Passive Talents
A Murder of Crows	Beast Cleave
Aspect of the Wild	Scent of Blood
Barrage	Wild Call
Bloodshed	Wild Instincts
Call of the Wild	Alpha Predator
Death Chakram	Poison Injection
Dire Beast
Serpent Sting
Stampede
Steel Trap
Wailing Arrow

• Ensure that you have eaten appropriate Food, according to our Consumables page
• Ensure your correct pet is summoned and awake. Use this WeakAura to keep you alerted.
• Ensure you have your Flask buff active. See our Consumables page).
• Activate your Draconic Augment Rune.

The single target rotation for a Beast Mastery Hunter is based on the following priority system.

1. Use Barbed Shot to refresh Frenzy when it is about to fall off. If Bestial Wrath is off cooldown, spend all of your Barbed Shot charges before pressing it, if Frenzy has fewer than 3 stacks.
2. Cast Kill Command if it is on 2 charges, so that its cooldown is always rolling.
3. Use Call of the Wild on cooldown.
4. Use Death Chakram on cooldown.
5. Use Bloodshed on cooldown.
6. Use Bestial Wrath on cooldown.
7. Use Stampede on cooldown.
8. Use A Murder of Crows on cooldown.
9. Use Steel Trap on cooldown.
10. Use Explosive Shot on cooldown.
11. Use Kill Shot on cooldown.
12. Use Aspect of the Wild on cooldown.
13. Use Kill Command on cooldown.
14. Use Barbed Shot when it has more than "1.4" charges, meaning whenever its second charge is about halfway off its cooldown. You should also use it on cooldown if you have Call of the Wild active, since Wild Instincts will constantly give you charges back. You should also cast Barbed Shot if doing so would reset the cooldown of Bestial Wrath. 1 Barbed will take off 12 seconds, and 2 of them will take off 24 seconds.
15. Use Dire Beast on cooldown.
16. Apply and maintain the Serpent Sting DoT on your target. You can refresh it when it has 5 seconds remaining.
17. Use Cobra Shot when you have nothing else to do.
18. Use Wailing Arrow on cooldown, provided that you will not drop Frenzy during its cast time.

There are a few rules you should keep in mind when trying to play Beast Mastery optimally. If you keep these things in mind, it will make it much easier to achieve a perfect rotation:

Refreshing Frenzy as late as possible is almost always preferable. You should be careful not to overdo it, however, or you risk letting the buff drop completely. It is okay to sit and wait for the duration to reach 0.1s before refreshing it. There is no pressure to always be casting as Beast Mastery.

Keep in mind that you will most likely not be able to keep up 3 stacks of Frenzy at all times, no matter how perfectly you play. You should strive towards it, but it is impossible to always have it up. Dropping it sometimes is fine and expected.

Important Note: Because the in-game "auto-cast" system for Hunter pets is very slow, it is recommended to put these 3 lines into macros for all of your offensive spells.

• /cast [@pettarget]Claw
• /cast [@pettarget]Bite
• /cast [@pettarget]Smack

We recommend adding these 3 lines to the end of your macros, in order for the #showtooltip part of your macros to work properly. Functionally, it makes no difference where you put them in the macro.

This ensures that you will always cast your pet's Basic Attack on cooldown, since Blizzard's automatic cast will delay each cast by up to 0.1 seconds. It is a very subtle, but real DPS increase. For more macros, please refer to our Beast Mastery Hunter macro page.

The default UI does not offer a very good way of keeping track of the Frenzy buff on your pet, which is very important to the spec. To help with this, we recommend using this WeakAura to keep track of the buff. You can also use this WeakAura, which will pop up and tell you when to use Barbed Shot. Both of these require you to have the WeakAuras Addon installed. For more addons, please refer to our addon page.

This Opener assumes that you are using the recommended Raid Talents for Beast Mastery Hunter, which you can find on our Talents page.

1. Use 2x Barbed Shots
2. Use Bloodshed
3. Use Bestial Wrath
4. Use Death Chakram
5. Use Kill Command
6. Use Barbed Shot
7. Use Kill Command
8. Use Dire Beast
9. Proceed with your normal rotation, according to the priority list above.

1. Use Barbed Shot to refresh Frenzy when it is about to fall off. Spread the DoT on as many targets as you can, using the mouseover macro in our Addons Page. If Bestial Wrath is off cooldown, spend all of your Barbed Shot charges before pressing it. You should multidot it on targets that have the highest amount of Latent Poison stacks whenever possible.
2. Use Multi-Shot to apply and maintain the Beast Cleave buff on your pet. You should try to refresh it as late as possible, generally, but without wasting other globals.
3. Cast Kill Command if it is on 2 charges, so that its cooldown is always rolling.
4. Use Call of the Wild on cooldown.
5. Use Death Chakram on cooldown.
6. Use Bloodshed on cooldown.
7. Use Bestial Wrath on cooldown.
8. Use Stampede. Sync it up with Bestial Wrath.
9. Use A Murder of Crows on cooldown.
10. Use Steel Trap on cooldown.
11. Use Explosive Shot on cooldown.
12. Use Aspect of the Wild on cooldown.
13. Use Barbed Shot when it has more than "1.2" charges, meaning shortly after its first charge has come off cooldown. You should also use it on cooldown if you have Call of the Wild active, since Wild Instincts will constantly give you charges back. You should multidot it on targets that have the highest amount of Latent Poison stacks whenever possible. You should also cast Barbed Shot if doing so would reset the cooldown of Bestial Wrath. 1 Barbed will take off 12 seconds, and 2 of them will take off 24 seconds.
14. Use Kill Command on cooldown.
15. Use Dire Beast on cooldown.
16. Use Barrage on cooldown, provided that Frenzy or Beast Cleave will not expire during its long channel.
17. Apply and maintain the Serpent Sting DoT on your target. You can refresh it when it has 5 seconds remaining.
18. Use Kill Shot on cooldown.
19. Use Cobra Shot when you have more than 80 Focus. You should be using it above 60 Focus instead if Aspect of the Wild is active.
20. Use Wailing Arrow on cooldown, provided that you will not drop Frenzy during its cast time.

This Opener assumes that you are using the recommended Mythic+/AoE Talents for Beast Mastery Hunter, which you can find on our Talents page.

1. Use Multi-Shot to get Beast Cleave going on your pet early.
2. Use 2x Barbed Shot, on different targets.
3. Use Bestial Wrath
4. Use Multi-Shot
5. Use Death Chakram
6. Use Kill Command
7. Use Barbed Shot, ideally on a third target.
8. Use Multi-Shot
9. Use Kill Command
10. Use Dire Beast
11. Use Wailing Arrow, or save it for an interrupt.
12. Proceed with your normal rotation, according to the priority list above.

We do not have a lot of cooldowns as Beast Mastery Hunters, and the ones we do have, are used on cooldown with no special efforts to synchronize them. If you see an opportunity to delay a cooldown like Death Chakram for a few seconds in order to line it up with Bestial Wrath, then you should do so, but this is not all-important, and even optimized simulations do not bother with this.

The same goes for your potion. The ideal way to use your Potion for DPS is to identify the highest DPS points of a fight via log analysis, and committing your potions there. However, you may want to prioritize using your Potion for moments in a fight that are important to make the fight as easy as possible, rather than your overall DPS.

For information about Mythic+ as a Beast Mastery Hunter, please refer to our Mythic+ page.

WeakAuras can have a tremendously positive effect on your performance. Since this is a broad topic, we made a page dedicated to it.

Thanks for reading my Rotation Guide for Beast Mastery Hunter. If you have any questions about it that you would like to ask me directly, feel free to drop into my Discord Server and drop me (Azortharion) a ping at any time.