Beast Mastery Hunter DPS Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — Midnight Season 1

1. Ensure Hunter's Mark is active on the target from you or another Hunter in the group!
2. Pre-cast your Algeth'ar Puzzle Box around 2 seconds before combat begins.
3. Barbed Shot
4. Use Potion, Racials, etc.
5. Bestial Wrath
6. Kill Command
7. Black Arrow
8. Kill Command
9. Continue with your normal rotation. Wailing Arrow when there is 7 seconds left on Bestial Wrath, fitting it into the end of the Withering Fire window to get you another Black Arrow in there.

This priority list describes the optimal single-target Rotation for Beast Mastery Hunter:

1. Trinket Usage Stat-granting on-use Trinkets should be used right before Bestial Wrath, as it does a ton of up-front damage that you want to buff.
2. Activate Bestial Wrath. Use all of your Barbed Shot charges before casting it.
3. Cast Kill Command on cooldown with Nature's Ally up. Holding/banking a charge for Bestial Wrath is worth it, so that you enter BW with 2 charges.
4. Cast Black Arrow during Withering Fire, which is active for the first 10 seconds of Bestial Wrath.
5. Cast Wailing Arrow when there is 7 seconds left on Bestial Wrath. The goal is to fit it into the end of the Withering Fire window, which only lasts 10 seconds out of Bestial Wrath's 15 second duration. Know that it will proc Black Arrow, and in most cases, you should follow it up with one.
6. Cast Cobra Shot during Bestial Wrath, as long as Barbed Shot still has less than 1.4 charges.
7. Cast Barbed Shot as a filler.
8. Cast Black Arrow.
9. Cast Cobra Shota as a filler.

Beast Mastery does not have a lot of minmaxing, which makes this one thing even more important. This Apex Talent buffs Kill Command after using non- Kill Command abilities. In practice, this means that we are always trying to weave other abilities in-between our Kill Commands. Casting Kill Command twice in a row is never a good idea.

1. Ensure Hunter's Mark is active on the target from you or another Hunter in the group!
2. Pre-cast your Algeth'ar Puzzle Box around 2 seconds before combat begins. In Mythic+ pulls, you rarely get the opportunity to pre-cast it, so just cast it before you eventually Bestial Wrath.
3. Black Arrow
4. Barbed Shot
5. If the tank is still gathering the pull at this point, you can just coast with your baseline rotation. You want the pull mostly stacked before you commit to your cooldowns.
6. Use Potion, Racials, etc.
7. Wild Thrash — If you need Beast Cleave. Otherwise, do it after Bestial Wrath.
8. Bestial Wrath
9. Kill Command
10. Barbed Shot
11. Kill Command
12. Black Arrow
13. Continue with your normal rotation. Wailing Arrow when you have no more Barbeds or Kill Commands.

This priority list describes the optimal AoE Rotation for Beast Mastery Hunter:

1. Trinket Usage Stat-granting on-use Trinkets should be used right before Bestial Wrath, as it does a ton of up-front damage that you want to buff.
2. Cast Black Arrow if Beast Cleave is expiring.
3. Activate Bestial Wrath. Ensure Beast Cleave is up for it.
4. Cast Wild Thrash on cooldown.
5. Cast Kill Command on cooldown with Nature's Ally up. Trying to bank/hold a charge for Bestial Wrath is a minor DPS increase as well.
6. Cast Black Arrow during the first 10 seconds of Bestial Wrath.
7. Cast Barbed Shot if it is on 2 charges.
8. Cast Wailing Arrow if Withering Fire is less than 2.5s from ending, followed by Black Arrow.
9. Cast Barbed Shot on cooldown.
10. Cast Wailing Arrow.
11. Cast Black Arrow.
12. Cast Cobra Shot as a filler.

Beast Mastery does not have a lot of minmaxing, which makes this one thing even more important. This Apex Talent buffs Kill Command after using non- Kill Command abilities. In practice, this means that we are always trying to weave other abilities in-between our Kill Commands. Casting Kill Command twice in a row is never a good idea.