Beast Mastery Hunter DPS Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0.1)

1. Ensure Hunter's Mark is active on the target from you or another Hunter in the group!
2. Note that throughout the opener, you will get random Black Arrow from your abilities. The golden rule is to always spend all Black Arrows immediately, interrupting the opener as necessary to do so.
3. Black Arrow
4. Use all of your Barbed Shots.
5. Bestial Wrath
6. Black Arrow
7. Kill Command
8. Barbed Shot
9. Kill Command
10. Once you have no Barbed Shots and a maximum of one Kill Command charge, cast Wailing Arrow into Black Arrow.
11. Proceed with your normal Rotation according to the priority list below.

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

1. Trinket Usage Stat-granting on-use Trinkets should be used with Bestial Wrath whenever possible, while still maximizing their total number of uses. For Unyielding Netherprism specifically, note that since it takes 3 minutes for the Trinket to reach full power, you can be quite liberal with holding the trinket for your next Bestial Wrath if you think it will be stronger than this one.
2. Use Black Arrow.
3. Use Wailing Arrow. Your Bestial Wrath button turns into this button once activated, and it can be used once per Bestial Wrath. It will give a guaranteed Black Arrow proc, so always follow it up with Black Arrow.
4. Activate Bestial Wrath.
5. Use Kill Command and Barbed Shot whenever possible. Prioritize whichever is closest to reaching 2 charges, you are "juggling" these abilities. They have a 20% and 50% chance to proc Black Arrow, respectively.
6. Use Cobra Shot as a filler inside of Bestial Wrath. Outside of Bestial Wrath, try to reserve Cobra Shot for when you are at or above 80 Focus.
7. Use Cobra Shot when you have 80 Focus or above. If you are low on Focus, it is fine to simply cast nothing and wait for your next KC or Barbed.

1. Ensure Hunter's Mark is active on the target from you or another Hunter in the group!
2. Note that throughout the opener, you will get random Black Arrow from your abilities. The golden rule is to always spend all Black Arrows immediately, interrupting the opener as necessary to do so.
3. Black Arrow
4. Use all of your Barbed Shots", ideally on different targets.
5. Bestial Wrath
6. Wild Thrash
7. Black Arrow
8. Kill Command
9. Barbed Shot
10. Kill Command
11. Once you have no Barbed Shots and a maximum of one Kill Command charge, cast Wailing Arrow into Black Arrow.
12. Proceed with your normal Rotation according to the priority list below.

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

1. Trinket Usage Stat-granting on-use Trinkets should be used with Bestial Wrath whenever possible, while still maximizing their total number of uses. For Unyielding Netherprism specifically, note that since it takes 3 minutes for the Trinket to reach full power, you can be quite liberal with holding the trinket for your next Bestial Wrath if you think it will be stronger than this one.
2. Use Black Arrow.
3. Use Wailing Arrow. Your Bestial Wrath button turns into this button once activated, and it can be used once per Bestial Wrath. It will give a guaranteed Black Arrow proc, so always follow it up with Black Arrow.
4. Activate Bestial Wrath.
5. Use Wild Thrash on cooldown. This activates Beast Cleave when Talented and does heavy damage.
6. Use Kill Command and Barbed Shot whenever possible. Prioritize whichever is closest to reaching 2 charges, you are "juggling" these abilities. They have a 20% and 50% chance to proc Black Arrow, respectively.
7. You should always try to cast Barbed Shot on targets that do not already have it, ideally using this mouseover macro.
8. Use Cobra Shot as a filler when you have 90 Focus or above. This ability is very rarely used on AoE.