Beast Mastery Hunter DPS Spec, Builds, Talents, and Pet Talents — Dragonflight 10.2
On this page, you will find out the best talents for each tier for your Beast Mastery Hunter in World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.2. We also have default talent lists for various types of content, such as raiding or Mythic+. If you play with Warmode on, we have your PvP talents covered as well.
If you were looking for WotLK Classic content, please refer to our WotLK Classic Beast Mastery Hunter talents.
Best Dragonflight Talents for Beast Mastery Hunter
Note that these builds are generic recommendations for various content. Check out the dedicated pages below for more specific recommendations for the Raid and Mythic+.
Best Talents for Beast Mastery Hunter
Best Single-Target Talents for Beast Mastery Hunter
This build is optimal for pure single-target situations.
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Best Pre-T31 Single-Target Talents for Beast Mastery Hunter
This build is optimal for pure single-target situations before you have obtained the new Hunter Beast Mastery 10.2 Class Set 4pc bonus.
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Best AoE and Mythic+ Talents for Beast Mastery Hunter
This is our recommended build for AoE scenarios. This works well for AoE Fights in Raids, as well as most Mythic+.
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Pre-T31 Best AoE and Mythic+ Talents for Beast Mastery Hunter
This is our recommended build for AoE scenarios. This works well for AoE Fights in Raids, as well as most Mythic+.
This build is for before you have obtained the new Hunter Beast Mastery 10.2 Class Set 4pc bonus.
Be sure to make use of the 'Copy Export String' button to import the best build directly into your game!
Talent Explanations for Beast Mastery Hunters
Note that we do not explain EVERY Talent in the tree on this page. We only explain Talents that are part of our optimal builds for single-target and AoE. For full details and explanations of every Talent, please visit our Spells page via the button below.
Class Talents
Row 1-4
![]() | A strong DPS button and a mandatory pick. |
![]() | Essential as one of our strongest mobility talents. |
![]() | A passive, powerful increase to our ![]() |
![]() | Our main interrupt. |
![]() | Provides incredible CDR to ![]() ![]() |
![]() | Not great, but it leads us on a path to better talents, as we need to get to the left side of the tree later on. |
![]() | A strong defensive for both one-shots and powerful DoTs. |
Row 5-7
![]() | Useful for many scenarios and leads us to better talents on the left side of the tree. |
![]() | A must-pick, as it doubles the damage reduction of ![]() |
![]() | A solid pick for lower Turtle and Cheetah cooldowns, making it strong for both survivability and mobility. |
![]() | A bit of an incentive to ![]() |
![]() | Hugely useful for add control in Mythic+ and some Raiding scenarios. |
![]() ![]() | Both viable options in this choice node are necessary to pick up other essential Talents. For most Mythic+, we recommend ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | Increases our maximum health and gives our ![]() ![]() |
![]() | Useful for skips and out-of-combat self-healing in Mythic+, but it has no use for Raiding. |
![]() | A much-needed boost to our survivability on unavoidable mechanics. |
![]() | A solid boost to movement speed, but you can drop a point here to pick up other utilities as needed. |
Row 8-10
![]() | A substantial DPS increase and is a mandatory pick. |
![]() | A potent DPS increase and is a mandatory pick. |
![]() | A substantial DPS increase and is a mandatory pick. |
![]() | A considerable DPS increase and is a mandatory pick. |
![]() | Affects ![]() |
![]() | Offers flexibility in our rotation as we are not hard-locked to casting ![]() |
![]() | Introduces a mini-cooldown to our rotation, enhancing our burst a little and focusing on amplifying other damage. |
Spec Talents
Row 1-4
![]() | One of our core abilities and mandatory to progress. |
![]() ![]() | Also fundamental to our spec and are necessary to continue. |
![]() ![]() ![]() | Our AoE talents, the main ones that differentiate our single-target build from our AoE build. We choose these whenever a scenario has relevant AoE to do at a significant but worthwhile single-target DPS loss. |
![]() | This only improves the damage to your pet's Basic Attack (![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | One of our most vital per-point talents and mandatory. |
![]() | A significant DPS increase despite reducing the overall DPS of our main pet by 35%. The doubling of ![]() ![]() |
![]() | Improves the damage of our strongest button and is always a worthwhile pick. |
Row 5-7
![]() | Shines in longer encounters where you can reliably maintain 3 stacks of ![]() ![]() |
![]() | A powerful single-target button, enhancing our burst by a little, and is great for any single-target focused encounter. This is usually exclusive to our single-target build. |
![]() | A strong single-target button. |
![]() | Our primary cooldown, if you can call it that. In practice, its cooldown is around 30 seconds and sometimes even shorter, as explained below. |
![]() | Gives us significantly more ![]() ![]() |
![]() | Extremely powerful, especially on AoE, and will happen automatically as you cast ![]() |
![]() | This is what allows our ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | Gives us regular resets of ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | will make the maintenance of ![]() ![]() |
![]() | More potent than it appears on the DPS meter since having a Beast active also improves Haste by 5%, inheriting the effect from the ![]() |
![]() | Gives us additional ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | Encourages multidotting with ![]() ![]() |
![]() | A potent enhancer of the ![]() ![]() |
![]() | This proc even when you are refreshing an existing 3-stack of ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | This can be thought of as a cooldown, as its effect can be predicted using this WeakAura, allowing us to almost spam ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() | A compelling, passive DPS increase, especially with the low cooldown of ![]() |
Mythic+
Depending on affixes and other variables, Mythic+ can require a mix of AoE and Single-Target talents. You should check out our page below if you want advice specific to Mythic+.
Rotation for Beast Mastery Hunter Talents
Some talents will require you to play in a particular way to get the most out of them. You can find more information on how your rotation will look after selecting your talents on our rotation page below.
Best Pet for Beast Mastery Hunter in Dragonflight
We have made a dedicated page for Hunter Pets information that we recommend you check out!
PvP Talents for Beast Mastery Hunter in Dragonflight
War Mode offers several benefits for you in the open world.
- PvP talents enabled in the outdoor world.
- At least 10% increase in World Quest rewards at maximum level.
- 10% more experience gained while leveling.
- Earn Conquest Points, which can reward gear every week.
With the benefits of enabling War Mode for leveling and PvE content, it is recommended to enable the feature to maximize your leveling and rewards at maximum level. However, you will be available for open-world PvP, and the possibility of being "ganked" while leveling or doing World Quests exists.
PvP Talents (War Mode) for Beast Mastery Hunter
In this section, we will rank the PvP talents best for leveling and doing solo / small group PvE content. Below is a ranking of all PvP Talents for Beast Mastery Hunter
Best PvP Talents for Beast Mastery Hunter
Dire Beast: Hawk causes a hawk to circle a target area, damaging all targets within. This greatly supplements your AoE damage when doing big pulls in the open world.
Dire Beast: Basilisk is a powerful choice for bursty single-target damage. It is useful for world PvP if you can keep your opponent slowed enough for the Basilisk, and it is potent for rare mobs and quest mobs with much health.
Chimaeral Sting offers a good amount of opening damage for single targets and is very useful against most enemy players.
You can consider the other options essentially down to preference.
For details on how to play in Beast Mastery Hunter PvP, please visit our Beast Mastery Hunter PvP page.
Changelog
- 24 Nov. 2023: Swapped back the AoE/Mythic+ Build.
- 18 Nov. 2023: Small update to the AoE/Mythic+ Build. Same DPS, but nicer to play.
- 12 Nov. 2023: Updated the recommended AoE/Mythic+ build.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2
- 04 Sep. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.7
- 15 Aug. 2023: Restructured the page.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
- 19 May 2023: Updated the layout of the page.
- 01 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 12 Dec. 2022: Added a note that you should not use Wailing Arrow for AoE fights in the raid.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 01 Nov. 2022: Earlier changes reverted due to a simulation bug.
- 01 Nov. 2022: Updated the recommended Mythic+/AoE Talents in light of recent 10% nerf to BM.
- 30 Oct. 2022: Updated the optimal Mythic+/AoE Talents.
- 27 Oct. 2022: Updated optimal Class Tree talents.
- 24 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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This guide has been written by Azortharion, a Hunter Theorycrafter and Guidewriter since 2014, and considered one of the best Hunters in the world. He is an accomplished player with dozen of top parses for all specs throughout the game's history. He is also the Founder/Owner/Head Admin of Trueshot Lodge, the Hunter Class Discord. You can find him on his stream on Twitch and his channel on YouTube. He also has his own personal Discord server where you can freely ask him any Hunter questions you may have!
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