Beast Mastery Hunter DPS Stat Priority — Shadowlands 9.2
On this page, you will find out the optimal stat priority for your Beast Mastery Hunter. We first present the stat priority, before delving into more complex explanations. Our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Shadowlands 9.2.
If you were looking for TBC Classic content, please refer to our TBC Classic Beast Mastery Hunter stat priority.
General Stat Priority
The general stat priority for a Beast Mastery Hunter is:
- Critical Strike;
- Versatility;
- Haste;
- Mastery.
Mastery is the worst stat for Beast Mastery despite it increasing pet damage, because it does not buff the damage from external sources like trinkets, most Covenant Abilities, and so on.
In a practical situation, your stat weights and priority will always be changing as you get more gear, trinkets and so on. This is a general stat priority that gives you an idea of what stats are good to have on your gear.
How To Choose Gear For The Beast Mastery Hunter
If you are ever in doubt about what items to wear for any given situation, the only way to truly figure it out for your character is to use Raidbots (click for a guide on how to use it). This website allows you to easily compare gear you already have, as well as gear you do not have.
Gearing decisions will not always be clear-cut. This is obvious if you have ever had to choose between a high item level piece of loot with bad stats, and a lower item level piece of loot with perfect stats. These decisions and more are the reason we recommend using Raidbots to help simulate your character.
Raidbots takes everything into account including procs, RNG elements, your specific gear, racials and more. If you have made sure you performed the simulation correctly, then you can generally trust Raidbots' results to be accurate.
Diminishing Returns on Stats
There are points at which certain stats will start offering less benefit. These are the points of diminishing return. After this point, stats will give progressively less benefit, and it is generally advisable to stay below these points, though you should always sim yourself to make sure.
- 40% Crit
- 30% Haste
- 30% Versatility
- 1050 Mastery Rating
Gems, Enchants, and Consumables
The gems, enchants, and consumables you will use are directly derived from your stat priority and you can find our advice on this topic in our dedicated page.
Statistics Explanations
Agility is your primary stat. It provides you with Attack Power, which determines the damage your abilities do across the board.
Mastery, through Mastery: Master of Beasts, increases the damage
done by all the pets and creatures that you summon. This includes your main
pet, Dire Beasts and more.
Haste increases your attack speed and Focus regeneration, reduces
your
Global Cooldown from 1.5 seconds to a minimum of 0.750 seconds, and reduces the
cooldown on your Kill Command and
Barbed Shot abilities.
Critical Strike increases your chance to critically hit with all
spells and
abilities, causing them to deal double damage. For Beast Mastery, in particular,
Critical Strike increases the frequency of Wild Call procs, which
gives auto-shot critical strikes a 20% chance to reset the cooldown of
Barbed Shot.
Versatility increases all your damage and healing done, and decreases all damage taken.
Changelog
- 21 Feb. 2022: Updated the stat priority and added information about Diminishing Returns.
- 01 Nov. 2021: Reviewed and approved for Patch 9.1.5.
- 28 Jun. 2021: Updated for Patch 9.1.
- 09 Mar. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.0.5.
- 30 Jan. 2021: Updated the general stat priority slightly.
- 23 Nov. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands.
- 12 Oct. 2020: Page updated for the Shadowlands pre-patch.
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