Beast Mastery Hunter DPS Stat Priority — The War Within (Season 1)

Beast Mastery's Stat Priority generally breaks down to "Anything but Versatility is pretty good", and the finer details are usually left up to sims, which I highly recommend.

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Stat Priority for Beast Mastery Hunter in The War Within

Dark Ranger Single-Target Pack Leader Single-Target Dark Ranger AoE/Mythic+ Pack Leader AoE/Mythic+

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Beast Mastery Hunter Single-Target Stat Priority

This Stat Priority assumes Dark Ranger, which is overwhelmingly dominant for Single-Target. The Haste enables more Black Arrow ticks, which enhances all the other effects of Black Arrow as well.

1. Haste;
2. Critical Strike;
3. Mastery;
4. Versatility.

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Beast Mastery Hunter Pack Leader Single-Target Stat Priority

This Stat Priority works well with Pack Leader, emphasizing Crit more than Haste.

1. Critical Strike;
2. Haste;
3. Mastery;
4. Versatility.

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Beast Mastery Hunter Dark Ranger AoE Stat Priority

This Stat Priority works well with Dark Ranger. Mastery is overwhelmingly strong for anything AoE, with Haste close behind.

1. Mastery;
2. Haste;
3. Critical Strike;
4. Versatility.

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Beast Mastery Hunter Pack Leader AoE Stat Priority

This Stat Priority works best with Pack Leader in Mythic+ and AoE situations. Mastery is overwhelmingly dominant, with Crit and Haste being pretty close to each other, but far behind Mastery.

1. Mastery;
2. Critical Strike/Haste;
3. Versatility.

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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.

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. This does not necessarily mean that a Stat will no longer be good past its point of diminishing returns, but if you find yourself crossing them, you should pay special attention to your sims and find out if you should look for different stats.

• 21000 Crit, or 44%;
• 19800 Haste, or 30%;
• 23400 Versatility, or 30%
• 21000 Mastery Rating

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 Hunter, 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.