Beast Mastery Hunter PvP Guide — Midnight Season 1

The Midnight Expansion brings huge changes for all Hunter specs, primarily focused on streamlining and simplifying aspects of the kit.

• No more Deathblow procs from Auto-Shots.
• Barbed Shot has a 50% chance to grant Deathblow.
• After you activate Bestial Wrath, the Bestial Wrath button itself turns into Wailing Arrow, a powerful cast that activates Deathblow.

• Increased Focus regen with each auto-attack granting 2 Focus.
• The Bear has been nerfed by 40%, making it more balanced relative to the other Beasts. In the past, we often had to pay special attention to optimizing around the Bear. Now, Beasts are more balanced which means that you do not tend to worry too much about which one you have coming up.

• Frenzy is entirely gone as a mechanic.
• Beast Cleave is now activated by Wild Thrash, with the same cooldown and duration, meaning that by using the abillity on cooldown, you will have near 100% uptime.
• Bestial Wrath is now a flat 30 second cooldown. Its initial damage is increased, while its damage buff component has been lowered from 20% to 30%.

Midnight introduces new Apex Talents, unlocked between Level 80 and 90. Beast Mastery gets:

• Nature's Ally
• Nature's Ally
• Nature's Ally

These encourage you to avoid using Kill Command twice in a row, instead using a "filler" between each cast.

• Various crowd control abilities have been removed, including Scatter Shot, High Explosive Trap, and Entrapment.
• Concussive Shot has been enhanced by the new talent Improved Snaring.
• You now have Wing Clip by default if you do not take Concussive Shot.

No hotfixes have been announced for Beast Mastery Hunter yet during Season 1.