Beast Mastery Hunter PvP Stat Priority, Gear, and Trinkets — The War Within (11.2)

The stat priority for Beast Mastery Hunter in PvP is as follows:

1. Agility;
2. Versatility to at least 25%;
3. Haste to 23%;
4. Haste/Versatility;
5. Versatility over 30%;
6. Haste over 30%;
7. Mastery;
8. Critical Strike.

Agility is the best stat in all situations. You will want as much Versatility and Haste as you can, with a slight preference towards Versatility.

If you do not have enough Versatility, you will take a lot of damage and likely find yourself dying more often than you otherwise would.

If you do not have enough Haste, you will struggle to maintain your Frenzy stacks, and you will also not be able to use all of the global cooldowns to ramp up and deal damage while being able to find gaps in your rotation for utility and crowd control.

Wearing the Conquest PvP gear, you will have more Versatility than you need and you should use crafted pieces to reduce increase your Haste.

As a general recommendation, you should use four pieces of your tier gear, and the rest of your gear should only have Versatility and Haste. You should keep your Versatility only slightly higher than your Haste by using some crafted pieces instead of the regular conquest gear.

• 5,000 Critical Strike rating will give you 7.1% Critical Strike chance (7.5 with Serrated Tips)
• 5,000 Haste will increase your attack speed by 7.6%
• 5,000 Mastery will increase your pet's damage by 13.6%
• 5,000 Versatility will increase your damage done by 6.4% and reduce your damage taken by 3.2%

There is a slight increasing diminishing return on secondary stats past 30%, further increased past 40%. In the third season of The War Within, the only stats you might be able to get to 30% are Versatility and Haste, and if you are near 30% in either stat, you should be changing some of it into the other.

You should be aware that Critical Strike damage in PvE content is 200% of the damage the ability would normally have done, but in PvP, this is reduced to 150% of the damage the ability would have normally done.

Conquest vendor PvP Gear will always have Versatility and then a second stat which will be either Haste, Mastery, or Critical Strike Rating.

Almost every piece of conquest gear has a Haste option, but not many pieces have a Mastery option available.

I recommend that in Season 3, you buy gear with Haste where available until you reach 20% Haste in PvP and then replace haste pieces with Mastery gear after that.

If you have too much Versatility, the easiest way to transfer it to Haste is to craft the ring Algari Competitor's Signet or necklace Algari Competitor's Amulet.

Beast Mastery Hunter The War Within Season 3 tier bonuses:

Note that tier set bonuses are nerfed by 66% in PvP and change based on which Hero Talent tree you are playing.

Dark Ranger

• (2) Black Arrow arrow damage increased by 10% and Bleak Powder damage increased by 20%. The cooldown of Call of the Wild is reduced by 60 sec.
• (4) Withering Fire's Black Arrow damage increased by 50%. Consuming Deathblow has a 50% chance to cause all Black Arrow barrages during your next Withering Fire to fire 1 additional Black Arrow.

Pack Leader

• (2) Pet damage increased by 5% and Beast damage increased by 15%. Summoning a Beast grants 6% haste, mastery, or critical strike chance based on the Beast summoned for 8 sec.
• (4) Summoning a Beast while under the effects of Lead from the Front rouses the nearby wildlife into a Stampede, charging your target and dealing [300% of attack power * 9] Physical damage to up to 8 enemies over 7 sec.

Both versions of the Season 3 tier set will increase your throughput and you should get your tier set as soon as possible. The only downside is that four of the five set pieces have your worst stat (Critical Strike rating). None of the tier set bonuses change your rotation other than the Dark Ranger set that gives you more frequent access to Call of the Wild.

I recommend that you get the 4-set bonus with Head, Shoulders, Legs and Gloves (leaving the Chest because it has the highest Critical Strike Rating).

To craft a piece of gear with the PvP item level scaled to 684, you must craft the Algari Competitor's item for that slot, and apply Astral Gladiator's Heraldry while crafting. You should not use crafted gear unless it has the item level scaled to 684 in PvP.

Your best stats are Versatility and Haste so any gear you craft should use Algari Missive of the Aurora.

You can apply Embellishments while crafting gear, and you can equip two Embellished crafted pieces of gear at once.

I recommend that you craft two Algari Competitor's Signets with the Elemental Focusing Lens Embellishment and an Algari Competitor's Amulet, all with the stats as Haste Versatility. If you need more survivability in a matchup you can swap the neck for an Astral Gladiator's Necklace (or swap a ring for Astral Gladiator's Ring if you used an embellishment on your crafted necklace).

Note that the Elemental Focusing Lens embellishment will only activate once you have a piece of gear with an Algari gem so you should prioritise putting at least one Algari gem on your gear as soon as possible. It will usually do around 1.5-2% of your overall damage per Embellishment.

The Nerubian weapon embellishment Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension (and related embellishment Writhing Armor Banding) is useful for some classes, but as Beast Mastery this is not competitive with the Elemental Focusing Lens, even when it reaches ten stacks.

The defensive option for your Embellished gear would be Captured Starlight, although as the shield is not significant, Embellishments providing a throughput increase will perform better.

Note: It is important to be wearing 2 PvP trinkets. This will give you an Agility and Stamina boost that will increase your damage and survivability.

• Astral Gladiator's Medallion
• Astral Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity

• Astral Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity
• Astral Gladiator's Emblem

Astral Gladiator's Medallion is a mandatory trinket to have equipped at all times for non-human players. This allows you to remove any crowd control on yourself. Humans can use this trinket to have a shorter (90-second) the cooldown on escaping stuns, for example, into Rogue Mage teams.

Astral Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity increases your Haste and has a chance to proc your primary stat. This is an overall strong trinket, as the stat will proc often throughout an arena match (and will generally proc very early when your cooldowns are active).

Astral Gladiator's Badge of Ferocity grants you some Crit and a powerful Agility on-use every minute. Synchronize this with your Salvo/ Volley combo.

Astral Gladiator's Emblem increases your maximum health when used. This gives you an additional defensive when you think a team is focusing you or you think they are about to stun and burst you. A good example of when you will want to use this trinket is when facing Rogue Mage teams.

Here are the best enchants for a Beast Mastery Hunter:

• Boots: Enchant Boots - Scout's March
• Bracer: Enchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Speed
• Cloak: Enchant Cloak - Chant of Burrowing Rapidity
• Chest: Enchant Chest - Stormrider's Agility
• Legs: Stormbound Armor Kit
• Rings: Enchant Ring - Radiant Haste
• Weapon Enchant: Enchant Weapon - Stonebound Artistry/ Enchant Weapon - Authority of Radiant Power

You can use one Algari Diamond gem in The War Within, and for this you can choose between:

• Elusive Blasphemite (increased movement speed)
• Enduring Bloodstone (increased durability as you take less damage when stunned)
• Determined Bloodstone (increased throughput against teams that regularly slow you)

The safest choice of Algari Diamond gems is Enduring Bloodstone, which will increase your survivability when you need it most. The Determined Bloodstone Algari Diamond gem is a straight throughput increase against teams that will apply slows to you constantly at the cost of survivability.

If you are playing Enduring Bloodstone, it is easier to justify crafting Haste Mastery rings for the additional damage they bring compared to gear with Versatility that would reduce your damage taken.

The Elusive Blasphemite Algari Diamond gem will make it easier for you to kite and chase players, but will force you to take some gems with suboptimal stats to get the full benefit.

Your other gems should be selected based on your stat needs.

• For Haste, use Versatile Emerald or Masterful Emerald
• For Versatility, use Quick Sapphire or Masterful Sapphire
• For Mastery, use Quick Onyx or Versatile Onyx

If you are using Elusive Blasphemite, you want as many different colored gems as possible. There are five Algari gem colors: Emerald, Onyx, Ruby, Sapphire, and Amber.

To get the maximum movement speed when you need the Haste stat, you should use one of each of the following gems:

• Versatile Emerald/ Masterful Emerald
• Quick Onyx
• Quick Ruby
• Quick Sapphire
• Quick Amber

To get the maximum movement speed when you need the Mastery stat, you should use:

• Masterful Emerald
• Quick Onyx/ Versatile Onyx
• Masterful Ruby
• Masterful Sapphire
• Masterful Amber