Beast Mastery Hunter PvP Stat Priority, Gear, and Trinkets (Shadowlands / 9.2)
Choosing your gear carefully is important for your Beast Mastery Hunter in PvP. We give you a stat priority to help you choose items with the right stats, followed by advice on how to choose the rest of your gear and your trinkets.
This page is part of our Beast Mastery Hunter PvP Guide.
Stat Priority for Beast Mastery Hunters in PvP
The stat priority for Beast Mastery Hunters in PvP is as follows:
- Agility;
- Versatility;
- Haste;
- Mastery;
- Critical Strike.
Agility is the best stat in all situations. Versatility is the best secondary
stat you should stack. This is great for increasing your overall damage output
and your survivability. Haste is your next-best secondary stat, as this will
reduce the GCD for your abilities and will also increase the DoT from
Flayed Shot if you are Venthyr.
Gear Recommendations
General Guidelines
In general, Beast Mastery Hunters want to get trinkets that line up well
with Bestial Wrath and
Aspect of the Wild. These trinkets can
have a passive or on-use effect. The stats you want to be increasing are either
Agility or Mastery. The Agility will provide a very large increase to your
damage and Mastery will increase the damage dealt by your pets. Here is the
best gear we recommend you using as a Beast Mastery Hunter.
- Head:
Godstalker's Sallet
- Neck:
Cosmic Gladiator's Necklace
- Shoulders:
Godstalker's Pauldrons
- Cloak:
Cosmic Gladiator's Drape
- Chest:
Godstalker's Hauberk
- Wrists:
Cosmic Gladiator's Chain Bracers
- Hands:
Godstalker's Gauntlets
- Waist:
Cosmic Gladiator's Chain Belt
- Legs:
Cosmic Gladiator's Chain Breeches
- Feet:
Cosmic Gladiator's Chain Sabatons
- Ring 1:
Cosmic Gladiator's Signet
- Ring 2:
Versatile Solenium Ring (with Versatility and Hastee)
- Weapon:
Cosmic Gladiator's Ballista
Legendary Slots
Where you craft your Unity and your
Craven Strategem
Legendary is largely dependent on your current gear and where you can gain the
most item level compared to a normal item, but Neck and Ring slots are generally
good as they give guaranteed sockets.
Recommended Trinkets
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.
Cosmic Gladiator's Medallion is a mandatory trinket to have
equipped at all times. This allows you to remove any crowd control on yourself.
You will normally use this when you are stuck in crowd control and a teammate
is at low health. Note, if you play a Human and are playing against a team with
only stuns,
Cosmic Gladiator's Relentless Brooch is a better
option.
Cosmic 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.
Cosmic Gladiator's Badge of Ferocity gives you Haste and has a
1-minute cooldown that increases your primary stat. This is great to use right
before you activate a powerful cooldown.
Cosmic Gladiator's Emblem increases your maximum health when used.
This gives you an additional defensive when you think a team will be focusing
you.
Gems and Enchants
Here are the best enchants and gems for a Beast Mastery Hunter:
- Boots:
Enchant Boots - Eternal Agility
- Cloak:
Enchant Cloak - Soul Vitality
- Chest:
Enchant Chest - Eternal Stats
- Rings:
Enchant Ring - Tenet of Versatility
- Weapon Enchant:
Infra-green Reflex Sight
Gem all of your gear with Versatile Jewel Cluster.
Changelog
- 21 Apr. 2022: Updated the BiS list.
- 28 Feb. 2022: Updated the recommended Gear and Trinkets.
- 10 Nov. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.1.5.
- 06 Jul. 2021: Updated gear recommendations and added Shards of Domination section.
- 14 May 2021: Updated Gear Recommendations.
- 02 May 2021: Updated Stat Priority.
- 23 Mar. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.0.5.
- 06 Dec. 2020: Added BiS gear list for Shadowlands.
- 29 Nov. 2020: Removed outdated Traits and Essences.
- Removed outdated gear.
- Added gems section.
- 14 Oct. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands pre-patch.
This guide has been written by Azortharion, a theorycrafter of all things Hunter-related for many years. He is an accomplished player with dozen of top parses for all specs throughout the game's history. He is also the Admin of Trueshot Lodge, the Hunter Class Discord, and you can watch his stream on Twitch. He even has his own personal Discord channel where you can get notifications about when the guides get updated and have direct communications with him.
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