Beast Mastery Hunter PvP Stat Priority, Gear, and Trinkets — Midnight Season 1

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

1. Agility
2. Versatility to at least 23%
3. Haste
4. Versatility and Mastery
5. 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 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 Versatility and increase your Haste.

As a general recommendation, you should use four pieces of your tier gear (Head, Shoulders, Chest and Gloves), 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.

There is a slight increasing diminishing return on secondary stats past 30%, further increased past 40%.

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.

• Head: Primal Sentry's Maw
• Neck: Thalassian Competitor's Amulet - Crafted with Versatility & Haste
• Shoulders: Primal Sentry's Trophies
• Cloak: Galactic Gladiator's Drape
• Chest: Primal Sentry's Scaleplate
• Wrists: Galactic Gladiator's Chain Bracers
• Hands: Primal Sentry's Talonguards
• Waist: Galactic Gladiator's Chain Belt
• Legs: Galactic Gladiator's Chain Breeches
• Feet: Galactic Gladiator's Chain Sabatons
• Ring 1: Thalassian Competitor's Signet - Crafted with Versatility & Haste
• Ring 2: Thalassian Competitor's Signet - Crafted with Versatility & Haste
• Trinket 1: Galactic Gladiator's Medallion
• Trinket 2: Galactic Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity
• Ranged Weapon: Galactic Gladiator's Bow

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 1, 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 Thalassian Competitor's Signet or necklace Thalassian Competitor's Amulet.

Beast Mastery Hunter Midnight Season 1 tier bonuses:

Note that tier set bonuses are nerfed by 50% in PvP.

• Bestial Wraths direct damage is increased by 25%
• Bestial Wrath summons 1 Dire Beast for 8 sec (1s cooldown)

The Season 1 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). The tier set bonuses do not change your rotation.

I recommend that you get the 4-set bonus with Head, Shoulders, Chest and and Gloves (leaving the Legs because they have high Critical Strike Rating and Mastery).

To craft a piece of gear with the PvP item level scaled to 289, you must craft the Thalassian Competitor's item for that slot, and apply Galactic Gladiator's Heraldry while crafting. You should not use crafted gear unless it has the item level scaled to 289 in PvP.

Your best stats are Versatility and Haste so any gear you craft should use Thalassian 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 Thalassian Competitor's Signets with the Prismatic Focusing Iris Embellishment and an Thalassian Competitor's Amulet, all with the stats as Haste Versatility. If you need more survivability in a match-up you can swap the neck for an Galactic Gladiator's Necklace (or swap a ring for Galactic Gladiator's Ring if you used an embellishment on your crafted necklace).

It is important that you equip two PvP trinkets. This will give you an Agility and Stamina boost that will increase your damage and survivability.

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

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

Galactic 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.

Galactic 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).

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

Galactic 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 - Farstrider's Hunt
• Chest: Enchant Chest - Mark of the Rootwarden
• Helm: Enchant Helm - Empowered Blessing of Speed
• Legs: Forest Hunter's Armor Kit
• Rings: Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Tenacity
• Shoulders: Enchant Shoulders - Akil'zon's Swiftness
• Weapon Enchant: Enchant Weapon - Strength of Halazzi

You can use one Heliatrope gem in Midnight, and for this you can choose between:

• Enduring Heliotrope (increased durability as you take less damage when stunned)
• Determined Heliotrope (increased throughput against teams that regularly slow you)

The best choice of Heliatrope gems is Enduring Heliotrope, which will increase your survivability when you need it most.

The Determined Heliotrope gem is a straight throughput increase against teams that will apply slows to you constantly at the cost of survivability.

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

• For Haste, use Flawless Versatile Peridot or Flawless Masterful Peridot
• For Versatility, use Flawless Quick Lapis or Flawless Masterful Lapis
• For Mastery, use Flawless Versatile Amethyst or Flawless Quick Amethyst