Beast Mastery Hunter PvP Stat Priority, Gear, and Trinkets (Season 4)
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 to 30%;
- Mastery;
- Haste;
- Versatility beyond 30%;
- 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. After this, Mastery and Haste are both strong while Crit is weak.
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: Ashen Predator's Faceguard
- Neck: Verdant Gladiator's Amulet
- Shoulders: Ashen Predator's Trophy
- Cloak: Verdant Gladiator's Shawl
- Chest: Ashen Predator's Sling Vest
- Wrists: Verdant Gladiator's Chain Bracers
- Hands: Verdant Gladiator's Chain Handguards
- Waist: Verdant Gladiator's Chain Belt
- Legs: Ashen Predator's Poleyns
- Feet: Infurious Boots of Reprieve (Crafted)
- Ring 1: Verdant Gladiator's Ring
- Ring 2: Verdant Gladiator's Signet
- Weapon: Verdant Gladiator's Rifle
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.
Verdant 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.
Verdant 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.
Verdant 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.
Verdant 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 - Plainsrunner's Breeze
- Belt: Shadowed Belt Clasp
- Cloak: Enchant Cloak - Homebound Speed
- Chest: Enchant Chest - Waking Stats
- Wrist: Enchant Bracer - Devotion of Speed
- Legs: Fierce Armor Kit
- Rings: Enchant Ring - Devotion of Versatility or Enchant Ring - Devotion of Mastery
- Weapon Enchant: High Intensity Thermal Scanner
Gem all of your gear with Zen Malygite for maximum Versatility, or Zen Neltharite for more DPS.
Changelog
- 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Season 4.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5
- 09 May 2023: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.1.
- 14 Mar. 2023: Updated the stat priority and BiS list.
- 30 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 22 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
- 29 Jul. 2022: Reviewed and updated for Shadowlands Season 4.
- 31 May 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 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.
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This guide has been written by Azortharion, a Hunter Theorycrafter and Guidewriter since 2014, and considered one of the best Hunters in the world. He is an accomplished player with dozen of top parses for all specs throughout the game's history. He is also the Founder/Owner/Head Admin of Trueshot Lodge, the Hunter Class Discord. You can find him on his stream on Twitch and his channel on YouTube. He also has his own personal Discord server where you can freely ask him any Hunter questions you may have!
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