Beast Mastery Hunter PvP Talents and Builds (Shadowlands / 9.2)
Choosing the right PvP and PvE talents is a prerequisite to proper performance in PvP. This guide goes through the various talent choices available to you as a Beast Mastery Hunter and gives you the best combinations you can take.
This page is part of our Beast Mastery Hunter PvP Guide.
Talent Choices for Beast Mastery Hunters
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15 |
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25 |
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30 |
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35 |
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40 |
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45 |
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50 |
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While the above table provides a generally accurate overview of the viability of talents, some finer points are discussed in the sections that follow, and we recommend you read those for a deeper understanding.
Tier 1 (Level 15) Talents
Animal Companion is the best choice in this tier. This will help
increase your overall damage.
Tier 2 (Level 25) Talents
Scent of Blood is the best choice in this tier. This increases
your burst damage when you activate
Bestial Wrath.
Tier 3 (Level 30) Talents
Camouflage is the default choice for nearly all situations, allowing
you to open from Stealth.
Natural Mending can be used as an alternative,
but it is rarely better.
Tier 4 (Level 35) Talents
Thrill of the Hunt is the best choice in this tier. This increases the
critical strike chance of
Barbed Shot, stacking up to 3 times. This will
increase your sustained damage after your burst cooldowns expire.
Tier 5 (Level 40) Talents
Posthaste is the best choice in this tier. This will help you
avoid incoming damage from both melee and ranged classes. You can use it to
run away and keep dealing damage or use it to get out of line of sight of
incoming damage.
Tier 6 (Level 45) Talents
Stomp is the best choice in this tier. This is a solid
increase
to your overall sustained damage. It is important to note that this ability
does deal area of effect (AoE) damage. This means that if an enemy is in crowd
control and you use
Stomp, you can potentially break it with this
ability.
Tier 7 (Level 50) Talents
Aspect of the Beast is the best choice in this tier. This is another
talent that increases your overall sustained damage, as well as buffing the
movement speed bonus from your Cunning pet.
PvP Talents for Beast Mastery Hunters
You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents. Each of them has their uses, but some are better for certain strategies than others. The top three choices are the most useful, but can be replaced with other PvP talents, depending on your team's goal.
Primary PvP Talents
Roar of Sacrifice instructs your pet to protect a friendly target
from critical strikes, making attacks against that target unable to be critical
strikes, but 20% of all damage taken by that target is also taken by the pet.
It lasts 12 seconds and this is a powerful defensive cooldown that is helpful
for you and your teammates. With a cooldown of only 1 minute, this is an
ability that your healer can call-out to use if they are stuck in crowd
control.
Survival Tactics causes
Feign Death to remove all harmful
magical effects, and reduces damage taken by 99% for 1.5 seconds. This is a
mandatory talent when playing against classes with multiple DoTs (Affliction
Warlock, Shadow Priest, Balance Druid). This reduces the enemies' overall
damage and helps your healer with dispelling harmful effects. You can also use
this to stop incoming spells that are being cast on you.
Situational PvP Talents
Kindred Beasts is another strong PvP talent that should be used in
almost any situation. This reduces the cooldown important pet abilities that you
can activate,
such as
Master's Call.
Chimaeral Sting has 3 different effects that switch after 3 seconds.
It starts by reducing the movement speed of the target then silences them. After
these two effects, it will reduce the damage and healing the target does. This
is
a great talent if your team needs additional slows or crowd control
Pet Talents
Pets do not have talent trees, and instead have their own types of specialization (Cunning, Ferocity, or Tenacity).
Each specialization gives your pet a few abilities. Cunning
provides the ability Master's Call, by far the best pet ability to have.
To get the
Mortal Wounds debuff from your pets, you will need one of
the following pets:
- Hyena
- Raptor
- Rodent
You can also use a Ferocity pet which grants 10% Leech if you are not
comfortable using
Master's Call, though we highly recommend it:
- Carrion Bird
- Devilsaur
- Ravager
- Scorpid
- Wasp
Changelog
- 28 Feb. 2022: Updated the recommended talents and PvP talents. Updated the recommended pets.
- 10 Nov. 2021: Updated Tier 4 Regular Talent.
- Updated PvP Talents.
- 09 Jul. 2021: Updated PvP Talents.
- 06 Jul. 2021: Updated Tier 3 regular talents and updated PvP talents.
- 07 Jun. 2021: Updated Best Pets.
- 23 Mar. 2021: Updated Talent Table.
- Updated Tiers 1 and 2 Regular Talents.
- 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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