Beast Mastery Hunter PvP Talents and Builds (Shadowlands / 9.2.5)

Level	Choices
15	✘ Killer Instinct	✔ Animal Companion	✘ Dire Beast
25	✔ Scent of Blood	✘ One with the Pack	✘ Chimaera Shot
30	✘ Trailblazer	? Natural Mending	✔ Camouflage
35	✘ Spitting Cobra	✔ Thrill of the Hunt	✘ A Murder of Crows
40	✘ Born To Be Wild	✔ Posthaste	✘ Binding Shot
45	✔ Stomp	✘ Barrage	✘ Stampede
50	✔ Aspect of the Beast	✘ Killer Cobra	✘ Bloodshed

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.

Animal Companion is the best choice in this tier. This will help increase your overall damage.

Scent of Blood is the best choice in this tier. This increases your burst damage when you activate Bestial Wrath.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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