Beast Mastery Hunter PvP Talents and Builds (Shadowlands / 9.0.2)
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
Killer Instinct is the best choice in this tier. This talent helps
your team secure kills on low-health enemies much easier. This will also increase
your overall sustained damage.
Tier 2 (Level 25) Talents
Chimaera Shot is the best choice in this tier. This is just a
strong damaging ability that is great for your sustained and burst damage.
Tier 3 (Level 30) Talents
Natural Mending is the best choice in this tier. Just by dealing
damage you reduce the cooldown of one of your crucial survivability spells,
Exhilaration.
Tier 4 (Level 35) Talents
A Murder of Crows is the best choice in this
tier. This is a significant increase to your burst damage.
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.
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.
Mandatory 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.
Wild Protector causes your pet protects allies within 8 yards, reducing
damage taken by 10%. If you are playing with a melee DPS that will be close to
your pet often, this is a staple PvP talent to take.
Situational PvP Talents
Dire Beast: Basilisk summons a slow-moving basilisk near the target
for 25 seconds that attacks the target for heavy damage. If your team wants to play
very aggressive, this is the talent that will help you. You can replace
Spider Sting with this talent.
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.
Spider Sting stings the target with potent spider venom for 4
seconds, causing their next offensive spell cast to silence the target for 4
seconds. When playing against classes that cast most of their spells (Mages,
Warlocks, Elemental Shamans), this talent can be helpful. You can use it to
interrupt their burst damage 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:
- Devilsaur
- Ravager
- Scorpid
- Wasp
Changelog
- 14 Oct. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands pre-patch.
This guide has been written by Mysticall, a seasoned PvP player who has repeatedly achieved Arena Master and 2500 rating. You can watch his stream on Twitch, and you can also check out his YouTube channel.
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