Marksmanship Hunter Leveling Guide from 1 to 70 — The War Within Pre-Patch

When leveling up, you should always choose the piece of loot with the highest item level. The only exception to this rule is if you have a Ring or Necklace with a slightly lower item level, but 2 secondary stats on it instead of 1.

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You unlock the Talent Trees at Level 10. Below is the recommended Leveling path when starting from Level 70. It should also be the tree you work towards as you level from 10-80.

1. Use Barrage in conjunction with Misdirection on your pet to gather multiple mobs to your pet. Do not press it for pure damage.
2. Use Explosive Shot
3. On AoE, use Multi-Shot to apply Trick Shots. This buff makes your next Aimed Shot or Rapid Fire do AoE damage!
4. Macro Salvo to your Volley, always using them together..
5. Use Volley on cooldown.
6. Use Trueshot for large pulls or difficult elite mobs.
7. Use Mend Pet for large pulls to keep your pet healthy.
8. Use Kill Shot on targets below 20% health.
9. Use Rapid Fire on cooldown.
10. Use Aimed Shot on cooldown. Make sure to spend your Precise Shots stacks first!
11. Spam Arcane Shot. Use Multi-Shot instead of there are 3 or more targets!
12. Use Steady Shot as a filler.

All pets do the same damage, but they vary in their utility and special abilities. For Leveling, the best pet is any Ferocity-type pet, as they heal themselves whenever they do damage.

Ferocity pets also come with Primal Rage which is a Bloodlust effect. This should be used as often as possible when you are fighting for over thirty seconds.

You can find a list of all the Pets and the abilities they bring on our Spell Summary Page.

Congratulations on reaching Level 80! Now that you have hit Level 80, we recommend looking at our Easy mode page and Talents section to learn how to play at max level.