Marksmanship Hunter DPS Crucible of Storms Raid Guide — Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.3
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Marksmanship Hunter for each boss of the following raid: Crucible of Storms. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.3.
Disclaimer
This page will be a rough outline of the bosses and mechanics in the Crucible of Storms raid. This page will focus primarily on how a Marksmanship Hunter can optimize its performance on the raid bosses in Crucible of Storms, and not on an actual raid strategy for the bosses. Initially, this page will focus on Heroic mode and lower, however, as more bosses are being killed on Mythic, the guide will also include optimizations for Mythic bosses.
Marksmanship in Crucible of Storms
Marksmanship Hunters are a decent choice for Crucible of Storms and raiding in general. It offers supreme burst DPS on both single-target and AoE, and does not have any hassle when swapping targets like Beast Mastery.
Talent Cheatsheet
We advise to use the following talents on The Restless Cabal.
- Level 15:
Master Marksman
- Level 25:
Careful Aim
- Level 30:
Natural Mending
- Level 35:
Chimaera Shot
- Level 40:
Posthaste (or
Born To Be Wild, situationally)
- Level 45:
Double Tap
- Level 50:
Calling the Shots
We advise to use the following talents on Uu'nat, Harbinger of the Void.
- Level 15:
Master Marksman
- Level 25:
Careful Aim
- Level 30:
Natural Mending
- Level 35:
Chimaera Shot
- Level 40:
Posthaste (or
Born To Be Wild, situationally)
- Level 45:
Double Tap
- Level 50:
Calling the Shots
The Restless Cabal
We advise you to use the following talents against The Restless Cabal.
- Level 15:
Master Marksman
- Level 25:
Careful Aim
- Level 30:
Natural Mending
- Level 35:
Chimaera Shot
- Level 40:
Posthaste (or
Born To Be Wild, situationally)
- Level 45:
Double Tap
- Level 50:
Calling the Shots
Marksmanship Hunter Playstyle on The Restless Cabal
Remember that Marksmanship does not have any 2-target cleave. When only the
2 bosses are up, you should still use Arcane Shot.
When 3 targets are up, you should use Multi-Shot.
We recommend saving Trueshot for 9 stacks of the
Promises of Power
debuff on the fight, which increases your damage done. If you can overlap
this with when there are 3 targets up, you can dish out very heavy burst damage.
Resounding Protection and
Duck and Cover Azerite Traits are extremely powerful
on this fight. The size of the absorb shield does not go down
when your health goes down with the
Promises of Power debuff on the fight.
This means that the traits effectively give you a 100%+ absorb shield.
Uu'nat, Harbinger of the Void
We advise you to use the following talents against Uu'nat, Harbinger of the Void.
- Level 15:
Master Marksman
- Level 25:
Careful Aim
- Level 30:
Natural Mending
- Level 35:
Chimaera Shot
- Level 40:
Posthaste (or
Born To Be Wild, situationally)
- Level 45:
Double Tap
- Level 50:
Calling the Shots
Marksmanship Hunter Playstyle on Uu'nat
Your third Trueshot should be saved for the adds that spawn. It is
worth casting it after the adds have been up for a few seconds, as it is
extremely beneficial to have Trueshot active for when the small adds spawn.
We recommend using
Rapid Fire for the small adds, as you do not
run the risk of the adds dying while you are casting Aimed Shot, for example.
Changelog
- 13 Jan. 2020: This page has been reviewed for the release of Patch 8.3 and no changes are necessary.
- 24 Jun. 2019: This page has been reviewed for the release of Patch 8.2 and no changes are necessary.
- 13 May 2019: Added Marksmanship tips for Uu'nat.
- 01 May 2019: Added Marksmanship tips for The Restless Cabal.
- 14 Apr. 2019: Guide added.
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