Marksmanship Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Shadowlands 9.1

Welcome to our Gearing Page for Marksmanship Hunter. This section will cover everything you need to know about equipping your character correctly.

For more detailed information on Stat Priority, please visit our Stats page.

For more detailed information on Gems and Enchants, please visit our Gems and Enchants page.

We also have a page dedicated to simulations for different aspects of your character. These can be found on our Simulations page.

Patch 9.1 introduced a new, special type of gem socket and gem type which can be found on Raid Gear from the Sanctum of Domination.

There are Blood, Frost, and Unholy Gems, and 5 Gem Slots in total. These Domination Gems can be applied to Helms, Shoulders, Chests, Belts, and Boots from the Sanctum of Domination.

Combining 3 of the same color gem will activate a set bonus. The Blood Gem Set Bonus is Blood Link, the Frost Gem Set Bonus is Winds of Winter, and the Unholy Gem Set Bonus is Chaos Bane.

1. Blood Link (Single-Target and Progression Raiding)
2. Chaos Bane (Multi-Target)
3. Winds of Winter

Now that we know our strongest Set Bonus, we have to identify the best gem combination. You will need all three Blood/Red gems to activate the Blood Set Bonus, so you do not have a choice here, but you can freely choose between all of the Unholy and Frost Gems for your final two Domination Gem Sockets. We have only ranked the Domination Gems that increase your DPS.

1. Shard of Dyz
2. Shard of Cor
3. Shard of Bek

If you would like to know more about the remaining Domination Shards' effects, their set bonuses, or how to upgrade their effects into even more potent forms, please see our official guide detailing everything about this new system of Patch 9.1:

At this stage in the game, and despite the Stat Priority, there are so many variables and layers of optimization you can apply to your character that there is no way for a guide or anything else to tell you exactly what gear you should wear. This is why we always recommend simulating your own character using Raidbots. The website can help you choose items, trinkets, Legendaries, Enchants/Gems, even Covenants, Soulbinds, Conduits, and so on.

Patch 9.0.5 reintroduced the Valor currency. For more information on where to get Valor from, how it works, weekly caps and more, see our Valor page.

Marksmanship Hunters should upgrade the items with Valor that will benefit the most in the moment. The easiest way to figure out what is best for your specific character is by using Raidbots' Droptimizer. You can select "+10 Weekly Chest" as a replacement for the highest item level Valor upgrade. Below is a list of item slots that you might want to upgrade first.

• Your weapon is by far your strongest item, and should always be the top priority to upgrade.
• Trinkets have a major impact on your DPS, particularly on-use ones such as Inscrutable Quantum Device and Overcharged Anima Battery.
• Aside from this, the best scaling items tend to be Helms, Chests, and Leg items. Wrists and Cloaks are low-priority as they have relatively little Agility on them.

Thanks to Bloodmallet.com, a comprehensive list of available trinkets for Marksmanship are listed against each other below. Keep in mind that this is only a guideline, and that you should be simming your own character if you care about optimizing it.

While the Inscrutable Quantum Device trinket performs exceptionally well in simulations, we generally recommend not using it for Raids. This is because it has a lot of potential effects when pressed, including healing and giving Mana to others in your group, all of which will not help your DPS.

This means that your second and third usages in raids will often not give a DPS benefit, significantly reducing the actual DPS value of the trinket. For Mythic+ scenarios, it is basically as good as it sims and a very strong choice.

Many people have a tendency to overthink the distribution of their secondary stats. An important thing to remember is that a higher quantity of stats is nearly always better than a better quality of stats. Because of this, wearing higher item level gear with worse stats tends to be better than lower item level gear with great stats. Keep this in mind when considering gear.

This does not include trinkets as they are covered in the above chart.

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Shadowsteel Facecage	Painsmith Raznal in Sanctum of Domination
Necklace	Interplanar Keystone	Kel'Thuzad in Sanctum of Domination
Shoulders	Epaulettes of the Master Ranger	Sylvanas Windrunner in Sanctum of Domination
Cloak	Dark Ranger's Quiver	Sylvanas Windrunner in Sanctum of Domination
Chest	Colossus Slayer's Hauberk	The Tarragrue in Sanctum of Domination
Bracers	Bands of the Fallen House	Kel'Thuzad in Sanctum of Domination
Gloves	Grasps of Ancestral Whispers	Remnant of Ner'zhul in Sanctum of Domination
Belt	Ceremonial Construct Clasp	Kel'Thuzad in Sanctum of Domination
Legs	Hyperdense Greaves	Guardian of the First Ones in Sanctum of Domination
Boots	Ragebound Leg Irons	Soulrender Dormazain in Sanctum of Domination
Ring #1	Tarnished Insignia of Quel'Thalas	Sylvanas Windrunner in Sanctum of Domination
Ring #2	Oscillating Ouroboros	Fatescribe Roh-Kalo in Sanctum of Domination
Weapon	Rae'shalare, Death's Whisper	Sylvanas Windrunner in Sanctum of Domination

This list contains exclusively items that are not obtained from the Raid, for players who prefer not to Raid.

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Rattling Deadeye Hood	The Necrotic Wake
Necklace	Trailspinner Pendant	Mists of Tirna Scithe
Shoulders	Mantle of Ephemeral Visages	Halls of Atonement
Cloak	Cloak of Enveloping Manifestations	Sanguine Depths
Chest	Soaring Decimator's Hauberk	Halls of Atonement
Bracers	Tortured Assistant's Bindings	Plaguefall
Gloves	Iron Spiked Handgrips	Sanguine Depths
Belt	Clasp of Waning Shadow	Mists of Tirna Scithe
Legs	Blightborne Chain Legguards	Plaguefall
Boots	Shardskin Sabatons	Halls of Atonement
Ring #1	Ring of Perpetual Conflict	Theater of Pain
Ring #2	Fleshfused Circle	Theater of Pain
Weapon	Xy Cartel Crossbow	De Other Side