Marksmanship Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Shadowlands 9.0.5

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.

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 if you do not have a 220+ iLvl one already, this should be your first upgrade every single time.
• 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	Helm of Insatiable Appetite	Hungering Destroyer in Castle Nathria
Necklace	Noble's Birthstone Pendant	Council of Blood in Castle Nathria
Shoulder	Pauldrons of Fatal Finality	Sire Denathrius in Castle Nathria
Cloak	Crest of the Legionnaire General	Stone Legion Generals in Castle Nathria
Chest	Master Huntsman's Bandolier	Huntsman Altimor in Castle Nathria
Wrists	Bangles of Errant Pride	Sun King's Salvation in Castle Nathria
Gloves	Oathsworn Soldier's Gauntlets	Stone Legion Generals in Castle Nathria
Belt	Double-Chained Utility Belt	Shriekwing in Castle Nathria
Legs	Greaves of Enigmatic Energies	Artificer Xy'Mox in Castle Nathria
Boots	Stoneclas Stompers	Sludgefist in Castle Nathria
Ring #1	Most Regal Signet of Sire Denathrius	Sire Denathrius in Castle Nathria
Ring #2	Hyperlight Band	Artificer Xy'Mox in Castle Nathria
Weapon	Shrieking Sinseeker	Purchased with Mystic Anima Spherule which drops from Sire Denathrius in Castle Nathria. The name of the item can change if you are not a Night Fae.

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Rattling Deadeye Hood	The Necrotic Wake
Necklace	Trailspinner Pendant	Mists of Tirna Scithe
Shoulder	Plagueborne Shoulderguards	Plaguefall
Cloak	Cloak of Enveloping Manifestations	Sanguine Depths
Chest	Soaring Decimator's Hauberk	Halls of Atonement
Wrists	Shackles of Alluring Vitality	Sanguine Depths
Gloves	Iron Spiked Handgrips	Sanguine Depths
Belt	Belt of Wretched Manipulations	Plaguefall
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