Marksmanship Hunter DPS Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — 12.1

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If you have 5+ sockets in your gear, you should use Powerful Eversong Diamond in one socket. Then, you should ensure you have one gem of each type in other sockets to max out the Crit effect, ideally Flawless Deadly Peridot/ Flawless Deadly Amethyst/ Flawless Deadly Lapis/ Flawless Masterful Garnet. Fill in remaining sockets with Flawless Masterful Garnet.

If you do not have 5+ sockets in your gear, you should use Indecipherable Eversong Diamond in one socket, and Flawless Masterful Garnet in the rest.

Optimizations

Stats and Simulations

Not satisfied with standard recommendations? Jump to these two guides to find out more about what your stats do, and how to fully optimize them.

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Gear Information

Best in Slot Gear and Where to Get It

Before applying gems and enchants to your equipment, make sure to check whether there might be an easy-to-get item that is better than the one you're currently wearing!

Gear

The best flask is generally going to be Flask of the Shattered Sun. That said, it is best to think of Flasks as just another piece of gear that is easily swappable, and depending on your exact gear situation, any of the 4 secondary stat flasks can be optimal. To really minmax on this point, you would need to simulate it.

Marksmanship uses two different DPS Potions in most 5+ minute fights.

• Potion of Recklessness is the default option, offering a huge amount of your highest secondary stat for 30 sec, to be synced with your cooldowns. Note that this Potion is sensitive to your best stat (Critical Strike) actually being your highest when you pop the Potion. If that is not the case at this point in your gearing process, use Light's Potential instead. It also benefits greatly from your lowest stat (usually Versatility) being very near-0, since that means you suffer none of the reduction.
• Liquid Luster is the second Potion of the fight, for the execute phase. By then Bullseye has given you so much Critical Strike that another Potion of Recklessness does far less for you. Luster builds its Versatility up over 30 sec, so drink it around 10 sec before you pop your execute- Trueshot.

Make sure to carry Concentrated Silvermoon Health Potion as well. It has a 5-minute cooldown and heals most of your health; use it as a last resort, preferring your personal defensives wherever possible.

The best Food you can eat is from a Harandar Celebration or Silvermoon Parade feast. The best non-feast food is Hearty Royal Roast. The "Hearty" part is important, as this food persists through death, and we highly recommend grabbing Cooking to easily make your own Hearty Food, as it cannot be straightforwardly purchased on the Auction House.

The best Augment Rune in Midnight is Void-Touched Augment Rune, but it might be very expensive to use on every pull or every dungeon, so use it sparingly unless your wallet is deep.

Professions

Create and Craft Your Own Consumables

While you can simply buy all these items from the Auction House, you may want to craft them yourself and sell the leftovers instead with our Icy Veins Profession Guides!

Midnight Professions Guide

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