Marksmanship Hunter DPS Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — The War Within (Season 1)

Last updated on Sep 10, 2024 at 21:57 by Azortharion 147 comments
General Information

On this page, we list the best gems, enchants, flasks, potions, and food you can get for your Marksmanship Hunter, based on your stat priority. We also give budget alternatives. This page is updated for World of Warcraft — The War Within (Season 1).

If you were looking for WotLK Classic content, please refer to our WotLK Classic Marksmanship Hunter gems and enchants.

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Best Gems, Enchants, Food, and Flasks for Marksmanship Hunter in The War Within

This section specifically covers the optimal gems, enchants, food, and flasks to use for your character. To get a more detailed rundown of the different stats for Marksmanship Hunter, please visit our dedicated Stats page.

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Best Gems for Marksmanship Hunter in The War Within

We highly recommend using Raidbots to sim your character's ideal gems and enchants, as they might differ from our general recommendations.

You should use Culminating Blasphemite Icon Culminating Blasphemite in one socket. Then, you should ensure you have one gem of each type in other sockets to max out the Crit effect, ideally Deadly Emerald Icon Deadly Emerald/Deadly Onyx Icon Deadly Onyx/Deadly Sapphire Icon Deadly Sapphire/ Masterful Ruby Icon Masterful Ruby/Deadly Amber Icon Deadly Amber. Fill in remaining sockets with Masterful Ruby Icon Masterful Ruby.

You can also choose to take a 0.4% DPS hit to use the Elusive Blasphemite Icon Elusive Blasphemite with the Gems above for 8-10% movement speed. Given that we are, to some extent, a mobility-limited spec, this can actually work out to more DPS in the end, and is strongly worth considering if you partake in high-level, deadly content.

3.

Best The War Within Enchants for Marksmanship Hunter

Slot Best Enchantment
Necklace
  • Magnificent Jeweler's Setting Icon Magnificent Jeweler's Setting (adds up to 2 sockets to a Ring or Neck)
Weapon (Permanent)
  • Enchant Weapon - Authority of Radiant Power Icon Enchant Weapon - Authority of Radiant Power
  • Enchant Weapon - Council's Guile Icon Enchant Weapon - Council's Guile (Heavy AoE)
Weapon (Temporary)
  • Algari Mana Oil Icon Algari Mana Oil (Always used, can be combined with the above Enchants).
Cloak
  • Enchant Cloak - Chant of Winged Grace Icon Enchant Cloak - Chant of Winged Grace
Chest
  • Enchant Chest - Crystalline Radiance Icon Enchant Chest - Crystalline Radiance
  • Enchant Chest - Stormrider's Agility Icon Enchant Chest - Stormrider's Agility (Less DPS, more movement speed)
Bracers
  • Enchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Leech Icon Enchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Leech
Legs
  • Stormbound Armor Kit Icon Stormbound Armor Kit
Boots
  • Enchant Boots - Scout's March Icon Enchant Boots - Scout's March (Movement Speed)
  • Enchant Boots - Defender's March Icon Enchant Boots - Defender's March (Stamina)
Rings
  • Enchant Ring - Radiant Critical Strike Icon Enchant Ring - Radiant Critical Strike
  • Magnificent Jeweler's Setting Icon Magnificent Jeweler's Setting (adds up to 2 sockets to a Ring or Neck)
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Best Flask for Marksmanship Hunter in The War Within

You should be drinking the Flask of Alchemical Chaos Icon Flask of Alchemical Chaos at all times.

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Best Potion for Marksmanship Hunter in The War Within

Your stat potion should be Tempered Potion Icon Tempered Potion. Use these when you will do the most damage with your abilities, likely during your cooldowns and/or Bloodlust Icon Bloodlust/Heroism Icon Heroism. You can also obtain Fleeting Tempered Potion Icon Fleeting Tempered Potion from Cauldrons that can be spawned by Alchemists.

You should keep a stock of Algari Healing Potion Icon Algari Healing Potions to use when at low health, and if you have a Warlock in the group, grab their Healthstone Icon Healthstones and use them as well. Do not macro these together, they are best used separately! You can also obtain Fleeting Algari Healing Potion Icon Fleeting Algari Healing Potion from Cauldrons that can be spawned by Alchemists.

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Best Food for Marksmanship Hunter in The War Within

Since our secondary stats are stronger per-point than our primary stat, you should be eating secondary stat food at all times, either Beledar's Bounty Icon Beledar's Bounty, Outsider's Provisions Icon Outsider's Provisions, Jester's Board Icon Jester's Board, Empress' Farewell Icon Empress' Farewell personal food, or the The Sushi Special Icon The Sushi Special Feast. They are all identical.

In addition, if you can afford it, you should use Crystallized Augment Rune Icon Crystallized Augment Runes to increase your primary stat. Augment Runes are expensive, and disappear on death, so use them wisely!

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Changelog

  • 10 Sep. 2024: Added note about Movement Speed Gem, and also updated the Gem setup recommendation in general.
  • 09 Sep. 2024: Preliminary updates for The War Within Season 1.
  • 22 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within.
  • 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
  • 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
  • 22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Season 4.
  • 19 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
  • 15 Jan. 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.5
  • 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2
  • 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
  • 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
  • 22 May 2023: Updated the recommended Leg Enchant, as it was found that the Lambent Armor Kit does not provide Stamina as it was assumed.
  • 12 May 2023: Updated the recommended food and Leg enchant.
  • 01 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
  • 23 Mar. 2023: Yet another update to the recommended Gemstones based on a slew of hotfixes.
  • 23 Mar. 2023: Updated the recommended Gemstones after sim updates, and the discovery of a new, powerful combination.
  • 21 Mar. 2023: Updated the Onyx Annulet Information in light of the March 21st buff.
  • 20 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
  • 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
  • 04 Jan. 2023: Updated the recommended Phial.
  • 11 Dec. 2022: Updated the recommendation and description of the optimal Flasks/Phials.
  • 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
  • 24 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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