Marksmanship Hunter DPS Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — Dragonflight 10.2.5

Last updated on Jan 15, 2024 at 15:00 by Azortharion 126 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 — Dragonflight 10.2.5.

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

1.

Dragonflight Enchants, Gems and Consumables for Marksmanship Hunter

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.

2.

Best Dragonflight Gems for Marksmanship Hunter

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 one Fierce Illimited Diamond Icon Fierce Illimited Diamond in an item you are unlikely to replace, and then Crafty Ysemerald Icon Crafty Ysemerald in all other sockets.

3.

Best Dragonflight Enchants for Marksmanship Hunter

Slot Best Enchantment
Helm
  • Incandescent Essence Icon Incandescent Essence
Necklace
  • Tiered Medallion Setting Icon Tiered Medallion Setting (adds up to 3 sockets to a Neck item)
Weapon
  • High Intensity Thermal Scanner Icon High Intensity Thermal Scanner
  • Completely Safe Rockets Icon Completely Safe Rockets (can be used together with Enchants)
Cloak
  • Enchant Cloak - Graceful Avoidance Icon Enchant Cloak - Graceful Avoidance
Chest
  • Enchant Chest - Waking Stats Icon Enchant Chest - Waking Stats
Belt
  • Shadowed Belt Clasp Icon Shadowed Belt Clasp
Bracers
  • Enchant Bracer - Devotion of Avoidance Icon Enchant Bracer - Devotion of Avoidance
Legs
  • Fierce Armor Kit Icon Fierce Armor Kit
Boots
  • Enchant Boots - Plainsrunner's Breeze Icon Enchant Boots - Plainsrunner's Breeze (movement speed)
  • Enchant Boots - Watcher's Loam Icon Enchant Boots - Watcher's Loam (stamina)
Rings
  • Enchant Ring - Devotion of Haste Icon Enchant Ring - Devotion of Haste
  • Enchant Ring - Devotion of Mastery Icon Enchant Ring - Devotion of Mastery
  • Enchant Ring - Devotion of Critical Strike Icon Enchant Ring - Devotion of Critical Strike
  • Honestly, just roll a dice. It does not matter which of the three that you use.
4.

Best Dragonflight Consumables for Marksmanship Hunter

4.1.

Best Flask and Phial for Marksmanship Hunter

The best Flask is a slightly complicated topic.

  • Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage Icon Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage is the best DPS for most scenarios, but will occasionally do hefty damage to you after you have taken enough damage. You need around 60% uptime on the Corrupting Rage buff (the beneficial part) in combat for this to beat other Phials, so check your buff uptimes to make sure you meet this requirement. Otherwise, swap to the Phial below.
  • Phial of Tepid Versatility Icon Phial of Tepid Versatility is the best choice when the Iced Phial deals too much damage to be worth it or has too low uptime.
  • Phial of Elemental Chaos Icon Phial of Elemental Chaos does similar DPS to Tepid Versatility but does not have the defensive benefits. There really is no reason to ever run this.
  • Phial of Static Empowerment Icon Phial of Static Empowerment and Phial of Charged Isolation Icon Phial of Charged Isolation are the best on paper but highly dependent on their uptime. You need at least 80% uptime to beat out all other options. This is very rare. You can give it a try for extremely static encounters.

Overall, your best single-target option is Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage Icon Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage as it provides the best DPS in realistic scenarios. Just be aware of the damage penalty and keep some Phial of Tepid Versatility Icon Phial of Tepid Versatility on hand.

4.2.

Best Potion for Marksmanship Hunter

Your potion should be Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power Icon Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power. Use them liberally with Trueshot Icon Trueshot!

Warlock Healthstones and Dreamwalker's Healing Potion Icon Dreamwalker's Healing Potion should be used when at low health.

If you have Alchemy and have developed its trees, you can use Potion of Withering Dreams Icon Potion of Withering Dreams as well. Even when accounting for the damage taken, with bonuses obtained by Alchemists, it is a net-better heal than the Dreamwalker's Potion!

4.3.

Best Food for Marksmanship

As of Patch 10.2, it is now ever so slightly better to be using non-Agility food, such as Feisty Fish Sticks Icon Feisty Fish Sticks/Sizzling Seafood Medley Icon Sizzling Seafood Medley/ Thousandbone Tongueslicer Icon Thousandbone Tongueslicer. This is because the relative value of secondary stats rises quickly as you gain more Agility/Item Level. Like with gems, as long as your does not push you past a DR point, it is fine to use.

Or, if you just want something easy that is only ~0.3% worse, go with Deviously Deviled Eggs Icon Deviously Deviled Eggs, or eat from a Feast.

In addition, if you can afford it, you should use Draconic Augment Rune Icon Draconic Augment Runes to increase your primary stat. Since there is a finite amount of the consumable runes available, you should make sure to use them wisely and to stock up on them for when you need them.

Through the new Emerald Dream Zone and its Dream Wardens Faction, you can also obtain the Dreambound Augment Rune Icon Dreambound Augment Rune, which is permanent!

5.

Changelog

  • 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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