Marksmanship Hunter DPS Mythic+ Guide — Season 4

This build is optimal for all Mythic+ situations, focusing on an optimized blend of AoE and single-target that is optimal for completing high Mythic+ dungeons as quickly as possible.

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Counter Shot is your "kick" and your most important bit of utility in Mythic+, used to stop enemy casts for the benefit of the group and especially the tank. It is highly recommended to use a Focus Kick macro for this.

• /stopcasting
• /stopcasting
• /cast [@focus,exists,nodead][@mouseover,exists,nodead] [] Counter Shot

This macro will kick your focus target if you have one, mouseover if you have no Focus target, and your target if you have neither of those.

To quickly set a focus target in hectic scenarios, we also recommend a Focus Mouseover macro.

• /focus [@mouseover]

Make sure that your UI shows your Focus Target's casts clearly, so that you are always able to kick it on cooldown, or in coordination with the rest of your group.

Binding Shot can be used to save your tank in hectic moments by helping him kite mobs and generate some range.

Freezing Trap can be used as an additional stop alongside Intimidation, but it has a slow travel time and you will need to be close to land it before most stunnable casts are finished.

Scatter Shot (mutually exclusive with Binding Shot) can be used as an additional stop alongside Intimidation and Freezing Trap, but you have to be within 20 yards of the mob you are stopping. It will also remove any DoTs like Barbed Shot, giving it a small DPS cost.

Feign Death can not only be used to drop aggro, but also negate certain casts and channels on you. In some cases, these mechanics will simply re-target someone else in the group, but occasionally the mechanic will be entirely negated with huge benefits. If you notice a cast or effect on you, try to Feign Death it!

Tranquilizing Shot can negate beneficial Enrage and Magic effects from enemy targets, and with the Improved Tranquilizing Shot Talent, we do not lose meaningful damage from doing so.

Tar Trap can be used to aid your tank in kiting by slowing mobs.

• Crawth: Your defensive rotation should be Bear > SoTF > Turtle > Repeat. Start using these defensives when you are pretty sure that the next Screech will kill you, as they do increasing damage.
• Overgrown Ancient: Use cooldowns at 25s and 2:25.
• Echo of Doragosa: When targeted by Energy Bomb, use Feign Death quickly to cancel it.

• Arcane Ravager: Bait the Vicious Ambush (stand at max range), and Feign once it targets you.

• No special tips.

• Arcane Tender — Feigning the Erratic Growth on you will cancel it entirely.
• Rune Seal Keeper — If Icy Bindings goes through (it really shouldn't!), you can Disengage the root.
• Drakonid Breaker — Shoulder Slam can be Feigned if it is on you.

• Rira Hackclaw — You can feign Savage Charge.

• Bracken Warscourge — You can pre-cast Tranquilizing Shot just before the Ragestorm cast finishes to insta-stop it.

• No specific tips.

• Containment Apparatus — You can feign Containment Beam when it targets you.

• Magmatusk — You can feign Lava Spray, but it will re-target. You can also Turtle an application of Magma Eruption.

• Qalashi Bonesplitter — You can feign Dragonbone Axe.

• Teera — Aspect of the Turtle will not immune Gale Arrow, even though you might expect it to.
• Balakar Khan — You can feign Static Spear.

• No specific tips.

• Kyrakka — You can pre- Aspect of the Turtle Flamespit.

• Thunderhead — You can pre- Aspect of the Turtle Rolling Thunder. You cannot know if you are targeted ahead of time, so this is a sort of gamble.
• Blazebound Destroyer — You can Feign ~0.75s before Inferno on you expires, and not take any damage.

• Olaf — You can feign Ricocheting Shield.

• No specific tips.

Marksmanship Hunter has no way of dealing with the Afflicted Affix, as it has no friendly dispel. The best you can do is remind your teammates to do it.

Marksmanship Hunter is well-equipped to deal with Incorporeal. You can pre- Freezing Trap one of the circles that spawn, and then use Scare Beast (Talent) on another and solo the affix every time.

Marksmanship Hunter can use Disengage to immediately break and move out of Entangling, thanks to our Posthaste Talent.

Marksmanship Hunter is fully mobile, and can run around and intentionally soak the Storming tornados and help your group not have to deal with them, since other Ranged are usually movement-limited, and melee do not want to risk being knocked out of melee range.

Marksmanship Hunter can use Binding Shot and Tar Trap to best deal with Spiteful Shades. Consider speccing into Entrapment to make your Tar Trap even more useful for this.

Marksmanship Hunter has Tranquilizing Shot to deal with Raging. We do not recommend spamming it mindlessly, but instead it helps to know which mobs need CC in a pack and preparing to enrage-dispel those when they hit 30% HP.

Marksmanship Hunter has nothing special to deal with Bolstering, but it is extremely important to always be hitting the highest HP target in a pack on Bolstering weeks. We highly recommend this WeakAura to help mark out this target in hectic situations.

Marksmanship Hunter can use Aspect of the Turtle when a lot of mobs are dying to prevent stacks of Bursting being applied.

Marksmanship Hunter can use High Explosive Trap (Talent) to knock mobs out of Sanguine and reposition them.