Marksmanship Hunter PvP Talents and Builds — The War Within (11.1.5)

This build combines Double Tap with Kill Zone to create a powerful area of effect burst during your Volley that does not require you to be in line of sight of your target. This is powerful because it will be harder for the enemy to interrupt your casts with crowd control, and also because you will be able to perform your burst damage even when an enemy is behind a pillar.

You should always make sure that you have a Rapid Fire and/or Lock and Load proc ready when you use Volley to capitalise on the Double Tap effect and make sure that your casts go off before the target is able to leave the Volley radius. It is also important, generally, to only use Rapid Fire when you know that you will be able to get the whole channel off, as getting the whole channel off will increase your Aimed Shot damage through Bulletstorm.

This build uses the Sentinel Hero talents for the area of effect damage from Lunar Storm, and to maximise the value from Aspect of the Hydra ( Sentinel uses Aimed Shot and Rapid Fire more than Dark Ranger because it doesn't have the high priority Black Arrow in its rotation).

This build uses Windrunner Quiver to boost your Arcane Shot damage. During combat you alternate between using Aimed Shot to consume Streamline stacks (and generate Precise Shots stacks), and casting Arcane Shot/ Black Arrow to consume your Precise Shots stacks (and generate new Streamline stacks).

When playing with Headshot, you should prioritise Kill Shot over Arcane Shot whenever you have Precise Shots active and Kill Shot is available.

You should only drop Aspect of the Hydra if there is no chance that your target will ever be stacked. It is a "smart" area of effect, meaning that if an enemy is in crowd control, Aspect of the Hydra will not do damage to them. Aspect of the Hydra also triggers Trick Shots, which makes your Volley windows much more powerful when there are multiple stacked enemies.

This build takes Kodo Tranquilizer and you should press Tranquilizing Shot on cooldown, especially when it will purge a magic effect off more than one player.

In games where you feel that it will be possible to avoid damage by kiting, or where you are not likely to be the kill target, you should choose the Cunning talent to boost your mobility.

If you expect to be targeted a lot, killed in stuns or unable to kite enemies, you can swap this to Tenacious for some additional durability.

Sentinel is the better Hero Talent tree currently, but if you did want to play Dark Ranger, you would use the same Hunter and Marksmanship talent trees and the only change would be swapping the Hero tree.

Be sure to make use of the 'Copy Export String' button to import the best build directly into your game!

This build trades the wallhacks talent Deadzone to pick up Salvo for additional area of effect burst and Aspect of the Hydra to cleave your rotation onto a second target.

You should always make sure that you have a Rapid Fire and/or Lock and Load proc ready when you use Volley to capitalise on the Double Tap effect and make sure that your casts go off before the target is able to leave the Volley radius. It is also important, generally, to only use Rapid Fire when you know that you will be able to get the whole channel off, as getting the whole channel off will increase your Aimed Shot damage through Bulletstorm

This build uses the Sentinel Hero talents for the area of effect damage from Lunar Storm, and to maximise the value from Aspect of the Hydra ( Sentinel uses Aimed Shot and Rapid Fire more than Dark Ranger because it doesn't have the high priority Black Arrow in its rotation).

Use this when you are facing two melee players that will be attacking the same target, so you can duplicate damage to the main target onto the off-target.

This build uses Windrunner Quiver to boost your Arcane Shot damage. During combat you alternate between using Aimed Shot to consume Streamline stacks (and generate Precise Shots stacks), and casting Arcane Shot/ Black Arrow to consume your Precise Shots stacks (and generate new Streamline stacks).

When playing with Headshot, you should prioritise Kill Shot over Arcane Shot whenever you have Precise Shots active and Kill Shot is available.

You should only drop Aspect of the Hydra if there is no chance that your target will ever be stacked. It is a "smart" area of effect, meaning that if an enemy is in crowd control, Aspect of the Hydra will not do damage to them. Aspect of the Hydra also triggers Trick Shots, which makes your Volley windows much more powerful when there are multiple stacked enemies.

This build takes Kodo Tranquilizer and you should press Tranquilizing Shot on cooldown, especially when it will purge a magic effect off more than one player.

In games where you feel that it will be possible to avoid damage by kiting, or where you are not likely to be the kill target, you should choose the Cunning talent to boost your mobility.

If you expect to be targeted a lot, killed in stuns or unable to kite enemies, you can swap this to Tenacious for some additional durability.

Be sure to make use of the 'Copy Export String' button to import the best build directly into your game!

This build combines Double Tap with Kill Zone to create a powerful area of effect burst during your Volley that does not require you to be in line of sight of your target. This is powerful because it will be harder for the enemy to interrupt your casts with crowd control, and also because you will be able to perform your burst damage even when an enemy is behind a pillar.

You should always make sure that you have a Rapid Fire and/or Lock and Load proc ready when you use Volley to capitalise on the Double Tap effect and make sure that your casts go off before the target is able to leave the Volley radius. It is also important, generally, to only use Rapid Fire when you know that you will be able to get the whole channel off, as getting the whole channel off will increase your Aimed Shot damage through Bulletstorm.

This build uses the Dark Ranger Hero talent tree for additional instant damage with Black Arrow, which you should prioritise over Arcane Shot when using Precise Shots procs with the Headshot talent.

This build uses Windrunner Quiver to boost your Black Arrow and Arcane Shot damage. During combat you alternate between using Aimed Shot to consume Streamline stacks (and generate Precise Shots stacks), and casting Arcane Shot/ Black Arrow to consume your Precise Shots stacks (and generate new Streamline stacks).

You should only drop Aspect of the Hydra if there is no chance that your target will ever be stacked. It is a "smart" area of effect, meaning that if an enemy is in crowd control, Aspect of the Hydra will not do damage to them. Aspect of the Hydra also triggers Trick Shots, which makes your Volley windows much more powerful when there are multiple stacked enemies.

This build takes Kodo Tranquilizer and you should press Tranquilizing Shot on cooldown, especially when it will purge a magic effect off more than one player.

In games where you feel that it will be possible to avoid damage by kiting, or where you are not likely to be the kill target, you should choose the Cunning talent to boost your mobility.

If you expect to be targeted a lot, killed in stuns or unable to kite enemies, you can swap this to Tenacious for some additional durability.

Be sure to make use of the 'Copy Export String' button to import the best build directly into your game!