Marksmanship Hunter PvP Talents and Builds (Shadowlands / Patch 9.2.5)

Level	Choices
15	✔ Master Marksman	✘ Serpent Sting	✘ A Murder of Crows
25	✔ Careful Aim	✘ Barrage	✘ Explosive Shot
30	✘ Trailblazer	✘ Natural Mending	✔ Camouflage
35	✘ Steady Focus	✔ Streamline	✘ Chimaera Shot
40	✘ Born To Be Wild	✔ Posthaste	✘ Binding Shackles
45	✘ Lethal Shots	✘ Dead Eye	✔ Double Tap
50	✘ Calling the Shots	✔ Lock and Load	✘ Volley

While the above table provides a generally accurate overview of the viability of talents, some finer points are discussed in the sections that follow, and we recommend you read those for a deeper understanding.

Master Marksman is the best choice in this tier. This talent is an increase to your overall sustained damage output.

Careful Aim is the best choice in this tier. This is a talent that helps when swapping targets or trying to kill an enemy from full health to 0 in a crowd control chain.

Natural Mending is the best choice in this tier. This talent enables additional Exhilarations. This will help increase your overall survivability versus teams that will be focusing you. However, if you are playing with a partner who has a Stealth ability like Rogue or Feral, Camouflage is the better choice. This will give you team a very strong opener.

Streamline is the best choice in this tier. This talent simply increases your overall damage output and makes it easier to finish Aimed Shot casts.

Posthaste is the best choice in this tier. This gives you even more mobility. It will allow you to run away from enemies if they are focusing you.

Double Tap is the best choice in this tier. This provides strong on-demand burst damage and crucial for securing kills. You will want to use this once the enemy healer is in crowd control.

Lock and Load is the best choice in this tier. This gives your auto shots a chance to cause your next Aimed Shots to be instant and cost no Focus. This is great for increasing your damage.

You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents. Each of them has their uses, but some are better for certain strategies than others. The top three choices are the most useful, but can be replaced with other PvP talents, depending on your team's goal.

Survival Tactics is the best PvP Talent for most situations. It can be used to negate individual powerful spells such as Death Bolts, and to remove DoTs from yourself on a regular basis. It is extra potent when combined with the Craven Strategem Legendary Power.

Scatter Shot is a versatile and useful PvP talent that can be used to land Freezing Traps, enable kill combos, interrupts, and to build range to quick melee.

Roar of Sacrifice is an extremely powerful defensive that can be used to get your opponents' kill target out of trouble. It has a fairly long cooldown and should be used only when absolutely necessary. It is more useful in 3v3 compared to 2v2, where you might prefer other options.

Hi-Explosive Trap is mostly used against Melee comps, but can be used against any comp for its powerful knockback.

Chimaeral Sting can be used against enemy healers to silence them or disconnect them from their teammates.

Pets do not have talent trees, and instead have their own types of specialization (Cunning, Ferocity, or Tenacity).

Each specialization gives your pet a few abilities. Cunning provides the ability Master's Call, by far the best pet ability to have. To get the Mortal Wounds debuff from your pets, you will need one of the following pets:

• Hyena
• Raptor
• Rodent

You can also use a Ferocity pet which grants 10% Leech if you are not comfortable using Master's Call, though we highly recommend it:

• Carrion Bird
• Ravager
• Scorpid
• Wasp