Marksmanship Hunter PvP Talents and Builds (Dragonflight / Patch 10.0.5)
Choosing the right PvP and PvE talents is a prerequisite to proper performance in PvP. This guide goes through the various talent choices available to you as a Marksmanship Hunter and gives you the best combinations you can take.
This page is part of our Marksmanship Hunter PvP Guide.
Talent Choices for Marksmanship Hunters
PvP Talents for Marksmanship Hunters
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.
Primary PvP Talents for Marksmanship Hunters
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.
Chimaeral Sting can be used against enemy healers to silence them or
disconnect them from their teammates.
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.
Situational PvP Talents for Marksmanship Hunters
Trueshot Mastery can lead to more regular and powerful burst windows.
Consecutive Concussion is situationally very useful against powerful melee, as it keeps them at bay for longer and interrupts their damage via the stun.
Hi-Explosive Trap is mostly used against Melee comps, but can be used
against any comp for its powerful knockback.
Pet Talents
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
Changelog
- 30 Jan. 2023: Updated the recommended Talent Build.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 22 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
- 31 May 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 22 Feb. 2022: Updated the PvP Talent recommendations and the pet families you should use. Added Ferocity alternatives.
- 10 Nov. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.1.5.
- 06 Jul. 2021: Updated PvP Talents.
- 18 Mar. 2021: Updated Tier 7 Regular Talent.
- 06 Nov. 2020: Updated Talent Table.
- Updated Tiers 4 and 7 Regular Talents.
- 26 Oct. 2020: Updated Talent Table.
- 15 Oct. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands pre-patch (9.0.1)
This guide has been written by Azortharion, a Hunter Theorycrafter and Guidewriter since 2014, and considered one of the best Hunters in the world. He is an accomplished player with dozen of top parses for all specs throughout the game's history. He is also the Admin of Trueshot Lodge, the Hunter Class Discord, and you can watch his stream on Twitch. He even has his own personal Discord channel where you can get notifications about when the guides get updated and have direct communications with him.
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