get lowered to just above 1.5 seconds. This of course will mostly depend on your If you are set on adding melee weaving into your rotation, then you need to find a Steady Shot can deal damage from range without ever letting their target get close. You will want to use this talent when your raid uses Heroism for maximum efficiency. in our rotation: Kill Command and Multi-Shot. While Hunters may have been quite weak in Classic relative to Contribute optimization however is if you eventually switch to using a if you spam the button. Thanks to the power of Wyvern Sting and Flags. When your Hunter gets to level 70 you gain an amazingly useful ability called Misdirection. Yes, and BM also 100% did (does) have a 1-button dps macro in TBC (steady shot is OP btw). Hunter. just do not have the same AoE tools that Mages and Warlocks do. Trueshot Aura however, which gives them a nice buff for melee Thanks to pet issues in 2v2 where people will target and kill their pets. There are multiple good uses for this such as being able to use two Rapid Fire per boss or Multi-Shot twice during trash packs resulting an overall dps boost. Ferocious Inspiration is huge for Beast Mastery Hunters. You can also use it to keep track of your completed quests, recipes, mounts, companion pets, and titles! something already targeted. so if your pet has to travel at all to the target it wont work until it gets there. Only 4/5 is required for Frenzy as 80% will allow you to still maintain 100% uptime with the 8 second duration. Classic has to offer: This guide has been written by Impakt, an Officer in BDGG, been a TBC theorycrafter and enthusiast for many years. The Wowhead Client is a little application we use to keep our database up to date, and to provide you with some nifty extra functionality on the website! For instance, if your base weapon speed was hypothetically 2 seconds, with some haste that could scaling from Agility to provide a specific debuff for the raid group. pieces, along with several of your important pieces coming from crafting A 1 button all-in-one kill command macro. Starts cooldown after aura fades. Hunters are master marksmen and, with the help of a fierce animal companion, Hunters are one of the S-tier DPS classes, and most raids will take as many follow him on Twitter. When this does happen you want to have the ability to revive your pet as quick as possible to get back into the fight. Use these templates as an However, thanks to TBC being on the modern interested in our full guides for Level 70 Hunters as you explore all that TBC Beast Master was the best DPS spec, Survival coming into play in T6 gear to improve raid DPS . Here is a full dump of my 18 character specific macros, covering (almost) every ability for all 3 specs. This means you can simply macro it into Steady Shot and every other offensive ability to use automatically. In addition to live WoW, he has also Silencing Shot will only see benefits in PvP when you are trying to secure a kill and need to silence the healer or peel caster dps to avoid death. For Hunters, TBC is perhaps the strongest they will ever be out of any expansion in WoW's Kill Command is your highest priority ability, and is also off the GCD. some insane damage early on. You will no longer be this far into the Marksmanship tree. This is another filler talent, but could be slightly useful for the Survival Hunter that potentially makes a bad pull in raids/dungeons. Hunters are able to wear Cloth and Leather, and can also learn how to use follow him on Twitter. Screenshots containing UI elements are generally declined on sight, the same goes for screenshots from the modelviewer or character selection screen. Marksmanship is a With builds such as 0/20/41 this talent will allow you to use abilities such as. In PvP however you will want to take 5/5 as your pet will be critical in mantaining pressure on your enemies and any extra armor will help you in that regard. . strongest Hunter spec. Download the client and get started. is where Hunters truly step into the limelight. Survival Subsequent presses of the button will issue a kill command. This talent gives a nice small boost to overall dps and you will want to take this as the Survival Hunter. Volley is also something you can use, but is relatively weak. This is a simple macro that makes it so you cannot cancel your Auto Shot This means You can also use it to keep track of your completed quests, recipes, mounts, companion pets, and titles! it is hard to recommend. The other thing /20/41 gives you is control. tops meters, Marksmanship is a bit lacking. Improved Revive Pet should be always taken by all hunters, both in PvE and PvP your pet will always die at times, its inevitable. also scaling your ranged weapon damage. will also automatically target a viable enemy in front of you if you do not have The passive 20% haste helps reduce downtime in rotations and also greatly benefits pet dps output. draining Mana and running teams down. Again, Kill Command should just be used on cooldown whenever it is available, focuses on boosting your pet damage in addition to yours, giving you access to Personally I love Chimaeras and I found that this Macro works like . /20/41 is another very good option for Survival Hunters. Shift 4 = Intimidation. Welcome to our Macros guide for Hunter, where you will find out what the best You might want to proof-read your comments before posting them. Beast Mastery Artifact Weapon: Titanstrike, Do Not Auto Select Target with Initiates Combat. You will then only use your melee attack once clearly in melee range. to quickly and efficiently call your pet back to your side or send it out to attack Most raids will covet Beast Mastery Hunters, looking to stack them With the changes in TBCC and the specializations that are viable. Beast Mastery is particularly strong in 3v3 arena, as they can suffer with Simply browse for your screenshot using the form below. The macro just made the rotation brainlessly consistent. playing Alliance or Orc, Troll, and Tauren if you are Horde. I only tell her whom to spare." [1] TCG artwork. 66 got Kill command and since then to 68 has been working awesome. There are two important things for your opener: cooldowns and a pre-pull Aimed Shot. It has a high average uptime which is beneficial to our rotations. because it is our highest DPS ability even on one target, so adding more targets is just a bonus. Download the client and get started. Orcs are the best for Horde, and Alliance is more up to you. high-tier spec in 2v2 arena, as Viper Sting is extremely good at Thanks to some Beast Mastery The rotation is as follows: Auto Shot; Steady Shot; Multi-Shot or Arcane Shot; 5% Critical Strike Chance is huge in PvE for maintaining uptime on. Hunters were the EZ mode class in vanilla and in BC not much has changed, except now you can't just /AFK auto shoot. Thanks to some incredible class changes, most notably with pets scaling from your AP now, Hunters are S-tier DPS for the entirety of TBC. Lightning Reflexes and other scaling talents, Survival also A Beast Mastery Hunter's Focus has a maximum capacity of 120, and regenerates at a slow rate that varies by spec. Places your pet on passive when you cast Scatter Shot so your pet This is a useless talent for PvE. with the name of whatever food you want to feed your pet with. ended up scaling too well thanks to a high AP coefficient. This talent isn't too important as. However it will only ever be used by your designated Survival Hunter that pulls mobs in raid. in. Shift-mouse wheel= Steady Shot. This is a useless talent for PvE and should not be taken. You will want this talent always as Beast Mastery and in some cases for Survival. Absolutely! Spirit Bond is a useless talent in raids/PvP. It is used as a filler talent for better options deeper into the Survival tree. Give the command to kill, causing your pet to instantly attack for an additional 127 damage. You cannot cast Steady Shot follow him on Twitter. The movement speed is a very slighty bonus in PvP. in between Auto Shot uses. Raids will want one Period. Simply type the URL of the video in the form below. BM was optimal & was one of the highest DPS specs. The player will not shake the bow no matter how you press it when there is no mandatory delay in the P1 stage. 2H weapons also give worse stats than 1H weapons Simply browse for your screenshot using the form below. This ability Has an extremely helpful use on the boss. ensuring that you will not immediately re-draw aggro from the target. The ability to instantly generate 50 focus opens the door to using Wind Serpent as a pet once you reach a certain Crit Rating thresold and you will want this talent so you can spam. In Classic, Hunters had huge gaps with downtime in their The Wowhead Client is a little application we use to keep our database up to date, and to provide you with some nifty extra functionality on the website! Normally, if you run into melee range to try and Raptor Strike your target, there timers that yields the least downtime. However, some are better than others at certain Unfortunately the talent tree just does 100% viable in all content. you can simply macro it into Steady Shot and every other offensive ability You should not need to think about using it ever, it should just be used whenever available. /castsequence reset=combat/target Hunter's Mark, kill command, kill command, kill command, kill command It basically sends your pet in, puts in defensive stance (maybe remove that for instances) and casts hunters mark. pet damage doesn't matter all that much by itself just focus on your overall dps. This talent is only taken with the 0/20/41 Survival build and is a prerequisite to, Readiness can be a useful talent depending on what survival build you decide to play with. Simply type the URL of the video in the form below. at every stage of the game. This is talent has no real use in PvE whatsoever, however it can be useful in PvP to increase the chances of a successful trap. The hit cap for a hunter is 9% but survival hunters get 3% hit from the surefooted talent, which you should pretty much always take unless for some reason you're way over the cap and have a better place to spend those points. Can only be used after the Hunter lands a critical strike on the target. been a TBC theorycrafter and enthusiast for many years. I didn't include PvP talents and a couple of talents that I just drop on the bar and use as is, but everything else is here. but so do addons, for which reason we recommend that you also read our Hunter Addons Increasing your pet's critical strike damage will greatly increase your overall dps. Your pet makes up a large portion of your damage in TBC. of micromanagement since they need to be told what to do. In BC Hunter DPS comes down to one macro that repeatedly casts Steady Shot while allowing for your auto shots to weave in between the casts, also activating Kill Command when it procs. quality of life changes in TBC. MM has better offerings than kill command. 2% Agility and 6% Intellect is a very minor increase. We also have advanced sections about cooldowns, procs, etc. and are quite strong. This talent should always be taken by every specialization and in PvP. You will take 1 point of Animal Handler in PvP spec only. Perhaps the most important pet expansion. This talent is more or less a filler talent but can be useful for Survival Hunters looking to melee weave. Kill Command is your highest priority ability, and is also off the GCD. Adding "/petattack" to macros When kill Command is active, it FIRES off and you need to press the macro Twice to carry on. This is mostly used for when your hasted weapon speed is 2.2-2.4 seconds, allowing you to combine 2 Steady Shot s with 1 other instant cast shot for every 2 Auto Shot s. This would be for slower bows, where your weapon speed is around 2.8-3.0 baseline. A full BM Hunter combat suite with more extensive information. MM Hunters offer scales extremely well, getting progressively stronger throughout the tiers. Screenshots containing UI elements are generally declined on sight, the same goes for screenshots from the modelviewer or character selection screen. Give the command to kill, causing your pet to savagely deal (173% of Attack power) Physical damage to the enemy. Simply type the URL of the video in the form below. as they can get. Also, not required, but I use this macro along. Are Hunters good in TBC? whenever available. Aspect of the Viper is incredibly good for Mana regen, and while Please keep the following in mind when posting a comment: Your comment must be in English or it will be removed. while moving, which means that you can use instant-cast abilities such as Multi-Shot, Give the command to kill, causing your pet to savagely deal (173% of Attack power) Physical damage to the enemy. Simply type the URL of the video in the form below. attack range is now 5 yards instead of 8, meaning we can seamlessly transition 30% bonus damage to Critical Strikes is way too powerful to pass up. significantly better small-window burst, control, and sustain than other Bestial Discipline is another major must. While this was a common practice for Hunters in Classic, it is used significantly less in TBC. cons in both PvE and PvP, but first and foremost all of the Hunter specs are Hunters are S-tier DPS for the entirety of TBC. #showtooltip Kill Command /cast Call Pet 1 /cast Kill Command /cast Froststorm Breath /cast Frost Breath I would love to figure a way to add Bestial Wrath to the mix as well. Guns, Polearms, Staves, Swords, Thrown, Two-Handed Axes, and Two-Handed Surefooted is one of the critical Survival Hunter talents. and Hunters have a base power level that is significantly higher than most It would look like the rotation below. You do not need bm specc. They do less damage than the other 2 specs in PvP, but bring more to use automatically. Survival Hunter for their debuff that they bring, but Beast Mastery is the raid will always want at least one Survival Hunter. If you add "/cast Lightning Breath" to your rotation macro, it ensures that your Wind Serpent a powerful new cooldown and some excellent stat talents that help you to top Screenshots containing UI elements are generally declined on sight, the same goes for screenshots from the modelviewer or character selection screen. While this is not an exhaustive list of all possible/useful macros, we will Simply type the URL of the video in the form below. After you Multi-Shot, your pet's melee attacks also strike all nearby enemies for 35% of the damage. the seconds prior to a boss being pulled to cast it. Main Nuke - Aimed Shot in MM, Kill Command in BM, Wildfire Bomb in SV. Intimidation can help secure a kill in arenas or help peel the enemy off your healer. Hunters are one of the most versatile classes and are able to use a huge This command means to reset the automatic shooting. Being able to root your target for 4 seconds will help against melee oponents greatly. If your pet is dead it revives it, if it's dismissed it calls it, and if it's active and alive it heals it. Barrage has it's niche use for Survival Hunters in PvE when aiming to maximize personal dps. Causes an additional 175 against Dazed targets. May have some small uses while leveling. to put your pet on passive and call it back to you if needed. However, there are minor optimizations for your movement. PvP is where Marksmanship truly shines though. where your weapon speed is around 2.8-3.0 baseline. Hunter First time hunter and just hit level 62 and got steady shot. They will never out-DPS Beast Mastery Hunters, but they get higher and higher This talent is another major requirement for Beast Mastery Hunters. that BM Hunters could use for near-optimal DPS. targets while soloing when you want your pet to tank. meters. abilities, traps, and a wide range of utility spells, Hunters are a great choice for anyone You can also use it to keep track of your completed quests, recipes, mounts, companion pets, and titles! So, what are you waiting for? In PvP, Beast Has been working from 60 to 66. things. The Beast Mastery Hunter rotation is based primarily around one ability: Removing shot weaving and allowing steady shot to be fully spammed without pushing back auto shots would be a huge buff to hunters that they literally do not need or deserve in tbc. Damage increased by 15% in non-PvP situations. Patch 4.0.6 (8-Feb-2011): Kill Command's damage has been increased by 20%. So, what are you waiting for? Can only be used after the Hunter lands a critical strike on the target. Steady Shot casts in is worth it. game. Multi-Shot is slightly more damage per use than Steady Shot, so you can just press it survivability and CC compared to other Hunter specs and other classes. thanks. Give the command to kill, causing your pet to savagely deal [Attack power * 1.29 *. Improved Mend Pet will help reduce the mana cost during long fights where you will be casting mend pet frequently to avoid as many pet deaths as possible. Aimed Shot is actually your single hardest-hitting ability as a Hunter, but has such a long cast time Serpent as your pet. While Beast Mastery Focus works in much the same way as other class resources, like Rage and Energy, in the sense that some abilities grant Focus, while others cost Focus to be used. The optimal rotation would be 1:1 then, where you would The version on this page is automatically granted to Beast Mastery hunters, and is . available. Remember that in TBC traps can be used in combat, making In TBC, thanks to the addition of Beast Mastery Hunter in both single-target and multiple-target PvE Arcane shot only gives 0.2 x ranged ap, so this one scales better if you have good gear. Download the client and get started. MM Hunters do bring This is mostly used for when your hasted the #2 North American guild on retail. However little is said about it in game, and there is not much information about it. In addition to live WoW, he has also Simply browse for your screenshot using the form below. Steady Shot uses in your rotation with Multi-Shot whenever you want to weave Additionally, Hunters received several more nice The "OMG HUNTER LOOT" / "That's a hunter weapon !" : joke is derived from a time when some classes carried a ranged weapon and a melee weapon. You can also use it to keep track of your completed quests, recipes, mounts, companion pets, and titles! . They are incredibly strong all A steady shot that causes base weapon damage plus (Ranged attack power * 0.2 + 150). Patch 5.4.0 (10-Sep-2013): Kill Command damage has been increased by 34%. page. their other trap enhancing talents, Survival has some excellent control options Finding your optimal rotation as a Hunter comes down to your weapon speed. This will cast Feign Death while stopping all attacks from you and your pet, movement required is, remember that you can move and stop briefly every couple of seconds This is not an issue on pull since you can use This talent provides 440 Ranged Attack Power and 110 Melee Attack Power for the raid and is too good to pass up. Each attack will . This will be a PvP only talent. On this page, you will learn how to optimize the rotation of your Not only that, this shot costs less than half the mana of arcane shot (110 mana vs 230 for arcane). 20% increased damage done is too good to pass up. Deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets. Macros are very important in making your character play as smoothly as possible, Steady Shot and more haste in general, the windows where you could melee of a Steady Shot use. personally. This talent is a must as it is a large dps boost and will also reduce your mana cost of abilities for 18 seconds. In addition to Steady Shot, there are two other abilities that will regularly be used the #2 North American guild on retail. then Press macro every 1.6 seconds. Explosive Trap is more of a mass-AoE focused ability, however, Beast Mastery Hunters do not have the available points to use this talent. All three specializations play relatively similarly as they are all range DPS specializations Kill Command is a row 1 hunter class talent. This talent will help with your, Lightning Reflexes is crucial as a 15% increase to agility will provide a nice increase to, Depending on what Survival talent build you decide to choose you will put either one or two points into this. Download the client and get started. will always use its main DPS ability as much as possible. to Auto Shot ratio that works for you, where you also have enough time to drop If you decide to play Marksmanship even though it is highly not recommended. Simply type the URL of the video in the form below. So, what are you waiting for? Thanks to the incredible buffs and scaling changes Screenshots containing UI elements are generally declined on sight, the same goes for screenshots from the modelviewer or character selection screen. Kill Command is instant cast and off the GCD, so a lot of hunters would just add a cast of the KC to every macro not just this one, so that's where that part comes in. that focus on a combination of bow and pet attacks. Kill Command. Giving a chance to stun your opponent for 3 seconds is too good to pass up in PvP. The more important change is what was mentioned above, that pets no gain a Confused on how to write/find the 3:2 macro. Aimed Shot is required for all specializations as it is required for Mortal Shots. In PvP, Beast Mastery is still strong, but nowhere near as meta as in Fury Warriors spamming piercing howl get the added benefit of heroic strike, it should be no different with hunters. Kill Command For Multi-Shot specifically, just replace one of your Macros are for your Hunter in The Burning Crusade Classic. Hunters are the ideal solo class, but also perform well in groups and can do professions. Unlike where they will soon find themselves in Classic (P5-P6 bottom feeder dps), Hunters (their abilities) actually scaled very very well all through TBC to SWP's end-game content . Pathfinding is a useless talent and should never be taken in any situation. Bestial Wrath is our on-use talent and provides a major dps boost during "Burn Phase". Screenshots containing UI elements are generally declined on sight, the same goes for screenshots from the modelviewer or character selection screen. types of PvP as well, but 2v2 arena is where they shine. This Talent is only taken by Survival Hunters. mostly is up to what you value. You can achieve the same if not greater numbers manually doing the rotation. The most common version of the rotation will be 1:1.5. Melee weaving at best will be a tiny DPS increase when done optimally, You can also use it to keep track of your completed quests, recipes, mounts, companion pets, and titles! a Raptor Strike somewhere in the cycle. if you ever need more Mana. in-depth guides for leveling a Hunter by specialization in the links below! This is a useless talent and should never be taken in any situation. on Multi-Shot damage. So, what are you waiting for? However you get a better attack power bonus from this shot (you get 0.3 x ranged ap). Beast Mastery Artifact Weapon: Titanstrike, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_%28command%29, http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/20747314610#2, Do Not Auto Select Target with Initiates Combat. overall, but the difference is more minor. Also one that a lot of hunters use but I like to recommend it just in case because it's my favorite Hunter macro ever: /cast [target=pet, dead] Revive Pet; [nopet] Call Pet; Mend Pet. incredible class changes, most notably with pets scaling from your AP now, Most of the MM talents focus on Hunter Addons in Burning Crusade Classic, New Encrypted WoW Classic Era Patch 1.15 Appears on WoW Dev 2 CDN, BlizzCon 2023 Update by Blizzard President Mike Ybarra, Blackwing Lair Hardcore (One Life) Cleared in Classic, Wrath Classic Feral Druid Tuning: April 10th, Wrath Classic Feral Druid Adjustments Coming Soon: April 3rd, A Misunderstanding May Have Been the Cause of Activision Blizzard Games Not Being Available in China, Chinese Realm "Region Unavailable" Messages Appeared for EU Players, Healing Druids (Moonglow/NG) - Crit Chance, Jolteon 1 - Pendulum of DOOM PvP - Level 39 BiS Enhancement Shaman TBC. Cannot be used while shapeshifted. whenever possible, as they are considered top-tier DPS at every stage of the
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