Beast Mastery Hunter Guide
The pet is the damage. She shoots to keep it fed and her focus up, and her first talent picks the beast.
- Role Ranged DPS
- Health 4,750
- Resource Focus
Plan your Beast Mastery Hunter build → Marksmanship Hunter
Toolkit at a glance
Counted from the spell data (every Hunter spell, the Beast Mastery spells, and the row-5 talent spells).
| Stuns, fears, incapacitates | Scatter Shot, Intimidation |
|---|---|
| Roots and silences | — |
| Interrupts | Counter Shot |
| Defensives | Aspect of the Turtle, Feign Death, Roar of Sacrifice |
| Heals | Exhilaration |
| Mobility | Disengage, Kill Command, Intimidation, Bloodshed, Aspect of the Cheetah |
Beast Mastery Hunter talents
Five rows of three. Pick one per row; rows 1 to 4 are passive and row 5 teaches a spell.
Your pet is a Dire Wolf, the chaser: it hits about 25% harder and runs 30% faster, and its Bite slows the target 30% for 4 sec.
Your pet is a Grizzly Bear, the guardian: it has 60% more health but hits 20% lighter, and charges an enemy you send it at from up to 25 m, rooting it for 1 sec.
Your pet is a Spirit Beast, the mender: it has 20% more health, and every 15 sec it heals the most hurt ally within 30 m below 80% health (you too) for 500 over 6 sec.
Disengage also frees you from roots and slows, and you run 50% faster for 4 sec after it.
Pet Follow makes your pet leap to you, and frees you both from roots and slows. Once every 30 sec.
Disengage holds 2 charges.
Falling below 30% health, you and your pet take 30% less damage for 6 sec. Once every 90 sec.
Your pet's damage heals you for 15% of it, and yours heals your pet the same.
Aspect of the Turtle covers your pet as well.
Your pet's attacks also hit every other enemy within 5 m of its target, for half.
Barbed Shot also slows the target 50% for 4 sec.
Arcane Shot also takes 1 magic effect off the target.
Learn Intimidation: your pet leaps at the target and stuns it for 5 sec.
Learn Bloodshed: your pet leaps at the target and tears it open: it bleeds 100 every 2 sec for 10 sec and is healed 20% less.
Learn Roar of Sacrifice: for 12 sec, your pet takes 30% of the damage an ally takes, and crits can't land on them.
Beast Mastery spells
| Spell | School | Cost | Cast | Cooldown | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kill Command | Physical | 40 focus | Instant | 8 s | 40 m |
| Barbed Shot | Physical | — | Instant | 12 s | 30 m |
| Bestial Wrath | Physical | — | Instant | 90 s | Self |
Spells taught by talents (row 5)
| Spell | School | Cost | Cast | Cooldown | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intimidation | Physical | — | Instant | 60 s | 40 m |
| Bloodshed | Physical | — | Instant | 45 s | 40 m |
| Roar of Sacrifice | Nature | — | Instant | 90 s | 32 m |
Spells every Hunter knows
The first eight are the action bar a new character starts with; swap spells on your bar in Spells & Talents (N). ★ = starting bar.
| Spell | School | Cost | Cast | Cooldown | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arcane Shot ★ | Arcane | 40 focus | Instant | — | 30 m |
| Steady Shot ★ | Physical | — | 1.5 s | — | 30 m |
| Concussive Shot ★ | Physical | — | Instant | 5 s | 30 m |
| Counter Shot ★ | Physical | — | Instant | 24 s | 30 m |
| Scatter Shot ★ | Physical | — | Instant | 30 s | 20 m |
| Freezing Trap ★ | Frost | — | Instant | 30 s | 30 m |
| Disengage ★ | Physical | — | Instant | 20 s | Self |
| Aspect of the Turtle ★Right-click the buff to end it early. | Nature | — | Instant | 180 s | Self |
| Tar Trap | Nature | — | Instant | 25 s | 30 m |
| Aspect of the Cheetah | Nature | — | Instant | 90 s | Self |
| Feign Death | Physical | — | Instant | 30 s | Self |
| Exhilaration | Nature | — | Instant | 120 s | Self |
Recommended Beast Mastery Hunter build
Recommended builds for this spec are still being tested. To be added.
Spell names, costs, cooldowns and talent text are read from the game client (v0.21, checked 2026-10-30). The developer calls the numbers “first-pass tuning”, so expect them to change.