World of Warcraft: Beast Mastery Hunter PvP / Hunter Builds

Beast Master Hunter. This is something that you hear a lot of nowadays. With the recent revamps to Beast Mastery, Hunters in World of Warcraft have found themselves somewhat more inclined to take care of their pet and make their pets work for them as opposed to taking Marksmanship in World of Warcraft. A lot of Hunters will tell you that Beast Mastery is the best spec or build for WoW PvP, but they don't tell you why or how to get the right build that's going to let you dominate your opponents! Relax! That's what I'm here for. Today, we're going to go over how to spec or build your World of Warcraft Beast Mastery Hunter to be an exceptional PvP machine.

Beast Mastery:

Tier 1:

For our first Tier, we're going to be taking Improved Aspect of the Hawk. I know what you're probably thinking. You're thinking, since we're going Beast Mastery, why don't we take the talent that increases our pet's life? Well, it's just not a big enough increase to do much. Improved Aspect of the Hawk however, will allow you to have a little bit faster attack speed every once in a while and it's an invaluable talent when fighting casters as well. The more you shoot, the more push back they experience when they're trying to fling fireballs, shadow bolts, etc your way. It's a great talent and I'd recommend pumping 5 points into it.

Tier 2:

Focused Fire is a great talent. For sure 2 points it increases your damage by 2%, and it also boosts your pet's critical strike chance while kill command is active by 20%. This should be fairly self explanatory but if it's not...more critical strike chance = more damage. When you're getting 10% crit chance per talent point, I'd like to see a situation where I wouldn't take it. Thick Hide is another talent in the Beast Mastery Hunter's Tier 2 I'd recommend taking. For 3 points, you've got 10% more armor for you from items and 20% more armor for your pet. Any melee class is going to hate you for this. It'll give your pet a little bit more longevity during a long battle and it can often make the difference between the winner and the loser.

Tier 3:

Unleashed Fury is worthy of our 5 points here. It simply makes your pet do 15% more damage. Nothing right there right? Right. Let's also swing over and put 1 talent point into the passive monster talent that is Aspect Mastery. Aspects are a big part of a Beast Mastery Hunter's life in World of Warcraft, so when you can buff up four aspects all with 1 point, that's a winner.

Tier 4:

Ferocity gives your pet an extra 10% chance to critically hit, which in turn will stack with focused fire when kill command is on (you know, the talent we took earlier). This means that your pet will always have a 10% more chance to critically strike, BUT when Kill Command is active, your pet will have an extra 30% chance. (10% from Ferocity + 105 from Focused Fire = 30%). This is not too shabby at all.

Tier 5:

Intimidation is going to give your pet a stun and a little bit extra damage, so you're going to want to swing in and take this Tier 5 Talent. I can tell you from personal experience that having this extra stun is going to be a lifesaver in a pinch. If a caster goes to fire a shadow bolt at you (or even worse) a Parabolas, boom! Stunned. If a Druid, Priest, Shaman or Paladin goes to try and heal themselves or a teammate...stunned. It's a great utility talent that'll save your butt when it comes down to the wire.

Tier 6:

Tier 6 is where Beast Mastery Hunters really start to get down to business. Frenzy is a great talent and without it, sadly, Beast Mastery Hunters wouldn't be nearly as good. Frenzy states (if you have it maxed out) that whenever your pet critically hits, the pet will gain a 30% increase to it's attack speed for a short period of time. This is an incredibly useful talent, especially because (unlike other talents that are similar) it doesn't limit the amount of times this can happen in a given battle or time frame. This effectively means that if your pet critically hits, it increases the pets attack speed, allowed more CRTs and then repeating the process. It can become a long, brutal chain of massive amounts of damage.

Tier 7:

Catlike Reflexes begs to be maxed out here because it gives so much dodge for just 3 points. We're talking 3% for you and 9% for your pet for only 3 points. People spend a lot of money on enchants and gems to get this much dodge. Beast Mastery Hunters have the unique ability of getting so much for so little here. It's an extremely efficient Talent. Bestial Wrath is going to be an amazing tool for you as well. 50% more damage and your pet can't be stopped? Amazing. Use it and love it!

Tier 8:

Serpent's Swiftness makes you 20% faster and makes your pet 20% faster (attack speed). If you take this into account with just your auto attack damage (white damage), then you can effectively say this adds 20% more damage for both you and your pet. Highly worthy of 5 points.

Tier 9:

Longevity, for only 3 points, reduces the most important cool downs you have. Take this talent! Cobra Strikes makes your pet crit after you attack, thus triggering Frenzy and creating that chain of damage. This is a great talent to have and it can rapidly turn the tide of any battle. The Beast Within allows you to join your pet in Bestial Wrath, making you do more damage and making you unstoppable and uncontrollable for a certain time frame. If there was ever a talent made for PvP, it's this one.

Tier 10:

Kindred Spirits makes you pet do 20% more damage and move 10% faster. It doesn't get better than this for 5 points.

Tier 11:

You get 4 more talent points for your pet and you can now tame pets untameable by other Hunters! Fun!

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