3/2/31 – Best Hunter DPS Build Patch 4.0.3a

This is going to be your best build as a Survival Hunter.  Tweaks to this build can include things like removing 2 points from Efficiency and choosing Point of No Escape for enemies that can be effected by your traps.

If you’re looking for AoE dmg you’re definitely going to want to max out Point of No Escape plus Serpent Spread.

Then the same rules apply, you can nerf out all of those points and just go ahead and get Go for the Throat and Bestial Discipline if for some reason you want your pet to do more dps, but honestly, just stick to the script here bro and use this talent build.

31/5/0 - Best Hunter DPS Build for Beast Mastery

A 31/5/0 talent build is currently the best dps for a Hunter in Beast Mastery spec.

Having Go for the Throat from the Marksmanship tree is a great compliment to your pet dps and choosing Improved Kill Command over Bestial Discipline is questionable but you’d have to test it yourself for your setup on a target dummy or in a real instance.

Swap the two points from Improved Kill Command to finish off Bestial Discipline and see how that does.  Some players have suggested going with a 32/2/2 build instead.

Alternative Beast Mastery Raiding Build 32/2/2

With this build you get to max out Improved Kill Command and Bestial Discipline at the cost of losing Efficiency, but also picking up Improved Serpent Sting.  So between those variations see which one works best for you.

Well,

I’m proud to announce that I figured out the best possible automated one button (two with shift) macro for Beast Mastery raiding. I’m hitting DPS of 3700+ on Heroic Test Dummies with a Gear score of around 4700, I’ll have to see how that scales in raids yet (I’m locked from them all this week already).

The spec I’m using with this that has resulted in the highest DPS relies on Aimed shot, although, because of how I have it macroed I don’t actually keep Aimed shot up as much as possible but on rotation with Serpent Sting.

So here’s the Macro:

/use 13
/use 14
/cast Rapid Fire
/cast [target=pettarget,exists] Bestial Wrath
/cast kill command
/castsequence reset=shift/target serpent sting, aimed shot, null
/cast steady shot

The talent spec I use is a 53/18/0 build with Glyphs of Bestial Wrath, Hawk, and Steady Shot. By weaving in Serpent Sting and Aimed Shot every 15 seconds we are basically just giving a passive boost to steady shot damage so we can do this one button macro. The efficiency of this one button macro is outperforming a manual weave of arcane shot, aimed shot, steady shot by as much as 10%.

So basically just press this macro as fast as you can and every 15 seconds make sure you hit shift plus the macro to reset the cast sequence and enjoy! This spec is only 300dps behind my Survival Manual Rotation macro setup right now that hits 4k+ on the Heroic Training Dummies and is beating out even a Marksmanship Manual Rotation. With the efficiency of this Macro you can actually show up to a raid as a Beast Master Hunter and not be laughed at, while you’ll still be laughed at but not so much when they see the dps meters.