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Hunter News

Beast Mastery buffs for 8.1.5 (don’t get too excited)

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Blizzard has finally announced a buff for Beast Mastery. This is what's happening with 8.1.5 next week:
  • Barbed Shot damage increased by 125%.
  • Barbed Shot’s bleed damage now ignores the target’s armor.
  • Cobra Shot damage increased by 25%.
It works out to roughly a 6-7% single target buff. It doesn't … Continue Reading ››
Hunter Guides, Hunter News

Beast Mastery Hunter Guide for Battle for Azeroth

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Just thought I'd post that everything has been updated on my Wowhead Beast Mastery Guide and is now relevant for level 120. The guide is more detailed than it has been in the past as Wowhead has really upped their standards for class guides (seriously, this was a ton of work). You can easily … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News, Hunter Pets

Broken Tooth lives! Hunter pets can have different attack speeds once again

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Before you read any more, let me TLDR this first: There is no appreciable damage difference between pet attack speeds because damage is normalized. For the most part, it simply adds flavor to different pets. First, a little history. Back in Vanilla WoW, several pets had different attack speeds (you can see the original list Continue Reading ››
Hunter Guides, Hunter News

Beast Mastery Hunter guide to the Battle for Azeroth pre-patch

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The pre-patch is almost here! Today the Beast Mastery guide I've been working on was published over at Wowhead. It covers pretty much everything for Beast Mastery in 8.0. If you haven't been following/playing the beta closely, it should give you an idea of what to expect with the pre-patch this week. A lot of work … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News

BfA Beta: Changes to Animal Companion (Hati replacement), does almost everything your regular pet does

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The Animal Companion talent has been in a near-unusable state for the majority of beta, but in today's build it has received some major updates. It's not as simple as the current tooltip indicates (a second pet that does Kill Command and nothing else). Once all the bugs and kinks are worked out, it looks … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News, Hunter Pets

Hunters get 10 more stable slots in Battle for Azeroth

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You can now tame a total of 65 pets with the addition of a 6th page of stable slots! No, it's still probably not enough for some of you (an extra 100 might not be enough). But it's 10 more, so that's 10 new pets you can tame in 8.0 without worrying about having to … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News, Opinion

BfA Alpha: Changes to Dire Frenzy and Dire Beast, Bestial Wrath goes on the global cooldown

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There is no longer a choice between Dire Frenzy or Dire Beast, all BM Hunters will now be using Dire Frenzy for their Focus generator/Bestial Wrath reset. Well, now it's actually called Barbed Shot instead of Dire Frenzy, and it behaves totally like a shot (in that it requires a ranged weapon, and uses … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News

BfA Alpha: Beast Mastery gets a couple of new talents (build 26433)

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Finally, we have a bit of action in the Beast Mastery talent tree! In today's BfA alpha build, there is a brand new talent and one redesigned talent.

New Level 15 talent

Killer Instinct: Kill Command deals 50% increased damage against enemies below 35% health. (replaces Big Game Hunter)

BM has an execute again! … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News

Changes to Focus in Battle for Azeroth

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In Battle for Azeroth, Focus is still a resource across the whole Hunter class, but it works a little differently for each specialization. Beast Mastery is staying the same (mostly passive regeneration), while Marksmanship is going back to a pre-Legion type of Hunter where the majority of Focus regeneration is active rather than passive. Survival … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News, Opinion

BfA Alpha: Opinions and feedback on the three Hunter specs in early April

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I've been trying to play all three Hunter specs pretty equally on the alpha, including leveling, dungeons, and island expeditions. This will be the first of hopefully several posts on my current opinion of the state of the class on alpha/beta. I'm also going to keep this bullet point form to make it easy for … Continue Reading ››