DPS Rotation & Cooldowns

A general priority guide for Beast Mastery Hunter abilities and cooldowns. Helpful for understanding the spec's fundamentals and getting comfortable with core synergies. Updated for the latest patch in World of Warcraft: Midnight (12.0.1).

Single Target

Ensure Hunters Mark is applied to your target and your pet is attacking before starting.

• Barbed ShotView detailsIf Bestial Wrath is coming off cooldown in <3 seconds.
• Bestial Wrath
• Kill CommandView detailsIf Natures Ally or Howl Of The Pack Leader is active.
• Barbed Shot
• Cobra Shot

Maintain Barbed Shot uptime, prioritize Bestial Wrath on cooldown, and use Kill Command with buffs active. Fill gaps with Cobra Shot.

AoE

Position your pet centrally in the enemy pack for maximum Beast Cleave effectiveness.

• Barbed ShotView detailsIf Bestial Wrath is coming off cooldown.
• Wild Thrash
• Bestial Wrath
• Kill Command
• Cobra ShotView detailsIf Hogstrider buff is active and <4 enemies.
• Barbed ShotView detailsAt your priority target.
• Cobra Shot

Use Wild Thrash for AoE bursts, maintain Barbed Shot uptime, and prioritize Bestial Wrath on cooldown. Use Cobra Shot with buffs or as a filler.

Cooldowns

• Bestial WrathView detailsUse on cooldown for max DPS.
• BloodshedView detailsEnsure your pet is attacking the target before use.
• Wailing ArrowView detailsUse for AoE damage or silence effect.

Use Bestial Wrath on cooldown, align Bloodshed with pet attacks, and utilize Wailing Arrow for AoE or silences.

New to Class? Try Assisted Rotation

Patch 11.1.7 introduced new features that make it eaiser to pick and play new characters. These new settings can be enabled from settings » gameplay enhancements:

• Single-Button Assistant
• Assisted Highlight
• Cooldown Manager

If you are new to World of Warcraft or a certain class, enabling Assisted Highlight and Cooldown Manager can help you learn which abilities to prioritize and use.

While the Single-Button Assistant can be a much easier and more accessible way to play the game, it does come with a slight performance hit due to a small GCD penalty, as you will have to wait 25% longer in between spells and abilities.

To see which specs are best with the Single-Button Assistant feature, you can check out our DPS Rankings which uses SimC to sim every class using this feature.