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Beast Mastery Hunter Review - Battle for Azeroth Community Opinions
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26/07/2018 à 03:07
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Throughout the pre-patch, we'll be launching a community opinions article for every class and spec. We're continuing our Battle for Azeroth Class Reviews and in this post, we'll be taking a look at the state of Beast Mastery Hunter. See if this spec appeals to you in Battle for Azeroth!
We reached out to the Beast Mastery Hunter community to give their thoughts and opinions on the changes and current state of the spec.
If this spec appeals to you after reading this article, check out our
Battle for Azeroth Beast Mastery Hunter Guide
.
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Moofz
is a Hunter Theorycrafter and Wowhead/YouTube Guide Writer and a Moderator/Expert in the Trueshot Lodge. He raids in <Happy Accidents>. You can find him in TSL, his Twitch stream
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Bendak is the Wowhead Beast Mastery guide author, co-host of the Hunting Party Podcast, and runs the
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Changes from Legion
Beast Mastery Hunter has been modified in Battle for Azeroth. Most of the abilities and talents from Legion remain the same, however their interactions have changed slightly and many quality of life issues have been resolved.
Hati has been removed. A new talent called
Compagnon animal
has been introduced in its place.
Titan’s Thunder has been removed.
Tir du cobra
now reduces
Ordre de tuer
by 1 sec with every cast.
Courroux bestial
and
Aspect de la Nature
are on the GCD,
Aspect de la Nature
has been increased to 20 sec to compensate.
Tir acéré
has replaced
Bête féroce
as baseline.
Tir acéré
is very similar to the previous Dire Frenzy.
Pets have been completely reworked. All specs are now equal in DPS but provide different utility.
How does the spec feel now?
Overall, Beast Mastery has become a more engaging spec compared to it’s Legion counterpart. The combination of managing your pet’s Frenzy stacks,
Tir du cobra
reducing the
Ordre de tuer
cooldown, and competitive active talents have definitely improved the feel of Beast Mastery. Despite there still being a few “dead” talents, the talents we’re actually using are pretty good. The spec has way less down time compared to Legion. Between adding GCDs into the mix and adding
Tir de la chimère
to our rotation, Focus has become plentiful and we rarely pause to generate Focus. Most of the bad things that remain about BM revolves around talents that have either mechanical or tuning problems, preventing them from being good choices. For the most part, we have one build that works with everything with the exception of the level 15 talents which we may swap out to slightly maximize a single target or multi-target encounter.
One of the biggest problems in Legion was how squishy a Beast Mastery Hunter was, and this has been largely addressed in Battle for Azeroth. Pets bring added utility and defenses now. Tenacity pets now give us
Entraînement d’endurance
and the
Survie du plus fort
. We’ve retained
Enthousiasme
and
Aspect de la tortue
as well as an improved
Guérison spirituelle
heal if we use a Spirit Beast pet. All these things combined have vastly improved our survivability. On the utility front,
Intimidation
being baseline has been great. Plus, we’re one of only two classes who can remove enrage effects from enemy targets (such as a Spirit Beast’s
or Bat’s
) which will be especially helpful on weeks with the Raging affix.
Pets now deal the same damage across the board and each pet spec offers a different form of utility. Other quality of life changes that happened to pets, include turning off growl in instances automatically and reduced aggro radius. For more info on pets, check out our
Hunter Pet Guide
!
Talents:
Tier 1 (Level 15)
- This talent row has a mix of talents that drastically change your style of play.
Instinct du tueur
has been introduced as an executed mechanic for BM, causing
Ordre de tuer
to deal additional damage to enemies below 35% health. It is really only usable in raid fights due to the longevity for the execute phase, however having an execute option is a huge quality of life change.
Compagnon animal
has been added for those Hati lovers out there. It is essentially Hati with a couple of different changes. Despite what the tooltip says, this pet will do almost everything your main pet does with the exception of basic attacks and Growl: It does melee attacks,
Ordre de tuer
, benefits from
Courroux bestial
and
Enchaînement bestial
, gains Frenzy stacks from
Tir acéré
, gets healed by
Enthousiasme
, and uses Dash. In order to balance this, your overall pet damage is reduced by 40% to accommodate your second pet. Damage is essentially split between your primary pet and the
Compagnon animal
. While this sounds good, reducing your main pets damage by 40% is a huge hit, making this talent mediocre compared to the other talents.
Bête féroce
is similar to Legion, but now costs Focus and was placed on a cooldown. To compensate, while your
Bête féroce
is active, you gain 5% additional Haste. This entire row has been very volatile throughout alpha and beta, so expect more tuning and changes.
Tier 2 (Level 30)
-
Odeur du sang
simply gives
Tir acéré
additional bonus focus regen. While it may seem good, compared to
Communion avec la meute
and
Tir de la chimère
which offer both a damage boost and focus regen,
Odeur du sang
falls behind.
Tir de la chimère
is currently our best talent here, offering a huge amount of damage and a good chunk of focus regen. Due to the stat squish and our “Dire Frenzy” style of play,
Communion avec la meute
falls a bit behind
Tir de la chimère
. It does help to maintain Frenzy stacks slightly better and is a passive talent making it easier to use then
Tir de la chimère
.
Tier 3 (Level 45)
- Most of the talents in this row remain from Legion.
Pisteur véloce
is primary use for open world content, leveling and old transmog runs.
Dissimulation
is our go to PvP talent and has some niche uses in dungeons.
Guérison naturelle
is a new talent in this row that slightly reduces the cooldown of
Enthousiasme
.
Guérison naturelle
is really the only viable talent for most PVE outside of certain niche scenarios.
Tier 4 (Level 60)
- Unfortunately, this row really only has one option at the moment.
Corbeaux hargneux
is the only “working” talent in this row and also offers the highest DPS. While
Cobra cracheur
seems like a good talent, it hardly makes a difference in overall
Courroux bestial
reduction, equating to about 1 additional
Tir acéré
cast between
Courroux bestial
windows.
Frisson de la chasse
is actually bugged. The Hunter is the only one that benefits from the bonus crit, not your pet. When this talent is fixed, it should be competitive with
Corbeaux hargneux
.
Tier 5 (Level 75)
-
Cœur sauvage
is very niche. It’s reduced cooldown gives
Aspect du guépard
a shorter cooldown, giving more movement speed as well as reducing
Aspect de la tortue
cooldown which may be usable in niche raid fights such as Fallen Avatar.
A toute allure
remains the same as it was in Legion, giving us movement speed and snare removal.
Tir de lien
is similar to Legion, however it’s lost the stun component to it. It now snares mobs rather than stunning them, which is much worse. The go to talent is generally
A toute allure
as it provides the most movement speed and utility of the three.
Tier 6 (Level 90)
- This row is again fairly one sided in terms of choices.
Piétinement
is currently our only viable choice in this row. It does great damage and is totally passive, making it an easy choice.
Barrage
and
Ruée
are both active, and do not deal nearly enough damage to warrant taking either one. While
Barrage
’s damage isn’t awful, it cost a whopping 60 Focus, compared to
Piétinement
which is free and deals similar damage.
Ruée
s cooldown of 3 min along with its minimal damage makes it undesirable in every situation.
Tier 7 (Level 100)
- Once again,
Aspect de la bête
is our only real option in this talent row. It provides a passive damage bonus, increased utility and defenses (increases pet specialization bonuses by 50%) and since it increase pet basic attacks, benefits our AoE as well. Damage aside, it far outclasses the other two talents. Luckily it’s also our highest damaging ability in every situation.
Cobra tueur
remains the same as it was in Legion but has lost a ton of value with the newly made
Tir du cobra
(reduces
Ordre de tuer
by 1 sec). When taking
Cobra tueur
, you essentially waste this effect.
Cobra cracheur
has a couple of issues. Its damage is very undertuned and it has a maximum range of 25 yards, which can be cumbersome to use. It’s damage is also reduced when taking
Compagnon animal
, due to the -40% pet damage aura it gives. In addition,
Cobra tueur
and
Cobra cracheur
are purely single target talents, making
Aspect de la bête
better in that regard as well.
Recommended Changes and Tuning Issues:
Compagnon animal
(level 15 talent): Despite what the tooltip says, this pet will do almost everything your main pet does with the exception of basic attacks and Growl. Currently both Mend Pet and Play Dead are not working with the
Compagnon animal
, which seems like a bug (they both worked with Hati).
Odeur du sang
(level 30 talent) is not worth very much DPS. While other talents in this tier offer increased Focus similar to this, they also offer damage on top of that --
Odeur du sang
does not have a damage component, so it's not recommended until it is changed.
Frisson de la chasse
(level 60 talent) is currently not increasing the critical strike chance of pets, which decreases its value quite a bit. It's not recommended to use this talent until this gets fixed.
Cobra cracheur
(level 60 talent) is very undertuned in its current state (1 second reduction). It gives hardly any DPS gain and equates to one additional
Tir acéré
cast every
Courroux bestial
cycle. This can largely be made up for in RNG and is not worth the talent choice compared to the other options in this row.
Cobra cracheur
(level 100 talent) only has a range of about 25 yards, which really limits its usefulness. If you place down the snake and your target is more than 25 yards away, the snake is unable to attack. No word from Blizzard if this is intended or not (if it is, I think it should be in the tooltip), but it's been this way for all of alpha and beta. Damage-wise, it's also very undertuned.
Pet Basic Attacks
- This is a relatively new development, but it's worth mentioning since it affects the value of some talents. Pet basic attacks (Claw, Bite, or Smack) are having their auto-casts delayed for unknown reasons. These attacks have a 3-second cooldown, but on average the pet is only auto-casting them every 3.6 seconds. Over the course of a long fight, this extra 0.6 seconds adds up to quite a few missed casts. This issue can be mitigated somewhat by forcing the basic attacks to cast as close to their 3 sec cooldown as possible via macroing pet basic attack casts into all of your offensive abilities. This won't fix the problem -- and frankly it's kind of silly that we have to do this -- but it may result in a few extra casts (plus there's no real downside to doing this). These are the relevant lines you can add to your abilities via a macro:
/cast Claw(Basic Attack)
/cast Bite(Basic Attack)
/cast Smack(Basic Attack)
Now that the "bug" has been incorporated into Simulation Craft, we've learned that
Cobra tueur
is about on par with
Aspect de la bête
in single target, and
Compagnon animal
is also competitive when paired with
Cobra tueur
in single target (when taking the bug into account). Other talents were not affected. If you are using the macro or if the bug gets fixed,
Aspect de la bête
will be better.
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