The Beast Mastery Hunter is a solid DPS spec for World of Warcraft: Dragonflight. It may not top the damage meters, but its mobility and simple rotation help make it easy to play and a solid option on our DPS tier list. Still, you'll want to maximize your potential and that's where our Best in Slot guide comes in handy! We'll help you find and obtain the best gear currently available in Dragonflight.

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BM Hunter Best in Slot Stat Criteria

Our Best in Slot suggestions will focus on if an item has the most important stats for your spec. Due to the stat priority for BM Hunters, it's impossible to get items that match the requirements, since three of the stats are so close together. Generally, the best guideline to keep in mind is that you'll want to pick up anything without Versatility. We always recommend that you sim your gear upgrades to ensure it's better than what you're wearing. We'll go over how to sim at the end of this guide.

Stat Priority

1. Weapon DPS
2. Agility
3. Haste/Critical Strike/Mastery
4. Versatility

The stat priority for Beast Mastery Hunter is pretty simple. Haste, Crit, and Mastery are all pretty close to each other and their differences are ultimately negligible.

Important Notes For All BiS Lists

It is important to note that any jump in ilvl by more than 10 points almost always results in the higher ilvl item being better. If you have an upgrade of 5 ilvl or less, compare the stats based on the stat priorities to decide the better item.

When weighing options of other items not listed below, refer to the stat priority of the class and spec. Keep in mind that stats eventually have diminishing returns, so it is not required to have absolutely every slot stack the same 2 stats. For simplicity, we offer the best per slot assuming you have not capped out these stats.

The calculations for diminishing returns are as follows:

• 0 to 30% in a stat - no penalty.
• 30% to 39% in a stat - 10% penalty.
• 39% to 47% in a stat - 20% penalty.
• 47% to 54% in a stat - 30% penalty.
• 54% to 66% in a stat - 40% penalty.
• 66% to 126% in a stat - 50% penalty.

Beast Mastery Hunter BiS Gear

The Best In Slot suggestions in this guide are generally based on whether the item has the 2 most important secondary stats.

The items appearing in this list may come from Mythic+, Raids, or The Vault. Their item level will depend on the instance's level of difficulty (Normal, Heroic, Mythic, Mythic+ 1-20). This list does not include Renown or Crafting items as it is meant as a guide on what dungeons or raids to attend to get your best gear from these sources.

Item tooltips will show the Mythic 9 or the Normal Raid difficulty item level version.

Best Head

Tier piece is solid and will be your best bet unless set bonuses turn out to be awful.

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Best Neck

If you're in search for neck pieces, Shadowmoon Burial Grounds has you covered. There's too many to list here, just make sure you priortize anything with the proper stats.

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Best Shoulders

Your Tier shoulders are one of two slots that have Versatility. We'll highlight a couple of non-tier alternatives. Make sure you sim just to make sure you have the best gear equipped.

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Best Back

There's a lot of options for the back slot. Make sure your focus on getting an item that doesn't have Versatility and you'll be in a good spot.

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Best Chest

Chest is your other tier option that has Versatility. We're highlighting the Mythic+ options without it, but make sure you sim to ensure your best loadout as the 4-piece bonus might be enough to push it over the edge.

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Best Wrist

Your wrists in raid have Versatility in it, so we gotta turn to Mythic+.

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Best Hands

Tier will most likely be your best option here. There are a lot more options than the ones listed below. As always, sim for your best gear!

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Best Waist

You've got a good option in raid that may be the best bet here.

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Best Legs

Your tier has Crit and Haste, which are my two favorite stats for BM Hunter.

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Best Feet

. There's a lot more available than what's available below. As always, sim. Your only option in raid has Verastility, so we're passing on it.

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Best Rings

This is one of the more important gear slots to sim since you'll have so many options aside from what is listed below.

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Best Trinkets

The jury is still out on the trinkets, so we're listing the best pre-season trinkets. Once we have a good idea of the best performing options, we'll let you know. For now, these are your best options.

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Best Weapons

Neltharax will most likely be the best bet due to its socket and proc.

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Best Gems for Beast Mastery Hunter

Here we list the best gems you can socket your gear with for BM Hunter. As always, it is best to sim to ensure you're using the best options available. These gems are chosen given consideration to your best stats.

• Epic unique gem - One of the following, since your three top stats are all pretty even: Skillful Illimited Diamond, Fierce Illimited Diamond, Inscribed Illimited Diamond
• Remaining gems - Crafty Ysemerald, Sensei's Neltharite, Sensei's Alexstraszite, Crafty Alexstraszite, Keen Neltharite, Keen Ysemerald

Best Enchants for Beast Mastery Hunter

Here are the best enchants available for BM Hunter in Dragonflight.

• Cloak - Graceful Avoidance
• Chest - Waking Stats
• Bracers - Devotion of Avoidance
• Legs - Fierce Armor Kit
• Boots - Watcher's Loam
• Rings - Devotion of Haste, Devotion of Mastery, Devotion of Critical Strike
• Weapon - High Intensity Thermal Scanner

How To Simulate To Determine Your Best Gear

Raidbots is a tool that World of Warcraft players can use to figure out if the gear they just looted is an upgrade. As mentioned earlier, there are so many nuances and diminishing returns as certain points in the game, that determining an exact set of bis gear is impossible. With the ilvl scaling of Mythic+ loot on higher keys and utility different gear has for different fights, there just isn't a pure "this is the absolute best for the entire Season" list. It's even something that certain classes have come across in Classic Wrath!

Don't worry, because we're still here to help. We highly recommend using raidbots to determine if an item you just acquired is an upgrade. Here's a quick guide to help you run simulations to see if your new item is an upgrade:

• Make sure you have the Simulationcraft add-on installed.
• With your new loot in your inventory, open your chatbox and type /simc.
• A window will open up. Copy the entire text and paste it on the Raidbots Top Gear page. I included my Simulation craft window for my personal character below

• This step is important. On the Top Gear page, scroll down and make sure you're selecting the gear you want simmed. If you do not select the gear you're wearing, as well as the gear in your inventory you just acquired, you won't know if you picked up an upgrade.
• Raidbots will then let you know which items allow you to maximize your DPS!

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