World of Warcraft Resource Center: Hunter Builds

Beast Mastery Builds

4 - 53/11/7 - Raiding Beast Spec -Some version of this build will likely be the choice of most BM hunters.

6 - (20pts) - Pet Build For Solo Instance Build #1

Raiding Pets - The Highest DPS Pets For 3.1 are Devilsaurs And Wolves. To raid as BM in 3.1 it is imperative to take the 51 point talent, Beast Mastery. Whether to use an exotic pet is the individual hunter's choice, but the additional 4 pet talent points will be essential to get all the damage-enhancing pet talents, including the new Wild Hunt and Shark Attack. You will want a Ferocity pet.

7 - (20pts) - DPS pet spec 1 -My personal choice of talents includes Dash for movement speed and 2/2 Bloodthirsty for survivability/happiness.

8 - (20pts) - DPS pet spec 2 -Alternative spec favored by Har takes Charge for movement speed, 1/3 Great Stamina for survivability, and has one extra point that should be spent in Bloodthirsty.

Marksmanship Builds

1 - 5/61/5 - General Marks Spec

2 - 7/57/7 - Instance/Raid Marks Build

3 - 0/51/20 - Markmanship PVP Spec

4 - 11/53/7 - MM spec -PVE optimal dps, this is having a mana battery or so in your raid.

Survival Builds

1 - 3/14/54 - Survival -Highend uber-geared raiders will consider this Raid build to be crap. And if you are a Highend ubergeared raider this build would be crap for you. However, this build is intended for the more causual or noob raider. It will not give you the highest possible dps. However it is a more forgiving build overall to play (easier)and has a bit more utility then the highend builds I have seen so far, it allows you to have a little less experience and be a bit less quick but still perform pretty well. It does work with the assumption that you don't have a very high Agility stat yet. If you can't make the hitcap without Focused Aim, I suggest you make a sacrifice in either Trap Mastery , Thrill of the Hunt, Resourcefulness or Noxious Stings

2 - 0/14/57 - General Trap Dancer

3 - 3/16/52 - General Sniper

4 - 0/19/52 - Instance Trap Dancer

5 - 5/15/51 - Instance Sniper

6 - 18/53/0 - PVP Spec

7 - 1/14/56 - Mechanize' survival spec -Steady, Explosive shot, Hawk glyph

Hybrid Talent Builds

1 - 40/31/0 - Raid Support -Some hunters out there that are not into PvP might be wondering what the dualspec has to offer them. They may find this a usefull suggestion. This specc is probably only worth going for in 25 man raids or maybe when your off to raid a capital or WG. Also before taking this build these rules of thumb are suggested; the lowest dps gear rating in your raid is somewhere around 1900 on WoW-heroes, you are the lowest dps hunter or can get the most dps out of this build, whichever leads to the smallest decrease in overall dps. The major drawback of this build is that it will pretty much cut your dps in half, if however you followed the rules of thumb above it will be like you brought between 1,5/2 extra dps'ers to the raid overall. Make sure that the other hunters understand that your Hunter's Mark goes on the big boss and they should stick theirs elsewhere, don't forget to smack yours on the add that needs to be burned down quick too. This build loses pretty much all its value if there is a MM hunter in your raid and quit some value if their is a BM hunter in your raid. It is however a big bonus to the SV hunters in your raid.

2 - 41/30/0 - General

3 - 41/30/0 - Instance/Raid

4 - 11/22/38 - PVP Hybrid Spec

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