Core Build W/ Sic ‘Em
Core Build W/ Pathing
Note: Some aspects of this guide may not apply to your character until higher level. If are interested in getting your character to max level quickly, take a look at this leveling guide.
Glyphs come in three varieties, Prime, Major and Minor. Prime glyphs enhance core aspects of your class and generally provide the greatest benefit of the three types.
Major Glyphs, while not quite as powerful as Prime Glyphs, are still useful and continue to provide a myriad of benefits.
Minor Glyphs often times provide small quality of life improvements or visual changes, such as the Glyph of Shadow Form for priests which makes the character more visible through Shadow Form. However, a few are known to provide more significant benefits such as the warrior glyph of Berserker Rage.
Prime Glyphs:
Major Glyphs:
Here are your highest priority abilities.
Keep your Hunter’s Mark and Serpent Sting applied to the target at all times. Your highest priority damage ability is kill command, and then kill shot when a mob is at 20% health or lower. Arcane shot is used to avoid capping your focus, but should only be used to around 40 focus so that kill command can continue to be used on Cooldown.
Cobra shot is used to regenerate focus
AoE Rotation
Your primary damage for multi-target fights comes from explosive traps and Multi-Shot, as well as a pet with an AoE ability. A multi-target rotation of Multi-Shot and Explosive Trap should only be used in situations of more than 4 or 5 mobs, otherwise continue your single target rotation.
Cooldowns
The most important aspect of managing your cooldowns as a damage dealer is making certain to use them whenever they’re avaliable. Don’t be afraid to use them during any fight, even against trash mobs, as the higher the uptime you have with them, the greater your overall damage will be so long as you aren’t using them when a fight is about to end.
The only time to hold off on using your cooldowns is when you’ll be unable to attack the boss due to fight mechanics, such as during Morchok’s Black Blood of the Earth ability or when Hagara is about to cast Water Shield and become immune to all damage.
Melee DPS will have to watch out for this more than ranged, as they are far more vulnerable to situations where an encounter requires constant movement or the boss is utilizing some form of AoE attack that makes fighting in melee range impossible.
Agility > 8% Ranged Hit > Critical > Mastery > Haste
Agility:
Agility increases your attack power and critical chance, and is your primary damage dealing stat.
(8%) Ranged Hit:
Hit rating increases your chance to hit with attacks. A hit rating of 8% makes it so that your special abilities will no longer miss on bosses, thereby avoiding loss of DPS.
Critical:
Critical rating increases your chance to critically hit with attacks.
Mastery – Master of Beasts:
BM Hunter Mastery increases the damage done by their pets.
Haste:
Haste reduces cast time for abilities, makes you shoot faster, and increases focus regeneration speed.
Reforging
When reforging gear, it’s important that you look to reforge from your least effective stat into the most effective for whatever gear goal you are currently aiming for. See our stat priority list for more information.
8% Ranged Hit > Critical
When reforging look first for 8% hit rating before maximizing your critical strike chance. On any gear without critical already present, reforge the weakest stat into critical rating.
Gems
- Red – Delicate Inferno Ruby
- Yellow – Deadly Ember Topaz
- Blue – Glinting Demonseye
- Meta – Agile Shadowspirit Diamond
Unless a socket bonus offers agility, it’s more effective to gem for pure agility.
Enchantments
- 2H Weapon: Enchant Weapon – Mighty Agility
- Ranged: Flintlocke’s Woodchucker – Gnomish X-Ray Scope
- Helm: Arcanum of Ramkahen
- Shoulders: Greater Inscription of Shattered Crystal
- Cloak: Enchant Cloak – Major Agility
- Chest: Enchant Chest – Peerless Stats
- Bracers: Enchant Bracer – Agility
- Belt: Ebonsteel Belt Buckle
- Leggings: Dragonscale Leg Armor
- Boots: Enchant Boots – Assassin’s Step – Enchant Boots – Major Agility
Our class guides for whichever class you’re playing:
Death Knights – Druid – Hunter – Mage – Paladin
Priest – Rogue – Shaman – Warlock – Warrior
The GotWarcraft Gold Guide
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