Haste increases your attack speed and Focus regeneration, reduces your Global Cooldown from 1.5 seconds to a minimum of 0.750 seconds, and reduces the cooldown on your Kill Command and Barbed Shot abilities.
The general stat priority for a Beast Mastery Hunter is:
Critical Strike;
Versatility;
Haste;
Mastery.
Mastery is the worst stat for Beast Mastery despite it increasing pet damage, because it does not buff the damage from external sources like trinkets, most Covenant Abilities, and so on.
In a practical situation, your stat weights and priority will always be changing as you get more gear, trinkets and so on. This is a general stat priority that gives you an idea of what stats are good to have on your gear.
You should always end a Mythic+ mob pack with 0 charges of Barbed Shot remaining. This is partly to get the most out of its Bestial Wrath cooldown reduction so that you can have Bestial Wrath for the next pack. If you are using Stomp, you will also get more value out of the talent by maximizing the Barbed Shot casts that you do.
Keeping up 3 stacks of Frenzy is still a very high priority. However, it is worth keeping in mind that mob packs in Mythic+ usually last for only a short time. Additionally, the most important damage tends to be front-loaded, since most packs have mobs of varying health levels. This means that later on in a pack, there is less damage to be done. Because of this, and the reasons above, we recommend focusing on refreshing Frenzy as soon as there is less than 8 seconds remaining on Barbed Shotâs cooldown. This allows you to have 2-3 stacks much earlier in the pull than if you were to wait till the last moment to refresh. It still allows you to refresh to a higher stack count as long as you cast it as soon as the cooldown is gone. The basic point is to maximize the average amount of Frenzy stacks per pack.
My first 4 pce set 260 I level foray in to a timed M+ 16 Streets I parsed at 94% which is good for me A 65 yr old clicker with arthritis. 12.9 mill overall damage. we had our Main Raid tank {Bear} he did more damage than I did at 13.5
268 Fury Warrior with 2 pce did 20.63 overall. and Mage with 4Pce did 17.86 overall So looks like I got carried.
Getting a 3rd and 4pce. added somewhere around 380-90 dps overall to the 611 I gained from getting the original 2 pce. Nowt much in the scheme of things. as a single pce upgrade I got almost that from the Gifted The First Sigil Trinket {+ 181 dps}
See Ghorakâs post. Frenzy is very well understood across the BM community. The guide talks about it and itâs discussed in the Hunter discord. The importance of keeping Frenzy stacks when AoEing has been understood since Frenzy was a thing (i.e. Dire Frenzy talent in Legion). You really ought to go see what the theorycrafters are saying rather than speculating about it.
P.S. Ghorak I just noticed we have almost the same post count.
This tier set is terrible, maybe a 400 dps increase on the normal one if we are lucky. I literally do the same damage before I had 4pc as I do now with 4pc from normal. This is an absolute joke.
And if I did maximize it Iâd still be 20% behind the good specs. Thatâs what overall logs doâŠthey aggregate spec performance by removing the player component via normalization (95%).
More work for less rewardâŠseems like a terrible thing to pay $15mo for.
DudeâŠI donât if you are dense or what, but Iâm literally posting logs of the best players on earth. It clearly shows there is a huge gap (17%) between BM and the top of the charts for that fight.
Those same best-of BM Hunters got beat there by FIFTEEN other specs, and absolutely DUMPSTERED by the top 5. Fire Mages hung +2400 DPS on BM.
EMBARASSING
BM isnât as bad as I think, itâs as bad as ALL the available data shows it to be!
Halondrus
Multiple Specs @ 15k+
Highest BM @ 13.5k
(This is a fight tailor made for BM Hunters âstrengthsâ, but still not even remotely competitive.)
Lihuvim
Multiple Specs @ 17k+
Highest BM @ 12k
Anduin
Multiple Specs @ 42k+
Highest BM @ No Logs
Lords of Dread
Multiple Specs @ 25k+
Highest BM @ No Logs
Rygelon
Multiple Specs @ 16k+
Highest BM @ 13.3k
Jailer
Multiple Specs @ 15.5k+
Highest BM @ No Logs