I was wondering if anyone was doing a full mastery stacked build for MM hunters in BG’s. it’s my understanding that hunter mastery for MM is a max range increase and some extra dmg. So i was thinking of leveling a hunter and stacking as much mastery as i can to try and get some 80+yrd kills.
Anyone tried this yet? What did you think? looking for input before i spend the next 3-4 months working on something that’s actually painful to play.
No, im not doing this to ladder climb, and no i don’t care that it’s not meta, i would like to try it for the lols.
80 yards is the max range you could get with 100% mastery.
As to whether it’s been tried, I couldn’t tell you. I’m not even sure you could hit 100% mastery with azerite and corruptions. You may be able to get close, but try it out, see if it works. MMs biggest problem is melee being in melee. Maybe you can kill them from 80 yards and lol.
I’m doing exactly this in battlegrounds. I’ve gone all-out on mastery. I have a special set for MM with mastery on every piece and I’ve put Masterful on all but one piece (I want to avoid Thing From Beyond in BGs so I’ll put the last Masterful on in a few weeks when it puts me below 40). I even got an extra Skitra bow and cleansed it to put Masterful on it. I’m still missing ~3 Mastery gems though and there are still a few specific gear improvements I could make to get a bit more mastery (mostly out of the weekly chest). There are some good mastery pieces from PvP but I’m never going to work on arena rating to get them. I also use +93 mastery food and Masterful Navigation on the weapon.
With my food buff on and my Pocket-Sized Computation Device with a Mastery punchcard I have 6252 mastery i.e. 59.27%. My baseline range is now 63 yards, with 88 yards for Sniper Shot. I should be able to get up to 65 yards once I get my remaining gems, with a couple yards on top of that when I add my last masterful. The Sniper Shot buff puts my baseline range at 89 yards while active. With Masterful Navigation at its maximum I have 7,356 mastery i.e. 68.85% which puts my baseline range at 68 yards and my Sniper Shot at 93 yards.
https://i.imgur.com/DXpwLwz.png
I’m confident that this sniper shot is the longest range attack ever executed by anyone in WoW outside of the Ashran tower. As for the Ashran tower, I know precisely the longest attack that’s ever been done: 100 yards. I’ve found that 100 yards is the hard maximum on any attack in WoW as anything beyond that is automatically considered to be LoS even without obstructions. Here’s a rough estimate on how far that is in Ashran:
https://imgur.com/a/PxNWJkl
N.B. That’s from a raised tower down to the ground, so that’s a bit shorter than 100 yards as the crow flies. I don’t have an exact number of the theoretical maximum range of Sniper Shot while on that tower but I do remember seeing something in the 170 yard range up there.
I play epic BGs exclusively and I’m in the Wintergrasp Enthusiast community which coordinates queueing for epics. It’s definitely the best PvP environment for MM because of the big group fights. Having such a long range is really cool as it breaks people’s assumptions about how far away is far enough. I often see people run to what they think is a comfortable range but they are still in range of my Sniper Shot and I have killed people in the 80 yard range with Sniper Shot into a double-tapped Rapid Fire and an Aimed Shot before the Sniper Shot buff runs out. They do have to be pretty undergeared and/or a cloth/leather class for that to work, though.
One problem with it is you’re going to be worse in 1v1 than someone who does something more sensible like Versatility stacking. Your damage is also probably going to be worse than someone stacking Gushing Wounds, but I’m not sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAPobaCuknQ
Here’s a video of me with the Ancient Artifact in Ashran. A few kills in here were in the 80 yard range.
I don’t have the High gear level, but I have tried to do something similar. My corruption options aren’t great right now just due to gear drops and echoes I’ve earned. Waiting on the end of this month to pick up some more masterful.
But I try and get as much mastery and Verse as possible. Although I general try to focus on stealing flags, I am able to blow people up fairly regularly. The video quality is bad, but here is an example BG.
I wonder if you were the one attacking my mage in AV a week ago. I usually sit in the middle of a group spamming gpies at whatever gets in range. Blam, my toon gets hit by sniper shot, then double tapped…so I fall back to the very back of our group to spam gpies. BLAM, hit again by Aimed Shot, and I see the attack coming from the horde group, not the front line of them but the back line!!! And this happened all the AV game.
It was very frustrating, but at the same time, really amazing to play against that style. I had to really focus on the aimed shot/sniper shot sound when it hit my toon. Refresh shield, backpeddle, los, shadowmeld, or whatever else I had to do to survive.
Mm hunters who stack mastery can get up to, and passing 80 yards on their sniper shots (which increases all other shots range to 80 yards for 6 seconds).