Last updated on May 11, 2024 at 10:24by Azortharion131 comments
General Information
In this guide, you will find tips and advice to tackle Mythic+ dungeons with yourMarksmanship Hunter in World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.2.7.
1.
Mythic+ Guide for Marksmanship Hunter
In this guide, we will talk about getting the most out of your Hunter inMythic+ dungeons, including the best way to set up your character, how yourrotation may change, and tips and tricks for using your abilities in the mostoptimal way.
If you are unfamiliar with Mythic+ and its associated general mechanics, youcan read more about it on our dedicated Mythic+ page below.
Mythic+
To learn more about the Mythic+ Meta, check out our Mythic+ Tier List below.
Dragonflight Mythic+ Tier List
2.
The Role of Marksmanship Hunter in Dragonflight Mythic+
Marksmanship Hunter specializes in solid all-round damage, withrelatively low burst but higher-than-average sustained damage. Its AoE islargely uncapped, making it very versatile at doing different kinds of damage.
3.
Best Mythic+ Talents for Marksmanship Hunter in Dragonflight
For a more general overview of Talents for Marksmanship Hunter,please visit our dedicated Talents page.
Marksmanship Hunter Talents and Builds for Dragonflight
4.
Best Talents for Marksmanship Hunter
Mythic+ Talent Build
5.
Best Mythic+ Talents for Marksmanship Hunter
This build is optimal for all Mythic+ situations, focusing on an optimizedblend of AoE and single-target that is optimal for completing high Mythic+dungeons as quickly as possible.
Be sure to make use of the 'Copy Export String' button to import the bestbuild directly into your game!
5.
Mythic+ Utility for Marksmanship Hunter in Dragonflight
This section talks mostly about the uses of different spells. For in-depthexplanations of all Hunter Abilities and Talents, including these, check out ourSpells page.
Marksmanship Hunter Dragonflight Spell Glossary
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Utility of Marksmanship Hunter in Dragonflight
Interrupts, Stuns and StopsOther Utility
Counter Shot is your "kick" and your most important bit of utility inMythic+, used to stop enemy casts for the benefit of the group and especiallythe tank. It is highly recommended to use a Focus Kick macro for this.
- /stopcasting
- /stopcasting
- /cast [@focus,exists,nodead][@mouseover,exists,nodead] [] Counter Shot
This macro will kick your focus target if you have one, mouseover if you haveno Focus target, and your target if you have neither of those.
To quickly set a focus target in hectic scenarios, we also recommend aFocus Mouseover macro.
- /focus [@mouseover]
Make sure that your UI shows your Focus Target's casts clearly, so that youare always able to kick it on cooldown, or in coordination with the rest of yourgroup.
7.
Stunning and "Stops"
Binding Shot can be used to save your tank in hectic moments byhelping him kite mobs and generate some range.
Freezing Trap can be used as an additional stop alongside Intimidation, but it has a slow travel time and you will need to beclose to land it before most stunnable casts are finished.
Scatter Shot (mutually exclusive with Binding Shot) can beused as an additional stop alongside Intimidation and Freezing Trap, but you have to bewithin 20 yards of the mob you are stopping. It will also remove any DoTs like Barbed Shot, giving it a small DPS cost.
7.1.
Other Utility
Feign Death can not only be used to drop aggro, but also negatecertain casts and channels on you. In some cases, these mechanics will simplyre-target someone else in the group, but occasionally the mechanic will beentirely negated with huge benefits. If you notice a cast or effect on you, tryto Feign Death it!
Tranquilizing Shot can negate beneficial Enrage and Magic effectsfrom enemytargets, and with the Improved Tranquilizing Shot Talent, we do not losemeaningful damage from doing so.
Tar Trap can be used to aid your tank in kiting by slowing mobs.
8.
Surviving High Mythic+ as a Marksmanship Hunter
In the upper levels of Mythic+, you may find that your baseline Hunter Kitis not enough to survive some mechanics, especially those that become oneshotson high Tyrannical keys, for example.
A dead DPS does no DPS, of course, so in these cases it can be worthreplacing your worst DPS Trinket with a defensive Tank Trinket to help yousurvive. Season 4 has a few options available for this:
- Choker of Shielding — Not a Trinket, but an Embellished Neck that wouldlikely replace your Torc of Passed Time with Blue Silken Lining. This isyour first line of defense, offering an extra layer of survivability on a3-minute cooldown for apretty small DPS loss.
- Ward of Faceless Ire — A significant Absorb shield on a1-minute cooldown, with passive Agility. This is generally your best choice, asits Absorb should be enough for almost any mechanic, and its passive Agilitymeans you do not lose as much DPS as with other Trinkets. You will have toobtain this directly from Echo of Neltharion in Aberrus, orbuy it with 2 Antique Bronze Bullions.
- Fyrakk's Tainted Rageheart — A much bigger absorb-shield, buton a 90-second cooldown and with passive Versatility. This is a much bigger DPSloss to take than the Ward, and while its absorb shield is bigger, it isprobably overkill for the vast majority of mechanics. You will have to obtainthis directly from Fyrakk in Amirdrassil, or buy it with 2 Antique Bronze Bullions.
8.1.
"Not Even Close" Website
When deciding if you should use the effects above, it is crucial to use awebsite like Not Even Close. Plugyour character's base stats into this website, and it will tell you whichmechanics will oneshot you on a given key level and affix combination. Youshould only use defensive Trinkets and Embellishments if they will actuallysave your life according to this website.
9.
Dungeon Tips and Tricks for Marksmanship Hunter in Dragonflight
This section has Hunter-specific tips and tricks that may not seem obvious,for all dungeons' bosses and trash. If you want general guides for each of ourDungeons or Mythic+ in general,check out our dedicated page below.
Mythic+
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Dungeon Tips for Marksmanship Hunter in Dragonflight
Algeth'ar AcademyAzure VaultBrackenhide HollowHalls of InfusionNeltharusNokhud OffensiveRuby Life PoolsUldaman
10.1.
Bosses
- Crawth: Your defensive rotation should be Bear > SoTF > Turtle >Repeat. Start using these defensives when you are pretty sure that the nextScreech will kill you, as they do increasing damage.
- Overgrown Ancient: Use cooldowns at 25s and 2:25.
- Echo of Doragosa: When targeted by Energy Bomb, use Feign Death quickly to cancel it.
10.2.
Trash
- Arcane Ravager: Bait the Vicious Ambush (stand at max range),and Feign once it targets you.
10.3.
Bosses
- No special tips.
10.4.
Trash
- Arcane Tender — Feigning the Erratic Growth on you will cancel it entirely.
- Rune Seal Keeper — If Icy Bindings goes through (it really shouldn't!), you can Disengage the root.
- Drakonid Breaker — Shoulder Slam can be Feigned if it is on you.
10.5.
Bosses
- Rira Hackclaw — You can feign Savage Charge.
10.6.
Trash
- Bracken Warscourge — You can pre-cast Tranquilizing Shot just before the Ragestorm castfinishes to insta-stop it.
10.7.
Bosses
- No specific tips.
10.8.
Trash
- Containment Apparatus — You can feign Containment Beam when it targets you.
10.9.
Bosses
- Chargath, Bane of Scales — You can feign the Dragon Strike to prevent the bleed application you. Feign beforethe cast ends, and stay Feigned through the animation.
- Magmatusk — You can feign Lava Spray, but itwill re-target. You can also Turtle an application of Magma Eruption.
10.10.
Trash
- Qalashi Bonesplitter — You can feign Dragonbone Axe.
10.11.
Bosses
- Teera — Aspect of the Turtle will not immune Gale Arrow, even though you might expect it to.
- Balakar Khan — You can feign Static Spear.
10.12.
Trash
- No specific tips.
10.13.
Bosses
- Kyrakka — You can pre- Aspect of the Turtle Flamespit.
10.14.
Trash
- Thunderhead — You can pre- Aspect of the Turtle Rolling Thunder. You cannotknow if you are targeted ahead of time, so this is a sort of gamble.
- Blazebound Destroyer — You can Feign ~0.75s before Inferno on you expires, and not take anydamage.
10.15.
Bosses
- Olaf — You can feign Ricocheting Shield.
10.16.
Trash
- No specific tips.
11.
Affix Tips, Tricks and Management for Marksmanship Hunter in Dragonflight
This section has Hunter-specific tips for dealing with the various affixes of Mythic+. If you want general guides for each of our Dungeons or Mythic+ in general,check out our dedicated page below.
Mythic+
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Affix Guide for Marksmanship Hunter in Dragonflight
Affix: AfflictedAffix: IncorporealAffix: EntanglingAffix: StormingAffix: SpitefulAffix: RagingAffix: BolsteringAffix: BurstingAffix: Sanguine
12.1.
Afflicted Affix Management for Marksmanship Hunter
Marksmanship Hunter has no way of dealing with the AfflictedAffix, as it has no friendly dispel. The best you can do is remind yourteammatesto do it.
12.2.
Incorporeal Affix Management for Marksmanship Hunter
Marksmanship Hunter is well-equipped to deal with Incorporeal.You can pre- Freezing Trap one of the circles that spawn, and then use Scare Beast (Talent) on another and solo the affix every time.
12.3.
Entangling Affix Management for Marksmanship Hunter
Marksmanship Hunter can use Disengage to immediately break and move out of Entangling, thanks to our Posthaste Talent.
12.4.
Storming Affix Management for Marksmanship Hunter
Marksmanship Hunter is fully mobile, and can run around andintentionally soak the Storming tornados and help your group not have to dealwith them, since other Ranged are usually movement-limited, and melee do notwant to risk being knocked out of melee range.
12.5.
Spiteful Affix Management for Marksmanship Hunter
Marksmanship Hunter can use Binding Shot and Tar Trap to best deal with Spiteful Shades. Consider speccing into Entrapment to make your Tar Trap even more useful for this.
12.6.
Raging Affix Management for Marksmanship Hunter
Marksmanship Hunter has Tranquilizing Shot to deal with Raging. We do not recommend spamming it mindlessly, but instead it helps toknow which mobs need CC in a pack and preparing to enrage-dispel those whenthey hit 30% HP.
12.7.
Bolstering Affix Management for Marksmanship Hunter
Marksmanship Hunter has nothing special to deal with Bolstering, but it is extremely important to always be hitting the highest HPtarget in a pack on Bolstering weeks. We highly recommend this WeakAura to help mark out this target inhectic situations.
12.8.
Bursting Affix Management for Marksmanship Hunter
Marksmanship Hunter can use Aspect of the Turtle when a lot of mobs are dying to preventstacks of Bursting being applied.
12.9.
Sanguine Affix Management for Marksmanship Hunter
Marksmanship Hunter can use High Explosive Trap (Talent) to knock mobs out of Sanguine and reposition them.
13.
How To Sim Mythic+ for Marksmanship Hunter
When choosing your trinkets, we recommend simulating yourself onRaidbots Top Gear or Gear Compareusing the DungeonSlice Fight Style to roughly simulate a Mythic+ dungeon.
If you are an advanced user, the true best way to sim Mythic+ is to use MDT Sim, a WeakAura/Toolthat lets you simulate real Mythic+ dungeons,based on routes from the Mythic Dungeon Tools Addon.
On our Gear Page below, we have compiled BiS items for MarksmanshipHunter that also apply to Mythic+.
Marksmanship Hunter Gear Page for Dragonflight
14.
Changelog
- 11 May 2024: Added section on how to survive the highest of keys with Tank Trinkets and Embellishments.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 03 May 2024: Added tip for Chargath in Neltharus.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Season 4.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 14 Feb. 2024: Updated the recommended default Mythic+ Talent Build.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.5
- 18 Dec. 2023: Added Mythic+ Dungeon Tips.
- 04 Dec. 2023: Updated Talents for Mythic+.
- 27 Nov. 2023: Updated Talents for Mythic+.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
- 25 May 2023: Updated the recommended builds to assume the set bonus as default.
- 04 May 2023: Updated the recommended M+ Talent Build. This is likely a temporary change, until the new Tier Set becomes more widespread.
- 01 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 15 Feb. 2023: Updated the utility talents in the M+ Build.
- 30 Jan. 2023: Small updates to the recommended builds and talent swaps.
- 25 Jan. 2023: Updated the Talent Builds again after the discovery of a sim bug. Updated the recommended "swap" talent to Bullseye.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Updated the page for relevant changes in Patch 10.0.5.
- 23 Dec. 2022: Updated the recommended builds to reflect that Unerring Vision is fixed and worth using again.
- 18 Dec. 2022: Updated the recommended talent build for Mythic+ to reflect that Unerring Vision is bugged.
- 12 Dec. 2022: Added note about Wailing Arrow for Mythic+.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Added information about talent changes for individual dungeons.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 24 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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