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Beast Mastery (WoW Talent Tree)
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Primary Role
Beast Mastery represents the hunter's focus on his/her connection to nature and the beasts that live within in. Most Beast Mastery abilities and talents are centered around the hunter's pet, and the rest are on the use of aspects.
Talents
Tier 1 | ||
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| Talent | Description | Max Points |
| Improved Aspect of the Hawk | While Aspect of the Hawk is active , all normal ranged attacks have a 10% chance of increasing ranged attack speed by 3/6/9/12/15%. This may or may not be essential to your hunter depending on their shot rotation. | 5 |
| Endurance Training | Increases pet health by 10% and the hunter's health by 5%. While not a stellar talent, it's a safe place to dump extra points. | 5 |
Tier 2 | ||
| (Requires 5 points spent in Beast Mastery) | ||
| Focused Fire | All damage caused by you is increased by 1/2% while your pet is active and the critical strike chance of your pet's special abilities is increased by 10/20% while Kill Command is active. | 2 |
| Improved Aspect of the Monkey | Increases hunter's dodge rate by 2/4/6% while using Aspect of the Monkey and Aspect of the Dragonhawk. | 3 |
| Thick Hide | Increases the armor rating of your pets by 7/14/20% and your armor contribution from items by 4/7/10%. | 3 |
| Improved Revive Pet | Revive Pet's casting time is reduced by 3/6 sec, mana cost is reduced by 20/40%, and increases the health your pet returns with by an additional 15/30%. | 2 |
Tier 3 | ||
| (Requires 10 points spent in Beast Mastery) | ||
| Pathfinding | Increases the speed bonus of your Aspect of the Cheetah and Aspect of the Pack by 4/8%, and increases your speed while mounted by 5/10%. The mounted movement speed increase does not stack with other effects. | 2 |
| Aspect Mastery | * Aspect of the Viper- Reduces the penelty by 10%
| 1 |
| Unleashed Fury | Increases the damage done by your pets by 3/6/9/12/15%. | 5 |
Tier 4 | ||
| (Requires 15 points spent in Beast Mastery) | ||
| Improved Mend Pet | Reduces the mana cost of your Mend Pet spell by 10/20% and gives the Mend Pet spell a 25/50% chance of cleansing 1 Curse, Disease, Magic or Poison effect from the pet each tick. | 2 |
| Ferocity | Increases the critical strike chance of your pet by 2/4/6/8/10%. | 5 |
Tier 5 | ||
| (Requires 20 points spent in Beast Mastery) | ||
| Spirit Bond | While your pet is active, you and your pet will regenerate 1/2% of total health every 10 sec., and increases healing done to you and your pet by 5/10%. | 2 |
| Intimidation | Command your pet to intimidate the target on the next successful melee attack, causing a high amount of threat and stunning the target for 3 sec. | 1 |
| Bestial Discipline | Increases the Focus regeneration of your pets by 50/100%. | 2 |
Tier 6 | ||
| (Requires 25 points spent in Beast Mastery) | ||
| Animal Handler | Increases your pet's expertise by 10, and increases the duration of your Master's Call effect by 6 sec. | 2 |
| Frenzy | (Requires 5 points in Ferocity). Gives your pet a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to gain a 30% attack speed increase for 8 sec after dealing a critical strike. | 5 |
Tier 7 | ||
| (Requires 30 points spent in Beast Mastery) | ||
| Ferocious Inspiration | When your pet scores a critical hit, all party and raid members have all damage increased by 1/2/3% for 10sec. In addition, increases the damage dealt by Arcane Shot by 3/6/9%. | 3 |
| Bestial Wrath | (Requires 1 point in Intimidation). Send your pet into a rage causing 50% additional damage for 18 sec. While enraged, the beast does not feel pity or remorse or fear and it cannot be stopped unless killed. | 1 |
| Catlike Reflexes | Increases your chance to dodge by 1/2/3% and your pet's chance to dodge by an additional 3/6/9%. | 3 |
Tier 8 | ||
| (Requires 35 points spent in Beast Mastery) | ||
| Invigoration | (Requires 3 points in Ferocious Inspiration). When your pet scores a critical hit with a special ability, you have a 50/100% chance to instantly regenerate 1% mana. | 2 |
| Serpent's Swiftness | Increases ranged combat attack speed by 4/8/12/16/20% and your pet's melee attack speed by 4/8/12/16/20%. | 5 |
Tier 9 | ||
| (Requires 40 points spent in Beast Mastery) | ||
| Longevity | Reduces the cooldown of your Bestial Wrath, Intimidation and Pet Special Abilities by 10/20/30%. | 3 |
| The Beast Within | (Requires 1 point in Bestial Wrath). When your pet is under the effects of Bestial Wrath, you also go into a rage causing 10% additional damage and reducing mana costs of all spells by 20% for 18 sec. While enraged, you do not feel pity or remorse or fear and you cannot be stopped unless killed. | 1 |
| Cobra Strikes | (Requires 5 points in Serpent's Swiftness). You have a 20/40/60% chance when you critically hit with Arcane Shot, Steady Shot or Kill Shot to cause your pet's next 2 special attacks to critically hit. | 3 |
Tier 10 | ||
| (Requires 45 points spent in Beast Mastery) | ||
| Kindred Spirits | Increases your pet's damage by 4/6/8/12/20% and you and your pet's movement speed by 2/4/6/8/10% while your pet is active. This does not stack with other movement speed increasing effects. | 5 |
Tier 11 | ||
| (Requires 50 points spent in Beast Mastery) | ||
| Beast Mastery | You master the art of Beast training, teaching you the ability to tame Exotic pets and increasing your total amount of Pet Skill Points by 4. | 1 |
Common Questions
How do I play a Beast Master?
All hunters play more or less the same during a group or raid, with the exception of the shot rotations used by Beast Mastery. Beast masters are also more likely to use Kill Command in their cycles. During PvP, beast masters rely heavily on The Beast Within to avoid crowd control effects long enough to defeat their opponents. They need their pet for this, and although many players ignore the pet, some will choose to attack it if it runs around a corner by itself...so Improved Revive Pet is handy, too!
Why skip Bestial Discipline?
The Marksmanship talent Go For the Throat also helps the pet regain focus. Since there is a limit to the amount of focus a pet can actually use up all their focus, there is often no need for both if your crit rate is high enough. The exception would be if using a Wind Serpent, since Lightning Breath uses focus more quickly than other abilities.
If talents are usually maxed, why only put 4/5 in Frenzy?
Frenzy gives the pet an effect. It's either there or it's not. The number of points you spend determines how likely it is to be active, but because of how often your pet will crit as a beast master, it's essentially always up with just 4 points spent. The fifth point becomes wasted, and Animal Handler is an excellent talent as well since it reduces pet misses.
What gear do I look for as a beast master?
All hunters generally look for the same gear. Survival has special interests in agility, and marksmanship wants more intellect and mana regen. Beast mastery doesn't have any special needs, other than maybe a slight focus on attack power since that directly benefits the pet as well. A beast master should still give attention to crit rating, hit rating, mana regen, etc.
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