This Hunter leveling guide is all about leveling your hunter twink 1-80 with the Beast Mastery (52/19/0) talent spec. Beast Mastery is probably the most efficient way to level your hunter because it does not depend on gear to deal huge amounts of damage.
Your Pet also acts as a tank and regenerates health very fast. This way you will take the least amount of damage and die less often. And – most importantly – have to make only a few breaks now and then to regenerate mana.
Other Talent builds (Marksmanship for example) requires more mana, better gear, more breaks and your pet won’t tank very well.
Here’s how my Hunter leveling guide recommends you to spend your talent points:
Hunter Leveling guide – Beast Mastery Build (52/19/0)
Beast Mastery (52 points)
- Improved Aspect of the Hawk (5/5)
- Focused Fire (2/2)
- Thick Hide (3/3)
- Improved Revive Pet (1/2)
- Unleashed Fury (5/5)
- Improved Mend Pet (2/2)
- Ferocity (5/5)
- Spirit Bond (2/2)
- Intimidation (1/1)
- Animal Handler (2/2)
- Frenzy (5/5)
- Bestial Wrath (1/1)
- Catlike Reflexes (3/3)
- Serpent’s Swiftness (5/5)
- The Beast Within (1/1)
- Cobra Strikes (3/3)
- Kindred Spirits (5/5)
- Beast Mastery (1/1)
Marksmanship (19 points)
- Lethal Shots (5/5)
- Careful Aim (3/3)
- Improved Hunter’s Mark (3/3)
- Mortal Shots (5/5)
- Efficiency (3/3)
How To Play The Beast Master
Playing with this talent spec is really easy and will feel like you have an auto-pilot activated. Cast a Hunter’s Mark on your target, then send your pet in.
You only need to wait a very short amount of time before your pet has generated enough threat for you to start dealing damage. Auto-attack is the hunters’ best friends and I recommend you to use your abilities carefully.
On the one hand you can enhance your damage with many of your spells, but most of them are not really mana-efficient and the time you save by dealing a bit more damage can easily be consumed by the next mana-recovery break.
What I try to say is that you should only use the most mana-efficient abilities if you have to make breaks often. If you ‘never’ have mana problems, add more spells to save some more time and level faster.
I hope you got some value from my Hunter leveling guide!