Sep 21, 2021 Best In Slot Gear for Survival Hunter DPS in Phase 1 During Phase 1 Hunters have quite a few options for gear sets depending on how hardcore or casual you want to play. For survival hunters there is a lot less hit rating you need to worry about due to the talent Surefooted. Hello fellow demon hunters. I'm looking at the leaderboards as well as d3 planners, youtube guides etc. There is a lot of information out there that confuses me a little bit because there are so many different builds. So assuming we have items with perfect or near perfect rolls, what build is actually best in slot for solo push? Sep 30, 2021 List of Best in Slot (BiS) gear from The Eye, and Serpentshrine Caverns for Beast Mastery Hunter DPS in Burning Crusade Classic, including optimal armor, trinkets, weapon, and gems. Contains gear sourced from raid, dungeons, early PvP grinding, professions, BoE World Drops, and reputations.
Zeherah has implemented the changes slated thus far for 5.3 on the beta version of her Femaledwarf online spreadsheet, and the theory-crafters at Elitist Jerks have been working to establish a best-in-slot gear list for hunters that takes the changes into account. Currently, the hunter BiS list for 5.3 stands as shown below.
Items are the same for all three specs except for bracers and belt. For bracers, the Crit version of the randomly-enchanted Beady Eye Bracers is favored for Survival while the Haste version is favored for Beast Mastery and Marksmanship. For the belt, Links of the Disintegrator with three agility gems is slightly ahead for SV, while Jingling Fetishgirdle is better for BM and MM.
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Keep in mind that the best item for a particular slot may vary depending on which other items you currently have equipped, your gems, enchantments, reforging, etc. This list shows the best possible combination as determined using Zeherah’s spreadsheet.
*For those who do not yet have access to Ra-den, I’ve suggested alternatives to Ra-den’s drops.
- Head: Gaze of Gara’jal Drops from the Council of Elders in ToT.
- Neck: Quadra-Head Brooch Drops from Megaera. (Asssuming Necklace of the Terracotta Archer is not available in a heroic version. See this post for discussion)
- Shoulders: Saurok Stalker’s Spaulders Token is dropped by Iron Qon in ToT.
- Chest: Saurok Stalker’s Tunic Token is dropped by Dark Animus in ToT.
- Back: Tigerfang Wrap Quest reward from Cloak of Virtue, part of the Wrathion legendary questline, that will become available in Patch 5.3. (The best pre-5.3 choice is the Pinionfeather Greatcloak, dropped by Ji-kun in ToT).
- Waist
- Jingling Fetishgirdle For BM and MM. Contained in the Cache of Storms, a lootable chest that spawns after Ra-den is defeated in heroic ToT. (*Non-Ra-den alternative is Links of the Disintegrator, dropped by Durumu in ToT).
- Links of the Disintegrator For SV. Drops from Durumu in ToT.
- Legs: Saurok Stalker’s Legguards Token is dropped by Ji-kun in ToT.
- Feet: Treads of the Sanguine Volley Contained in the Cache of Storms, a lootable chest that spawns after Ra-den is defeated in heroic ToT. (*Non-Ra-den alternative is Quakestompers, dropped by Tortos in ToT).
- Bracers:
- Beady-Eye Bracers – Haste version for BM and MM. Drops from Tortos in ToT and is also available on the BMAH.
- Beady-Eye Bracers – Crit version for SV. Drops from Tortos in ToT and is also available on the BMAH.
- Gloves: Saurok Stalker’s Gloves Token drops from Council of Elders in ToT.
- Ring 1: Raden’s Swift Seal Contained in the Cache of Storms, a lootable chest that spawns after Ra-den is defeated in heroic ToT. (*Non-Ra-den alternative is Sign of the Bloodied God, droppped by Jin’rokh the Breaker in ToT).
- Ring 2: Gore-soaked Gear Drops from Dark Animus in ToT
- Trinket 1: Renataki’s Soul Charm Drops from Jin’rokh the Breaker in ToT
- Trinket 2: Bad Juju Drops from Council of Elders in ToT.
- Ranged: Voice of the Quilen Drops from Iron Qon in ToT
To view the complete best dps set-ups using Femaledwarf (as of 4/19/13) for all three hunter specs including talents, enchantments, reforging, gems, shot priorities, etc. see the profiles created by Effinhunter:
- Femaledwarf Beast Mastery 219,972.64 dps
- Femaledwarf Marksmanship 205,877.89 dps
- Femaledwarf Survival 209,655.71 dps
Effinhunter also created profiles with no Ra-den loot and they are available at:
- no Ra-den BM
- no Ra-den SV
- no Ra-den MM
For further discussion of current BiS gear for hunters see the Best Possible DPS with Zeherah’s Hunter DPS Analyzer (femaledwarf.com) thread in the Elitist Jerks Hunter Forum, the Quick look at a BiS list thread in the MMO Champion Hunter Forum, and Scattered Shots: Patch 5.2 hunter gear. Check the latest entries for the most up-to-date information.
I think the best thing about Timewalking is it allows you to use fun tier set bonuses and trinkets from the past. These are either things you haven’t used in years, or things you never had the opportunity to use because you weren’t playing a Hunter at the time. Yeah, you can walk into Timewalking with whatever is on your back and clear it, but if you’re intent on grinding out the rewards or going for the recently-announced Infinite Timereaver mount, being able to annihilate things by taking advantage of old set bonuses or scaling oddities will get you there faster.
In patch 6.2.3, Blizzard will also be adding a Cataclysm Timewalking event, which takes a few items out of contention (remember, Timewalking gear doesn’t scale upwards) but there are still plenty of items and sets from the recent past that can shine in Timewalking.
The Legendaries
Let’s get the obvious ones out of the way first. The legendary bow, Thori’dal, the Stars’ Fury, is only worth using for Burning Crusade timewalking. Due to the lack of a socket, there’s not a whole lot of benefit to using it over other weapons, beyond the coolness factor of equipping a legendary weapon on your Hunter.
The Capactive Primal Diamond (meta gem) from the Mists of Pandaria legendary questline works in Timewalking and will give you a nice little damage boost. You just have to make sure you’re using a helm with a meta gem socket that is at least ilvl 502. Can be purchased from the Blacktalon Quartermaster.
Fen-Yu, Fury of Xuen is usable in all three forms of Timewalking (and in the future for Mists of Pandaria Timewalking if/when they add it) and is worth using over every other cloak if you completed the quest back in Mists of Pandaria.
Maalus, the Blood Drinker is not really worth using in Timewalking dungeons. For some reason, Blizzard decided to scale down the proc to a 1% damage increase. You’re actually much better off wearing the previous incarnation of the ring, the Spellbound Runic Band of Unrelenting Slaughter. Its proc isn’t scaled down in Timewalking. If you got rid of it, you can pick it up again from Zooti Fizzlefury in Zanagarra for 1600g.
Weapons
All weapons will get scaled down to the same DPS in Timewalking (assuming they match or exceed the base item level of that particular Timewalking dungeon). This is why the legendary bow isn’t that special in terms of power. The main way to differentiate weapons are sockets and procs.
- Taoren, the Soul Burner is a great choice if you completed the Mists of Pandaria legendary quest, as you can socket a Crystallized Dread into it.
- Hellscream’s Warbow (now unobtainable) has two sockets for two 10 agility gems, making it the next best choice.
- If you can’t do either of the above, then use any raid weapon from Throne of Thunder or Siege of Orgrimmar. These all have sockets which you can drop a 10 agility gem into.
- Zod’s Repeating Longbow (Heroic) has both a socket, and a proc which does a little bit of damage. Can only used for Burning Crusade or Wrath of the Lich King Timewalking.
For scopes, your best bet is the Gnomish X-Ray Scope or Flintlocke’s Woodchucker. Since these scopes can’t be used on items above ilvl 600, your only option for a scope on the Hellscream’s Warbow is one of the Warlords of Draenor scopes.
Tier Sets
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There are a lot of options for this and I encourage you to experiment, but here are some of my favorite tier combinations for Timewalking.
- 2-piece T14 + 2-piece T16: Especially great for Marksmanship and not too shabby for the other specs either. Tons of extra damage.
- 2-piece T13 + 2-piece T16: You’ll be a Focus regenerating machine.
- 4-piece T10: Great bonuses for Burning Crusade and Wrath Timewalking, but not worth it for Cataclysm. Huge damage potential, but you can get unlucky with the low proc chance.
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Part of the power for these old sets is all of the sockets (more on that later). For current set bonuses, I would go T17 for Beast Mastery and T18 for Marksmanship. If you’re looking to solo for some of these older sets, check out the previous post on Hunter soloing.
Trinkets
There’s a huge back catalog of trinkets to choose from, but here’s a few of my favorites.
- Mirror of the Blademaster: This is the current best-in-slot trinket for Hunters also happens to be the best trinket for Timewalking. You just can’t beat the AoE damage this thing puts out.
- Touch of the Void: Another on use AoE trinket. Deals quite a bit of damage, but the tentacles are placed near where you stand so you need to get in melee range to use it. Comes from a rare Garrison mission.
- Assurance of Consequence: The cooldown reduction is scaled down to the 10% range, but it also has a decent agility proc. Not really useful to Survival, as the big cooldowns it affects are Bestial Wrath and Rapid Fire.
- Deathbringer’s Will: Probably my favorite trinket of all time (mostly nostalgia talking here), so it’s fun to use again in Burning Crusade and Wrath Timewalking. Blizzard even made a toy out of it because of how iconic it was.
- Bad Juju: Nothing particularly exceptional about this one except for the fact that it summons voodoo gnomes. Yep, that’s really the main selling point for me. Careful though, because these gnomes like to get into trouble by pulling random things.
Gems and enchants
Being able to use old enchants and gems is probably your biggest overall power boost. The more sockets you can get, the better. Take for example a tier chest piece from Mists of Pandaria with 3 sockets on it: When you scale this item down to Burning Crusade Timewalking, the item itself has 15 agility on it, but those 3 sockets give you an additional 30 agility. So if you were to wear whatever you have on now without sockets, you’re only getting a third of the potential agility you could have! This is massive once you apply it to multiple slots of gear.
For all sockets you want to drop in epic-quality 10 agility gems such as Delicate Crimson Spinel or Delicate Cardinal Ruby. For your meta gem, you can use the Capactive Primal Diamond if you earned it in Mists of Pandaria and are using it on a ilvl 502+ helm. Aside from that, you can use the Agile Primal Diamond (Mists helms), Agile Shadowspirit Diamond (Cataclysm helms), or Relentless Earthsiege Diamond (everything else).
Using old enchants can give you a boost as well. In Warlords they significantly reduced the number of slots that can be enchanted, but old enchants can still be applied to older gear. In addition to current enchants (rings, neck, cloak), you can utilize the following:
- Shoulders: Greater Tigerclaw Inscription
- Chest: Glorious Stats
- Wrists: Greater Agility
- Gloves: Major Agility
- Legs: Shadowleather Leg Armor
- Boots: Blurred Speed
Why even bother?
I guess you have to be a min-maxer at heart to fully appreciate this, but even if you’re not, you can’t deny how cool it is that you can easily double your Timewalking DPS by using some of this gear. Also, if you’re chain running these dungeons to get your badges or get lucky with the Infinite Timereaver mount, this will make things go a lot faster. It’s not for everyone, but if you enjoy Timewalking I think it’s worth it.
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