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WoW Forever Hunter Leveling 1–60: Beast Mastery Build

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Beast Mastery Hunter leveling build for WoW Forever, levels 10–60: Deadly Aspects as played in the beta, then Focused Fire, Pathfinding from the third row, pet talents to Ferocity, Summon Hawk, Intimidation, Frenzy and Bestial Wrath at 40 on the live talents (projected).

Talent build

This build was made with an older version of the talent data. Check the tooltips for changes.

41 / 10 / 051 of 51 points · level 60Open in calculator

Beast Mastery41 pts

Hover or tap a talent to see what it does.

Talent order by level

One talent point per level, starting at level 10. Spend them in this order as you level.

  1. 1.Deadly Aspects1/5Lv 10
  2. 2.Deadly Aspects2/5Lv 11
  3. 3.Deadly Aspects3/5Lv 12
  4. 4.Deadly Aspects4/5Lv 13
  5. 5.Deadly Aspects5/5Lv 14
  6. 6.Focused Fire1/2Lv 15
  7. 7.Focused Fire2/2Lv 16
  8. 8.Improved Revive Pet1/2Lv 17
  9. 9.Improved Revive Pet2/2Lv 18
  10. 10.Endurance Training1/5Lv 19
  11. 11.Pathfinding1/2Lv 20
  12. 12.Pathfinding2/2Lv 21
  13. 13.Unleashed Fury1/5Lv 22
  14. 14.Unleashed Fury2/5Lv 23
  15. 15.Unleashed Fury3/5Lv 24
  16. 16.Unleashed Fury4/5Lv 25
  17. 17.Unleashed Fury5/5Lv 26
  18. 18.Ferocity1/5Lv 27
  19. 19.Ferocity2/5Lv 28
  20. 20.Ferocity3/5Lv 29
  21. 21.Ferocity4/5Lv 30
  22. 22.Ferocity5/5Lv 31
  23. 23.Summon Hawk1/1Lv 32
  24. 24.Bestial Swiftness1/1Lv 33
  25. 25.Intimidation1/1Lv 34
  26. 26.Spirit Bond1/2Lv 35
  27. 27.Frenzy1/5Lv 36
  28. 28.Frenzy2/5Lv 37
  29. 29.Frenzy3/5Lv 38
  30. 30.Frenzy4/5Lv 39
  31. 31.Bestial Wrath1/1Lv 40
  32. 32.Spirit Bond2/2Lv 41
  33. 33.Frenzy5/5Lv 42
  34. 34.Endurance Training2/5Lv 43
  35. 35.Endurance Training3/5Lv 44
  36. 36.Endurance Training4/5Lv 45
  37. 37.Endurance Training5/5Lv 46
  38. 38.Bestial Discipline1/2Lv 47
  39. 39.Bestial Discipline2/2Lv 48
  40. 40.Improved Mend Pet1/2Lv 49
  41. 41.Improved Mend Pet2/2Lv 50
  42. 42.Lethal Attacks1/5Lv 51
  43. 43.Lethal Attacks2/5Lv 52
  44. 44.Lethal Attacks3/5Lv 53
  45. 45.Lethal Attacks4/5Lv 54
  46. 46.Lethal Attacks5/5Lv 55
  47. 47.Efficiency1/5Lv 56
  48. 48.Efficiency2/5Lv 57
  49. 49.Efficiency3/5Lv 58
  50. 50.Efficiency4/5Lv 59
  51. 51.Efficiency5/5Lv 60

Experience changes that affect this route

The beta changed the leveling maths twice in October, so advice written in September no longer holds. Each entry is what Blizzard wrote, with our reading of it marked separately. Last change .

  1. The target is parity with questing, not Classic Era dungeon speedAnnounced, not in a build yet

    Blizzard's stated aim: after these changes, perfect experience-per-hour dungeon play should land very close to, if not equal to, optimal questing. It also said dungeon experience will not return to Classic Era levels, because dungeon spam being the optimal path fails its design pillars.

    What it means for your route: Plan a mixed route. Dungeons are for the levels where an instance sits on your path and the group is close to your level; questing carries the levels in between. A pure dungeon run to 60 is being balanced out of the game on purpose.

    Source: Blizzard Entertainment (Aggrend) · Blizzard's reasoning

Legacy Points while you level

Unconfirmed

Where to spend Hunter Legacy Points for solo questing, in the order the points arrive. A character can spend 16, and an account can earn 65 at launch. Stop wherever your total is — the list is cumulative. Effects are quoted from the Live client 1.60.1.70707 data.

  1. 1.

    Well Restedrank 1 · Adventure

    Your rested experience accumulates 4% faster and your rested experience cap is increased by 4%.

    Only one point here for now — it is the prerequisite for Talented, and rested experience is worth having while you are at it.

    1 point · 1/16
  2. 2.

    Talentedrank 5 · Adventure

    You gain talent points every level starting at level 5 instead of starting at level 10, but you still may not have more than 51 total talent points.

    The strongest leveling node in the tree: talent points from level 5 instead of 10, so you reach your first real build five levels sooner.

    5 points · 6/16
  3. 3.

    Thrill of Adventurerank 5 · Adventure

    You gain 5% of your maximum Health and Mana over 10 sec each time you deliver the killing blow to a non-trivial enemy. Ineffective in dungeons, raids, and battlegrounds.

    5% of your health and mana back on every killing blow. Solo questing is mostly downtime between fights, and this is the node that removes it. It does nothing in dungeons, raids or battlegrounds.

    5 points · 11/16
  4. 4.

    Field Guiderank 1 · Adventure

    Reduces your cooldown on adding Camp features by 8%

    Prerequisite for Frequent Flier, and shortens the wait between camp features.

    1 point · 12/16
  5. 5.

    Frequent Flierrank 1 · Adventure

    You receive a 50% discount on all flight paths, and your flight path mount flies 20% faster.

    Half-price flight paths and 20% faster flights. You will fly hundreds of times before 60.

    1 point · 13/16
  6. 6.

    Gourmandrank 1 · Resourcefulness

    Increases the duration of beneficial effects from eating food by 33%.

    Food buffs last a third longer, so you eat less often between pulls.

    1 point · 14/16
  7. 7.

    Well Restedrank 3 · Adventure

    Your rested experience accumulates 12% faster and your rested experience cap is increased by 12%.

    No vendor reagents to save on, so the last two points go into rested experience.

    2 points · 16/16

What to skip, and why

  • Permanence: Its party-buff half does nothing alone; the camp rest half is not worth three points while you are questing.
  • For Great Honor: Honor only, so it waits until you start battlegrounds.
  • Diplomat: Reputation matters at 60, not on the way there.
  • High Alert, Field Medicine: Stealth detection and bandage timers are situational; neither changes how fast you level.

Variants

  • If you gather while you level, one or two points in Bountiful Harvest (20% more scarce materials per rank, Mining, Herbalism and Skinning) pay for your mounts; take them out of the last picks on this list.
  • Levelling in dungeons instead? Thrill of Adventure is dead weight there — the dungeon plan on any dungeon leveling guide spends those five points on Permanence, Reinforce and faster corpse runs.
  • Your class buys no reagents, and Reagent Economy no longer makes camp features free, so it is left out of this plan.

Legacy values are datamined from the game client and can change. Plan your own spread in the Legacy planner, see where points come from inLegacy Points, or read the Legacy system guide. The order above is our recommendation; the effects are game data.

Contents
  1. Overview
  2. Why this build
  3. Weak spots
  4. Talent order by level
  5. Levels 10–14: played in the beta
  6. Levels 15–60: projected, not played yet
  7. Key levels
  8. How to pull and kill
  9. Leveling tips
  10. After level 60
  11. Sources

Overview

Levels 10–60 · Beast Mastery Hunter, solo questing and grinding. Levels 10–14 were played in the beta; levels 15–60 are projected.

Levels 15–60: projected, not played yet. Testers played this build to level 30, but the live client moved Pathfinding from the second row of Beast Mastery to the third, so the beta’s Pathfinding points at 15 and 16 cannot be learned there any more and only levels 10–14 still match what they played. Everything past level 14 follows the talent trees of the live client (build 1.60.1.70755) and has not been played in this order yet.

Guide sites put Hunter at the top of their leveling tier lists, and Icy Veins calls Beast Mastery “top-tier leveling”. Your pet tanks, pets now scale with your stats, and you shoot from safety. The start follows Icy Veins’ level 20 path: Deadly Aspects turns Aspect of the Hawk into your strongest combat buff. The live client then reshuffled the second and third rows, so Focused Fire (more damage while your pet is out) and Improved Revive Pet (less downtime when it dies) come first, and Pathfinding, which speeds up Aspect of the Cheetah while you travel without a mount, follows at 20 once ten points open its row. After that almost everything goes to the pet. Levels 10–14 are the order testers played in the level 30 beta phase (October 1–23). The live client’s server hotfixes (1.60.1.70707 on November 1, the launch client 1.60.1.70755 on November 4) changed the talents behind the next points, so everything from level 15 is re-planned on the live trees and marked as projected below. Talents and tuning can still be hotfixed after launch.

Why this build

  • Your pet tanks. Most fights are you shooting while the pet holds the mob, so you rarely take damage.
  • Pets scale with your stats in Forever, so upgrades for you are upgrades for the pet.
  • Travel speed. Pathfinding makes Aspect of the Cheetah faster, and there are no mounts before level 40.

Weak spots

  • Deadzone and pet management. Players still ask Blizzard to remove the minimum range deadzone.
  • Ammo and pet food are extra upkeep that other classes do not have.
  • Some testers found it slow. One player said Hunter felt as slow as Classic Era, while Paladin raced ahead.

Talent order by level

One point per level from level 10 to 60. The talent tree above shows the finished level 60 build; use the level slider to see it at any level.

Levels 10–14: played in the beta

  • Levels 10–14 · Deadly Aspects 5/5 — Gives Aspect of the Hawk (and Aspect of the Beast in melee) a 10% chance at five ranks to proc 30% attack speed for 12 sec. Your strongest combat talent at this level.

Levels 15–60: projected, not played yet

From 15 Focused Fire and Improved Revive Pet take the second row and a point of Endurance Training opens the third, where Pathfinding lands at 20 and 21. Unleashed Fury and Ferocity follow, then the pet gets the points: Summon Hawk at 32, Intimidation for a stun, Spirit Bond for health between pulls, Frenzy after its crits and Bestial Wrath at 40. Endurance Training keeps it alive through bigger pulls, and the last ten points open Marksmanship for crit and cheaper shots. Pets were reworked for Forever and got several fixes during the beta, so watch the launch notes for pet changes.

  • Levels 15–16 · Focused Fire 2/2 — +2% to all damage you and your pet deal while it is active, which for Beast Mastery is always.
  • Levels 17–18 · Improved Revive Pet 2/2 — Revive Pet casts 6 sec faster, costs 40% less and brings the pet back with more health at two ranks. Less downtime after a bad pull.
  • Level 19 · Endurance Training 1/5 — +15% pet health and armor at five ranks. The pet tanks everything, so this is survival for both of you.
  • Levels 20–21 · Pathfinding 2/2 — Aspect of the Cheetah and Aspect of the Pack gain 6% more speed at two ranks. It now sits on the third row, so it waits until ten points are in; travel time is still a large share of leveling without a mount.
  • Levels 22–26 · Unleashed Fury 5/5 — +3% damage per rank for your pet and your hawks. Your pet is doing a large share of the killing, so this is the cheapest damage on the tree.
  • Levels 27–31 · Ferocity 5/5 — +2% critical strike chance per rank for your pet and hawks. It needs 15 points in Beast Mastery, which is exactly what you have once Unleashed Fury is finished.
  • Level 32 · Summon Hawk 1/1 — A hawk dive-bombs the target and keeps attacking for 18 sec, and two can be out at once. Unleashed Fury and Ferocity already boost it.
  • Level 33 · Bestial Swiftness 1/1 — +30% pet movement speed. Mostly the key to Intimidation, but the pet also reaches runners sooner.
  • Level 34 · Intimidation 1/1 — The pet’s next hit stuns for 3 sec and is far more likely to crit. A free interrupt for casters and a reset when a pull goes wrong.
  • Level 35 · Spirit Bond 1/2 — You and the pet regenerate 1% of total health every 5 sec while it is out (two ranks). Less eating between pulls.
  • Levels 36–39 · Frenzy 4/5 — After a pet crit, the pet attacks 30% faster for 8 sec at five ranks. Ferocity’s crits feed it directly.
  • Level 40 · Bestial Wrath 1/1 — Your pet deals 50% more damage for 18 sec and ignores fear. Use it on elites and on the first mob of a double pull.
  • Level 41 · Spirit Bond 2/2 — finish the talent.
  • Level 42 · Frenzy 5/5 — finish the talent.
  • Levels 43–46 · Endurance Training 5/5 — finish the talent.
  • Levels 47–48 · Bestial Discipline 2/2 — Pet Focus regenerates 20% faster, and 50% of your mana regeneration continues while you cast.
  • Levels 49–50 · Improved Mend Pet 2/2 — Mend Pet costs 20% less and can cleanse a Curse, Disease, Magic or Poison effect from the pet as it heals.
  • Levels 51–55 · Lethal Attacks (Marksmanship) 5/5 — +1% crit per rank with all your attacks.
  • Levels 56–60 · Efficiency (Marksmanship) 5/5 — Shots, Stings and melee abilities cost 15% less mana at five ranks.

Key levels

  • Level 10 · First point into Deadly Aspects, and keep Aspect of the Hawk up in every fight.
  • Level 14 · Deadly Aspects is maxed, the last level that matches the beta order.
  • Level 15 (projected) · Focused Fire: +2% damage for you and your pet while it is out. The beta put Pathfinding here; the live client moved it a row down.
  • Level 20 (projected) · Pathfinding for faster travel, after Improved Revive Pet and one point of Endurance Training open its row.
  • Level 26 (projected) · Unleashed Fury is maxed. The pet holds threat better simply because it hits harder.
  • Level 30 (projected) · Four points of Ferocity: 21 points spent, the beta’s level cap.
  • Level 32 (projected) · Summon Hawk: a second attacker on every target.
  • Level 34 (projected) · Intimidation, your pet’s stun.
  • Level 40 (projected) · Bestial Wrath, and riding.
  • Level 46 (projected) · Endurance Training is maxed: the pet survives two-mob pulls on its own.

How to pull and kill

  1. Send the pet first and let it build threat for a second or two.
  2. Aspect of the Hawk in combat, Aspect of the Cheetah when traveling. Never fight in Cheetah.
  3. Serpent Sting and Arcane Shot on the target, then Auto Shot while the pet tanks. Summon Hawk on cooldown from 32.
  4. If a mob reaches you, step back and let the pet pull it off rather than meleeing in the deadzone.

Leveling tips

  • Pet bugs to know: in the beta, pets could lose their special abilities after a relog or dismiss, and a fresh tame might teach nothing. Learn the skill before you log out; if Beast Training says “You can’t do that”, release the pet and tame a new one.
  • Happiness only drops when the pet dies in this build, so feed it after a revive rather than on a timer.
  • Buy ammo in bulk before long quest trips.
  • Summon Hawk is a talent here. It sits on the fourth row of Beast Mastery, and this build takes it at 32.
  • Stay Beast Mastery. Icy Veins’ Sept 19 update calls Survival the weakest leveling spec and Marksmanship (Lone Wolf) a dungeon AoE build only; players also reported Lone Wolf as bugged.
  • Tauren and Human are the strong racial picks according to Icy Veins, but there are no weak choices.

After level 60

At 60, the Hunter endgame guides take over. The Beast Mastery Hunter leveling guide is a second 10–60 order that puts pet survival ahead of travel speed. Dungeon quests give 50% less bonus experience since October 1, and the October 8 build stopped dungeon kill experience from being paid at the group’s highest level while raising base kill experience in dungeons by about 20%. Blizzard’s stated goal is dungeons roughly level with questing, so the fastest route to 60 mixes both; dungeons or questing has the details.

Sources

The talent path and leveling advice adapt these Classic guides to the WoW Forever talent trees; talents that are new or changed in Forever are chosen from this site’s talent data.

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