Season of Discovery Beast Mastery Hunter DPS Stat Priority (2025)

Last updated on Apr 10, 2025 at 10:00by Impakt9 comments

On this page, you will find out the optimal PvE stat priority for yourBeast Mastery Hunter in WoW Classic - Season of Discovery. We first present thestat priority, before delving into more complex explanations.

1. Hit chance until 9% (Hit Cap)
2. Agility;
3. Attack Power;
4. Critical Strike chance;
5. Stamina;
6. Intellect;
7. Spirit;
8. Strength.

While you can follow the basic priority above, it is important to understandhow the stats are measured. The base stat you can use to compare all of theothers is attack power, or AP. AP makes your abilities hit harder, and based onthe increase in damage provided by the other stats, it is best to express themin terms of how much AP they would be worth.

As a Hunter, your ranged attacks cannot be parried or be glancing blows;your attacks can only miss or be blocked. Against targets your level, you havea 5% chance to miss attacks. Raid and dungeon bosses are considered to be 3levels above you, meaning your chance to miss attacks is slightly higher at8.6%. Reaching the cap on hit means having a 9% increased chance to hitthrough gear. Keep in mind that if you are a Troll ora Dwarf and are benefiting from your racial weapon specialization, then theamount of hit that you need is lowered.

When you deal a critical strike, your attacks will do 100% increased damage.As a Hunter, this is slightly higher due to rune interactions with how this affectsyour pet's ability to crit. However, critical strike chance does NOT scale your pet'scritical strike chance, making this a weak stat now that pets have AP scaling.

As a Hunter, 1 Agility gives you 2 ranged Attack Power, 1 melee AP, a small increase toyour chance to critically strike, 2 armor, and asmall increase to your chance to dodge. Agility is a very valuable stat becauseit also scales with certain buffs. Agility will be your main source of Attack Power and is the beststat to maximize, especially early on.

Attack Power increases the damage you deal. The damage of all of yourabilities and attacks are calculated based off your AP. It is important to notethat ranged attack power and melee attack power are separate stats. If somethingincreases your attack power, it affects both, but sometimes items will specifyeither ranged or melee attack power, which only affect your ranged and meleeattacks respectively.

Stamina increases your health, and is important for your survival. A higheramount of health means that you can take more damage before dying, which giveshealers more time to heal you during raids or dungeons.

Intellect increasesyour Mana pool and your chance to critically strike with spells. Spells referto magic damage, and none of the hunter abilities that you use in your normalrotation count as spells in this context. The increased Mana pool is useful tomake sure we never run out of Mana during a fight.

Spirit increases your out ofcombat health regeneration and your Mana regeneration. Your Mana regeneratesaccording to the 5 second rule, which is easy to follow for Hunters becauseyour spells are used when you open on an enemy and then you will finish mostenemies off with Auto Shot, allowing your Mana to naturallyregenerate. Spirit is ranked low because you should not normally be losing muchhealth, due to your pet tanking, and you can naturally regenerate most Mana ifyou use the correct rotation without needing additional spirit.

Lastly,Strength increases your melee attack power. This is not useful to hunters sincethe majority of damage we deal is ranged damage, which is unaffected by meleeattack power. There are small exceptions on some bosses and encounters whereyou can occasionally use melee attacks between shots, but these are rare enoughthat you should not gear for them.