Beast Mastery Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot — The War Within (11.0.5)

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Beast Mastery Hunter in The War Within Season 1 from all sources, including Raiding, Mythic+, Delves, The Great Vault, and Crafted.

Note that there is no such thing as a singular, all-encompassing "BiS". The best items vary per character and situation, and there are many items that are essentially equivalent in terms of DPS, namely when we are just shuffling secondary stats around. I will list one "BiS" item per slot, sometimes two if I feel there is a significant difference for Raiding and Mythic+, but ultimately, BiS lists are not very practically useful and you should be simming your character to find out what gear to equip next. Nonetheless, there is a huge demand for this list and thus, despite me not thinking you should really care much about it, it is here for your perusal.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon (Raiding)	Splintershot Silkbow (639)	Sikran in Nerub-ar Palace
Weapon (Mythic+)	Shade-Touched Silencer (639)	Nexus Princess Ky'veza (626) in Nerub-ar Palace
Helm	Lightless Scavenger's Skull (639)	Silken Court/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Neck	Sureki Zealot's Insignia (639)	Sikran in Nerub-ar Palace
Shoulder	Lightless Scavenger's Taxidermy (639)	Rasha'nan/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Cloak	Wings of Shattered Sorrow (639)	Rasha'nan in Nerub-ar Palace
Chest	Lightless Scavenger's Tunic (639)	Broodtwister Ovi'nax/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Bracers	Glyph-Etched Vambraces — Dawnthread Lining (636)	Crafted — Leatherworking
Gloves	Glyph-Etched Gauntlets — Dawnthread Lining (636)	Crafted — Leatherworking
Belt	Lost Watcher's Remains (639)	The Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace
Legs	Lightless Scavenger's Stalkings (639)	Nexus Princess Ky'veza/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Boots	Lightless Scavenger's Footpads (639)	Matrix Catalyst any 639 Boots.
Ring #1	Seal of the Poisoned Pact (639)	Queen Ansurek in Nerub-ar Palace
Ring #2	Devout Zealot's Ring (639)	The Dawnbreaker (626), or Great Vault
Trinket #1	Skardyn's Grace (639)	Grim Batol (626), or Great Vault
Trinket #2 (All-Rounder)	Ara-Kara Sacbrood (639)	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes (626), or Great Vault
Trinket #2 (Pure Single-Target)	Mad Queen's Mandate (639)	Queen Ansurek in Nerub-ar Palace

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Beast Mastery Hunter in The War Within Season 1 from the Nerub-ar Palace Raid.

Note that this BiS List is for items from the Raid. I am separating the BiS lists by gear sources. This is what you send to your Raid Leader/Loot Council when they ask you what your BiS gear is from the Raid.

Note that there is no such thing as a singular, all-encompassing "BiS". The best items vary per character and situation, and there are many items that are essentially equivalent in terms of DPS, namely when we are just shuffling secondary stats around. I will list one "BiS" item per slot, sometimes two if I feel there is a significant difference for Raiding and Mythic+, but ultimately, BiS lists are not very practically useful and you should be simming your character to find out what gear to equip next. Nonetheless, there is a huge demand for this list and thus, despite me not thinking you should really care much about it, it is here for your perusal.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon (Raiding)	Splintershot Silkbow (639)	Sikran in Nerub-ar Palace
Weapon (Mythic+)	Shade-Touched Silencer (639)	Nexus Princess Ky'veza (626) in Nerub-ar Palace
Neck	Sureki Zealot's Insignia (639)	Sikran in Nerub-ar Palace
Shoulder	Whispering Voidlight Spaulders (639)	Silken Court in Nerub-ar Palace
Cloak	Wings of Shattered Sorrow (639)	Rasha'nan in Nerub-ar Palace
Chest	Lightless Scavenger's Tunic (639)	Broodtwister Ovi'nax/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Bracers	Ky'veza's Covert Clasps (639)	Nexus Princess Ky'veza in Nerub-ar Palace
Gloves	Lightless Scavenger's Mitts (639)	Sikran/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Belt	Lost Watcher's Remains (639)	The Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace
Legs	Lightless Scavenger's Stalkings (639)	Nexus Princess Ky'veza/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Boots	Lightless Scavenger's Footpads (639)	Matrix Catalyst any 639 Boots.
Ring #1	Seal of the Poisoned Pact (639)	Queen Ansurek in Nerub-ar Palace
Ring #2	Key to the Unseeming (639)	The Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace
Trinket #1	Ovi'nax's Mercurial Egg (639)	Broodtwister Ovi'nax in Nerub-ar Palace
Trinket #2	Mad Queen's Mandate (639)	Queen Ansurek in Nerub-ar Palace

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Beast Mastery Hunter from The War Within Season 1 Mythic+.

Note that this BiS List is for items from Mythic+. I am separating the BiS lists by gear sources. This is the list you can chase when you want to improve your gear by farming Mythic+ dungeons.

Note that there is no such thing as a singular, all-encompassing "BiS". The best items vary per character and situation, and there are many items that are essentially equivalent in terms of DPS, namely when we are just shuffling secondary stats around. I will list one "BiS" item per slot, sometimes two if I feel there is a significant difference for Raiding and Mythic+, but ultimately, BiS lists are not very practically useful and you should be simming your character to find out what gear to equip next. Nonetheless, there is a huge demand for this list and thus, despite me not thinking you should really care much about it, it is here for your perusal.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Recurved Hull Impaler (639)	The Dawnbreaker (626), or Great Vault
Helm	Lightless Scavenger's Skull (639)	Silken Court/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Neck	'Emergency Stop' Keychain (639)	The Stonevault (626), or Great Vault
Shoulder	Wintersnap Shoulderguards (639)	Mists of Tirna Scithe (626), or Great Vault
Cloak	Anvilhide Cape (639)	The Stonevault (626), or Great Vault
Chest	Lightless Scavenger's Tunic (639)	Broodtwister Ovi'nax/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Bracers	Penumbral Rimeguards (639)	City of Threads (626), or Great Vault
Gloves	Lightless Scavenger's Mitts (639)	Sikran/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Belt	Anchor Chain Girdle (639)	Siege of Boralus (626), or Great Vault
Legs	Lightless Scavenger's Stalkings (639)	Nexus Princess Ky'veza/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
Boots	Red Scale Boots (639)	Grim Batol (626), or Great Vault
Ring #1 (Mythic+)	Band of the Ancient Dredger (639)	Siege of Boralus (626), or Great Vault
Ring #2 (Raiding)	Devout Zealot's Ring (639)	The Dawnbreaker (626), or Great Vault
Ring #2 (Mythic+)	Seal of the City Watch (639)	Siege of Boralus (626), or Great Vault
Trinket #1	Skardyn's Grace (639)	Grim Batol (626), or Great Vault
Trinket #2	Ara-Kara Sacbrood (639)	Ara-Kara, City of Echoes (626), or Great Vault

This Trinket Tier List is single-target biased, as this tends to be the most important aspect of Raiding. When Trinkets are equal on single-target, I will "break the tie" by looking into which Trinket performs better in AoE/mixed scenarios.

Note that the Trinkets are compared at their highest possible Item Level, which is only 626 for Delve Trinkets. Not only that, but 639 Mythic+ Trinkets are only obtainable via the Great Vault — Not a very reliable source. At equal iLvls, the picture may be very different and that is why you should sim yourself.

A "Tier" as defined by this list is around 0.5% DPS, meaning that S-Tier Trinkets are around 0.5% better than A-Tier Trinkets, and so on.

• Skardyn's Grace — Our undisputed BiS Trinket numbers-wise, and also enhances our burst.
• Mad Queen's Mandate — A little better than Sacbrood for single-target, but far less versatile for AoE.
• Ara-Kara Sacbrood

• Ovi'nax's Mercurial Egg
• Quickwick Candlestick — A Delve Trinket that is a decent alternative to Skardyn's Grace.
• Void Reaper's Contract — More single-target oriented than the other Trinkets in this Tier.

• Concoction: Kiss of Death
• Dead-Eye Spyglass — Because this Trinket marks targets, it is problematic on "stop-start" situations such as Mythic+, which is why it is lower-ranked than on single-target.
• Empowering Crystal of Anub'ikkaj
• Shadow-Binding Ritual Knife
• Sikran's Endless Arsenal

• Treacherous Transmitter — A Raid Trinket that is a decent alternative to Skardyn's Grace.
• Spelunker's Waning Candle
• Harvester's Edict
• Bottled Flayedwing Toxin
• Twin Fang Instruments

• Mistcaller Ocarina — Not great for yourself, but when its effect is multiplied onto all of your hopefully powerful allies, it is a solid Trinket.
• Imperfect Ascendancy Serum
• Abyssal Trap
• Everburning Lantern
• Scroll of Momentum

This Trinket Tier List is AoE-biased for Mythic+, as this tends to be the most important aspect of Mythic+.

Note that the Trinkets are compared at their highest possible Item Level, which is only 626 for Delve Trinkets. Not only that, but 639 Mythic+ Trinkets are only obtainable via the Great Vault — Not a very reliable source. At equal iLvls, the picture may be very different and that is why you should sim yourself.

A "Tier" as defined by this list is around 0.5% DPS, meaning that S-Tier Trinkets are around 0.5% better than A-Tier Trinkets, and so on.

• Skardyn's Grace — Our undisputed BiS Trinket numbers-wise, and also enhances our burst.
• Ara-Kara Sacbrood

• Quickwick Candlestick — A Delve Trinket that is a decent alternative to Skardyn's Grace.
• Ovi'nax's Mercurial Egg
• Mad Queen's Mandate — Extremely good for single-target burst and priority target damage, but weak for AoE.
• Empowering Crystal of Anub'ikkaj

• Concoction: Kiss of Death
• Shadow-Binding Ritual Knife
• Treacherous Transmitter — A Raid Trinket that is a decent alternative to Skardyn's Grace.
• Dead-Eye Spyglass — Because this Trinket marks targets, it is problematic on "stop-start" situations such as Mythic+, which is why it is lower-ranked than on single-target.
• Void Reaper's Contract — More single-target oriented than the other Trinkets in this Tier.
• Sikran's Endless Arsenal

• Spelunker's Waning Candle
• Mistcaller Ocarina — Not great for yourself, but when its effect is multiplied onto all of your hopefully powerful allies, it is a solid Trinket.
• Twin Fang Instruments
• Bottled Flayedwing Toxin
• Harvester's Edict

• Imperfect Ascendancy Serum
• Abyssal Trap
• Everburning Lantern
• Scroll of Momentum

1. P.0.W. x2 with Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension — Not strictly our endgame BiS, but extremely close to it, and very accessible.
2. Glyph-Etched Gauntlets with Writhing Armor Banding — Doubles the effect of the Ascension on our Weapon, and fixes a core problem of Beast Mastery gearing — there are no end-game Gloves that do not have Versatility, our worst stat! This is why we choose Gloves as our second Crafting slot.
3. If you have obtained a 639 Mythic Weapon elsewhere, you can now craft Glyph-Etched Vambraces with Dawnthread Lining and swap your Gloves to Dawnthread Lining as well.

1. Glyph-Etched Gauntlets with Dawnthread Lining — We pick this Embellishment because it will have far better uptimes in Mythic+ than in Raiding, and because the Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension we pick for Raiding will not get time to stack up in Mythic+.
2. Glyph-Etched Vambraces/ Consecrated Cloak with Dawnthread Lining — Same Embellishment, different slot. Both of these slots are similar in terms of DPS, but we do have a special Cloak available from Nerub-ar Palace in Wings of Shattered Sorrow which has reasonable defensive value, so the Bracers are generally your best bet.

Note that P.0.W. x2 can be a really good early Craft in the Season, even if it is not endgame BiS for Mythic+. It is best to sim your Crafting Options using Raidbots Top Gear with this Pastebin. There is no one-size-fits- all-answer, as many factors influence this. When are you Crafting? What other Weapons are available? Will you get a Weapon in your next Great Vault? Will Sikran or Nexus Princess Ky'veza drop their Weapon in the next raid? All of these and other factors influence your choice, but the weapon is worth strongly considering. Note that we pick Darkmoon Sigil: Vivacity for Mythic+ as it does not have the build-up time of Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension.