Call of the Wild Sustained Beast Mastery Arena Build

Dark Ranger is the better Hero Talent tree for Beast Mastery, with powerful throughput gains from Black Arrow and the various interactions that has with the Beast Mastery talent tree as well as Smoke Screen to increase to the power of your defensives Exhilaration and Survival of the Fittest.

The Call of the Wild Beast Mastery Arena Build has high burst damage with the two-minute cooldown Call of the Wild, but trades Bloodshed for more consistent damage outside of cooldowns.

This talent build is reliable against specializations that can dispel bleeds, and is better if your composition is going to frequently swap targets on enemy defensive cooldowns (compared to Bloodshed builds which encourage you to stay on the same target once Bloodshed is applied).

During Call of the Wild, you will deal heavy area of effect damage with the synergy between various talents:

• Bloody Frenzy granting all of your pets Beast Cleave
• Call of the Wild summoning a new pet every four seconds, each time triggering a Stomp
• Hunter's Prey causing your Black Arrow to cleave
• Shadow Surge causing periodic Black Arrow damage to trigger area of effect damage

There are several talents in the Hunter tree that you will want to change regularly based on matchups, which are:

• Scrappy, which is a decent talent but can be moved around if there is another talent that would be more valuable in a matchup
• Hunter's Avoidance for when the enemy team has heavy area of effect damage
• Kodo Tranquilizer is good in almost all 3v3 scenarios but is interchangeable when there are better options (particularly in 2v2 when you do not expect enemies to be close to each other)
• Scout's Instincts if you need mobility, this can help. A target slowed by Concussive Shot cannot catch you during Aspect of the Cheetah this talent. You can also increase the availability of Aspect of the Cheetah by taking Hunting Pack, Moment of Opportunity or Born To Be Wild
• Bursting Shot is occasionally good if you really don't need Scatter Shot, for example, in a 2v2 game where you know that you will be the kill target and that if you are able to kite consistently, you will be able to win the game on mana. Combining this with Quick Load will give you two extra ways to create a gap from a melee DPS ( Bursting Shot uniquely does not incur a diminishing return penalty, so it can be used twice in a row with Quick Load)
• Binding Shackles is an optional "nice to have" talent, which you can replace if there's something better for a situation
• Serrated Tips can be good if you have a decent amount of Crit rating on your gear
• Emergency Salve is very good (into Assassination Rogues), decent into Shadow Priests to remove Devouring Plague and makes Subtlety and Outlaw Rogues easier to kite
• Misdirection is required to play Interlope, which is a powerful PvP talent into casters, although you should be aware of the 20 yard range requirement, and if you are casting Interlope on your pet, make sure you do it while within that range
• You can take Explosive Shot for marginally higher area of effect damage, but you do not have many "free" global cooldowns in PvP to cast this, and there are so many high value talents for PvP in the Hunter tree that it is difficult to justify spending points in Explosive Shot and Blackrock Munitions in any scenario

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Bloodshed/ Call of the Wild (burst) Beast Mastery Arena Build

Dark Ranger is the better Hero Talent tree for Beast Mastery, with powerful throughput gains from Black Arrow and the various interactions that has with the Beast Mastery talent tree as well as Smoke Screen to increase to the power of your defensives Exhilaration and Survival of the Fittest.

In Arena, Bloodshed is a powerful cooldown because it aligns with a Beast Mastery Hunter's crowd control cooldowns ( Intimidation, Binding Shot and Chimaeral Sting), and when combined with Venomous Bite, significantly increases the damage of your Kill Command during burst windows.

This build trades some overall damage to take Bloodshed and Call of the Wild at the same time, which gives a second burst window between each Call of the Wild.

During Call of the Wild, you will also deal heavy area of effect damage with the synergy between various talents:

• Bloody Frenzy granting all of your pets Beast Cleave
• Call of the Wild summoning a new pet every four seconds, each time triggering a Stomp
• Hunter's Prey causing your Black Arrow to cleave
• Shadow Surge causing periodic Black Arrow damage to trigger area of effect damage

There are several talents in the Hunter tree that you will want to change regularly based on matchups, which are:

• Scrappy, which is a decent talent but can be moved around if there is another talent that would be more valuable in a matchup
• Hunter's Avoidance for when the enemy team has heavy area of effect damage
• Kodo Tranquilizer is good in almost all 3v3 scenarios but is interchangeable when there are better options (particularly in 2v2 when you do not expect enemies to be close to each other)
• Scout's Instincts if you need mobility, this can help. A target slowed by Concussive Shot cannot catch you during Aspect of the Cheetah this talent. You can also increase the availability of Aspect of the Cheetah by taking Hunting Pack, Moment of Opportunity or Born To Be Wild
• Bursting Shot is occasionally good if you really don't need Scatter Shot, for example, in a 2v2 game where you know that you will be the kill target and that if you are able to kite consistently, you will be able to win the game on mana. Combining this with Quick Load will give you two extra ways to create a gap from a melee DPS ( Bursting Shot uniquely does not incur a diminishing return penalty, so it can be used twice in a row with Quick Load )
• Binding Shackles is an optional "nice to have" talent, which you can replace if there's something better for a situation
• Serrated Tips can be good if you have a decent amount of Crit rating on your gear
• Emergency Salve is very good (into Assassination Rogues), decent into Shadow Priests to remove Devouring Plague and makes Subtlety and Outlaw Rogues easier to kite
• Misdirection is required to play Interlope, which is a powerful PvP talent into casters, although you should be aware of the 20 yard range requirement, and if you are casting Interlope on your pet, make sure you do it while within that range
• You can take Explosive Shot for marginally higher area of effect damage, but you do not have many "free" global cooldowns in PvP to cast this, and there are so many high value talents for PvP in the Hunter tree that it is difficult to justify spending points in Explosive Shot and Blackrock Munitions in any scenario

Note: this build is countered by specializations that are able to dispel bleeds, such as Evokers with Cauterizing Flame, Paladins with Blessing of Protection, Survival hunters with Mending Bandage, and Rogues with Veil of Midnight. You should be aware of these cooldowns when facing these specializations and consider playing without Bloodshed if you are not getting value from it.

Be sure to make use of the 'Copy Export String' button to import the best build directly into your game!