Marksmanship Hunter Leveling Guide from 1 to 80 — The War Within (11.0.7)
On this page, you will find our Level by Level Marksmanship Hunter leveling guide for The War Within. Make sure to use the slider to make the guide adapt to your level. For more general leveling information, please refer to our Hunter leveling guide.
Marksmanship Hunter Leveling Guide for The War Within
Marksmanship Hunter Leveling Playstyle
Marksmanship Hunter has very front-loaded damage, and solid AoE damage. It excels the most in dungeons, but can also be a decent questing leveler, based around killing enemies before they can reach you, usually with a strong Aimed Shot into Rapid Fire into Kill Shot combo.
Grab a Ferocity (ideally a Scalehide) pet and Misdirection+ Scale Shield, and activate them before tagging as many mobs as possible, usually with Barrage and Multi-Shot, and watch the mobs flock to your pet. Make use of the pet damage reduction from No Hard Feelings and the Scalehide's Scale Shield and use Marksmanship's strong burst damage to kill the mobs before they kill your pet.
Best Leveling Talents for Marksmanship Hunter in The War Within
This is my recommended Leveling Build for Marksmanship Hunter in The War Within. Be sure to click the "Talents by Level" option in the bottom right.
Best Leveling Gear for Marksmanship Hunter
When leveling up, always choose the piece of loot with the highest item level. The only exception to this rule is if you have a Ring or Necklace with a slightly lower item level, but 2 secondary stats on it instead of 1.
Leveling Rotation for Marksmanship Hunter
To keep things simple while leveling and learning the spec, use the slider to select your level, and watch as the leveling rotation grows with each level!
Move the slider below to make the guide update to your level!
- Use Explosive Shot
- On AoE, use Multi-Shot to apply Trick Shots. This buff makes your next Aimed Shot or Rapid Fire do AoE damage!
- Macro Salvo to your Volley, always using them together..
- Use Volley on cooldown.
- Use Trueshot for large pulls or difficult elite mobs.
- Use Mend Pet for large pulls to keep your pet healthy.
- Use Kill Shot on targets below 20% health.
- Use Rapid Fire on cooldown.
- Use Aimed Shot on cooldown. Make sure to spend your Precise Shot stack first!
- Spam Arcane Shot. Use Multi-Shot instead of there are 3 or more targets!
- Use Steady Shot as a filler.
Best Leveling Pet for Marksmanship Hunter
All pets do the same damage, but they vary in their utility and special abilities. For Marksmanship Hunters, pets are quite weak, and we mostly use them as an "anchor" to gather mobs onto instead of ourselves. The best pet for this purpose is a Scalehide. They have a 1-minute damage reduction ability, Scale Shield, that you should macro into your Misdirection.
Ferocity pets also come with Primal Rage which is a Bloodlust effect. This should be used as often as possible when you are fighting for over thirty seconds.
You can find a list of all the Pets and the abilities they bring on our Spell Summary Page.
Level 80: Congratulations!
Congratulations on reaching Level 80! Now that you have hit Level 80, we recommend looking at our Easy mode page and Talents section to learn how to play at max level.
Changelog
- 15 Dec. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.7.
- 30 Oct. 2024: Updated for October 29 Hotfixes.
- 22 Oct. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.5.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Preliminary updates for The War Within Season 1.
- 22 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Season 4.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.2
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.5.
- 01 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 16 Feb. 2023: Fixed an issue with the talent order.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 24 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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This guide has been written by Azortharion, a Hunter Guidewriter, Theorycrafter, and top player since 2014, who is widely considered one of the best PvE Hunters in the world. He is an accomplished player with hundreds of top parses across all Hunter specs. He is the Head Admin of Trueshot Lodge, the official Hunter Class Discord. You can find him on his stream on Twitch and his channel on YouTube. He also has his own, personal Discord server where you can freely ask him any Hunter questions you may have!
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