Marksmanship Hunter PvP Stat Priority, Gear, and Trinkets — 12.1

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The stat priority for Marksmanship Hunter in PvP is as follows:

Agility is the best stat in all situations. You will want as much Versatility and Mastery as you can, with a slight preference towards Versatility.

If you do not have enough Versatility, you will take a lot of damage and likely find yourself dying more often than you otherwise would.

Wearing the Conquest PvP gear, you will have more Versatility than you need and you should use crafted pieces to reduce Versatility and increase your Mastery.

There is a slight increasing diminishing return on secondary stats past 30%, further increased past 40%.

You should be aware that Critical Strike damage in PvE content is 200% of the damage the ability would normally have done, but in PvP, this is reduced to 150% of the damage the ability would have normally done. This is slightly increased by Penetrating Shots, but the value of Critical Strike rating is still heavily reduced in PvP.

Conquest vendor PvP Gear will always have Versatility and then a second stat which will be either Haste, Mastery, or Critical Strike Rating.

Almost every piece of conquest gear has a Haste option, but not many pieces have a Mastery option available.

I recommend that where there is no Mastery option available, you should use a crafted piece in that slot.

If you have too much Versatility, the easiest way to transfer it to Mastery is to craft the ring Thalassian Competitor's Signet or necklace Thalassian Competitor's Amulet.

Marksmanship Hunter Midnight Season 2 tier bonuses:

Note that tier set bonuses are nerfed by 50% in PvP.

• (2) Explosive Shot lasts 1.0 sec longer and deals 5% increased damage.
• (4) Aimed Shot and Rapid Fire damage increased by 5%. Each time Explosive Shot causes a burst of damage, the cooldown of Aimed Shot and Rapid Fire is reduced by 0.5 sec.

Because when you catalyze a piece of conquest gear it retains the same secondary stats, there is very little downside to using 4 pieces of tier gear and you should complete the set as soon as you can.

To craft a piece of gear with the PvP item level scaled to 344, you must craft the Thalassian Competitor's item for that slot, and apply Venomous Gladiator's Heraldry while crafting. You should not use crafted gear unless it has the item level scaled to 344 in PvP.

To avoid letting your Versatility get too low, most of your crafted gear should have Versatility as one of the stats. I recommend only having one or two items crafted Haste Mastery if you are going to craft any.

You can apply Embellishments while crafting gear, and you can equip two Embellished crafted pieces of gear at once.

I recommend that you craft Thalassian Competitor's Chain Cuffs and Thalassian Competitor's Chain Grips with Arcanoweave Lining for the Embellishment.

It is important that you equip two PvP trinkets. This will give you an Agility and Stamina boost that will increase your damage and survivability.

• Venomous Gladiator's Medallion
• Venomous Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity

• Venomous Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity
• Venomous Gladiator's Badge of Ferocity

Venomous Gladiator's Medallion is a mandatory trinket to have equipped at all times for non-human players. This allows you to remove any crowd control on yourself. Humans can use this trinket to have a shorter (90-second) the cooldown on escaping stuns, for example, into Rogue Mage teams.

Venomous Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity increases your Haste and has a chance to proc your primary stat. This is an overall strong trinket, as the stat will proc often throughout an arena match (and will generally proc very early when your cooldowns are active).

Venomous Gladiator's Badge of Ferocity grants you some Crit and a powerful Agility on-use every minute. Synchronize this with your Volley combo.

Venomous Gladiator's Emblem increases your maximum health when used. This gives you an additional defensive when you think a team is focusing you or you think they are about to stun and burst you. A good example of when you will want to use this trinket is when facing Rogue Mage teams.

Here are the best enchants for a Marksmanship Hunter:

• Boots: Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt
• Chest: Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul
• Helm: Enchant Helm - Empowered Blessing of Speed
• Legs: Forest Hunter's Armor Kit
• Rings: Enchant Ring - Zul'jin's Mastery
• Shoulders: Enchant Shoulders - Akil'zon's Swiftness
• Weapon Enchant: Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

You can use one Heliatrope gem in Midnight, and for this you can choose between:

• Enduring Heliotrope (increased durability as you take less damage when stunned)
• Determined Heliotrope (increased throughput against teams that regularly slow you)

The best choice of Heliatrope gems is Enduring Heliotrope, which will increase your survivability when you need it most.

The Determined Heliotrope gem is a straight throughput increase against teams that will apply slows to you constantly at the cost of survivability.

Your other gems should be selected based on your stat needs.

• For Haste, use Flawless Versatile Peridot or Flawless Masterful Peridot
• For Versatility, use Flawless Quick Lapis or Flawless Masterful Lapis
• For Mastery, use Flawless Versatile Amethyst or Flawless Quick Amethyst