Marksmanship Hunter Gearing Guide

Patch 10.2.5 Last Updated: 23rd Jan, 2024
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Gear

Patch 10.2 Tier Sets

  • 2-Set Bonus: Rapid Fire deals 20% additional damage. Trick Shots cause Rapid Fire to launch a Volley for 6 seconds, dealing 100% of normal damage. when empowered by Trick Shots.
  • 4-Set Bonus: Every 10 Focus you spend has a 3% chance to reset the cooldown of Rapid Fire and cause your next Rapid Fire to shoot 100% additional shots during its channel.

The new Tier Set is a nice boost to our single target damage. We get a lot more and a lot stronger Rapid Fire casts. In AoE we can get really long Volley windows, especially during Trueshot.

Embellishments

The recommended combination is Blue Silken Lining and Adaptive Dracothyst Armguards for raiding.

For Mythic + you want to replace your Adaptive Dracothyst Armguards with a second Blue Silken Lining.

Optimal Gear (Best in Slot)

The tables below aim to give you a general list of gear that is good for Marksmanship Hunter, these lists are not a perfect replacement for simming your character.

Markmanship Hunter Combined Gear List

Make sure you have one extra crafted item for your Blue-Silken-Lining embellishment. This is most likely on a Ring (Signet of Titanic Insight)!

Slot Item Source
Head Blazing Dreamstalker's Flamewaker Horns Catalyst or Tindral Sageswift
Neck Ouroboreal Necklet Volcoross
Shoulders Blazing Dreamstalker's Finest Hunt Catalyst or Smolderon
Cloak Raal's Bib Waycrest Manor
Chest Blazing Dreamstalker's Scaled Hauberk Catalyst or Nymue
Wrist Adaptive Dracothyst Armguards 
Gloves Blazing Dreamstalker's Skinners, Midnight Reaper Handwraps Catalyst or Igira the Cruel, 
Belt Forlorn Leaf Clasp Gnarlroot
Legs Blazing Dreamstalker's Shellgreaves Catalyst or Larodar
Boots Blazing Dreamstalker's Striders  Catalyst
Ring 1 Arch-Druid's Tainted Seal or Band of Burning Thorns Darkheart Thicket / Larodar
Ring 2 Daydreamer's Glimmering Ring or Band of Twisted Bark Bind-on-Equip (from Amirdrassil) / Darkheart Thicket
Trinket 1 Mirror of Fractured Tomorrows or Witherbark's Branch Dawn of the Infinite (Murozond’s Rise) or The Everbloom
Trinket 2 Pip's Emerald Friendship Badge Council of Dreams
Weapon Your highest item level Weapon, Traveler's Timesplitter Dawn of the Infinite (Murozond’s Rise)

Marksmanship Hunter Best Gear from Mythic+

The gear listed below are the best options exclusively from Mythic+ for Marksmanship Hunters on Season 3.

For dungeons, you should replace the Adaptive Dracothyst Armguards embellishment with Blue-Silken-Lining. The slot you want to craft it on is most likely Cloak (Vibrant Wildercloth Shawl) or Bracers (Flame-Touched Cuffs)!

Slot Item Source
Head Blazing Dreamstalker's Flamewaker Horns Catalyst
Neck Raven Filigree Pendant Black Rook Hold
Shoulders Blazing Dreamstalker's Finest Hunt Catalyst
Cloak Raal's Bib Waycrest Manor
Chest Blazing Dreamstalker's Scaled Hauberk Catalyst
Wrist Timeway Sojourner's Bracelet Dawn of the Infinite (Galakrond’s Fall)
Gloves Midnight Reaper Handwraps Black Rook Hold
Belt Waistguard of Deteriorating Grace Waycrest Manor
Legs Blazing Dreamstalker's Shellgreaves Catalyst
Boots Whelp Handler's Lined Boots Darkheart Thicket
Ring 1 Arch-Druid's Tainted Seal Darkheart Thicket
Ring 2 Band of Twisted Bark Darkheart Thicket
Trinket 1 Mirror of Fractured Tomorrows or  Witherbark's Branch Dawn of the Infinite (Murozond’s Rise) or The Everbloom
Trinket 2 Accelerating Sandglass Dawn of the Infinite (Galakrond’s Fall)
Weapon Your highest item level Weapon, Traveler's Timesplitter Dawn of the Infinite (Murozond’s Rise)

Marksmanship Hunter Best Gear from Amirdrassil (Raiding)

The gear listed below are the best options you can acquire exclusively from Amidrassil, the Patch 10.2 raid for Marksmanship Hunters.

Slot Item Source
Head Blazing Dreamstalker's Flamewaker Horns Catalyst or Tindral Sageswift
Neck Ouroboreal Necklet Volcoross
Shoulders Blazing Dreamstalker's Finest Hunt Catalyst or Smolderon
Cloak Mantle of Blazing Sacrifice Smolderon
Chest Blazing Dreamstalker's Scaled Hauberk Catalyst or Nymue
Wrist Twisted Flamecuffs Larodar
Gloves Blazing Dreamstalker's Skinners Igira
Belt Forlorn Leaf Clasp Gnarlroot
Legs Blazing Dreamstalker's Shellgreaves Catalyst or Larodar
Boots Blazing Dreamstalker's Striders  Catalyst
Ring 1 Daydreamer's Glimmering Ring Bind-on-Equip Item
Ring 2 Band of Burning Thorns Larodar
Trinket 1 Bandolier of Twisted Blades Igira the Cruel
Trinket 2 Pip's Emerald Friendship Badge Council of Dreams
Weapon Ashen Ranger's Longbow Tindral Sageswift

Trinkets

Season 3 Trinkets:

  • Mirrors of Fractured Tomorrows is an on-use stat trinket with 3 minute cooldown. It is very competitive with other Top-Tier trinkets in both Single Target and AoE. You can pick it up from the final boss in the new mega-dungeon, Dawn of the Infinite.
  • Pip’s Emerald Friendship Badge. Passive Stat-stick that rotates through different secondary stats.
  • Witherbarks’s Branch is our second best Mythic + trinket. It spawns 3 orbs that you can pick up for a big amount of Mastery. When using this trinket, make sure to kite around the orbs and pick them up one by one, since the duration of 10 seconds gets refreshed on pick up. 
  • Ashes of the Embersoul is an on-use trinket that gives a huge amount of decaying primary stat. Pairs well with our new 2 minute Cooldown Call of the Wild. Pairs well with our 2 minute Cooldown Trueshot.
  • Coiled Serpent Idol is a passive damage proc trinket that scales well with high amounts of critical strike chance.
  • Augury of the Primal Flame. Passive damage proc trinket that additionally scales with our Critical Strike chance.