WoW Forever Beast Mastery Hunter Guide (1-60) - Talents, Rotations & More

This is a complete in-depth 1–60 leveling guide for the Beast Mastery Hunter in WoW Forever.

From your first shot to level 60. BM is the smoothest and most chill way to level a Hunter: your pet is the main character, it tanks and does half the work, and you even get to summon hawks. I've been R1 range Hunter for a while now so I have extensive experience and knowledge about the class.

Hunter is the best levelers in the game—mobile, safe, and packed with tools. Your pet tanks for you, so downtime stays low and your health stays high at all times. All three specs (Beast Mastery, Marksmanship, and Survival) are very viable for leveling, with strong early power spikes

I also have a guide in YT video format where I go even deeper, so check it out!

1. Ranged weapon: your biggest upgrade. Slow bows and guns hit harder per shot
2. Hit: ranged can only miss or be blocked. Melee: miss, dodge, parry, block and glancing blows
3. Agility: attack power for melee and ranged, plus crit, dodge and armor
4. Haste: uncapped and very valuable
5. Crit: your pet gets 100% of it, and Ferocity stacks even more pet crit on top
6. Intellect: bigger mana pool, more shots between drinks. Careful Aim turns it into attack power
7. Ranged attack power: every shot hits harder
8. Stamina: more HP for you, and +2 HP for your pet per point
9. Strength: melee attack power, we melee weave on BM
10. Spirit: faster mana regen
11. Spell power: no longer scales your shots

What your pet gets from you

100% of your crit (racials included), 10% of your attack power, 30% of your armor and +2 HP per point of Stamina.

Alliance

• Night Elf feels like very balanced option with both great offensive Elune's Light +10% racial for PvE, nice leveling utility Quickness & Wisp Spirit and Shadowmeld which is very useful to surprise your enemy in PvP
• Dwarf is very balanced option as well leaning to more defensive side with Stoneform one of the best defensive in the game, Earth Fury is a sweet bonus in all forms of play, Big Game Hunter great while leveling and Find Treasure fun flavor racial
• Human is more PvP oriented race with Will to Survive & Perception being Rogue kryptonites, Ruthless is really nice passive across all forms of play, and The Human Spirit helps with regen but its one of the weakers racials
• High Order Skyborne Wind Blessed is currently one of the strongest damage racials in the game, Elemental Insight is kinda niche might be useful in higher level zones, Read Leyline &Walk on Air are insanely useful while leveling

Horde

• Troll has the strongest steroid in the game with Berserking , Beast Slaying is very useful while leveling, and Regeneration & Rapid Regeneration are both great in PvP and leveling.
• Orc Blood Fury very strong DPS boost, while Command (+5% pet damage) gives us huge boost to our pet damage which makes orc great offensive choice, Hardiness is really useful in PvP, while Shatter Curse is bane of every Warlock
• Tauren Endurance +5% health is sweet little passive, War Stomp is nice if you get aggro and want to get some distance, Plainsrunning is the best MS effect in the game and will speed up leveling by A LOT, also great to kite enemies in open world PvP (doesn't stack with Cheetah), Cultivation is useful only for Herbalism
• Windshaper Skyborne Wind Blessed is currently one of the strongest damage racials in the game, Elemental Insight is kinda niche might be useful in higher level zones Skysight &Walk on Air are insanely useful while leveling

Crit racials like Elune's Light, Ruthless and Savage help your pet too, since it gets 100% of your crit. Fore more data on best races, check WoW: Forever Races Tier List.

Potions

• Healing Potion: buy the cheap ones, it's your emergency button
• Draught of Water Breathing: breathe underwater for 30 min. Pair it with a Swim Speed Potion for underwater quests
• Free Action Potion: can't be stunned or slowed. For PvP
• Swiftness Potion: +50% run speed to escape

Food

Attack power or Agility food, like Hot Wolf Ribs. Crafted food in Forever also gives +5% XP from kills, so eat while leveling.

Elixirs

• Elixir of Agility: crit and attack power
• Elixir of Defense: more armor
• Elixir of Fortitude: more health
• Lesser Troll's Blood Elixir: health regen
• Mageblood Elixir: mana regen
• Elixir of Lesser Spirit: health and mana regen
• Intellect elixirs: attack power (through Careful Aim) and mana
• Draught of Water Walking: walk on water for 30 min

There are cheaper & more expensive versions of elixirs I mentioned

Scrolls

Same stats as elixirs but shorter. They overlap with elixirs, not with other scrolls, so Intellect, Stamina, Protection and Agility scrolls all stack. Buy the cheaper ones.

Permanent upgrades

• Scopes: permanent extra damage on your ranged weapon
• Armor kits: like the Medium Armor Kit, cheap versions of enchants
• Bombs: engineering bombs and grenades, now with EZ versions for non-engineers
• Enchants: save the good ones for endgame gear. While leveling, use cheap ones on big gear upgrades

Pick one pair: a gathering profession that feeds a crafting one.

• Leather: Skinning + Leatherworking. Every beast you kill is free leather. Make your own leather armor, armor kits, and quivers and ammo pouches for faster shooting
• Guns: Mining + Engineering. Ore sells well, and Engineering crafts guns, scopes and ammo. Dark Iron Rifle and Flawless Arcanite Rifle beat the dungeon drops, and it's great in PvP

Secondary: take all 3

• Cooking: buff food and campfires
• First Aid: bandages, and now health potions too
• Fishing: fish to cook, and to feed your pet

All professions have a use: these are my picks, but there is no wrong choice. Pick what you enjoy

Leveling milestones

• 10: your pet and Aspect of the Hawk. The first big power spike, for BM this is where the class really begins
• 25–26: Summon Hawk and Rapid Fire. The second big one
• 40: Bestial Wrath, and mail armor

Macros

Copy these into the macro window (/macro). The ! keeps Auto Shot from toggling off. The same logic works for any shot or sting, just swap the spell name.

Arcane Shot (fires without stopping Auto Shot, sends the pet in)

#showtooltip Arcane Shot
/cast !Auto Shot
/cast Arcane Shot
/petattack

Raptor Strike

#showtooltip Raptor Strike
/startattack
/cast Raptor Strike
/petattack

Pet care (Revive if dead, Call if gone, otherwise Mend)

#showtooltip
/cast [@pet,dead] Revive Pet
/cast [nopet] Call Pet
/cast Mend Pet

Feign Death (stops attacking and calls the pet back first)

#showtooltip Feign Death
/stopattack
/petfollow
/cast Feign Death

Mark + Pet

#showtooltip Hunter's Mark
/petattack
/cast Hunter's Mark

Bite + Claw (turn off autocast on pet abilities you put in a macro)

#showtooltip
/cast Bite(Rank 1)
/cast Claw(Rank 1)

Charge + Dash + Dive (sends the pet in, uses whichever it knows)

#showtooltip
/petattack
/cast Charge
/cast Dash
/cast Dive

Fun one: #showtooltip then /cast !Eagle Eye

Pet tips

• Families: every family now has its own ability, like Sonic Blast (Bat), Swipe (Bear), Dismember (Crocolisk) and Trickster's Dance (the new Fox family)
• Attack speed comes from the beast you tame, so faster pets hit more often
• Pet speed: Charge, Dash and Dive get your pet into the fight faster
• Beast Lore (24) shows a beast's abilities and diet before you tame it

Quick tips

• Every time you're in town: restock ammo, repair and train
• Track the creature type you're fighting, Improved Tracking adds +5% damage if you go the Survival route
• Eagle Eye zooms your vision far out. Mostly just fun
• Flare reveals stealthed Rogues and Feral Druids in PvP

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Thank you for reading!

November 2026: first version of the guide.