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State of Marksmanship Hunters on Shadowlands Beta

Pubblicato 09/08/2020 alle 04:06 da Moofzy

ShadowlandsIntroductionAbout the Author

I'm Moofz. I main Hunter and do both Mythic+ and raiding at a high level. I write the BFA Marksmanship Hunter guide and most Hunter-related content and news for Wowhead. I also have a Hunter Mythic+ website, stream raids and dungeons on Twitch, and do YouTube content. I've also commentated multiple Race to World First events over the past couple of years. Feel free to message me via Twitter or in the Trueshot Lodge with any Hunter questions or inquiries.

What's Changed?Class/Spec Changes

NEW Terrore Animale - Scares a beast, causing it to run in fear for up to 20 sec. Damage caused may interrupt the effect. Only one beast can be feared at a time.
Iconic Hunter spell that dates back to vanilla WoW. It can be beneficial while questing or during PvP. Sadly, a targeted fear that only works on beasts has very niche uses in modern gameplay.

Occhi della Bestia

Eyes of the Beast can be used while questing, or in very niche scenarios that require "scouting" ahead. While this ability is perhaps one of the coolest abilities in the game, once again the practical uses of this ability are few to none.

Tiro Mortale

Hunters get our execute back! While we had Mira Precisa as a talent, having an execute baseline gives Marksmanship Hunters some depth, something that we lacked in BFA. Marksmanship is also the only Hunter spec where Kill Shot can directly influence our rotation via Tiratore Scelto. Kill Shot paired with Careful Aim makes Marksmanship's execute one of the strongest in the game.

Tiro Tranquillizzante

One of the many complaints in BFA for Marksmanship Hunters was that too much of our utility was tied to our pets. Now we get Tranquilizing Shot baked into our baseline toolkit, taking some of the utility away from our pets, and giving it back to us.

Much needed passive focus buff, especially with the loss of Master Marksman.

Tiro Vincolante

Binding Shot baseline gives us more utility which brings us in line with BM and SV Hunter utility. Now we have the option to run Velocità di Fuga while retaining Binding Shot.

Depistaggiofor the next 8 sec

It now works like the current Trucchi del Mestiere. Definitely a big quality of life change.

Rianima Famiglio2 sec

Devastating change. This severely hinders all Hunters and discourages the use of pets drastically.

Marchio del Cacciatore

In PvE, Hunter's Mark has been a controversial subject throughout all of BFA for Marksmanship Hunters. While single target is largely a "apply and forget" scenario, having to juggle Hunter's Mark in AoE feels cumbersome and unrewarding. The new version of Hunter's Mark has a reduced GCD (1 sec Hasted GCD) so it's a bit easier to manage, however, the focus generation component has been removed.

Tiro Multiplo

This just brings Multi-Shot in line with other target capped abilities.

Talent Changestalent calculator

Precisione da Cecchino - REMOVED ~~Aimed Shot has a 100% chance to reduce the focus cost of your next Arcane Shot or Multi-Shot by 100%.~~ NEW Aimed Shot has an additional 25% chance to deal a critical strike.

This change is both good and bad. It's good in the sense that the flat 25% critical strike chance is amazing for Marksmanship's toolkit. It's bad because it replaced the old Master Marksman, which basically "fixed" our core rotation and made it feel smooth to play. The new passive effect is also rather boring compared to its predecessor.

Tiro Esplosivo

Just brings Explosive Shot in line with other target capped abilities.

Sbarramento

Just brings Barrage in line with other target capped abilities. It still has a very niche "spread AoE" usage.

Tiro della Chimera

Chimaera gives us something to do in two target situations, albeit very minor. It does not give focus as it does for BM.

Catene Vincolanti

While Binding Shackles has little to no benefit in most end-game content, it provides Marksmanship Hunters a much needed utility spell to help with questing and leveling.

Tiratore Scelto

Dead Eye by itself is a niche execute talent that bolsters our already solid execute phase due to Mira Precisa. Paired with the Venthyr Covenant ability Tiro Scorticato, Dead Eye becomes one of our strongest talents we have access to in single target situations.

Raffica

The concept behind Volley is really awesome and it gives us another option to combat our lack of two target cleave. It deals a ton of damage and provides us with solid burst AoE. The major fault behind Volley is that its short window of opportunity encourages us to ignore Tiri Precisi, which is counter-intuitive to our core rotation.

Tiro PenetranteA powerful shot which deals (112.5% of Attack power)% Physical damage to the target and up to Physical damage to all enemies between you and the target. Piercing Shot ignores the target's armor.Runeforged Legendaries

Generic Legendaries

Richiamo Selvaggio - Call of the Wild is one of the better legendaries Marksmanship has to choose from. It has great synergy with talents such as Prendere la Mira and conduits such as Focus del Tiratore Scelto. Initially, we probably won't see much use out of this legendary since it'll require some scaling for it to become good. We might see some usage out of it in niche raid fights that require certain Precisione timings. As an added bonus to this legendary, the cooldown reduction it provides not only works on Trueshot but also reduces the cooldown of Aspetto del Ghepardo and Aspetto della Tartaruga. Paired with Vita Spericolata, we might see this legendary used defensively depending on the situation.
Stratagemma Vile - Craven Strategem has no added DPS benefit, but it's defensive utility is insanely good, especially for PvPers. It may see some use in dungeons or raids depending on the scenario, but other than niche defensive utility, I highly doubt we'll use this legendary in PvE very much.
Apparato da Bracconaggio di Nesingwary - Nessingwary's serves little to no purpose for Marksmanship Hunters. Having to spend a GCD on a trap that does zero damage doesn't help us in any way. In fact, using this legendary is at best DPS neutral. I don't see a world in which we would ever use this legendary over the other options we have.
Braci della Forgia dell'Anima - Soulforge Embers gives us a unique interaction between Trappola di Pece and Bengala, two very underutilized abilities in the Hunter toolkit. Conceptually, the idea is amazing and brings to light a new element of class fantasy. Pragmatically speaking, however, Soulforge Embers feels awkward to use in actual gameplay, as it requires two GCDs that are not a part of our core rotation. That being said, Soulforge Embers is currently the best performing legendary for all three specs by a landslide on Beta (this can easily change with tuning of course).

Marksmanship Legendaries

Focus Preciso dell'Artiglio dell'Aquila - This legendary seems good on the surface but in reality its a pretty awful legendary for Marksmanship Hunters. Marksmanship's damage isn't restricted by our focus generation, but rather we are limited by our Tiro Mirato charges. In the current iteration of Hunter on Beta, we are able to fully execute a standard Precisione, without casting a single Tiro Stabilizzato i.e this legendary does little to nothing for us. There is a possibility that this legendary may become relevant down the road, but it's a pretty underwhelming option at the moment.
Segreti della Veglia Impassibile - Secrets allows us to conserve focus in our AoE rotation, as getting a proc allows us to cast another Tiro Mirato or Rapidità di Tiro back-to-back. In theory, this sounds decent, but by doing this, this legendary encourages us to completely ignore our Tiri Precisi stacks. Additionally, as I mentioned above, saving on focus by foregoing a Tiro Multiplo does little to actually aid us, as we are still restricted by Aimed Shot charges, not focus. While Secrets does help a bit in AoE, the fact that this legendary has zero relevance in 1-2 target scenarios is a huge turnoff. I don't ever foresee us using this legendary in Marksmanship's current state.
Astuzia dell'Inseguitore di Serpenti - On its surface, Serpentstalkers seems very similar to Secrets of the Unblinking Vigil. Despite its wording, the Tiro Arcanos proc any time Tiro Mirato is used after gaining Tiri Ingannevoli. Due to this interaction, Serpentstalkers has awesome synergy with our new talent Raffica. Using Aimed Shots during the Volley window proc the additional Arcane Shots even on 1 or 2 targets. Serpentstalkers also works with Doppio Colpo's additional Aimed Shot. Finally, the Arcane Shots produced by Serpentstalkers are buffed by Tiri Precisi, so they actually deal a fair bit of damage, especially when using Precisione Potente. Despite it's "AoE restriction", Serpentstalkers is a pretty solid and well designed legendary.
Tiri Crescenti - Another legendary that is pretty mediocre for Marksmanship Hunters. The concept of buffing Rapidità di Tiro is fine, but in its current state, Rapid Fire is pretty insignificant. Using Rapid Fire is barely better than just casting Steady Shots (people are already trying to figure out how to ignore Rapid Fire completely, refer to Uldir Marksmanship). The added damage component of Surging Shots simply makes Rapid Fire do relevant damage. Conduit traits such as Proiettili Brutali give this legendary potential and of course, tuning Rapid Fire could make this legendary more relevant. Unfortunately for Marksmanship Hunters, outside of Braci della Forgia dell'Anima and possibly Richiamo Selvaggio (fight dependent), Surging Shots is really the only relevant single target legendary we have at our disposal.

Covenants & SoulbindsKyrianNight FaeNecrolordsVenthyrhereKyrian
Freccia Risonante - In PvE, the bonus 30% Critical Strike can be quite nice, especially in AoE. Unfortunately, due to Marksmanship’s long cast times, it’s hard to fit in too many abilities into the short window. Luckily, Resonating Arrow does pair quite nicely with Marksmanship’s AoE toolkit when running talents such as Doppio Colpo or Raffica, which makes it one of the better abilities at the moment. Resonating Arrow also has an awesome effect that lets you cast abilities onto targets that would normally be out of your line of sight. It lends itself to having some unique benefits in PvP, especially in Arenas.

Evocazione: Factotum - On the surface, this ability seems quite underwhelming, but after doing dungeons and raid testing, this ability adds a ton of value. The real beauty of this ability is that Fiala della Serenità removes bleeds, diseases, poisons, and curses. Things such as Necrosi and Atrocità can be removed, along with a ton of new poisons, diseases and bleeds introduced in the new dungeons and raids such as Dissanguato from the Alagrigia fight in Castle Nathria.
Necrolord
Chakram della Morte - Death Chakram is one of the cooler looking abilities Hunters can choose from. This ability isn't bad for Marksmanship per se, but it falls short compared to some other options we have at our disposal. The ability seems to lend itself towards being versatile - being able to deal with both AoE and single target damage. Outside of pure single target, its damage is pretty underwhelming though (which can be tuned of course). The major benefit of Death Chakram is the additional Focus per bounce which is really strong for Survival Hunters. Unfortunately, Marksmanship Hunters don’t really have any Focus issues at the moment so this perk isn't quite as good for us. Death Chakram seems to be a middle ground between optimal single target and AoE.

Forgiatura della Carne - Fleshcraft can be a fairly strong defensive ability, giving players a shield up to 50% of your maximum health every 2 minutes. The major downside of this ability is of course its long channel time. For raid, and even in PvP, it might be hard to find times to adequately charge this ability. In Mythic+ however, there is generally ample time to utilize this ability, which can easily be a game-changer in higher dungeons. The shield also allows you to ignore certain mechanics depending on the situation.
Night Fae
Spiriti Selvatici - While most of the other covenant abilities seem to be completely implemented, Wild Spirits seems to be unfinished for the most part. The ability itself works and is usable, but many of our abilities don’t interact with it properly. For Marksmanship, in particular, Wild Spirits does not currently proc off of Tiri Ingannevoli, it only procs off of the initial tick of channeled abilities such as Rapidità di Tiro or DoTs such as Morso del Serpente, and it doesn’t proc at all off of pet abilities or attacks. It also seems to have an internal cooldown on how often it can proc, which really hurts the damage capabilities. Wild Spirits has the potential to be really strong for AoE, but it has some things that need to be ironed out before it becomes viable for any Hunter spec.

Animorfosi - Utility-wise, Soulshape is probably one of the best covenant options we have. The on-demand blink and added movement speed helps our positioning. Soulshape along with Disimpegno and Aspetto del Ghepardo gives us an abundance of tools to deal with different types of mechanics.
Venthyr
Tiro Scorticato - This is it. Flayed Shot is currently Marksmanship's best option for single target and will most likely be the go-to for raiding. Flayed Shot's damage itself is decent, but the real benefit of this ability is the Tiro Mortale procs. It has amazing synergy with our new talent Tiratore Scelto. Typically, Dead Eye is intended to be a niche execute-only talent. When paired with Flayed Shot, however, we gain its benefit throughout the entire fight. This means more Tiro Miratos and more Kill Shots. The major downside to this ability is of course the lack of AoE benefit it provides outside of Dead Eye.

Porta delle Ombre - A teleport can be nice situationally and definitely gives us a bit of added utility to our toolkit. Door of Shadows might be useful for skips in Mythic+ but in general, its usage is pretty niche and situation dependent.
Covenant OverviewOmbra RassicuranteProprietà della Terra DesolataIl Passato è PassatoConduit TraitsCovenantPotencyFinesseEndurance

Covenant Traits

Marchio Indebolito - You can only obtain this Conduit via the Kyrian Covenant. A very good trait that is a straight passive damage boost to all targets within the area of effect. The major downside here is that it's restricted to enemies within the area and loses its benefit as soon as enemies walk outside its effect.
Rilascio Potenziato - You can only obtain this Conduit via the Venthyr Covenant. This trait makes the interaction between Tiro Scorticato and Tiratore Scelto even more powerful. Compared to some other traits, this is almost a must-have.
Raffica Necrotica - You can only obtain this Conduit via the Necrolord Covenant. As I've stated previously, Marksmanship Hunters don't really need additional focus. While the additional focus is nice, it's not a game-changer. That being said, the bonus damage it gives Chakram della Morte makes this Conduit relevant.
Sintonia Spirituale - You can only obtain this Conduit via the Night Fae Covenant. In its current state, Spiriti Selvatici doesn't do much for us considering it doesn't work with half our toolkit. Spirit Attunement has the potential to be a good Conduit, assuming Wild Spirits is fixed. As it stands now, we would never take this trait.

Potency Traits

Proiettili Brutali - This effect was stolen from the existing Tiri Crescenti Azerite trait we have in BFA. The base damage of Rapidità di Tiro is pretty underwhelming at the moment so this trait makes its damage more relevant. It'll take some time for this trait to be good as it becomes significantly better with higher ranks and as we gain more secondary stats (higher Haste values increase the rate at which we auto-attack).
Catena Letale - Deadly Chain simply buffs our damage to secondary targets from our Tiro Miratos and Rapidità di Tiros that stem from Tiri Ingannevoli. This trait has zero application in single target situations, but it'll be almost mandatory in AoE scenarios.
Precisione Potente - With the current state of Marksmanship, this trait is fairly mediocre. On the surface, a passive damage buff to one of our core mechanics seems good, but in reality, we actually ignore a large portion of our Tiri Precisi, especially during Precisione. As this trait scales in ranks, it might force us to utilize our Precise Shots more, but at the moment this trait has limited value.
Focus del Tiratore Scelto - Another trait that will have a large impact as we gain ranks and gain more secondary stats. Paired with Prendere la Mira and Richiamo Selvaggio, there is potential to have ridiculous up time on our Precisione. On top of the cooldown reduction we have, other classes also have abilities such as Benedizione dell'Autunno or Guardiani Silfi that might make this interaction pretty fun to play with.

Finesse Traits

Ritirata Tattica - Hunters get Ritiro Vendicativo! It's not quite as good as its Demon Hunter counterpart, but it'll help a bit while questing or during dungeons. You have to be in melee for it to be useful so this trait isn't really too impactful for us.
Vigore del Ghepardo - Aspetto del Ghepardo can be pretty useful when trying to avoid mechanics or while traversing long distances. Typically we don't really need too much movement speed so this is just a "nice to have" type trait.
Rovesciamento della Fortuna - This is the only Finesse trait that has some sort of damage gain tied to it. While Marksmanship doesn't really need additional focus, a slight focus gain is better than nothing. This will probably be the go-to Finesse trait for all three Hunter specs, especially in PvP and Mythic+.
COMING SOON

Endurance Traits

Resilienza del Cacciatore - Similar to how the existing Azerite trait Al Riparo works, using Morte Apparente reduces damage taken for a short period of time. This is a very useful trait if you are able to predict and time the incoming damage appropriately. It will have relevance in raid, dungeons, and PvP. The cooldown reduction on Feign Death also gives us more flexibility and allows us to ignore targeted spells more often.
Armonia dei Tortolliani - Cooldown reduction on Aspetto della Tartaruga can be useful, but is generally only used in niche situations. As this gains ranks, pairing it with Richiamo Selvaggio and Vita Spericolata may allow us to ignore certain mechanics depending on their frequency.
Vantaggio del Tiratore - A damage reduction tied to Marchio del Cacciatore give us more incentive to use it on different targets. This trait will be especially useful for raid considering most damage stems directly from the raid boss (damage often comes from the environment and may not count towards this damage reduction). The downside to this effect is that it only reduces damage from a singular target (as opposed to the all-encompassing damage reduction that Resilienza del Cacciatore provides for example).
Vento Rinvigorente - While the bonus healing this trait provides is nice, I don't foresee it being more useful than other endurance conduits. The initial heal from Fuga Curativa is generally enough to prevent you from dying or at least give your healer an opportunity to heal you to a stable level. Hunters suffer from a lack of upfront mitigation, so traits such as Resilienza del Cacciatore or Vantaggio del Tiratore are much more useful for us.

Concerns Going ForwardConflicting ToolkitTiro ArcanoRapidità di TiroMira FermaTiro StabilizzatoTiro MiratoMarchio del CacciatoreRianima FamiglioPrecise ShotsTiri PrecisiPrecisione da CecchinoTiro ArcanoPrecisioneTiro MiratoRapidità di TiroTiro della ChimeraRafficaTiratore SceltoTiri IngannevoliPrecisione PotenteRapid FireRapidità di TiroA RitmoFuoco ConcentratoTiri CrescentiTiri CrescentiProiettili BrutaliFlusso ContinuoTwo Target CleaveRafficaTiro della ChimeraTalent Tree ConcernsPrecisione da CecchinoTiro della ChimeraTiratore SceltoRafficaFocus StabilizzatoFlusso ContinuoTiro StabilizzatoRapidità di TiroPrecisioneMorso del SerpenteStormo di CorviPronto al TiroTiro EsplosivoTiro della ChimeraDoppio ColpoRafficaTiro MortaleMarchio del CacciatoreBraci della Forgia dell'AnimaTrappola di PeceBengalahowTiro MiratoTiri PrecisiWhat Does This Mean for the Future?Braci della Forgia dell'AnimaPrecisione PotenteProiettili BrutaliTiri PrecisiRapidità di Tiro

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