BM Hunters

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The BM rotation, like all focus-based hunter rotations, is a priority-based rotation. Normally, our priority looks like this:

Put up Hunter's Mark and Serpent Sting.

Focus Fire (not on the GCD) whenever your pet is at full Frenzy stacks. The UI will flash you a visual reminder and light up your Focus Fire button to let you know when it's time.

Kill Command whenever available -- you will need to make sure you always have enough focus to hit Kill Command whenever it's off cooldown.

Refresh Serpent Sting whenever it drops.

Arcane Shot to dump focus.

Steady Shot to regen focus.

Since BM doesn't yet have access to Cobra Shot at level 80, we're going to have to refresh Serpent Sting a lot. This is fine, as BM has the best focus regen of all the specs, and we're taking Improved Serpent Sting to at least get some damage out of those applications.

During Bestial Wrath, you will hit only Kill Command and Arcane Shot. With the huge focus discount of Beast Within, you will not run out of focus throughout the entire duration, making it a huge DPS burst. Generally speaking, you don't want to hit Focus Fire during big red pet, since you'd rather your pet had the Frenzy stacks to get faster attacks while under the bonus damage effects. You'll also want to use Fervor as often as possible -- this is basically getting you a bunch more Arcane Shots. It's also very useful during heavy movement phases.


Hope this helps