Proving Yourself: Gold Damage - A Beastmastery Hunter's perspective

By BigRed Last Updated: 2016/06/05 Patch: 6.2.3

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Level 15

Narrow Escape

Mainly for occasionally momentarily rooting the Banana throwers so the pet can keep up.

Level 30

Intimidation

Second stun.

Level 60

Dire Beast might be an alternative.

Level 75

A Murder of Crows

With very few exceptions, everything has to die in 15 seconds anyway, otherwise one has to restart. This therefore gives a nice damage burst that's always available.

Level 90

It's controlled! Breaking healers out of the cc at the wrong moment is highly problematic, so Barrage loses out. Additionally, there's only one clear aoe situation (wave 6).

Level 100

Adaptation

BM hunter...

Spirit BeastThunderstompSmall Illusionary SlayerSmall Illusionary Amber-Weaver

Place yourself behind one of the slayers.

Open with glaive at the far slayer, kill it, kill weaver, lastly near slayer (encased).

Small Illusionary Banana-TosserLarge Illusionary Amber-Weaver

Drop south of center before the start of the wave.

I've had the impression that the amber weavers sometimes wait until they've been damaged before summoning the globules, and globules are our friends. That's why I make sure to damage the weavers if I need a globule. Hence, I start with a non-aoe attack () on the weaver, to avoid breaking out the frozen banana thrower.

Once both are encased, Multi-Shot for the aoe, kill the weaver (crows come in handy), root and finish off the banana thrower.

Small Illusionary Banana-TosserSmall Illusionary MysticSmall Illusionary Amber-Weaver

Drop freezing trap nortwest of center (between the two inward pointing markings) before the start of the wave. The banana thrower doesn't always take off in this direction but often. If so, station yourself so the globule hits the banana thrower and kill it before the weaver.

Crows on the mystic, interrupt heal, kill.

Kill weaver.

Chase down and kill banana thrower

Large Illusionary MysticSmall Illusionary Banana-Tosser

Drop freezing trap in the center before the start of the wave.

Kill banana thrower.

Open up on mystic. The heal comes when it's at ~ 60%, interrupt, put the crows on it, finish it off.

Don'tSmall Illusionary GuardianSmall Illusionary BansheeSmall Illusionary Banshee

Drop Explosive Trap in the center before the wave.

Put crows on one of the guardians, burn it down. If you have time, switch to next guardian.

When the first banshee spawns, she sets off the trap, which helps with the remaining guardians. Switch to banshee, open with multishot, so Beast Cleave hits the guardians. Be careful with the pet, though, it sometimes ignores the banshee and goes back to a guardian.

Rinse, repeat. Ideally, the last banshee spawns to an empty arena.

Small Illusionary MysticLarge Illusionary VarmintSmall Illusionary Varmint

Drop explosive trap in the center and freezing trap on one of the mystics' spots before the wave starts. Place yourself between the two traps.

Attack the non-frozen mystic: open with glaive toss and crows, interrupt heal, finish it off.

Reverse position.

Open on the second mystic with glaive toss. It will immediately try to heal, interrupt with intimidation. If that doesn't work, you have to take care when aoeing down the varmints at the end. Put crows on the mystic, finish it off.

If the heal got through, target the varmint at full health. Use multishot and beast cleave to aoe the varmints down. Explosive trap should be off cooldown.

Small Illusionary Banana-TosserSmall Illusionary GuardianSmall Illusionary MysticSmall Illusionary Amber-WeaverLarge Illusionary BansheeSmall Illusionary Banshee

Freeze-trap the mystic. You will ignore it for quite a while.

Put crows on the guardian and kill it quickly - I used Bestial Wrath. Ideally, it is down fast enough that it does not get hit by the globule.

Reverse position to drag the globule through the center. If it's in range, do some damage to the banana thrower, if not to the weaver.

If all went well, the small banshee is encased now. This does not stop its bomb timer. Burn it down quickly.

I kill the rest in the order: thrower, mystic, banshee, weaver. The relative order is not important - what is important is that the mystic and the banshee are not active at the same time since you cannot afford to ignore either one! If you can use the weaver's globule to encase one of those two, even better.

Don'tSmall Illusionary Amber-WeaverSmall Illusionary Sha

Kill the two weavers, avoiding the globules. I had the situation that the sha's shield reset when it was hit by a globule, leaving me with less time in the wave than remained on the shield. So to be on the safe side, avoid the globules hitting the sha.

Damage the sha without cooldown abilities until the shield falls off. Once the shield is off, go all in. I used the first berserk buff here.

Large Illusionary MysticSmall Illusionary Banana-TosserSmall Illusionary ShaSmall Illusionary Banshee

Put crows on the mystic and kill it.

Kill the banana thrower, if the banshee spawns before it's dead.

Otherwise kill the banshee.

Kill the sha.

Large Illusionary SlayerLarge Illusionary ShaSmall Illusionary Banshee

Kill the slayer. Start damaging the sha.

When the first banshee spawns, switch and kill it. Continue damaging the sha.

Once the shield comes off, take the berserk buff, pop bestial wrath, sick the crows on the sha.

When the second banshee spawns, don't panic! The sha needs to die before the shield goes back up and with the berserk buff, the banshee will go down quickly.

Comments

Comment by Hemingray

Excellent guide! I'll admit I was struggling with my alt BM hunter on gold, but this guide helped me get there. Next stop: endless mode!

Proving Yourself: Gold Damage - A Beastmastery Hunter's perspective

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