Hunter Leveling Guide from 1 to 90

Welcome to our Hunter leveling guide! Here you will find all you need to about leveling a Hunter efficiently. In addition, you may wish to check out our General Leveling Guide, complete with detailed information on XP, mounts, addons, consumables, tips, and more.

Hunters have always been one of the strongest leveling classes, and one of the strongest specs for soloing difficult content. Their pets can be their own personal tanks, and they have many tools that make combat easier and more fun, on top of being one of the more mobile classes in the game.

We recommend Beast Mastery for most of your Hunter Leveling needs. This is because its pet does a lot more damage, allowing it to sustain itself via the Leech it brings, and therefore letting you make larger pulls and fight more dangerous enemies with no trouble. Just make sure that you keep Growl enabled when out in the world, and disabled in dungeons!

Beast Mastery is one of Hunter's two ranged specializations. It is characterized by being almost fully instant casts, making it have a melee-like playstyle, but at ranged. It is also the only Ranged spec in the game that can do virtually all of its rotation on the move. It also has a very straightforward playstyle with few difficult decisions and few buttons. It tends to do reasonable damage in all situations, and achieves its max damage potential pretty easily.

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Beast Mastery Hunter Leveling

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Survival is Hunter's only melee specialization. It has a medium-paced playstyle that is reminescent of Beast Mastery in many ways, including a heavy reliance on its pet. It tends to be a jack of all trades in terms of its damage profile as well. It is fairly straightforward to play, but does have some positional elements to its gameplay and rotation, which can make it feel a bit hectic in Mythic+ scenarios.

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Survival Hunter Leveling

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Marksmanship is one of Hunter's two ranged specializations. It is characterized by a slower, more methodical playstyle where planning your movement and burst windows is crucial. It plays without a pet, and typically excels in AoE, particularly burst. It tends to struggle with 2-target damage, and very large pulls, but it often does solid single-target, and very good 3-8 target AoE.

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Marksmanship Hunter Leveling

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When purchasing Heirloom Items for Leveling in general, we recommend picking the Heirloom items that have the highest amount of Haste possible. Haste speeds up the spec in almost every way, allowing you to quickly breeze through your rotation, and move on to the next mob more quickly.

Haste is also useful for being a little bit quicker to tag mobs around you. A split second can make the difference between you getting a tag, or losing it to another player.

Itemization

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You unlock your first ability of interest at Level 3.

Essentially all of your Ability Unlocks while Leveling as a Hunter in Midnight are from the Talent System. Starting at Level 10, you will start gaining 1 talent point per level, alternating between gaining a point in your Class Tree, and your Spec Tree. On our dedicated spec leveling guides above, you can find our recommended Talent Tree builds, and therefore the best abilities to unlock.

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This guide has been written by Azortharion, a full-timer Hunter Guidewriter, Theorycrafter, Content Creator, and top player since 2014 who is widely considered one of the best PvE Hunters in the world. He is an accomplished player with hundreds of top parses across all Hunter specs. He is the Head Admin of Trueshot Lodge, the official Hunter Class Discord. You can find him on his stream on Twitch and his channel on YouTube. He also has his own, personal Discord server where you can freely ask him any Hunter questions you may have!