Beast Mastery Hunter Antorus The Burning Throne Guide

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DPS the boss. It's the first boss, what do you expect?

Use Disengage + Posthaste to soak the Annihilations quickly.

Delay your to use on the cannons when possible, because once the cannon dies the cooldown will reset and you can immediately use it again on the boss.

Felhounds of Sargeras

As Beast Mastery, you'll only be able to hit one of the felhounds, so stick with single target talents and rotation.

This is a standard patchwerk boss with lots of movement, which isn't a problem for Beast Mastery. Just be proactive with moving at the right times to minimize your damage intake.

On Mythic difficulty, you will still take damage when Disengaging over the fire pools, but you should only take a single tick if you find yourself in a jam.

Antoran High Command

This is a cleave fight, but since the adds move around so much, you should generally focus on a single target rotation. It's still worthwhile activating Beast Cleave right as a group of adds spawn because they'll stay there for a few seconds.

If 2 or more adds are away from the boss but close to each other, send your Dire Beasts to them so that Stomp can deal more damage.

A Murder of Crows is nice on this fight if you take advantage of the cooldown reset on adds, but Volley is the simpler choice.

On Mythic difficulty, the stun effect from Shock Grenade can be negated by Aspect of the Turtle.

Portal Keeper Hasabel

There are several issues with pets inside the portals. Sometimes you may need to dismiss and resummon, and your Dire Beasts will sometimes Stomp before they reach their target. Whenever possible, try to get yourself assigned to downstairs duty on this fight.

When downstairs, save your interrupt for Imps that are almost getting their cast off (most will die before they do), or for Imps that get left behind inside the purple circle and would then be out of melee range to interrupt.

When downstairs, it's usually better to single target down the imps unless they are clumped up. It's easy to waste Focus activating Beast Cleave when its damage can be so ineffectual in burst situations such as this.

Eonar the Lifebinder

Feel free to experiment with different talents on this build, such as Stampede. It's one of the few places where these talents can have some use.

On the other hand, if your raid is full of AoE specs or people who love to pad the meters in general, you might be better off focusing on the important mobs in single target.

Don't bother DPSing the bats as BM because your pet can't hit them the majority of the time. Focus your efforts elsewhere.

Imonar the Soul Hunter

Aspect of the Turtle is very handy for surviving the bridge transitions in an emergency.

One of the few places where Trailblazer can get some use. Since you're not attacking on the bridge, this allows you to move faster when crossing it.

Don't bother wasting Focus or cooldowns once you reach the other side until the boss is interrupted and takes full damage again.

Kin'garoth

Delay your Bestial Wrath and other cooldowns (not counting the opener) for the add spawns, since you deal significantly more damage to them when they first spawn. Get yourself into position (and pull your pet back) right before the add spawns so you can switch immediately.

On-use trinkets such as Terminus Signaling Beacon or Tarnished Sentinel Medallion can be very useful on this fight since the adds take increased damage from them.

Varimathras

This is a pretty simple fight. Move with the group and DPS. On Mythic difficulty swap to the adds ASAP since your instant damage is very helpful to get them down in time.

When you have to get out of the group for Necrotic Embrace, make sure you're topped off before Disengaging out of range. You can use Aspect of the Turtle to reduce the incoming damage while away from the group, but it won't make you immune.

The Coven of Shivarra

The targets are usually too far apart to hit more than one with anything meaningful, so stick with a single target build and rotation.

Delay your Bestial Wrath if the Aman'thul adds are close to spawning (these are the ones that heal to full health).

Taking the Wyvern Sting talent allows you to lock down another one of the adds that needs to be crow controlled. It's good to keep either this or Freezing Trap in reserve for an emergency (depending what other CCs your raid has).

If you find yourself in a bad position during Storm of Darkness (in front of the fire boss, or in a crowded safe zone during lightning adds for example), don't be afraid to pop Aspect of the Turtle and move to a less crowded place. You'll be completely immune from all the damage.

Another good place to use Aspect of the Turtle is when you have Fulminating Pulse and you're at low health when it's about to expire.

When tanks are swapping bosses and they cross paths the bosses will turn purple, which means they take 99% less damage. Avoid casting important abilities like Kill Command until the boss is no longer purple and will take full damage again. Over the course of a fight, you can lose a lot of damage by wasting casts on immune bosses.

Aggramar

On Heroic difficulty, if your group is individually CCing the small adds, you can lock down two of them yourself with Wyvern Sting and Freezing Trap if your raid is short on CC. It's also nice to have one in your back pocket if something goes wrong.

Use Aspect of the Turtle and Exhilaration when needed during the intermission phases as this is a likely time to die. If it meshes well with your gear setup, it's also nice to have Prydaz, Xavaric's Magnum Opus on this fight.

Argus the Unmaker

During phase 1, both the crit/mastery and haste/vers buffs are relatively equal in DPS value, it's just important that you always choose the same one for stacking purposes.

During the add phase, start DPSing the Physical vulnerable add first. This add starts out in the north of the room. The secondary priority for BM is the Nature vulnerable add since we do have some Nature damage in our repertoire.

Make sure to use your second DPS potion before the add phase is finished, since you'll get another potion after resurrecting in the final phase.

During the last phase, it's a good time to use Aspect of the Turtle if you get Soulbomb or Soulburst (especially Soulbomb) to avoid dying and having to resurrect at the tree.

During the last phase when Reorigination Modules spawn, you can use your pet's Kill Command to jump to the closest one, then use Kill Command again to jump to the next one when needed. This is more efficient than having your pet run clear across the room doing nothing.

Goroth

Hide behind Infernal Spike to avoid being hit by Infernal Burning.

Avoid destroying Infernal Spike when targeted with Crashing Comet.

Aim Shattering Star to collide with multiple Infernal Spike to decrease damage taken.

DPS the boss. It's the first boss, what do you expect?

Use Disengage + Posthaste to get behind or away from pillars quickly.

Wrists - Pain-Singed Armguards

Waist - Belt of Screaming Slag

Back - Cloak of Stifling Brimstone

Arcane - Charred Hymnal of the Moon

Storm - Felsoul Vortex

Demonic Inquisition

Confess when at full Torment to collect Remnants of Hope from Belac's cage and alleviate Unbearable Torment.

Avoid attacking Atrigan and Belac during Bone Saw and Fel Squall respectively, so you don't get additional Torment.

It's worthwhile keeping Beast Cleave up when the bosses are close together (don't spam Multi-Shot, this is still a single target fight) but don't do this during Bone Saw and Fel Squall or else you'll generate extra Torment.

Disengage out of the purple puddles instead of running out, so you generate less Torment.

Helm Token - Wildstalker Helmet

Legs - Flesh-Raking Leggings

Shoulders - Pauldrons of the Gibbering Eye

Neck - String of Extracted Incisors

Trinket - Cradle of Anguish

Arcane - Inexorable Truth Serum

Harjatan

When the boss casts Draw In , make sure to move to avoid being hit by moving pools of Drenching Waters.

Move out of the impact point of Drenching Slough to avoid taking unnecessary damage or stacks of Drenched.

Feign Death can remove the fixate from the adds in an emergency, but this will cause the add to fixate someone else.

When the adds spawn, you generally want to switch to them before cleaving. If you cleave off the boss, Beast Cleave won't always hit all the nearby adds because your pet can be standing too far away due to the large hit box on the boss.

Volley

Gloves Token - Wildstalker Gauntlets

Chest - Hauberk of Frozen Mist

Feet - Insulated Finpads

Ring - Scaled Band of Servitude

Iron - Calcified Barnacle

Mistress Sassz'ine

Slay Abyss Stalkers at the correct time to ensure that Concealing Murk is available for Slicing Tornado.

Stand behind Concealing Murk to prevent being struck by Slicing Tornado.

Bring Befouling Ink to the whale.

When using Befouling Ink, step in, Disengage to the outer circle to feed the whale, then use Posthaste to get back out quickly.

Disengage reportedly lets you skip through the tornadoes, but I haven't tested this personally. You can try it in an emergency.

Use Aspect of the Turtle before soaking Hydra Shot if either your health is low or it looks like not enough people are soaking your particular beam which would result in your death.

Legs Token - Wildstalker Leggings

Helm - Azure Squallshaper's Helm

Back - Shroud of the Drowned Adherent

Trinket - Terror From Below

Storm - Flawless Hurricane Pearl

Sisters of the Moon

If targeted by Rapid Shot move to the light side of the moon to clear stacks of Umbra Suffusion.

If affected by Moon Burn move to the other side of the moon to trigger Astral Purge.

Defeat the Moontalon before Deathly Screech becomes lethal.

If Umbra Suffusion or Lunar Suffusion stacks get too high, move to the other side of the moon to clear them.

When possible, use on Moontalon adds shortly before they die (depends on your raid, but around 20-30% HP is usually safe) so you can get cooldown resets on it.

Aspect of the Turtle can be used to solo soak Incorporeal Shot, but be very careful that no one else is standing in the beam before you do this or else they'll be killed. This will save a lot of healing.

Shoulder - Mantle of Waning Radiance

Waist - Waistguard of Interminable Unity

Ring - Yathae's Thumb Ring

Trinket - Tarnished Sentinel Medallion

Arcane - Mote of Astral Suffusion

Iron - Chiseled Starlight

The Desolate Host

If afflicted with Soulbind , quickly move to another similarly afflicted player in the opposing realm.

Manage the final explosion from Shattering Scream to ensure it removes applications of Bonecage Armor.

In the corporeal realm, you can Disengage to quickly get over the purple lines of silence and drop your own purple line of silence far out of the way.

Volley

Cloak Token - Wildstalker Cape

Hands - Gauntlets of Spiteful Haunting

Neck - Locket of Splintered Souls

Trinket - Spectral Thurible

Storm - Preserved Starlight Incense

Maiden of Vigilance

Dive into the pit when Unstable Soul is about to expire: On normal, about 2-3 seconds before. On heroic, about 1.5 seconds before.

Collect stacks of either Creator's Grace or Demon's Vigor by touching Fragments that match your Infusion during Watcher's Wrath.

Quickly break Titanic Bulwark and interrupt Wrath of the Creators .

It can be tempting to use Aspect of the Cheetah or Posthaste to run through the orbs ahead of everyone else. Don't do this. You'll be kicked out of the hunter club and forced to go play a support class.

If you're low on health or there is a lack of people on your side to soak the hammer, you can use Aspect of the Turtle to reduce the damage.

If the boss is about to switch sides within the next 15 seconds, and Bestial Wrath is available, hold onto it until you get to the other side with the orb buffs. Same goes for any other potential burst like on-use trinkets.

You can start casting Kill Command long before you get across to the other side as your pet will get in range much faster than you.

Chest Token - Wildstalker Chestguard

Head - Crown of Discarded Hope

Wrist - Chaos-Calming Wristguards

Ring - Band of Rescinded Truths

Trinket - Engine of Eradication

Storm - Unfurling Origination

Fallen Avatar

Help soak the effects of Dark Mark.

Avoid Unbound Chaos and the targets of Shadowy Blades.

Move away from the Fallen Avatar while he casts Rupture Realities.

You can solo soak Touch of Sargeras by using Aspect of the Turtle.

In phase 2, have Disengage ready to cut short getting knocked back after helping soak Dark Mark, so you can get back to DPSing, rather than flying through the air. You can also use Disengage to change direction mid air if the knock-back was sending you into the lava.

In phase 2, you can use Aspect of the Turtle to solo soak Dark Mark. This saves a ton of healing in a very healing-intensive phase.

You can use Disengage to jump into or out of the green lava to avoid the purple tornadoes. You can even sit in the lava and cast for a couple seconds, if really desperate.

Shoulder Token - Wildstalker Spaulders

Legs - Legguards of Siphoned Power

Back - Cape of Mindless Fury

Iron - Reactive Pylon Casing

Kil'jaeden

Soak one of the swirls during Armageddon.

Stand near Rupturing Singularity with your back facing one of the corners of the platform to avoid being knocked off.

Stand under the boss if you get Shadow Reflection: Erupting until the add spawns.

Stand next to Tear Rift portals to gain their Gravity Squeeze debuff when Darkness of a Thousand Souls is cast.

Track Humanoids will point out where Illidan is on your mini-map during the darkness phase. Once you've located him, you can begin pinging the mini-map for your raid.

If you mess up your positioning before a knockback, you can use Disengage mid-air to launch you back onto the platform.

Aspect of the Turtle can be used to soak Armageddon Hail (the large swirls).

Feet - Star-Stalker Treads

Hands - Vicegrip of the Unrepentant

Ring - Seal of the Second Duumvirate

Trinket - Tome of Unraveling Sanity

Arcane - Torn Fabric of Reality

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