WoW SoD Hunter leveling guide: Best runes, talents, and pets

Quick and nimble classes in MMORPGs require mindful builds to bring out their full potential. Here's the WoW SoD Hunter leveling guide with the best runes, talents, and pets for your hunting class.

What is best Hunter Build in World of Warcraft Season of Discovery?

The best Hunter build for the World Warcraft Season of Discovery is Ranged Beast Mastery, and it's the fastest way to reach the maximum level. This build is optimized for fast leveling and the Gnomeregan raid, which comes at level 40. The ideal Pets that come with this build are Cats and Wind Serpents.

Best Skills for Hunter Build in World of Warcraft Season of Discovery

Now, let's start this Build by choosing the best Talents for Ranged Beast Master. There are 31 skill points you can spend, and this is the configuration we have chosen for the best Beast Master Build.

• Bestial Wrath (1/1)- This ability makes your pet rage, increasing its damage by 50% for 18 seconds.
• Frenzy (5/5) - After a critical strike, your pet has a 100% chance to increase attack speed by 30% for eight seconds.
• Intimidation (1/1) - After a successful melee attack, your pet intimidates the target, making it threatened and stunned for three seconds.
• Bestial Discipline (2/2) - The pets' focus regeneration is increased by 20%.
• Ferocity (5/5) - Your pet's critical strike chances are increased by 15%.
• Pathfinding (1/2) - The speed bonuses of Aspect of the cheetah and Aspect of the Pack are increased by 3%
• Bestial Swiftness (1/1) - The outdoor speed of your Pets is increased by 30%.
• Unleashed Fury (5/5) - Increases your pet's damage by 20%.
• Thick Hide (3/3) - The armor rating of your pets is bigger by 30%
• Improved Revive Pet (2/2) - Casting time is reduced by six seconds, and mana cost is reduced by 40%. Additionally, your pet will have 30% more health after being Revived.
• Improved Aspect of the Hawk (5/5) - While active, it gives all normal range attacks a 5% chance to increase range attack speed by 30% for 12 seconds.

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Best Runes for Hunter Build in World of Warcraft Season of Discovery

You can choose five runes for your Hunter build in World of Warcraft Season of Discovery. The Runes we picked are focused on increasing health and damage, improving ranged abilities, and improving stats for all allies. Our Runes pick is as follows:

• Beast Mastery - Increases the pet's damage and health by 20% and Focus Regeneration by 50%. Also, pets Growl can taunt foes.
• Expose Weakness - Close and ranged attacks increase the player's attack power by 40% of their Agility value.
• Heart of the Lion - Increases total stats for all nearby allies by 10% and Hunter stats by an additional 10%.
• Sniper Training - This room will give you a 2% increased Critical Strike chance while you're not moving. You can stack five times per second while remaining in place and lose one stack per second while moving.
• Trap Launcher - You can place any Trap within the 35-yard range, even during combat. Your Fire and Ice Traps have separate cooldowns.

Best Pets for Hunter Build in World of Warcraft Season of Discovery

The best Pets for the Hunter Build in WoW Season of Discovery are Cats with a 2.0 attack speed and Wind Serpents. Gnomeregan raid bosses have a very high armor value, and Wind Serpents provide great DPS value, especially in raid comps with a lot of Casters. Caster-heavy raid comps often don't have armor-reducing buffs, but when they are equipped, Cats have a bit of an advantage over Wind Serpents.

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