Slowdog's BM Hunter S2 | Pack Leader | M+

🐺 BM Hunter M+ | ST & MT, Pack Leader FIRST OFF, thank you to everyone who tested this for me. This is out of beta now because the real logs backed it up, and that's the only reason I'm comfortable calling it done. Both sequences got pulled apart again since the first post, and there's one change worth flagging up front before anything else. Hunter's Mark isn't automated in either build anymore. It used to sit on a castsequence that fired it every time you swapped targets or re-entered combat, and testing kept coming back showing that the GCD it burns costs more than the debuff gives back, since Hunter's Mark does nothing for your own damage and only kicks in a flat 3% damage taken debuff for the group. In a raid setting where a boss lives for five or six minutes, that trade can be worth it, but in M+ where targets die in seconds, and you're swapping constantly, it was just bleeding casts you needed elsewhere. If you still want it up, especially for a raid pull or an M+ boss, bind it to your own key or drop it into a separate one-line macro and fire it yourself before the pull. It's not gone from the game; it's just not going to steal a GCD from you every time GRIP feels like it anymore. On the ST side, this build had already had its real bugs fixed: Hunter's Mark sitting in the KeyPress field starving Barbed Shot and the broken Ironfur fallback dropping Kill Command mid pull, and that fix is what's live now with Hunter's Mark pulled out entirely on top of it. Kill Command's sitting at 14.4 casts per minute and Barbed Shot's holding 96.98% uptime on dummy testing, and Cobra Shot picked up real ground once Hunter's Mark stopped eating its GCDs. Zero deaths, nothing regressed anywhere I could find. The MT side was a full rebuild: Priority instead of Sequential, same architecture as the Herald of the Sun build, Bestial Wrath, Wild Thrash, and Kill Command as standalone top-priority entries, with Barbed Shot and Cobra Shot looping underneath. Wild Thrash is the piece doing the actual AoE work; it triggers Beast Cleave so your pet's melee and your next ten seconds of Kill Command hit everything nearby instead of just your primary target. Pulling Hunter's Mark out of this one also meant pulling out the nested loop that had been forcing Barbed Shot to alternate one for one with Cobra Shot at the bottom of priority, which is very likely what was capping Barbed Shot uptime for people and dragging parses down even when the cast log looked clean. Here's why it's not beta anymore. A couple of you ran this on real keys instead of a dummy, and the logs settled every question I still had open. On a +16 Temple of Sethraliss, full 322 ilvl clear, Kill Command matched dummy CPM almost exactly at 13.2, boss-only Barbed Shot uptime came in at 82%, and the run parsed 94th percentile DPS and 94th percentile points, up from a 24th percentile parse on the old version of this build before the loop got pulled. On a +15 Blinding Vale the same night, same player, it held up again: 90th percentile DPS on both the full key and boss damage specifically, boss Barbed Shot uptime at 96%, and Wild Thrash casting right in line with what I'd been seeing on my own cleave dummy tests once you separate trash from boss segments. Trash uptime on Barbed Shot runs lower than bosses on both keys, sitting in the high 60s, and that's the one honest asterisk here: it's a target swap and death cycling cost that's inherent to trash packs in M+, not a flaw in the priority order, and it shows up identically across two different dungeons and two different runs. Both talent builds stay Pack Leader, still running over 99% usage in real top logs. Drop your logs in the comments, real keys especially; that's what took this from beta to a real release, and it's what's going to keep it improving from here.