Beast Mastery Hunter Midnight Changes – Midnight Season 1

Beast Mastery Hunters have a fantasy of consistent, reliable, and powerful pet-sourced attacks, and that's something we're looking to lean into as we move into Midnight. We're reducing the number of conditionals, auras, and modifiers on Barbed Shot to make it more easy to spend as its available. We've grown fond of Bestial Wrath's shorter cooldown, and as such are removing Barbed Wrath's dynamic cooldown reduction effect to instead give Bestial Wrath a flat cooldown of 30 seconds when fully talented. Multi-Shot has had an odd place in Beast Mastery's kit, so we're giving it an update, causing it to be replaced in the Beast Mastery spec tree with a new pet-sourced attack that deals substantial damage in AOE while also activating effects like Beast Cleave and Kill Cleave. We hope this new spell will feel powerful and contribute meaningfully to your area damage. Bloodshed and Call of the Wild felt like they were both competing for a similar role of a cooldown that summoned a few more units to fight for you. As such, we removed Call of the Wild and are focusing on Bloodshed as a cooldown to get a few extra beasts to attack your enemies. With the change to make Kill Shot a Marksmanship only ability, Dark Rangers will now learn Black Arrow as a separate ability if they choose that Hero Talent tree.

Last updated: December 16, 2025