Marksmanship Hunter

The order abilities first landed across 4 top-parsing pulls, with the median time into the fight. The percentage is how many of those parses used the ability at all — a step at 100% is the opener, one at 60% is a choice some players make.

1. 1Aimed Shot+0.8s100%
2. 2Explosive Shot+1.1s100%
3. 3Voracious Heart of Ula'tek+2.7s50%
4. 4Volley+3.5s100%
5. 5Empowering Venom+4.2s50%
6. 6Trueshot+4.3s100%
7. 7Rapid Fire+4.7s100%
8. 8Arcane Shot+7.3s100%

What was pressed next, counted over every observed pair. This is the closest a log gets to a priority list — but it describes behaviour, not a rule: a player casting Execute because it lit up looks the same here as one following a plan.

• Aimed Shot96 casts→Aimed Shot48%Arcane Shot33%Rapid Fire6%
• Arcane Shot38 casts→Aimed Shot46%Steady Shot19%Rapid Fire16%
• Steady Shot38 casts→Steady Shot59%Aimed Shot19%Arcane Shot8%
• Rapid Fire21 casts→Aimed Shot90%Steady Shot10%
• Explosive Shot16 casts→Explosive Shot47%Volley20%Rapid Fire13%
• Volley7 casts→Empowering Venom29%Aimed Shot14%

Casts per minute across 20 top-parsing kills in The Venomous Abyss. Per minute rather than totals, so a long fight does not read as a heavily used ability.

Fights are sorted by how much damage landed on boss units rather than by a hand-kept list of which encounter is the AoE one, so the split stays right after a retune. Fights in between are left out of both columns.

Updated 31/08/2026. These are observed casts, not a recommended priority — the order reflects how often an ability came up, which is not the same as when to press it.

Secondary stat split across the 100 best-geared synced characters. Averaged per player, so one heavily geared character cannot define the answer for everyone.

• Versatility45.8%1,012 avg
• Mastery34.5%772 avg
• Haste12.3%281 avg
• Critical Strike7.4%181 avg