Best In Slot Shadowlands
The current best in slot gear for Assassination Rogues optimizing PvE DPS in WoW Shadowlands 9.1. Choosing the best slot. Each Legendary Power is limited to only a handful of slots (you can’t choose any slot for any power). The slot options are listed in the tooltip (and you can find them here on Wowhead). So which slot is best for you? I recommend two different approaches, depending on how you play the game. On this page, you will find the best gear and best in slot items for your Beast Mastery Hunter in World of Warcraft Shadowlands 9.1. If you were looking for TBC Classic content, please refer to our TBC Classic Beast Mastery Hunter gear and best in slot.
So you’ve identified the Legendary power you want to use and now you have to decide on the best slot. There are a few ways to go about this decision. First, let’s cover some details that will affect your slot choice.
Item budgets by slot
Legendary items have the same ‘item budgets’ as other items for that slot. An item budget determines the amount of primary and secondary stats on the item. This means that a legendary 190 chest will have the same stat amount of primary and secondary stats as an epic 190 chest.
Some slots have more stats than others, which could factor in to the slot you want to choose (more on that later). Large stat-budget items are head, chest, and legs. And smaller budgeted items are the back and wrist.
Below is a list of the stats you’ll get from each slot, at each Legendary level. They are listed as primary / secondary with the secondary about as per stat. For example, a level 190 legendary chest will have 58 of your main stat, and 58 of each secondary stat you choose for a total of 116 secondary stats.
Gem sockets for your legendary
Sockets can be added to head, neck, wrist, waist, and ring slots with a Spatial Realignment Apparatus. This is sold by Ve’nari in the Maw for 2,500 Stygia and requires Exalted rep.
We know this works on regular items and are currently assuming it also works on Legendaries until we can get concrete evidence one way or the other. Here’s an older blue post about sockets in Shadowlands.
Upgrading your legendary
Each legendary item can be upgraded, which gives you more stats. The power itself does not get stronger – all you get are more stats. The stats you picked when you crafted the legendary are set – they cannot be changed when upgrading.
To upgrade the legendary, you need a base item of the higher item level and enough Soul Ash. It costs the same amount of Soul Ash to upgrade as it does to make the higher version right away. You are just charged the Soul Ash cost difference when upgrading vs creating the higher version from scratch.
Choosing the best slot
Each Legendary Power is limited to only a handful of slots (you can’t choose any slot for any power). The slot options are listed in the tooltip (and you can find them here on Wowhead).
So which slot is best for you?
I recommend two different approaches, depending on how you play the game.
Option 1: For those who don’t farm gear and don’t clear raids quickly, and whose legendary will likely be their highest item level item. You won’t accumulate high level gear very quickly and when you do, it likely won’t turn over that fast.
Best In Slot Shadowlands Hunter
The idea is to capitalize on two things: stats from the higher item and the longevity of not replacing it anytime soon. Because of this, choose a slot with a higher item budget to get even more stats. Also choose a slot that can be socketed if possible, again, to get even more stats.
Below is a list of the highest item level budget, from biggest to smallest. An * indicates it can be socketed.
- Head*, chest, or legs
- Shoulder, hands, waist*, feet
- Back, wrist*
If your legendary will be about the same item level as the rest of your gear, necklaces and rings can be a good option. Necks and rings (whether legendary or epic) don’t have primary stats. But they can be socketed, making them an appealing option. They also have more secondary stats than other items, so being able to hand-pick those stats on a legendary has a bigger impact for jewelry slots.
Option 2: For those who run a lot of Mythic dungeons, raids, and generally get gear at a decent pace. This is also for people who time higher M+ keys each week and do higher raid difficulties over time. Since you are replacing gear more often and gradually increasing your item level, and your legendary won’t be significantly higher than your other gear, you want to plan ahead and choose a slot that fits in well with other near best-in-slot gear.
The easiest way to do this is with the Upgrade Finder. We’ve run a ton of combos with each legendary and other available drops, so we account for several factors. For example, maybe haste/crit are your best stats, but there aren’t good haste/crit neck drops, so using that for your legendary is a slight boost over other slots.
The number of things we account for are much more extensive than any one person can sim on their own (so much so, that we have a network of user computers that help us process all of these simulations). The amount of data we are able to process and analyze is what makes the Upgrade Finder such a popular and comprehensive solution. (Seriously, give it a try!)
Using the Upgrade Finder to pick your legendary
Step 1: run Best in Bags
While this is technically optional, it is a good idea so Mr. Robot knows your best gear for each spec as well as some key details (see picture below):
- Pick a gearing strategy: Single Target or Multi Target, for example. This affects gear recommendations.
- Make sure the talents are correct for your chosen setup.
(See full Best in Bags tutorial for more info on the other options)
Step 2: Start the Upgrade Finder
Best In Slot Shadowlands Legendaries
The Upgrade Finder has a lot of different searches to find you the best sources of gear upgrades. For this purpose, choose the Legendary search.
Step 3: Results!
Every legendary available to you will show up in a ranked list. Below is the example for my Balance Druid for single target fights.
The best Missive stats are listed in green below the legendary item name.
For more information…
- Setting up Best in Bags for multiple specs (and customizing)
This is not mine and I don’t own anything from it, all credit goes to:
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/bestinslotredux/
Shadow Priest Best In Slot Shadowlands
This is an updated version of the popular Best In Slot Redux addon used to track and manage what your best items are in Raids and Dungeons. Currently this build only had the new Raid boss drops and will be updated to include all dungeon items.
Accessing the AddOn
By default there’s a mini-map button which looks like this: You can also access the AddOn by using the chat commands: /bis or /bestinslot. Try /bis help for additional commands. There’s also support for data broker AddOns like Titan Panel or similar.
The Manager
The BiS Manager is where all the magic happens. This is the place where you can set your BestInSlot lists. On startup the AddOn automatically selects the highest available raid tier and difficulty. You can make a BestInSlot list for every raid tier, for every difficulty, for every specialization. For instance, a hunter can have 3 specializations for Mythic Antorus, the Burning Throne: one for Beast Mastery, Marksmanship and Survival.
The manager will show you a copy of your inventory screen and for each slot you can set a BestInSlot item. The AddOn uses the loot list of that list and checks if you’re eligible for that loot in that slot. You’ll get a list with items that you’re eligible to roll for the selected raid tier, difficulty and specialization.
I’ve setup my BiS list, what is the advantage of using this Add On?
First off, you can easily check what you need from an instance on a per boss basis.
You can make custom BiS lists if you need more than the standard one for each specc.
You can export your BiS lists to WoWhead or SimCraft.
Cool. Can this somehow help seeing who needs which item too?
Yes it can! With the Request BiS panel can you automatically fetch your raids, guild members or a whisper target’s BiS lists and see how many people that need an item from each boss.
And if you have a persons BiS list so can you see that they need that item with the ingame tooltip.
Note: This version was created when I ran into UI errors on the Shadowlands Beta when trying to update it for my guild.
