In order to attain the entire Beastmaster set (Tier 0.5) you must first get the entire Beaststalker set. Once you have gotten all of the Beaststalker set, then follow these instructions to attain the entire Beastmaster set.

To upgrade the Tier 0 (Beaststalker) set to Tier 0.5:

Bracers

* 20gold
* 15 Winterspring Blood Sample (Thottbot) (Alliance)
* 15 Silithus Venom Sample (Thottbot) (Horde)

Belt & Gloves

* 1 Delicate Arcanite Converter
* 4 Greater Eternal Essence
* 10 Stonescale Oil
* 80/90gold
o 40gold to Mux Manascrambler
o 40/50gold to buy a Quest Item: Fel Elemental Rod
* Extra Goblin Rocket Fuel as needed

Shoulders, Boots, & Pants

* 3 Dark Iron Bars (Thottbot)
* 3 Mooncloth (Thottbot)
* 20 Enchanted Leather (Thottbot)
* 4 Cured Rugged Hide (Thottbot)
* 8 Large Brilliant Shard (Thottbot)
* 4 Dark Runes (Thottbot)

Helm & Chest

* 120gold to buy a Hallowed Brazier (Requires Argent Dawn - Honored)
* 1 Flask of Supreme Power (Thottbot)
* The following items are required to Summon the Duke of Cynders. You must also be Friendly with Cenarion Hold
o 1 Twilight Trappings Set:
+ 1 Twilight Cultist Robe (Thottbot)
+ 1 Twilight Cultist Mantle (Thottbot)
+ 1 Twilight Cultist Cowl (Thottbot)
o 1 Twilight Cultist Medallion of Station (Thottbot)
+ 1 Large Brilliant Shard
+ 3 Abyssal Crest (Thottbot)
# You can either buy them at the Auction House or summon 3 Abyssal Templars at a Wind stone in Silithus, which will require 3 Twilight Trappings sets.
o 1 Signet of Beckoning: Fire (or luck) (Thottbot)
+ 1 Dark Rune
+ 5 Firebloom
Total gold: 220gold (Costs for buying materials excluded)

Note: As you're level 60 when you become able to do these quests, a little of the gold you spend will be returned as quest rewards instead of XP. Calculated 611gold required approximately to do this quest, about 700gold on a more expensive server and about 40gold refunded from quest experience to gold at lvl 60.

Hope that helps.

You don't necessarily have to have a full Tier 0 set to start updating to Tier 0.5. The first quest only deals with the bracers, so you can complete the first part by only owning the bracers.

For it's bonuses on each piece, this set is unique among all the sets in WoW. It sums up really cool with the name ""Beast Master"". The wolf head cap might (for me does) look silly on most races, but on a Troll it just kicks ass, with the tusks sticking out under it.

Even with Wrath out, this is still one of the most bad-ass looking armor sets for RP. Well worth the money and effort. Pair it up with a Black War Wolf and Blackhand's Doomsaw for maximum RP value. ( If you're Horde that is.)

<b>A list of all items that directly buff hunter pets.</b>

I decided to make a list for the hunters that like directly buffing their pets much as possible.<ul><li><div>https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=22060 Beastmaster's Tunic : Particularly powerful bonus for pet tanking.</div></li><li><div>https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=22015 Beastmaster's Gloves </div></li><li><div>https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=22013 Beastmaster's Cap : This will probably translate to more health than any other helm, although it depends on gear.</div></li><li><div>https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=22061 Beastmaster's Boots </div></li><li><div>https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=30892 Beast-tamer's Shoulders </div></li><li><div>https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=31328 Leggings of Beast Mastery : Best pet legs in-game.</div></li><li><div>https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=19992 Devilsaur Tooth <small> Thanks to Teridom.</small></div></li><li><div>https://vanillawowdb.com/?itemset=510 Trappings of the Unseen Path : 3-piece bonus.</div></li><li><div>https://vanillawowdb.com/?itemset=215 Dragonstalker Armor : 5-piece bonus.</div></li><li><div>https://vanillawowdb.com/?itemset=206 Giantstalker Armor : 3-piece and 5-piece bonuses.</div></li><li><div>https://vanillawowdb.com/?itemset=652 Rift Stalker Armor : 2-piece bonus. Vital for keeping your pet healthy in the absence of healers.<small> Thanks to Cerberus.</small></div></li></ul>Wearing all these is obviously impossible, so you'll have to weigh and choose which to wear. Also don't forget that your pet scales with your stats and that wearing low level pieces might reduce the power of your pet in spite of the specific pet bonuses. But wearing some of them, especially the stronger ones, will be worth it for maxing out your pet, if not you.

Please inform me if I have missed any items.

-Necoia-