Focused Fire new · Beast Mastery
Increases all damage you and your pet deal by 1% while your pet is active.
EXPLORE THE HUNTER TALENTS
WoW Forever Hunter Talents
Plan your WoW Forever Hunter talents across Beast Mastery, Marksmanship, Survival. Check the changes vs Classic, requirements and recorded ranks before sharing a build.
YOUR CHARACTER
Hunter talent trees
0Beast Mastery0Marksmanship0Survival
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Beast Mastery
0 / 51 Deadly Aspects While Aspect of the Hawk is active, Auto Shot has a 2% chance of increasing ranged attack speed by 30% for 12 sec. While Aspect of the Beast is active, all melee auto attacks have a 2% chance of increasing melee attack speed by 30% for 12 sec.
Endurance Training Increases the Health and Armor of your pets by 3%.
Focused Fire Increases all damage you and your pet deal by 1% while your pet is active.
Improved Aspect of the Monkey Increases the Dodge bonus of your Aspect of the Monkey by 2%. Additionally, your pet gains 50% of the effect of your Aspect of the Monkey ability.
Improved Revive Pet Revive Pet's casting time is reduced by 3 sec, mana cost is reduced by 20%, and increases the health your pet returns with by an additional 15%.
Pathfinding Increases the speed bonus of your Aspect of the Cheetah and Aspect of the Pack by 3%.
Bestial Swiftness Increases the movement speed of your pets by 30%.
Unleashed Fury Increases the damage done by your pets and hawks by 3%.
Improved Mend Pet Gives your Mend Pet spell a 15% chance of cleansing 1 Curse, Disease, Magic, or Poison effect from your pet each time it heals and reduces the Mana cost by 10%.
Ferocity Increases the critical strike chance of your pets and hawks by 2%.
Summon Hawk Command a hawk to dive-bomb your targeted enemy, dealing 32 plus 5% of your Ranged Attack Power Physical damage and continuing its assault for 18 sec. Only 2 hawks can be active at once. Summon Hawk shares its cooldown with Arcane Shot.
Spirit Bond While your pet is active, you and your pet will regenerate 1% of total health every 10 sec.
Intimidation Command your pet to Stun the target for 3 sec on its next successful attack, which also gains 100% increased critical strike chance. Generates high threat.
Bestial Discipline Increases the Focus regeneration of your pets by 10% and allows 25% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting.
Frenzy Gives your pet a 20% chance to gain a 30% attack speed increase for 8 sec after dealing a critical strike.
Bestial Wrath Send your pet into a rage causing 50% additional damage for 18 sec. While enraged, the beast does not feel pity or remorse or fear and it cannot be stopped unless killed.
Marksmanship
0 / 51 Hawk Eye Increases the range of your ranged weapons by 2 yards.
Improved Concussive Shot Gives your Concussive Shot a 4% chance to stun the target for 3 sec.
Lethal Attacks Increases your critical strike chance with all attacks by 1%.
Improved Stings Increases the damage of your Serpent Sting ability by 6%, reduces the cooldown of your Viper Sting ability by 2 sec, and increases the duration of your Scorpid Sting ability by 15 sec.
Efficiency Reduces the Mana cost of your Shots, Stings, and melee abilities by 3%.
Careful Aim Increases your Attack Power by 20% of your Intellect.
Rapid Killing Reduces the cooldown on your Rapid Fire ability by 1 min. In addition, when you kill a non-trivial enemy or it dies while afflicted by your Serpent Sting, you gain Rapid Killing, increasing the damage of your next Shot ability within 20 sec by 10%.
Improved Arcane Shot Reduces the cooldown of your Arcane Shot by 0.3 sec. Does not affect the cooldown of abilities which share a cooldown with Arcane Shot.
Lone Wolf You deal 20% increased damage with all attacks while you do not have an active pet.
Trueshot Aura Increases the Ranged Attack Power of party or raid members within 45 yds by 20.
Mortal Shots Increases the critical strike damage bonus on all ranged abilities by 6%.
Rapid Recuperation Afflicting a target with Serpent Sting allows 25% of your Mana Regeneration to continue while casting for 15 sec, increased to 50% when Rapid Killing is consumed.
Barrage Increases the damage done by your Multi-Shot, Aimed Shot, and Volley abilities by 5%.
Scatter Shot A short-range shot that deals 50% weapon damage and disorients the target for 4 sec. Any damage caused will remove the effect. Turns off your attack when used.
Ranged Weapon Specialization Increases the damage you deal with ranged weapons by 1%.
Sniper Shot A long-range shot that deals ranged damage plus 320 and increases the range of your next 3 Shots by 10 yards for 10 sec.
Survival
0 / 51 Improved Tracking While tracking Beasts, Demons, Dragonkin, Elementals, Giants, Humanoids, or Undead, all damage you deal to the tracked creature type is increased by 1%.
Deflection Increases your Parry chance by 1%.
Entrapment When your traps are triggered, all affected targets are Entrapped, preventing them from moving for 1 sec.
Savage Strikes Increases the critical strike chance of all your melee abilities by 2%.
Survivalist Increases your total Health by 2%.
Improved Wing Clip Gives your Wing Clip ability a 7% chance to immobilize the target for 5 sec.
Clever Traps Increases the duration of Freezing and Frost trap effects by 15% and the damage of Immolation and Explosive trap effects by 15%.
Surefooted Increases your hit chance by 1% and reduces the duration of movement impairing effects on you by 10%.
Deterrence When activated, increases your Dodge and Parry chance by 25% for 10 sec.
Survival Tactics Increases your chance to hit with your Trap and Feign Death abilities by 5%.
Predator's Edge Increases your melee ability critical strike damage by 6% and your Off Hand weapon damage by 10%.
Counterattack A strike that becomes active after parrying an opponent's attack. This attack deals 50% weapon damage plus 13 and immobilizes the target for 5 sec. Counterattack cannot be blocked, dodged, or parried.
Resourcefulness Reduces the Mana cost of your Trap and melee abilities by 30%, and grants your melee and ranged ability Critical Strikes a 50% chance to allow 50% of your Mana Regeneration to continue while casting for 30 sec.
Expose Prey Grants your melee and ranged attacks against enemies afflicted by Hunter's Mark a 5% chance to allow an activation of Mongoose Bite. Lasts 10 sec.
Survivalist's Discipline Reduces the cooldown of your Trap and Deterrence abilities by 20%.
Strider Kick A powerful kick that deals 100% melee weapon damage and increases movement speed by 30% for 3 sec.
Lightning Reflexes Increases your Agility by 3%.
Lacerating Strikes Your Mongoose Bite also causes the target to Bleed for damage equal to 40% of the damage done by Mongoose Bite over 21 sec
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CLASSIC DIFF
Hunter talent changes15 new · 23 changed · 3 moved
Compared against Classic Era
build 1.15.9.69722.
Summon Hawk new · Beast Mastery
Command a hawk to dive-bomb your targeted enemy, dealing 32 plus 5% of your Ranged Attack Power Physical damage and continuing its assault for 18 sec. Only 2 hawks can be active at once. Summon Hawk shares its cooldown with Arcane Shot.
Careful Aim new · Marksmanship
Increases your Attack Power by 20% of your Intellect.
Rapid Killing new · Marksmanship
Reduces the cooldown on your Rapid Fire ability by 1 min. In addition, when you kill a non-trivial enemy or it dies while afflicted by your Serpent Sting, you gain Rapid Killing, increasing the damage of your next Shot ability within 20 sec by 10%.
Lone Wolf new · Marksmanship
You deal 20% increased damage with all attacks while you do not have an active pet.
Rapid Recuperation new · Marksmanship
Afflicting a target with Serpent Sting allows 25% of your Mana Regeneration to continue while casting for 15 sec, increased to 50% when Rapid Killing is consumed.
Changed talents
Deadly Aspects changed · Beast Mastery
While Aspect of the Hawk is active, Auto Shot has a 2% chance of increasing ranged attack speed by 30% for 12 sec. While Aspect of the Beast is active, all melee auto attacks have a 2% chance of increasing melee attack speed by 30% for 12 sec.
Endurance Training changed · Beast Mastery
Increases the Health and Armor of your pets by 3%.
Improved Aspect of the Monkey changed · Beast Mastery
Increases the Dodge bonus of your Aspect of the Monkey by 2%. Additionally, your pet gains 50% of the effect of your Aspect of the Monkey ability.
Bestial Swiftness changed · Beast Mastery
Increases the movement speed of your pets by 30%.
Unleashed Fury changed · Beast Mastery
Increases the damage done by your pets and hawks by 3%.
Improved Mend Pet changed · Beast Mastery
Gives your Mend Pet spell a 15% chance of cleansing 1 Curse, Disease, Magic, or Poison effect from your pet each time it heals and reduces the Mana cost by 10%.
+ 17 more changed Hunter talents in the live data — every one is visible in the calculator above with its live text.
11 Classic Hunter talents did not make it into the Forever trees — the full list is on the class changes page, and each tree footer in the calculator notes what that tree lost.
QUESTIONS
Hunter talent FAQ
Rules, data provenance and what Forever changed for your class. More on the Data Sources page.
How many talent points does a Hunter get in WoW Forever? +
Like every class: one point per level from 10, for 51 points at level 60. Tree tiers unlock at level 10 + 5 per row and need 5 points per row already spent in that tree.
What is new for Hunter in WoW Forever compared to Classic? +
The live trees carry 15 brand-new Hunter talents (Focused Fire, Summon Hawk, Careful Aim, Rapid Killing, …), 23 changed, 3 moved and 9 unchanged across your Beast Mastery / Marksmanship / Survival trees, plus 11 Classic talents retired from the trees. See the change list above for details.
Do Hunter talent rules change in WoW Forever? +
The framework is pure Classic: 51 points, tier gates at 5 points per row, prerequisites must be filled before points go in, and dependent talents block removal. This calculator enforces all of it.
Where does this Hunter talent data come from? +
Extracted from the WoW Forever client (build 1.60.1.70755), with the tree layout synced against the live client export, and diffed against Classic Era (build 1.15.9.69722). Values shown are rank-1 live values. Details and known gaps on the Data Sources page.
What is the Hunter rotation in WoW Forever? +
Marksmanship is built around Aimed Shot into Multi-Shot, Beast Mastery around Bestial Wrath and Intimidation with your pet on assist, and Survival around Mongoose Bite with Serpent Sting applied. The priorities follow the live talent trees, not sims — the full per-class pages are rolling out class by class. WoW Forever rotation guide
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