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WoW Forever Hunter Talents

Hunter talents that differ between Classic Era and WoW Forever: 15 new, 26 changed, 9 removed, 2 with the same tooltip. Of the changed, 1 nerfed and 1 buffed.

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New Hunter talents in WoW Forever

Name State Change
Careful Aim #129672 added
Marksmanship
Rank 1 Forever Increases your Attack Power by 20% of your Intellect.
Expose Prey #129649 added
Survival
Rank 1 Forever 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.
Focused Fire #129636 added
Beast Mastery
Rank 1 Forever Increases all damage you and your pet deal by 1% while your pet is active.
Improved Stings #137868 added
Marksmanship
Rank 1 Forever 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.
Lacerating Strikes #129648 added
Survival
Forever Your Mongoose Bite also causes the target to Bleed for damage equal to 40% of the damage done by Mongoose Bite over 21 sec
Lone Wolf #129671 added
Marksmanship
Forever You deal 20% increased damage with all attacks while you do not have an active pet.
Predator's Edge #137853 added
Survival
Rank 1 Forever Increases your melee ability critical strike damage by 6% and your Off Hand weapon damage by 10%.
Rapid Killing #129669 added
Marksmanship
Rank 1 Forever 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%.
Rapid Recuperation #129663 added
Marksmanship
Rank 1 Forever 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.
Resourcefulness #129647 added
Survival
Rank 1 Forever 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.
Sniper Shot #129661 added
Marksmanship
Forever A long-range shot that deals ranged damage plus 160 and increases the range of your next 3 Shots by 10 yards for 10 sec.
Strider Kick #129645 added
Survival
Forever A powerful kick that deals 100% melee weapon damage and increases movement speed by 30% for 3 sec.
Summon Hawk #129627 added
Beast Mastery
Forever Command a hawk to dive-bomb your targeted enemy, dealing 32 (+ 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.
Survivalist's Discipline #137852 added
Survival
Rank 1 Forever Reduces the cooldown of your Trap and Deterrence abilities by 20%.
Trueshot Aura #129668 added
Marksmanship
Forever Increases the Ranged Attack Power of party or raid members within 45 yds by 30.

Hunter nerfs in WoW Forever

Name State Change
Lightning Reflexes #1303 nerfed
Survival
Rank 1
Classic Era Increases your Agility by 3%.
Forever Increases your Agility by 2%.

Hunter buffs in WoW Forever

Name State Change
Improved Wing Clip #1305 buffed
Survival
Rank 1
Classic Era Gives your Wing Clip ability a 4% chance to immobilize the target for 5 sec.
Forever Gives your Wing Clip ability a 7% chance to immobilize the target for 5 sec.
3 ranks (Classic had 5)

Reworked Hunter talents

Name State Change
Barrage #1347 changed
Marksmanship
Rank 1
Classic Era Increases the damage done by your Multi-Shot and Volley spells by 5%.
Forever Increases the damage done by your Multi-Shot, Aimed Shot, and Volley abilities by 3%.
Bestial Discipline #1390 changed
Beast Mastery
Rank 1
Classic Era Increases the Focus regeneration of your pets by 10%.
Forever Increases the Focus regeneration of your pets by 10% and allows 25% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting.
Bestial Swiftness #1391 changed
Beast Mastery
Classic Era Increases the outdoor movement speed of your pets by 30%.
Forever Increases the movement speed of your pets by 30%.
Counterattack #1312 changed
Survival
Classic Era A strike that becomes active after parrying an opponent's attack. This attack deals 40 damage and immobilizes the target for 5 sec. Counterattack cannot be blocked, dodged, or parried.
Forever A strike that becomes active after parrying an opponent's attack. This attack deals 50% weapon damage plus 26 and immobilizes the target for 5 sec. Counterattack cannot be blocked, dodged, or parried.
moved from row 5 to row 4
Deadly Aspects #1382 changed
Beast Mastery
Rank 1
Classic Era While Aspect of the Hawk is active, all normal ranged attacks have a 1% chance of increasing ranged attack speed by 30% for 12 sec.
Forever 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.
renamed from Improved Aspect of the Hawk
Efficiency #1342 changed
Marksmanship
Rank 1
Classic Era Reduces the Mana cost of your Shots and Stings by 2%.
Forever Reduces the Mana cost of your Shots, Stings, and melee abilities by 3%.
moved from row 1 to row 2
Endurance Training #1389 changed
Beast Mastery
Rank 1
Classic Era Increases the Health of your pets by 3%.
Forever Increases the Health and Armor of your pets by 3%.
Entrapment #1304 changed
Survival
Rank 1
Classic Era Gives your Immolation Trap, Frost Trap, and Explosive Trap a 5% chance to entrap the target, preventing them from moving for 5 sec.
Forever When your traps are triggered, all affected targets are Entrapped, preventing them from moving for 1 sec.
Ferocity #1393 changed
Beast Mastery
Rank 1
Classic Era Increases the critical strike chance of your pets by 3%.
Forever Increases the critical strike chance of your pets and hawks by 2%.
Hawk Eye #1352 changed
Marksmanship
Rank 1
Classic Era Increases the range of your ranged weapons by 2 yards.
Forever Increases the range of your ranged weapons by 2 yards.
moved from row 3 to row 1
Improved Arcane Shot #1346 changed
Marksmanship
Rank 1
Classic Era Reduces the cooldown of your Arcane Shot by 0.2 sec.
Forever 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.
Improved Aspect of the Monkey #1381 changed
Beast Mastery
Rank 1
Classic Era Increases the Dodge bonus of your Aspect of the Monkey by 1%.
Forever 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.
3 ranks (Classic had 5)
Improved Mend Pet #1385 changed
Beast Mastery
Rank 1
Classic Era Gives the Mend Pet spell a 15% chance of cleansing 1 Curse, Disease, Magic or Poison effect from the pet each tick.
Forever 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%.
Improved Tracking #1623 changed
Survival
Rank 1
Classic Era Increases all damage caused against Beasts, Giants and Dragonkin targets by 1% and increases critical damage caused against Beasts, Giants and Dragonkin targets by an additional 1%.
Forever While tracking Beasts, Demons, Dragonkin, Elementals, Giants, Humanoids, or Undead, all damage you deal to the tracked creature type is increased by 1%.
5 ranks (Classic had 3)renamed from Monster Slaying
Intimidation #1387 changed
Beast Mastery
Classic Era Command your pet to intimidate the target on the next successful melee attack, causing a high amount of threat and stunning the target for 3 sec.
Forever 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.
now requires Bestial Swiftnessnow requires Bestial Wrath
Lethal Attacks #1344 changed
Marksmanship
Rank 1
Classic Era Increases your critical strike chance with ranged weapons by 1%.
Forever Increases your critical strike chance with all attacks by 1%.
moved from row 2 to row 1renamed from Lethal Shots
Mortal Shots #1349 changed
Marksmanship
Rank 1
Classic Era Increases your ranged weapon critical strike damage bonus by 6%.
Forever Increases the critical strike damage bonus on all ranged abilities by 6%.
no longer requires Lethal Shotsnow requires Careful Aim
Pathfinding #1384 changed
Beast Mastery
Rank 1
Classic Era Increases the speed bonus of your Aspect of the Cheetah and Aspect of the Pack by 3%.
Forever Increases the speed bonus of your Aspect of the Cheetah and Aspect of the Pack by 3%.
moved from row 3 to row 2
Savage Strikes #1621 changed
Survival
Rank 1
Classic Era Increases the critical strike chance of Raptor Strike and Mongoose Bite by 10%.
Forever Increases the critical strike chance of all your melee abilities by 2%.
Spirit Bond #1388 changed
Beast Mastery
Rank 2
Classic Era While your pet is active, you and your pet will regenerate 2% of total health every 10 sec.
Forever While your pet is active, you and your pet will regenerate 1% of total health every 5 sec.
Surefooted #1310 changed
Survival
Rank 1
Classic Era Increases hit chance by 1% and increases the chance movement impairing effects will be resisted by an additional 5%.
Forever Increases your hit chance by 1% and reduces the duration of movement impairing effects on you by 10%.
moved from row 4 to row 3
Survival Tactics #1322 changed
Survival
Rank 1
Classic Era Decreases the chance enemies will resist trap effects by 5%.
Forever Increases your chance to hit with your Trap and Feign Death abilities by 5%.
renamed from Trap Mastery
Survivalist #1622 changed
Survival
Rank 1
Classic Era Increases total health by 2%.
Forever Increases your total Health by 2%.
moved from row 3 to row 2
Unleashed Fury #1396 changed
Beast Mastery
Rank 1
Classic Era Increases the damage done by your pets by 4%.
Forever Increases the damage done by your pets and hawks by 3%.

Hunter talents removed in WoW Forever

Name State Change
Aimed Shot #1345 removed
Marksmanship
Classic Era An aimed shot that increases ranged damage by 70.
Humanoid Slaying #1301 removed
Survival
Rank 1 Classic Era Increases all damage caused against Humanoid targets by 1% and increases critical damage caused against Humanoid targets by an additional 1%.
Improved Eyes of the Beast #1624 removed
Beast Mastery
Rank 1 Classic Era Increases the duration of your Eyes of the Beast by 30 sec.
Improved Feign Death #1309 removed
Survival
Rank 1 Classic Era Reduces the chance your Feign Death ability will be resisted by 2%.
Improved Hunter's Mark #1343 removed
Marksmanship
Rank 1 Classic Era Increases the Ranged Attack Power bonus of your Hunter's Mark spell by 3%.
Improved Scorpid Sting #1351 removed
Marksmanship
Rank 1 Classic Era Reduces the Stamina of targets affected by your Scorpid Sting by 10% of the amount of Strength reduced.
Killer Instinct #1321 removed
Survival
Rank 1 Classic Era Increases your critical strike chance with all attacks by 1%.
Thick Hide #1395 removed
Beast Mastery
Rank 1 Classic Era Increases the Armor rating of your pets by 10%.
Wyvern Sting #1325 removed
Survival
Classic Era A stinging shot that puts the target to sleep for 12 sec. Any damage will cancel the effect. When the target wakes up, the Sting causes 300 Nature damage over 6 sec. Only usable out of combat. Only one Sting per Hunter can be active on the target at a time.

Hunter talents with the same tooltip

Name State Change
Improved Serpent Sting #1348 internal
Marksmanship
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Scatter Shot #1353 internal
Marksmanship
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