What changed for the Hunter in WoW Forever — WoW Forever
The Hunter's spells and talents in WoW Forever, compared with WoW Classic: what's new, what changed and what's gone.
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Changed (21)
Removed (1)
Talents
New (18)

Deadly Aspects · Beast Mastery
While Aspect of the Hawk is active, Auto Shot has a 10% chance of increasing ranged attack speed by 30% for 12 sec. While Aspect of the Beast is active, all melee auto attacks have a 10% chance of increasing melee attack speed by 30% for 12 sec.

Focused Fire · Beast Mastery
Increases all damage you and your pet deal by 2% while your pet is active.

Summon Hawk · 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.

Lethal Attacks · Marksmanship
Increases your critical strike chance with all attacks by 5%.

Improved Stings · Marksmanship
Increases the damage of your Serpent Sting ability by 20%, reduces the cooldown of your Viper Sting ability by 6 sec, and increases the duration of your Scorpid Sting ability by 45 sec.

Careful Aim · Marksmanship
Increases your Attack Power by 100% of your Intellect.

Rapid Killing · Marksmanship
Reduces the cooldown on your Rapid Fire ability by 2 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 20%.

Lone Wolf · Marksmanship
You deal 20% increased damage with all attacks while you do not have an active pet.

Rapid Recuperation · Marksmanship
Afflicting a target with Serpent Sting allows 50% of your Mana Regeneration to continue while casting for 15 sec, increased to 100% when Rapid Killing is consumed.

Sniper Shot · Marksmanship
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.

Improved Tracking · Survival
While tracking Beasts, Demons, Dragonkin, Elementals, Giants, Humanoids, or Undead, all damage you deal to the tracked creature type is increased by 5%.

Survival Tactics · Survival
Increases your chance to hit with your Trap and Feign Death abilities by 10%.

Predator's Edge · Survival
Increases your melee ability critical strike damage by 30% and your Off Hand weapon damage by 50%.

Resourcefulness · Survival
Reduces the Mana cost of your Trap and melee abilities by 60%, and grants your melee and ranged ability Critical Strikes a 100% chance to allow 50% of your Mana Regeneration to continue while casting for 30 sec.

Expose Prey · Survival
Grants your melee and ranged attacks against enemies afflicted by Hunter's Mark a 10% chance to allow an activation of Mongoose Bite. Lasts 10 sec.

Survivalist's Discipline · Survival
Reduces the cooldown of your Trap and Deterrence abilities by 40%.

Strider Kick · Survival
A powerful kick that deals 100% melee weapon damage and increases movement speed by 30% for 3 sec.

Lacerating Strikes · Survival
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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Endurance Training · Beast Mastery
- In WoW Classic
- Increases the Health of your pets by 15%.
- Now
- Increases the Health and Armor of your pets by 15%.

Improved Aspect of the Monkey · Beast Mastery
Ranks: 5 → 3
- In WoW Classic
- Increases the Dodge bonus of your Aspect of the Monkey by 5%.
- Now
- Increases the Dodge bonus of your Aspect of the Monkey by 6%. Additionally, your pet gains 50% of the effect of your Aspect of the Monkey ability.

Pathfinding · Beast Mastery
Tier 3 → 2

Bestial Swiftness · Beast Mastery
- In WoW Classic
- Increases the outdoor movement speed of your pets by 30%.
- Now
- Increases the movement speed of your pets by 30%.

Unleashed Fury · Beast Mastery
- In WoW Classic
- Increases the damage done by your pets by 20%.
- Now
- Increases the damage done by your pets and hawks by 15%.

Improved Mend Pet · Beast Mastery
- In WoW Classic
- Gives the Mend Pet spell a 50% chance of cleansing 1 Curse, Disease, Magic or Poison effect from the pet each tick.
- Now
- Gives your Mend Pet spell a 50% chance of cleansing 1 Curse, Disease, Magic, or Poison effect from your pet each time it heals and reduces the Mana cost by 20%.

Ferocity · Beast Mastery
- In WoW Classic
- Increases the critical strike chance of your pets by 15%.
- Now
- Increases the critical strike chance of your pets and hawks by 10%.

Spirit Bond · Beast Mastery
- In WoW Classic
- While your pet is active, you and your pet will regenerate 2% of total health every 10 sec.
- Now
- While your pet is active, you and your pet will regenerate 1% of total health every 5 sec.

Intimidation · Beast Mastery
- In WoW Classic
- 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.
- Now
- 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 · Beast Mastery
- In WoW Classic
- Increases the Focus regeneration of your pets by 20%.
- Now
- Increases the Focus regeneration of your pets by 20% and allows 50% of your Mana regeneration to continue while casting.

Hawk Eye · Marksmanship
Tier 3 → 1

Efficiency · Marksmanship
Tier 1 → 2
- In WoW Classic
- Reduces the Mana cost of your Shots and Stings by 10%.
- Now
- Reduces the Mana cost of your Shots, Stings, and melee abilities by 15%.

Improved Arcane Shot · Marksmanship
- In WoW Classic
- Reduces the cooldown of your Arcane Shot by 1 sec.
- Now
- Reduces the cooldown of your Arcane Shot by 1.5 sec. Does not affect the cooldown of abilities which share a cooldown with Arcane Shot.

Trueshot Aura · Marksmanship
Tier 7 → 4
- In WoW Classic
- Increases the attack power of party members within 45 yards by 50. Lasts 30 min.
- Now
- Increases the Ranged Attack Power of party or raid members within 45 yds by 15.

Mortal Shots · Marksmanship
- In WoW Classic
- Increases your ranged weapon critical strike damage bonus by 30%.
- Now
- Increases the critical strike damage bonus on all ranged abilities by 30%.

Barrage · Marksmanship
- In WoW Classic
- Increases the damage done by your Multi-Shot and Volley spells by 15%.
- Now
- Increases the damage done by your Multi-Shot, Aimed Shot, and Volley abilities by 10%.

Entrapment · Survival
- In WoW Classic
- Gives your Immolation Trap, Frost Trap, and Explosive Trap a 25% chance to entrap the target, preventing them from moving for 5 sec.
- Now
- When your traps are triggered, all affected targets are Entrapped, preventing them from moving for 5 sec.

Savage Strikes · Survival
- In WoW Classic
- Increases the critical strike chance of Raptor Strike and Mongoose Bite by 20%.
- Now
- Increases the critical strike chance of all your melee abilities by 4%.

Survivalist · Survival
Tier 3 → 2
- In WoW Classic
- Increases total health by 10%.
- Now
- Increases your total Health by 10%.

Improved Wing Clip · Survival
Ranks: 5 → 3

Surefooted · Survival
Tier 4 → 3
- In WoW Classic
- Increases hit chance by 3% and increases the chance movement impairing effects will be resisted by an additional 15%.
- Now
- Increases your hit chance by 3% and reduces the duration of movement impairing effects on you by 30%.

Counterattack · Survival
Tier 5 → 4
- In WoW Classic
- 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.
- Now
- 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.

Lightning Reflexes · Survival
- In WoW Classic
- Increases your Agility by 15%.
- Now
- Increases your Agility by 10%.
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Improved Aspect of the Hawk · Beast Mastery
While Aspect of the Hawk is active, all normal ranged attacks have a 5% chance of increasing ranged attack speed by 30% for 12 sec.

Improved Eyes of the Beast · Beast Mastery
Increases the duration of your Eyes of the Beast by 60 sec.

Thick Hide · Beast Mastery
Increases the Armor rating of your pets by 30%.

Improved Hunter's Mark · Marksmanship
Increases the Ranged Attack Power bonus of your Hunter's Mark spell by 15%.

Lethal Shots · Marksmanship
Increases your critical strike chance with ranged weapons by 5%.

Aimed Shot · Marksmanship
An aimed shot that increases ranged damage by 70.

Improved Serpent Sting · Marksmanship
Increases the damage done by your Serpent Sting by 10%.

Improved Scorpid Sting · Marksmanship
Reduces the Stamina of targets affected by your Scorpid Sting by 30% of the amount of Strength reduced.

Monster Slaying · Survival
Increases all damage caused against Beasts, Giants and Dragonkin targets by 3% and increases critical damage caused against Beasts, Giants and Dragonkin targets by an additional 3%.

Humanoid Slaying · Survival
Increases all damage caused against Humanoid targets by 3% and increases critical damage caused against Humanoid targets by an additional 3%.

Trap Mastery · Survival
Decreases the chance enemies will resist trap effects by 10%.

Improved Feign Death · Survival
Reduces the chance your Feign Death ability will be resisted by 4%.

Killer Instinct · Survival
Increases your critical strike chance with all attacks by 3%.

Wyvern Sting · Survival
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.
