Hunter talents
Lone Wolf lets Marksmanship drop the pet. Survival lost six old talents and gained eight, capped by Lacerating Strikes.
Beast Mastery16 talents · 2 new
0Removed from Classic (2)
- Improved Eyes of the Beast (2 ranks)
Increases the duration of your Eyes of the Beast by 30 sec. - Thick Hide (3 ranks)
Increases the Armor rating of your pets by 10%.
Marksmanship16 talents · 4 new
0Removed from Classic (2)
- Improved Hunter's Mark (5 ranks)
Increases the Ranged Attack Power bonus of your Hunter's Mark spell by 3%. - Improved Scorpid Sting (3 ranks)
Reduces the Stamina of targets affected by your Scorpid Sting by 10% of the amount of Strength reduced.
Survival18 talents · 8 new
0Removed from Classic (6)
- Monster Slaying (3 ranks)
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%. - Humanoid Slaying (3 ranks)
Increases all damage caused against Humanoid targets by 1% and increases critical damage caused against Humanoid targets by an additional 1%. - Trap Mastery (2 ranks)
Decreases the chance enemies will resist trap effects by 5%. - Improved Feign Death (2 ranks)
Reduces the chance your Feign Death ability will be resisted by 2%. - Killer Instinct (3 ranks)
Increases your critical strike chance with all attacks by 1%. - Wyvern Sting
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.
MaxedPoints investedAvailableLockedNEW: not in ClassicMV: moved, same effectReworked talents are flagged in the tooltip
About this data
Every talent here was read off the BlizzCon 2026 demo, where all nine classes had their trees open. Ranks the demo never displayed are estimated and labelled in the tooltip. Expect numbers to move once the beta opens on September 17, 2026.
Talent data from talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0), export dated 2026-09-14. Names, icons and tooltip text belong to Blizzard Entertainment.
Keep reading
- All nine WoW Forever talent trees
- Our Classic Era Hunter guide, for how the class played before the rework
- The Classic+ collection, written before the announcement