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Beast Mastery Hunter

Summon Hawk arrives as a 16-point payoff, and Intimidation turns the pet into a crit machine.

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Hunter talent window with Beast Mastery, Marksmanship and Survival trees
Hunter talent treesImage: Blizzard Entertainment

Beast Mastery changes

  • NewSummon Hawk

    16-point talent. Summons a Hawk for 18 seconds, up to two active at once.

  • Focused Fire icon
    NewFocused Fire

    Increases all your damage while a pet is active — the counterweight to Marksmanship’s new Lone Wolf.

  • Intimidation icon
    ChangedIntimidation

    Behind Bestial Swiftness, and now grants the pet 100% critical strike chance.

  • Endurance Training icon
    ChangedEndurance Training

    Merged with Thick Hide; grants pet health and armour together.

  • Bestial Discipline icon
    ChangedBestial Discipline

    Mana regeneration from Spirit while casting.

  • Improved Eyes of the Beast icon
    RemovedImproved Eyes of the Beast

    Baseline now, as is Thick Hide via the merge.

Baseline changes — every Hunter

These apply to Beast Mastery too, regardless of where talent points go.

  • NewFoxes

    A new pet family with Trickster’s Dance. Every family can now learn Bite or Claw and Dive or Dash, plus one ability unique to the family.

  • Traps icon
    ChangedTraps

    Usable in combat, with the cooldown raised to 30 seconds. Frost and Fire traps no longer share a cooldown — the single biggest quality-of-life change the class has ever had.

  • Aimed Shot icon
    ChangedAimed Shot

    Baseline at level 20 rather than a talent.

  • Arcane Shot icon
    ChangedArcane Shot

    No longer shares a cooldown with Aimed Shot. Multi-Shot now does instead.

  • Aspect of the Beast icon
    ChangedAspect of the Beast

    Grants melee Attack Power, giving Survival a reason to use it.

  • Pet stats icon
    ChangedPet stats

    Pets scale from your gear, but no longer receive player buffs that raise their stats.

  • Disengage icon
    ChangedDisengage

    Threat reduction doubled.

All Hunter changes

Every spec on one page.

Races & racials

Which race suits which class.

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