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Marksmanship Hunter

Lone Wolf lets a Hunter play without a pet at all, and Sniper Shot caps the tree.

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

Marksmanship changes

  • Lone Wolf icon
    NewLone Wolf

    11-point talent. 20% more damage while you have no active pet — the first time vanilla WoW has offered a petless Hunter.

  • Sniper Shot icon
    NewSniper Shot

    31-point talent. Four-second cast, 15-second cooldown, 45-yard range.

  • Careful Aim icon
    NewCareful Aim

    Attack Power from Intellect. Mortal Shots now sits behind it.

  • Rapid Killing icon
    NewRapid Killing

    Reduces the Rapid Fire cooldown.

  • Trueshot Aura icon
    ChangedTrueshot Aura

    Moved from row 7 to row 4, becoming a 21-point talent.

  • Improved Hunter’s Mark, Aimed Shot icon
    RemovedImproved Hunter’s Mark, Aimed Shot

    Both baseline.

Baseline changes — every Hunter

These apply to Marksmanship 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.

Levelling

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