Battle for Azeroth Hunter Class Changes

By Anshlun Updated: 2018/07/03

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Arcane Torrent and Every Man for Himself changed.
Two of the strongest racial effects have received changes in BfA, with Arcane Torrent receiving a new effect and added to the GCD and Will to Survive having its cooldown increased.

The majority of class cooldowns have been added to the GCD

Abilities that are in the Global Cooldown, or GCD, cannot be used at the same time, meaning you must wait for the default GCD, 1.5s reduced by haste, until you can use your next ability.

Before BfA, many abilities were called "off-GCD" as you could two or more of them at the same time, even in the same button macro. For BfA, Blizzard started to reduce to amount of abilities in this state.

All melee abilities now scale with both Attack Power and Weapon Damage

The actual ability damage formula for all non-casters has changed, and now all those abilities use both weapon damage and attack power, even abilities like Shield Slam or Howling Blast.

This appears to be intended to create a better balance between classes, rather than some favoring weapons heavily (Warrior), while others hardly at all (Monk).

Bleed and Poison ticks now scale with Haste

Bleeds and poisons from Hunter, Rogue, and Warrior were the only over time effects not affected by haste, which is being changed in Battle for Azeroth.

Hunter pets have set specializations, which offer different types of utility, and several pet families have changed specs

Hunter pets are receiving an overhaul in BfA to improve their utility and streamline their usability.

Battle for Azeroth has a huge stat and ilvl squish.

Battle for Azeroth implements the second stat squish for World of Warcraft, two expansions after the Warlords of Draenor Squish.

Unlike Warlords, Battle for Azeroth will also have an item level squish, changing the item level previously found on classic items as well.

26970 Class Changes - July 2nd

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26871 Class Changes - June 19th

26812 Class Changes - June 12th

26788 Class Changes - June 9th

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26707 Class Changes - May 24th

26624 Class Changes - May 15th

26567 Class Changes - May 8th

26522 Class Changes - April 30th

26476 Class Changes - Apr 20th

26433 Class Changes - Apr 13th

26367 Class Changes - Apr 3rd

26031 Class Changes - Mar 27th

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26231 Class Changes - Mar 14th

26175 Class Changes - Mar 6th

26131 Class Changes - Feb 27th

26095 Class Changes - Feb 22nd

26032 Class Changes - Feb 13th

26010 Class Changes - Feb 9th

25976 Class Changes - Feb 6th

25902 Class Changes - Jan 25th

Check out all Battle for Azeroth changes for every class and specialization!

Binding Shot 1.5s GCD

Exhilaration 1.5s GCD

Bestial Wrath 1.5s GCD

Intimidation 1.5s GCD

Aspect of the Wild 1.3s GCD

Stampede 1.5s GCD

Hunter's Mark 1.5s GCD

1.5s GCD

Harpoon 0.5s GCD

Intimidation 1.5s GCD

Coordinated Assault 1.5s GCD

Community OpinionsCommunity Opinion - State of HuntersBlizzard Direct Feedback

Blizzard

Hey everyone,

I wanted to post a few things about Marksmanship, including a few things in the works.

Lone Wolf's damage at 10% may not be the final number. I changed it from 18% to 10% a while back so it being at 18% and such a big DPS swing between pet and no pet would stop dominating the conversation about Lone Wolf. Tuning will happen.

Aimed Shot's charge recovery time will be reduced by haste in a future build.

Rapid Fire's visual effects are not final.
Rapid Fire will bounce to 1 additional target when Trick Shots is active in a future build.

Mastery: Sniper Training will be changed to affect all of your shots instead of only Focus spending shots in a future build so things like Rapid Fire are not left behind as gear progresses.

RNG - there's a lot of talents with randomness in them. We hear the feedback that you feel things are too random. Some things will probably change to be less random in general, others will have some adjustments made to how they proc to prevent the really bad luck streaks from being a thing.

As always, thanks for the feedback both in this thread and others created.

Blizzard

Marksmanship Hunters,

Hello again, a few notes this morning.

- Aimed Shot should still be a 12 second recharge time before Haste, I'm unsure why some people are reporting it is showing up as 10 seconds for them. Is this still happening after the build that went up yesterday?

- After lots of discussion and reading feedback and many dungeon runs and raid testing and questing, we have decided that we're going to changed Aimed Shot to 2.5 second cast time, and Steady Shot to 1.75 second cast time.

- Regarding Lone Wolf and Pet Utility, if you have your active pet out, the Command Pet button in your spellbook should change into whatever your pet's special ability is, such as Primal Rage. If you dismiss your pet as a Marksmanship Hunter and opt into Lone Wolf, Command Pet should change into Survival of the Fittest as a cooldown you can use that reduces damage taken on you and your pet by 20%. This looks to have some issues currently, and will be resolved in a future build.

Thanks for the continued feedback on this thread and others.
A quick clarification post because I've seen some confusion:

Lone Wolf will ONLY give you the extra Survival of the Fittest button, regardless of what pet you dismissed to get the Lone Wolf effect. It will not change the ability you get depending on your dismissed pet's specialization.

Blizzard

Greetings, travelers!

In the next beta build you're going to see a familiar ability in your spellbook: Carve! The ability is in a pretty raw state at the moment and we're going to continue to iterate on it if this version doesn't feel right. We'd love to hear about your experiences on Beta after playing with it.

Carve:

30 Focus cost. 6 second cooldown (reduced by Haste).
A sweeping attack that strikes all enemies in front of you for Physical damage. Reduces the remaining cooldown on Wildfire Bomb by 1.0 sec for each target hit, up to 5.

Please be aware that Carve doesn't yet have full talent support. In a future build, things such as Birds of Prey, or Shrapnel Bomb from Wildfire Infusion, will interact with Carve. Butchery will likely be a Carve replacement, and get tuned accordingly.

We want to give Survival a clear path to take when there are many enemies, whether that's a group of raptor hatchlings, or a double-pull of trolls in Atal'dazar. Serpent Sting and Wildfire Bomb don't quite fill that space -- applying Serpent Sting to more than ~3 enemies (without Hydra's Bite) is often more frustrating than it is fun, and Wildfire Bomb's cooldown prevents it from being “the AoE button”.

Survival has a variety of AoE tools through talents, and Carve should add a better foundation for those talents to build around. By reducing Wildfire Bomb's cooldown it gives you enough to do that spreading Serpent Stings to numerous targets is far less necessary. It also interacts strongly with the Guerilla Tactics talent, so all of the level 30 talents have a similar level of impact on how you AoE. The short cooldown is there so that your AOE rotation becomes weaving in your other buttons – Serpent Sting, Flanker's Advantage , Wildfire Bomb, etc – in between Carves, instead of just pushing it repeatedly.

Separately, we have a quality-of-life change for Hydra's Bite that will arrive in an upcoming build. With Hydra's Bite talented, Serpent Sting will prefer to select additional nearby targets that are not already affected by Serpent Sting. This should make it far less frustrating to try to apply Serpent Sting to a whole pack of mobs.

Again, we're still iterating on the specifics of Carve, and we greatly appreciate your feedback on how this version plays. Thank you!

Hunter Spell Changes

Class Tools

Beast Mastery

Talents

Marksmanship

Talents

Survival

Talents

Ferocity

Predator's Thirst - You and your pet gain 10% Leech.

Primal Rage - Increases haste by 30% for all party and raid members for 40 sec. Allies receiving this effect will become Sated and unable to benefit from Primal Rage or similar effects again for 10 min.

Tenacity

Endurance Training - You and your pet gain 5% increased maximum health.

Survival of the Fittest - Reduces all damage you and your pet take by 20% for 6 sec.

Cunning

Pathfinding - You and your pet gain 8% increased movement speed.

Master's Call - Your pet removes all root and movement impairing effects from itself and its target, and grants immunity to all such effects for 4 sec.

DashGrowlMothMothDust of LifePrimal RageSpirit BeastA full list of changed Hunter Pet Families, and their new ability sets, can be found here

Barrage Rapidly fires a spray of shots for 3 sec, dealing an average of 80%14.196% of Attack power)% * 10] Physical damage to all enemies in front of you. Usable while moving.

Chimaera Shot A two-headed shot that hits your primary target and another nearby target, dealing (720%79.092% of Attack power)% Nature damage to one and (720%79.092% of Attack power) Frost damage to the other.
Generates 10 Focus for each target hit.

Rapid Fire Shoot a stream of arrows at your target, dealing (11%40% of Attack power) Physical damage every 0.3 sec for 3 sec.
Each arrowshot generates 2 Focus. Usable while moving.

Flanking Strike When you Kill Command you will also strike the enemy for (100%48.36% of Attack power)% Physical damage and generate 5 Focus, if you are within melee range.

Cobra Shot A quick shot causing (27.5808% of Attack power) * ((min(Level - 1, 19) * 12 + 112) / 340)] Physical damage.
Reduces the cooldown of Kill Command by 1 sec.
Cost changed from 50 Focus to 45 Focus

Multi-Shot Fires several missiles, hitting your current target and all enemies within 8 yards for 100%(10.9512% of Attack power) Physical damage and triggering Beast Cleave

Aimed Shot A powerful aimed shot that deals * ((max(0, min(Level - 10, 10)) * 8 + 130) / 210)] Physical damage. Damage increased by 50% against a target you have not yet damaged.
Cost changed from 50 to 30 Focus, cast Time changed from 2 sec cast to 2.5 sec cast, cooldown changed from None to 12 sec recharge, charges changed from None to 2 Charges

Bursting Shot Fires an explosion of bolts at all enemies in front of you, knocking them back, disorienting themback,snaring them by 50% for 4 sec, and dealing 40%(5.2728% of Attack power) Physical damage.

Multi-Shot Fires several missiles, hitting your current target and all enemies within 8 yards for 51%(41% of Attack power) Physical damage

NEW Arcane Shot A quick shot that causes 200% * ((max(0, min(Level - 10, 10)) * 5 + 80) / 130)] Arcane damage.
Generates 8 Focus.
Cost changed from None to 15 Focus

Steady Shot A steady shot that causes 85%(60% of Attack power) Physical damage and generates 14 Focus.
Usable while moving.
Generates 10 Focus.

Piercing Shot A powerful shot which deals up to (2 * 775%)(112.5% of Attack power)% Physical damage to the target and up to 775% Physical damage to all enemies between you and the target.
Damage increased against targets with Vulnerable.
Cost changed from 20 to 35 Focus

Raptor Strike A vicious slash dealing 257%(70% of Attack power) Physical damage.
Cost changed from 25 to 30 Focus

Serpent Sting Fire a poison-tipped arrow at an enemy, dealing 42%(20.3112% of Attack power) Nature damage instantly and an additional (121.8%95.004% of Attack power) damage over 12 sec.

REMOVED Arctic Bola Throw an icy bola at an enemy, inflicting (204%98.6544% of Attack power) Frost damage and reducing their movement speed by 30% for 5 sec.

Butchery Strike all nearby enemies in a flurry of strikes, inflicting 694%(58.032% of Attack power) Physical damage to each.
Cost changed from 40 to 20 Focus, cooldown changed from 12 to 15 sec

Mongoose Bite A brutal attack that deals 102%(49.3272% of Attack power) Physical damage and grants you Mongoose Fury.
Mongoose Fury: Increases the damage of Mongoose Bite by 20% for 14 sec, stacking up to 5 times. Successive attacks do not increase duration.

Beast Mastery Hunter Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done by 12% -4%.
Effect #4 Modifies Damage/Healing Done A Murder of Crows 1000%

Aspect of the Wild Grants you and your pet 10 Focus per 15 Focus per sec and 10% increased critical strike chance on all attacks for 10 sec.for 20 sec.

Bestial Wrath Sends you and your pet into a rage, increasing all damage you both deal by 25% for 15 sec.
Beast Mastery (Level 54)
Bestial Wrath's remaining cooldown is reduced by 12 sec each time you use Dire Frenzy
Bestial Wrath's remaining cooldown is reduced by 12 sec each time you use Dire Beast
Barbed Shot

The Beast Within Bestial Wrath's remaining cooldown is reduced by 12 sec each time you use
Beast Mastery
Dire Frenzy
Dire BeastBarbed Shot.

Beast Cleave After you Multi-Shot, your pet's melee attacks also strike all other nearby enemy targets for 100%75% as much for the next 4 sec.

Cobra Shot A quick shot causing 270% Physical damage. Physical damage.
Reduces the cooldown of Kill Command by 1 sec.
Cost changed from 50 Focus to 45 Focus
The legendary Qa'pla, Eredun War Order likely inspired the new effect on Cobra Shot

Concussive Shot Dazes the target, slowing movement speed by 50% for 6 sec.
Cooldown changed from 5 sec cooldown to 8 sec cooldown

Barbed Shot Shoots the enemyFire a shot that tears through your enemy, causing them to bleed for * 8/2] damage over 8 sec. Physical damage and causes your pet to enter a frenzy, performing a flurry of attacks on the target and gaining 30% increased attack speed for 8 sec, stacking
Sends your pet into a frenzy, increasing their attack speed by 30% for 8 sec, stacking up to 3 times.
Generates 20 Focus over 8 sec.
Name changed from Dire Frenzy to Barbed Shot

Kill Command Give the command to kill, causing your pet to savagely deal 1.5 * (0(50% of Attack power) + (Ranged attack power * 3.60.6)) * 1 * (0.5 + min(Level, 20) * 0.025) * (1 + Versatility)] Physical damage to its target. 40 yd range.the enemy.
Range changed from 100 yd range to 50 yd range

Multi-Shot Fires several missiles, hitting your current target and all enemies within 8 yards for 100%(10.9512% of Attack power) Physical damage

Tar Trap Hurls a tar trap to the target location that creates a 8 yd radius pool of tar around itself for 30 sec when the first enemy approaches. All enemies have 50%80% reduced movement speed while in the area of effect. Trap will exist for 1 min.

Wild Call Your auto shot critical strikes have a 20% chance to reset the cooldown of Dire BeastBarbed Shot.

Live

BFA

Removed

REMOVED Bestial Fury Increase the damage bonus of Bestial Wrath by 15%.

REMOVED Big Game Hunter Increases the critical strike chance of your auto shot and Cobra Shot by 60% on targets who are above 80% health.

REMOVED Your pet's Basic Attack deals 100% increased damage, can now be used from 30 yards away, and will instantly teleport your pet behind its target. Your pet can teleport only once per 20 sec.

REMOVED Barbed Shot Shoots the enemyFire a shot that tears through your enemy, causing them to bleed for * 8/2] damage over 8 sec. Physical damage and causes your pet to enter a frenzy, performing a flurry of attacks on the target and gaining 30% increased attack speed for 8 sec, stacking
Sends your pet into a frenzy, increasing their attack speed by 30% for 8 sec, stacking up to 3 times.
Generates 20 Focus over 8 sec.
Name changed from Dire Frenzy to Barbed Shot, now baseline

REMOVED Intimidation Commands your pet to intimidate the target, stunning it for 5 sec.
Now baseline ability

REMOVED While active, your auto attacks spend 3 Focus to also launch a volley of shots that hit the target and all other nearby enemies, dealing (100%16.8% of Attack power) additional Physical damage.

REMOVED Way of the Cobra Cobra Shot deals 10% increased damage for every pet or guardian you have active.

REMOVED Wyvern Sting A stinging shot that puts the target to sleep, incapacitating them for 30 sec. Damage will cancel the effect. Usable while moving.

New

NEW Born To Be Wild Reduces the cooldowns of Aspect of the Cheetah and Aspect of the Turtle by 20%.
Tier 5 Talent

NEW Killer Instinct Kill Command deals 50% increased damage against enemies below 35% health.
Tier 1 Talent

NEW Natural Mending Every 30 Focus you spend reduces the remaining cooldown on Exhilaration by 1 sec.
Tier 3 Talent

NEW Thrill of the Hunt Barbed Shot increases your critical strike chance by 3% for 8 sec, stacking up to 3 times.
Tier 4 Talent

NEW Spitting Cobra Cobra Shot reduces the cooldown of Bestial Wrath by 1 sec.
Tier 4 Talent

NEW Animal Companion Your Call Pet additionally summons the first pet from your stable. This pet will obey your Kill Command, but cannot use pet family abilities.
Tier 1 Talent

Swapped Positions

A Murder of Crows Summons a flock of crows to attack your target, dealing 162%23% of Attack power) * 16] Physical damage over 15 sec. When a target dies while affected by this ability, its cooldown will reset.
Tier 1 Talent

Scent of Blood Dire FrenzyBarbed Shot generates 128 additional Focus over its duration.
Name changed from Dire Stable to Scent of Blood
Tier 2 Talent

One with the Pack Grants Wild Call a 30%Wild Call has a 20% increased chance to reset the cooldown of Dire BeastBarbed Shot.
Tier 2 Talent

Posthaste Disengage also frees you from all movement impairing effects and increases your movement speed by 60% for 5 sec.50% for 4 sec.
Tier 5 Talent

Stampede Summon a herd of stampeding animals from the wilds around you that deal damage to your enemies for 12 sec.
Tier 6 Talent

Stomp When you cast Dire FrenzyBarbed Shot, your pet stomps the ground, dealing 1.18) * ((300%50% of Attack power)) * 1.4(1 + Versatility)] Physical damage to all nearby enemies.
Tier 6 Talent

Changed

Aspect of the Beast Kill Command and Flanking Strike cause an additional effect, based on your pet's Specialization.
Ferocity
The target also bleeds for (270% of Attack power) Physical damage over 6 sec.
Tenacity
Your pet also takes 30% reduced damage for 6 sec.
Cunning
The target's movement speed is also reduced by 50% for 4 sec.Increases the damage of your pet's abilities by 30%.
Increases the effectiveness of your pet's Predator's Thirst, Endurance Training, and Pathfinding passives by 50%.

Barrage Rapidly fires a spray of shots for 3 sec, dealing an average of 80%(14.196% of Attack power)% * 10] Physical damage to all enemies in front of you. Usable while moving.

Binding Shot Fires a magical projectile, tethering the enemy and any other enemies within 5 yards for 10 sec, rooting them in place for 5 sec if they move more than 5 yards from the arrow.Player targets are rooted for a shorter duration.

Chimaera Shot A two-headed shot that hits your primary target and another nearby target, dealing 720%79.092% of Attack power)% Nature damage to one and 720%79.092% of Attack power)% Frost damage to the other.
Generates 10 Focus for each target hit.

Dire Beast Summons a powerful wild beast to attack your targetthat attacks the target and roars, increasing your Haste by 10% for 8 sec.
Generates 12 Focus over 8 sec.
Cost changed from None to 25 Focus, cooldown changed from 12 sec recharge to 20 sec cooldown, charges changed from 2 Charges to None

The Beast Within Reduces the cooldown of Bestial Wrath by 10 sec, and youBestial Wrath causes you and your pet to become immune to all Fear and Horror effects while Bestial Wrath is active.active.

Roar of Sacrifice ProtectsInstructs your pet to protect a friendly target from critical strikes, making attacks against that target unable to be critical strikes, but 20% of all damage taken by that target is also taken by the pet. Lasts 12 sec.

Cobra Commander Cobra Shot has a 10% chance to create 2-43-3 Sneaky Snakes that attack the target for 6 sec.

Cobra's Bite Cobra Shot deals 78234 Nature damage over until cancelled.9 sec.

NEW Barbed Shot has a chance equal to your critical strike chance to grant you 86 Agility for 8 sec.

NEW Feeding Frenzy Barbed Shot deals 72 additional damage over its duration, and Frenzy's duration is increased to 9.0 sec.

Flashing Fangs Kill command increases the damage of your next Cobra Shot by .
Beast Mastery

Haze of Rage Bestial Wrath increases your Agility by 78 for 8 sec.

NEW Pack Alpha Your primary pet's Basic Attack deals 76 more damage for each other pet you have active.

NEW Primal Instincts Aspect of the Wild increases your Mastery by 31, and grants you a charge of Barbed Shot.

Rotting Jaws Kill Command has a chance to deal 77 to (77 * 5) additional damage and grants you 6 Focus over 3 sec.

NEW Serrated Jaws Kill Command has a 40% chance to deal an additional 92 damage and grant your Pet 15 Focus.

NEW Feeding Frenzy Increases the damage of Barbed Shot by 116 and duration to 2 sec.
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Beast Master Increases the attack speed bonus from Dire FrenzyBarbed Shot by an additional 12%
Increase damage dealt by your Dire Beasts by 12%.

Titan's Thunder Discharge a massive jolt of electricity from Titanstrike into all your pets and Dire Beasts causing them to deal up to (Ranged attack power * 1.15 * 0.5 * 1) Nature damage to their target every 1 sec. for 8 sec.
Also causes your next Dire Frenzythe next pet frenzy caused by Barbed Shot to deal (42% of Attack power) additional Nature damage on each of the 5 Dire Frenzy attacks
attacks

Marksmanship Hunter Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done 12%-20%
REMOVED Effect #1 Apply Aura: Modifies Power Cost Value: -100%
NEW Effect #10 Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done A Murder of Crows Value: -40%

REMOVEDCobra Shot A quick shot causing 270% Physical damage. Physical damage.
Reduces the cooldown of Kill Command by 1 sec.
Specializations changed from Beast Mastery/Marksmanship to Beast Mastery

REMOVED Hunter's Mark Your auto shots have a chance to cause your next Arcane Shot or Multi-Shot to apply Hunter's Mark. Hunter's Mark activates Marked Shot.

REMOVED Marked Shot Rapidly fires shots at all targets with your Hunter's Mark, dealing 550% Physical damage and making them Vulnerable for 7 sec.

REMOVED Marksman's Focus Increases your maximum Focus by 30.

NEW Lone Wolf Increases your damage by 18%10%, but you can no longer use Call Pet. when you do not have an active pet.
Now baseline, grants Survival of the Fittest while activate

NEW Multi-Shot Fires several missiles, hitting your current target and all enemies within 8 yards for 51%(30% of Attack power) Physical damage.
Marksmanship-only version

NEW Precise Shots Aimed Shot causes your next 1-2 Arcane Shots or Multi-Shots to deal 100% more damage.

NEW Arcane Shot A quick shot that causes 200% * ((max(0, min(Level - 10, 10)) * 5 + 80) / 130)] Arcane damage.
Generates 8 Focus.
Cost changed from None to 15 Focus

NEW Rapid Fire Shoot a stream of 10 arrows at your target, over 3 sec, dealing a total of NEW Survival of the Fittest Reduces all damage you take by 20% for 6 sec.
Granted while Lone Wolf is active

NEW Trick Shots When Multi-Shot hits 3 or more targets, your next Aimed Shot will ricochet and hit up to 5 additional targets for 50% of normal damage, or each shot of your next Rapid Fire will ricochet to 2 additional nearby targets.

Bursting Shot Fires an explosion of bolts at all enemies in front of you, knocking them back, disorienting themsnaring them by 50% for 4 sec, and dealing 40%(5.2728% of Attack power) Physical damage.

Concussive Shot Dazes the target, slowing movement speed by 50% for 6 sec.
Cooldown changed from 5 sec cooldown to 8 sec cooldown

Mastery: Sniper Training Range of all your ranged abilities is increased by 5.0% and damage of all Focus spending abilities increased by 11.0%.

Steady Shot A steady shot that causes 85%(60% of Attack power) Physical damage and generates 14 Focus.
Usable while moving.
Generates 10 Focus.
Cast Time changed from 2 sec to 1.8 sec cast

Increases haste by 40% and causes Arcane Shot and Multi-Shot to always apply Hunter's Mark. Lasts 15 sec.Immediately gain 1 charge of Aimed Shot, and gain 30% Haste for 15 sec.

Live

BFA

Removed

REMOVED Black Arrow Fires a Black Arrow at the target, dealing (520%109.2% of Attack power) Shadow damage over 8 sec and summoning a Dark Minion to taunt it for the duration.
When you kill an enemy, the remaining cooldown on Black Arrow will reset.

REMOVED Farstrider

REMOVED Lone Wolf Increases your damage by 18%, but you can no longer use Call Pet.
Now baseline

REMOVED Patient Sniper Gain the patience of a veteran sniper, increasing the damage bonus of Vulnerable by 6% every 15 sec.

REMOVED Master Marksman Your Sentinel watches over the target area for 18 sec, applying Hunter's Mark to all enemies every 6 sec.

REMOVED Sidewinders Launches Sidewinders that travel toward the target, weaving back and forth and dealing 0 Nature damage to each target they hit. Cannot hit the same target twice. Applies Vulnerable to all targets hit.
Generates 35 Focus.
Also replaces Multi-Shot.

REMOVED Aimed Shot will now also ricochet and hit all Vulnerable targets for 30% of normal damage.
If there are no other Vulnerable targets, the damage of your next Aimed Shot is increased by 15%.

REMOVED True Aim Each successive Arcane Shot or Aimed Shot fired at the same target increases the damage those Shots deal to the target by 2%, stacking up to 10 times. Limit 1 target.

REMOVED Wyvern Sting A stinging shot that puts the target to sleep, incapacitating them for 30 sec. Damage will cancel the effect. Usable while moving.

New

NEW Born To Be Wild Reduces the cooldowns of Aspect of the Cheetah and Aspect of the Turtle by 20%.
Tier 5 Talent

NEW Calling the Shots Casting Aimed Shot or Multi-Shot reduces the cooldown of Trueshot by 6.0 sec.
Tier 7 Talent

NEW Careful Aim Aimed Shot has a 50% chance to deal 100% bonus damage to targets who are above 80% health or below 20% health.
Tier 2 Talent, new version of Careful Aim

NEW Double Tap Your next Aimed Shot will fire a second time instantly at 100% power without consuming Focus, or your next Rapid Fire will shoot 100% additional shots during its channel.
Tier 6 Talent

NEW Hunter's Mark Apply Hunter's Mark to the target, increasing all damage you deal to the marked target by 5%. If the target dies while affected by Hunter's Mark, you instantly gain 20 Focus. The target can always be seen and tracked by the Hunter.
Only one Hunter's Mark can be applied at a time.
Tier 4 Talent

NEW Lethal Shots Steady Shot has a 25% chance to cause your next Aimed Shot or Rapid Fire to be guaranteed critical strikes.
Tier 6 Talent

NEW Master Marksman Aimed Shot has a 100% chance to reduce the focus cost of your next Arcane Shot or Multi-Shot is reduced by 100%.
Tier 1 Talent

NEW Natural Mending Exhilaration heals you for an additional 20% of your maximum health over 10 sec.
Tier 5 Talent
Inspired by the artifact trait Healing Shell

NEW Serpent Sting Fire a poison-tipped arrow at an enemy, dealing (15% of Attack power) Nature damage instantly and an additional (60% of Attack power) damage over 12 sec.

NEW Serpent Sting Fire a shot that buries deep into your target, causing them to take (10% of Attack power) Bleed damage instantly and an additional (40% of Attack power) Bleed damage over 12 sec.
Tier 1 Talent

NEW Streamline Rapid Fire now lasts 30% longer.
Tier 4 Talent

Swapped Position

Explosive Shot Fires a slow-moving munition directly forward. Activating this ability a second time detonates the Shot, dealing up to (1000%131.04% of Attack power) Fire damage to all enemies within 8 yds, damage based on proximity.
If you do not detonate Explosive Shot, 10 Focus and some of the cooldown will be refunded.
Tier 2 Talent

Lock and Load Your ranged auto attacks have a 5% chance to trigger Lock and Load, causing your next two Aimed Shot to cost no Focus and be instant.
Tier 7 Talent

Posthaste Disengage also frees you from all movement impairing effects and increases your movement speed by 60% for 5 sec.50% for 4 sec.
Tier 5 Talent

Steady Focus Using Arcane Shot or Multi-Shot two times in a row increases your Focus Regeneration by 25% for 12 sec.Using Steady Shot reduces the cast time of Steady Shot by 0.25 sec,20%, stacking up to 42 times. Using any other shot removes this effect.
Tier 4 Talent

Volley While active, your auto attacks spend 3 Focus to also launch a volley of shots that hit the target and all other nearby enemies, dealing (100% of Attack power) additional Physical damage. Your auto-shots have a 10% chance to cause a volley of arrows to rain down around the target, dealing (75% of Attack Power)% Physical damage to each enemy within 8 yards.
Tier 2 Talent

Changed

Barrage Rapidly fires a spray of shots for 3 sec, dealing an average of 80%(14.196% of Attack Power)% * 10] Physical damage to all enemies in front of you. Usable while moving.

Binding Shot Fires a magical projectile, tethering the enemy and any other enemies within 5 yards for 10 sec, stunning themrooting them in place for 5 sec if they move more than 5 yards from the arrow. Player targets are stunnedrooted for a shorter duration.

Ranger's Finesse Your Aimed Shots that strike Vulnerable targets reduceCasting Aimed Shot reduces the remaining cooldown of Aspect of the CheetahAspect of the Turtle, and Exhilaration by 5 sec.

Sniper Shot Take a sniper's stance, firing a well-aimed shot dealing 700%(111.54% of Attack power) Physical damage.
Increases the range of all shots by 40% for 15 sec.

NEW Arcane Flurry Arcane Shot increases the damage of Arcane Shot by 62 for 3 sec, stacking up to 2 times.

Arrowstorm Increases the damage of Aimed Shot by 77 and has a 4% chance to reset the cooldown of your Rapid Fire.

NEW Focused Fire Rapid Fire deals an additional 200 damage over its duration, and each shot has a 30% chance to generate 2 additional Focus.

In The Rhythm When Rapid Fire finishes fully channeling, your Haste is increased by 0 for 8 sec.

NEW Pack Alpha Your primary pet's Basic Attack deals 76 more damage for each other pet you have active.

NEW Rapid Reload Multi-Shots that damage more than 3 targets fire an additional wave of bullets, dealing 59 damage and reducing the cooldown of your Aspects by 1 sec.

Seize the Initiative Aimed Shot has an additional 8% critical strike chance against targets that are above 90% health, and Aimed Shot deals an additional 434 damage.
Marksmanship

Steady Aim Steady Shot increases the damage of your next Aimed Shot against the target by 6356, stacking up to 05 times.

NEW Unerring Vision While Trueshot is active you gain 9 Critical Strike rating every sec, stacking up to 10 times.

Survival Hunter Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done by 12% 0%.
NEW Effect #6 Apply Aura: Modifies Power Cost Value: -25%.

REMOVED Explosive Trap Hurls a fire trap to the target location that explodes when an enemy approaches, causing (420%69.3% of Attack power) Fire damage and burning all enemies within 8 yards for (420%69.3% of Attack power) additional Fire damage over 10 sec. Trap will exist for 1 min.

REMOVED Flanking Strike A coordinated attack on the target, where you deal Physical damage and your pet deals Physical damage.
If the target is attacking you, your pet's attack will deal 50% increased damage and 400% increased threat. Otherwise, your attack will deal 50% increased damage.
Flanking strike has double the normal chance to trigger Hunting Companion
Now a talent

REMOVED Flanking Strike Flanking strike has double the normal chance to trigger Hunting Companion.

REMOVED Mastery: Hunting Companion Your pet's attacks have a 4%4.0% chance to grant you an additional charge of Mongoose Bite.

REMOVED Attempts to sever the target's limbs with a brutal attack that deals 300% Physical damage and grants you Mongoose Fury.
Mongoose Fury increases Mongoose Bite damage by 50% for 14 sec, stacking up to 6 times. Successive attacks do not increase duration.
Now a talent

REMOVED Lacerate Tears a bleeding wound in the target, dealing 964.8%202.608% of Attack power) + (187.2%39.312% of Attack power)] Physical damage over 12 sec.

REMOVED Waylay After 2 sec, your Traps become fully armed, making them especially devastating.

NEW Aspect of the Eagle Grants you and your pet 0% increased Critical Strike chance on all abilities, and your pet's attacks have an additional 25% chance to grant you a charge of Mongoose Bite. Lasts 10 sec.Increases the range of your Mongoose Bite, Raptor Strike to 0-40 yds for 15 sec.

NEW Coordinated Assault You and your pet attack as one, increasing all damage you both deal by 20% for 20 sec.
While Coordinated Assault is active, Kill Command's chance to reset is increased by 25%.

NEW The cooldown of Disengage is reduced by 10 sec.
Rank 2

NEW Kill Command Give the command to kill, causing your pet to savagely deal Physical damage to the enemy. Has a 25% chance to immediately reset its cooldown. Generates 15 Focus.

NEW Destroying Kill Command has a 25% chance to immediately reset its cooldown.
Coordinated Assault increases this chance by another 25%.

NEW Mastery: Spirit Bond You and your pet's Focus spending abilities deal 8.0% increased damage.
While your pet is active, you both regenerate 1.0% of maximum health every 5 sec.

NEW Serpent Sting Fire a poison-tipped arrow at an enemy, dealing (20.31% of Attack power) Nature damage instantly and an additional (95% of Attack power) damage over 12 sec.

NEW Wildfire Bomb Hurl a bomb at the target, exploding for (45% of Attack power) Fire damage in a cone and coating enemies in wildfire, scorching them for (90% of Attack power) * (6)] Fire damage over 6 sec.
10 Focus

Carve A sweeping attack that strikes all enemies in front of you for 90%(28% of Attack power Physical damage.
Reduces the remaining cooldown on Wildfire Bomb by 1 sec for each target hit, up to 5.
Cost changed from 40 Focus to 35 Focus, cooldown changed from None to 6 sec cooldown

Harpoon Hurls a harpoon at an enemy, rooting them in place for 3 sec and pulling you to them.
Range changed from 5 - 40 yd range to 8 - 30 yd range
Changed from cooldown to recharge with 1 Charge
Now requires Level 14, down from 26

Hatchet Toss Tosses a hatchet at an enemy, dealing (10%1.638% of Attack power) Physical damage.

Raptor Strike A vicious slash dealing 257%(70% of Attack power) Physical damage.
Cost changed from 25 Focus to 30 Focus

Wing Clip Maims the target, reducing movement speed by 50% for 15 sec.
Now requires Level 4, down from 10

Live

BFA

Removed

REMOVED Animal Instincts Flanking Strike also reduces the remaining cooldown by 3 sec of a random one of the following abilities.

REMOVED Aspect of the Beast

REMOVED Scatters Caltrops in an area for 15 sec. Enemies who step on Caltrops will take (45%7.56% of Attack power) Bleed damage every 1 sec, and have 70% reduced movement speed for 6 sec.

REMOVED Disengage Leap backwards.

REMOVED Dragonsfire Grenade Hurls a dragonsfire grenade at the target that explodes into flames, inflicting 1304%151.2% of Attack power) + (400%54.6% of Attack power)] Fire damage over 86 sec and reducing movement speed by 20%30%. The volatile flames on the target also scorch nearby enemies.

REMOVED All of your traps are improved in the following ways

REMOVED Guerrilla Tactics Explosive Trap deals 50% more damage, and Waylay's effects are further strengthened

REMOVED Intimidation Commands your pet to intimidate the target, stunning it for 5 sec.
Now baseline ability

REMOVED Mortal Wounds Each time Lacerate deals damage, you have a 2% chance to gain a charge of Mongoose Bite.

REMOVED Ranger's Net Hurls a net at the enemy, rooting the target for 3 sec and reducing movement speed by 50% for 15 sec. Damage may break the effect.

REMOVED Serpent Sting Targets hit by your Raptor Strike and Carve are also affected by Serpent Sting, dealing 1500 Nature damage over 15 sec.

REMOVED Snake Hunter (Replace) Instantly grants you 3 charges of Mongoose Bite.

REMOVED Sticky Bomb Hurls a concussive grenade at your target which sticks to them and explodes after 2 sec, knocking back all nearby enemies.

REMOVED Throw Axe Tosses 3 axes at an enemy, each dealing (312.5% of Attack power) Physical damage.

REMOVED Way of the Mok'Nathal Raptor Strike also grants you Mok'Nathal Tactics, increasing your attack power by 3% for 10 sec, stacking up to 4 times.

New

NEW Kill Command now has 2 charges, and deals 30% increased damage.
Tier 1 Talent, in place of Flanking Strike

NEW Birds of Prey Attacking your pet's target with Mongoose Bite, Raptor Strike, or Butchery, Carve extends the duration of Coordinated Assault by 2 sec.
Tier 7 Talent

NEW Binding Shot Breaking the tether of Binding Shot will stun the targetroot the target in place for 5 sec (3 sec PvP).
Tier 5 Talent

NEW Bloodseeker Kill Command causes the target to bleed for damage over 8 sec.
You and your pet gain 10% attack speed for every bleeding enemy within 12 yds.
Tier 4 Talent

NEW Born To Be Wild Reduces the cooldowns of Aspect of the Eagle, Aspect of the Cheetah, and Aspect of the Turtle by 20%.
Tier 5 Talent

NEW Chakrams Throw a pair of chakrams at your target, slicing all enemies in the chakrams' path for Tier 7 Talent

NEW You and your pet leap to the target and strike it as one, dealing a total of Physical damage.
Generates 30 Focus for you and your pet.
Tier 6 Talent

NEW Guerrilla Tactics Wildfire Bomb now has 2 charges, and the initial explosion deals 100% increased damage.
Tier 2 Talent

NEW Hydra's Bite Serpent Sting fires arrows at 2 additional enemies near your target, and its damage over time is increased by 10%.
Tier 2 Talent

NEW Mongoose Bite A brutal attack that deals 102%100% of Attack power Physical damage and grants you Mongoose Fury. Increases the damage of Mongoose Bite by 15% for 14 sec, stacking up to 5 times. Successive attacks do not increase duration.
Tier 6 Talent

NEW Natural Mending Every 30 Focus you spend reduces the remaining cooldown on Exhilaration by 1 sec.
Tier 3 Talent

NEW Terms of Engagement Harpoon deals (50% of Attack power) Physical damage and generates 30 Focus over 10 sec, and. Killing an enemy resets the cooldown of Harpoon.
Tier 1 Talent

NEW Tip of the Spear Kill Command increases the damage of your next Raptor Strike by 20%, stacking up to 3 times.
Tier 6 Talent

NEW Viper's Venom Mongoose Bite, Raptor Strike has a chance to make your next Serpent Sting cost no Focus and deal an additional 250% initial damage.
Tier 1 Talent

NEW Wildfire Infusion Lace your Wildfire Bomb with extra reagents, randomly giving it one of the following enhancements each time you throw it:
Shrapnel Bomb: Shrapnel pierces the targets, causing Mongoose Bite, Raptor Strike and Butchery, Carve to apply a bleed for 9 sec that stacks up to 3 times.
Pheromone Bomb: Kill Command has a 100% chance to reset against targets coated with Pheromones.
Volatile Bomb: Reacts violently with poison, causing an extra explosion against enemies suffering from your Serpent Sting and refreshes your Serpent Stings.
Tier 7 Talent, in place of Coming Soon

Swapped Position

A Murder of Crows Summons a flock of crows to attack your target over the next 15 sec. If the target dies while under attack, A Murder of Crows' cooldown is reset.
Tier 4 Talent

Butchery Strike all nearby enemies in a flurry of strikes, inflicting 694%80% of Attack power Physical damage to each.
Reduces the remaining cooldown on Wildfire Bomb by 1 sec for each target hit, up to 5.
Tier 2 Talent, cost changed from 40 Focus to 20 Focus, cooldown changed from 12 sec to 9 sec recharge

Changed

Posthaste Harpoon also frees you from all movement impairing effects and increases your movement speed by 60% for 5 sec.50% for 4 sec.

Spitting Cobra Summons a Spitting Cobra for 3020 sec that attacks your target for (100%31.2% of Attack power) Nature damage every 2 sec. While
While the Cobra is active you gain an extra 3 Focus every 1 sec.2 Focus every sec.
Cooldown changed from 1 min cooldown to 1.5 min cooldown

Steel Trap Hurls a Steel Trap to the target location that immobilizessnaps shut on the first enemy that approaches, immobilizing them for 20 sec and deals (1500%causing them to bleed for (120% of Attack power) Bleed damage over 3020 sec. Other damage
Damage other than Steel Trap may break the immobilization effect. Limit 1. Trap will exist for 1 min.
Cooldown changed from 1 min cooldown to 30 sec cooldown

Hunting Pack Reduces the cooldown of your Aspect of the Cheetah by 50%, and Aspect of the Cheetah also causes all allies within 15 yards to gain 90% movement speed for 3 sec.

Enemies who stand in your
Caltrops
Caltrops
Tar Trap for 3 sec have their gear coated with tar, slowing melee attack speed by 50%80% for 5 sec.

Tracker's Net Hurl a net at your enemy, rooting them for 6 sec. While within the net, the target's chance to hit is reduced by 80%. Any damage will break the net.

NEW Blur of Talons During Coordinated Assault, Mongoose Bite/Raptor Strike increases your Agility by 12 and your Speed by 3 for 6 sec. Stacks up to 5 times.

NEW Latent Poison Serpent Sting damage applies Latent Poison, stacking up to 10 times. Your
Mongoose Bite Raptor Strike consumes all applications of Latent Poison to deal 36 Nature damage per stack.

NEW Pack Alpha Your primary pet's Basic Attack deals 76 more damage for each other pet you have active.

Raking Talons Mongoose Bite Raptor Strike has an additional 6% critical strike chance against targets that are below 50% health, and Mongoose Bite Raptor Strike deals an additional 83 damage.
Survival

NEW Up Close And Personal Harpoon increases the damage of your next Mongoose Bite, Raptor Strike by 248, and reduces its cost by 10 Focus.

NEW Venomous Fangs Your pet's Basic Attack deals 19 additional damage to enemies suffering from your Serpent Sting.

Vigorous Wings Increases the duration of Aspect of the Eagle by 8 sec and causes your Mongoose Bites to deal an additional 463 damage when they critically strike.

Whirling Rebound Increases the damage of Hatchet Toss by 77 and causes it to return to you, dealing 539 damage to enemies it strikes.

NEW Wildfire Bomb drops a small cluster of bombs around the target, each exploding for 31 damage.

NEW Wilderness Survival Mongoose Bite, Raptor Strike deals an additional 27 damage and reduces the remaining cooldown of Wildfire Bomb by 1.0 sec.

REMOVED Camouflage You blend into the surroundings and gain stealth for 1 min. While camouflaged, you will heal for 2% every 1 secs.
Has a new spell ID

NEW Commands your pet to perform its unique ability. This ability will transform based on the specialization of your active pet.
Ferocity: Primal Rage
Tenacity: Survival of the Fittest
Cunning: Master's Call

Camouflage You and your pet blend into the surroundings and gain stealth for 1 min. While camouflaged, you will heal for 2% of maximum health every 1 secs.
New spell ID

NEW Disengage Leap backwards.
Now baseline

NEW Tranquilizing Shot Removes 1 Enrage and 1 Magic effect from an enemy target.

Mend Pet Heals your pet for 25%35% of its total health over 10 sec.

Aspect of the Cheetah Adds an additional 77% speed to the initial 3 seconds of Aspect of the Cheetah.

NEW Duck and Cover Using Feign Death allows you to absorb 1622 damage over 6 sec, and Feign Death's cooldown is reduced to 25 seconds.

Ride the Lightning Increases the critical strike chance of Aspect of the Wild by an additional 5% and causes your attacks to deal 77 additional Nature damage, chaining up to 2 targets.

NEW Shellshock Every 1 sec Aspect of the Turtle is active, heal for 122.

REMOVED Your Hunter's Mark ability now places a bullseye on your target instead of its usual visual.

REMOVED Your Hunter's Mark ability now places a skull on your target instead of its usual visual.

Comments

Comment by Drahken

What exactly is this mess going on with Survival Hunters? Do they know what concept they're trying to go with? I mean, I absolutely DESPISE the idea of a melee hunter spec, but I have to respect that at least they committed to it. But now they're backtreading on it, but, like, only part way. It's kind of all over the place now with no solid identity. They're still ostensibly a melee spec and still use a melee weapon, but now they have all these ranged abilities, including Serpent Sting? Are they going to change the idea of SS, because it's currently "Shoot a poisoned arrow at blah blah blah". Shoot an arrow? With WHAT? And they're changing the core theme of the spec, including the mastery, from "attack viciously with your spear", to "attack alongside your pet". Um, isn't that Beast Mastery's shtick? How is Survival now the spec that has Spirit Bond? It's even stolen Kill Command which has ALWAYS been BM's signature attack. Combined with BM switching the Dire Beast and Dire Stable, it's going from being the "summon lots of beasts" back to just "attack alongside your pet". The entire point of the big Legion shakeup was to differentiate the specs, and as much as I hate how they destroyed what was my favorite spec since Wrath, I have to admit that they definitely achieved their aim. But now they're merging SV and BM back to being similar again and I can't figure out why.

Comment by ArticSkoll

In Battle for Azeroth, each Hunter pet family has a single specialization, any beast from that family will have that specialization and you won't be able to change it. Each specialization has unique abilities

so rather than give us more stable slots theyre just gonna force us to say goodbye to our pets we have already by forcing them to be less than worthy specs instead of keeping them as they are >:| way to kill hunters D: no need for various pets now that arent ferocity. if theres no brez for hunters now then thats utterly stupid when hunters can be the last ones left on a raid boss attempt that cant brez a healer anymore and forced to wipe. real productive blizz.

Comment by Lostartes

They are really making hell for BM. They placed both Dire Beast and the new second pet talent on the same line. Not to mention that Dire Beast now COSTS focus just to use it and if you want it to give focus you need a now level 30 talent. I'm happy with the second pet becoming an option...but seriously...what the hell are they doing? Basically the only good focus generator that we have now is at level 100 with http://www.wowhead.com/spell=194407. Well we win some and we lose some in this case....

Comment by kogaSagara

here is some feedback to MM: please dont keep lone wolf, forcing to remove pet for a bonus damage IS NOT CLASS FANTASY

Comment by DarkFrostLord

There is literally nothing wrong with MM hunter as it is, the only problem was that t20 gear was needed. literally no reason to change MM at all

Comment by Vikinng

A lot to take in some I like some I don't but what can you do but just adjust thanks for the information

Comment by Grock4269

Did I miss something in the write up about exotics and the BM spec? Prior to the patch had no problem taming and using the spirit gryphon at lvl 19. Now The only place can have it is in the stable.... I try to call it... nothing... at the stable, try to put it in a slot, 'you cannot control exotic beasts' ? Did they go back to a while back and had to be higher level before could use and tame exotics or rares?

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