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WoW Forever Survival Hunter Guide

Talent windows over green forest
Talent windows over green forest. Image © Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. Source: WoW: Forever Classes Take Center Stage in This Week’s Wow Weekly.
Class card art: worgen (modern World of Warcraft art, not a Forever screenshot)
Class card art: worgen (modern World of Warcraft art, not a Forever screenshot). Image © Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. Source: World of Warcraft official Classes page (modern WoW art).

Tooltips: Wowhead Forever DB, exact matches only (build 70532, 28 Oct).

Survival tree, beta client (ForeverDiff, build 1.60.1.70532). Rank text for changed and unchanged talents: Wowhead Forever tooltip.

Points at 60: 51 [Unconfirmed]; evidence on the class talents page.

Survival talents

Talent Row ×Max Forever: max-rank text
Improved Tracking 1 5 △ Changed
Deflection 1 5 –
Entrapment 2 5 △ Changed
Savage Strikes 2 2 △ Changed
Survivalist 2 5 △ Changed
Improved Wing Clip 2 3 △ Changed
Clever Traps 3 2 –
Surefooted 3 3 △ Changed
Deterrence 3 1 –
Survival Tactics 4 2 △ Changed
Predator's Edge 4 5 ✦ New: "Increases your melee ability critical strike damage by 30% and your Off Hand weapon damage by 50%."
Counterattack 4 1 △ Changed Needs Deterrence.
Resourcefulness 5 2 ✦ New: "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 5 2 ✦ New: "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 5 2 ✦ New: "Reduces the cooldown of your Trap and Deterrence abilities by 40%."
Strider Kick 5 1 ✦ New: "A powerful kick that deals 100% melee weapon damage and increases movement speed by 30% for 3 sec."
Lightning Reflexes 6 5 △ Changed
Lacerating Strikes 7 1 ✦ New: "Your Mongoose Bite also causes the target to Bleed for damage equal to 40% of the damage done by Mongoose Bite over 21 sec" Needs Expose Prey.
Official WoW Forever image: three characters posing
Image © Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. Source: Blizzard News

Recommended build

Level 60 build: Not yet published, updated at launch. Try the talent calculator.

See also: Hunter talents · Best race

Fan site. Beta (cap 30) until launch Thu 5 Nov 2026, 10:00 AEDT; numbers may change. [Unconfirmed] = not yet confirmed.

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Sources
  • ForeverDiff — Hunter talent calculator (client data, build 1.60.1.70532)
  • Blizzard — WoW Forever Beta Development Notes (Updated October 26)
  • Wowhead — Level 30 Beast Mastery Hunter (11 Oct)
  • ForeverDiff — Racials