WoW: Forever Hunter changes

Beta build notes — October 15, 2026 (27 changes)

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General Hunter changes

• Added ‘Auto Attack/Auto Shot’ setting. If enabled, Hunters will automatically switch between auto attack and auto shot. This is now also supported for gamepad.uncertain source
• Auto Shot now requires you to stand still for 0.5 seconds before shooting, matching early versions of World of Warcraft. source

  Developers’ notes: Your character will still fire Auto Shot while casting spells like Aimed Shot or Sniper Shot.

• Arrows should now be visible when a character has their bow drawn back. source
• Pets now correctly benefit from Expertise. source
• The Hunter’s Fire traps now correctly scale with Attack Power. source
• The Hunter may now correctly have 1 active Fire Trap and 1 active Ice Trap (was 1 Trap among all types). source

Pets

• Fixed an issue where pets were only ever inheriting the player’s Melee Critical Strike chance instead of whichever is higher, melee or ranged.fix source
• Dismember (Crocolisk) source
• Healing reduction reduced to 25% (was 50%). source
• Duration reduced to 6 seconds (was 10 seconds). source
• Cooldown increased to 15 seconds (was 6 seconds). source
• Sonic Blast (Bat) source
• Cast speed reduction reduced to 30% (was 60%). source
• Duration reduced to 20 seconds (was 30 seconds). source
• Cooldown increased to 60 seconds (was 30 seconds). source
• Mine! (Bird of Prey) source
• Duration reduced to 3 seconds (was 4 seconds). source
• Cooldown increased to 90 seconds (was 60 seconds). source

Beast Mastery

• Summon Hawk will now correctly cause the Hawk to spawn at the target the spell was cast on. source
• Summon Hawk will now stick your Hawk to the target that it was summoned on. source
• Fixed an issue causing the Improved Mend Pet talent to increase the Mana cost of Mend Pet instead of decrease.fix source

Marksmanship

• Trueshot Aura is now Raid wide. source
• Fixed an issue where Sniper Shot was not benefitting from a few Marksmanship talents.fix source

Survival

• Strider Kick can now be used while disarmed or while no weapon is equipped in your Main Hand. source
• Resourcefulness now correctly reduces the Mana cost of Strider Kick. source
• Resourcefulness now correctly activates when landing a critical strike, but it has been changed to only activating on melee and ranged ability critical strikes to prevent spamming. source

  Developers’ notes: Is not activated by Traps.

• Updated the tooltip for Predator’s Edge changed to better convey that it only increases the critical strike damage of your abilities. source

Beta build notes — October 8, 2026 (10 changes)

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General Hunter changes

• Disengage: Threat reduction was intended to be doubled but was missed. Now implemented. source
• Fixed a bug causing Hunter pets to gain health repeatedly when low health.fix source
• Kolkar Hunter’s Beltuncertain source
• Hunters who selected the Ferocity talent will not see the critical strike chance of their pet increase on the character sheet. This is a visual bug only.known issueuncertain source

Beast Mastery

• Unleashed Fury now correctly increases your pet’s damage. source

Marksmanship

• Improved Concussive Shot now has the correct chance to activate. source

Survival

• Improved Wing Clip now has the correct chance to activate and reduced chance to activate if using ranks substantially below your current level. source
• Expose Prey now lasts 10 sec (was 5). source
• Entrapment now correctly has diminishing returns. source
• Entrapment now correctly only activates on Frost Trap’s initial activation, not periodically. source

Beta build notes — October 1, 2026 (5 changes)

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Marksmanship

• Icon for Improved Stings changed to be more Vanilla feeling. source
• The 31st talent Sniper Shot now has a 45-yard Range and increases the range of your next 3 shots made within 10 seconds by 10 yards. source

Survival

• Icon for Predator’s Edge changed to be more Vanilla feeling. source
• Deflection’s Parry increase changed to 1/2/3/4/5% (Was 2/4/6/8/10%). source

Pets

• Aggressive Mode has been brought back and can be found under the pet tab in your spell book. source

  Developers’ notes: There were some tameable beasts with ranks of pet abilities that were too high level for that creature. They have all been fixed. This could result in a bug where your pet “forgot” the pet ability which should not happen after this fix.

Beta build notes — September 24, 2026 (8 changes)

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Pets

• Furious Howl Attack Power bonus reduced 40%. source
• Sonic Blast ability now properly available to Bat pets. source
• Tame Beast no longer works on Beasts that are higher than the Hunter’s level. source

Marksmanship

• Talenting out of Lone Wolf will no longer cause the Hunter to have -4% damage while their pet is active. source

Survival

• Corrected an issue and now Lacerating Strikes can land critical hits.fix source
• Strider Kick now increases movement speed by 30% for 3 seconds. source

General Hunter changes

• Pet control and pet spell flyouts for Hunters and Warlocks.uncertain source
• The pet bar no longer replaces the bottom gamepad action bar for Hunters and Warlocks.uncertain source