Hunters get Foxes and Druids keep potions in every form

Blizzard has published its first class deep dive for WoW Forever, on the Hunter and the Druid. Aimed Shot becomes baseline, traps work in combat and Foxes join as a pet family. Druids can drink potions without leaving their form.

Every talent tree keeps the rows of patch 1.12 and its milestone talents at 11, 21 and 31 points, and gets a new one at 16 points. Talents change at a class trainer in a capital city, and Dual Specialization unlocks at level 40. Abilities and talents can still change during the beta, says Blizzard.

Hunter

Aimed Shot is now a baseline ability at level 20. It shares its cooldown with Multi-Shot instead of Arcane Shot. Traps can be placed in combat, with a cooldown of 30 seconds, and fire and frost traps no longer share a cooldown. Scorpid Sting lowers the target’s chance to hit by 2% instead of its Strength and Agility.

Pets get stats from the gear of their Hunter, but no longer take player buffs. Every family learns Bite or Claw and Dive or Dash, plus one ability of its own: a Swipe that hits three targets for the Bear, a Dismember that halves healing for the Crocolisk, a Furious Howl for the Wolf. Foxes are a new family with Trickster’s Dance, which raises dodge and attack speed for 12 seconds. The Owl family is now called Bird of Prey.

The trees pull in three directions. Beast Mastery gets Focused Fire and Summon Hawk, which calls up to two Hawks. Marksmanship gets Lone Wolf, 20% more damage without a pet, and Sniper Shot, a 4 second cast with 45 yards of range. Survival turns to melee with Strider Kick and Lacerating Strikes, which makes Mongoose Bite bleed.

Druid

Shapeshifting stops getting in the way. Potions and almost every similar consumable work in Bear, Cat and Dire Bear Form without breaking it, and so do weapon enchants, procs such as Crusader, and Windfury Totem. Most doors and objects open in form, and racials such as Shadowmeld and War Stomp work too. Engineering bombs mostly stay off limits, except for new SAF-T and EZ-Thro recipes.

In form, auto attacks deal the damage per second of the equipped weapon. Nature’s Grasp and Omen of Clarity become baseline, at level 10 and 20. Lacerate arrives at level 42 as a stacking bleed, and Revive gives Druids a resurrection out of combat at level 12. Tiger’s Fury is removed.

Balance gets Eclipse, Insect Swarm at 16 points and Overgrowth for three rooted targets at once. Feral has two talents at 16 points: Shifting Power for Cats and Primal Bite for Bears, which Blizzard chose over Mangle. Berserk tops the tree at 31 points. Restoration moves Swiftmend up to 16 points and ends in Wild Growth.

Furor now stops “bear-weaving”: Energy saved outside Cat Form is lost on shifting into a bear. Shifting Power brings power shifting back in a simpler way. Shifting Power and Improved Shifting Power are not on the beta yet and come with next week’s build, writes Blizzard.

Hunter milestone talents

Talent	Tree	Points
Summon Hawk	Beast Mastery	16
Lone Wolf	Marksmanship	11
Trueshot Aura	Marksmanship	21
Sniper Shot	Marksmanship	31
Counterattack	Survival	16
Strider Kick	Survival	21
Lacerating Strikes	Survival	31

Druid milestone talents

Talent	Tree	Points
Nature’s Splendor	Balance	11
Insect Swarm	Balance	16
Feral Charge	Feral Combat	11
Shifting Power, Primal Bite	Feral Combat	16
Leader of the Pack	Feral Combat	21
Berserk	Feral Combat	31
Gift of the Earthmother	Restoration	11
Swiftmend	Restoration	16
Wild Growth	Restoration	31

Every talent of both classes, rank by rank, is in the talent calculator for the Hunter and the Druid. Blizzard promises deep dives for the other classes as the beta goes on.