Some BC hunter love...maybe.
by Spencer Callaghan 
Sep 8th 2006 at 2:00PM
[Warning: I know these are likely BS but just in case they aren't]Mere days after I whined about hunters not getting any Burning Crusade details (I whine about hunters a lot) comes this post on the official WoW Hunter forum with some supposed leaked hunter talents.
The hunter community seems to be calling BS on these, but they are good fodder for discussion anyway.
There are no details on new pet abilities or skills other than the 41 point Beast Mastery talent Call for Aid, but at this point I am so starved for details I will read anything.
I'll post the details after the break.Now the first hint these are bogus is the fact they have a few pretty basic spelling mistakes (I have left them in if you are bored and want to seek them out). Although considering it is an Alpha test and the talents aren't official it is possible no one ran them through a spell check yet, possible, but not likely.
I must say, the 41 point Marksman talent Deadly Aim looks pretty sweet though.
Beast Mastery
Best Friend
Rank 2/2
Requires 25 points in Beast Mastery Talents
Your pet will be granted 30% of your agility, strength and stamina.
Spirit of the Beast
Rank 1/1
Requires 2 points in Spirit Bond
Requires 30 points in Beast Mastery Talents
When your pet is killed in battle its spirit will rise and inspire you to fight harder, increasing your ranged attack speed by 20% and making you immune to fear effects for 15 sec. The spirit is unable to be damaged or attack, but grants the effects of Spirit Bond while active.
Beastial Ally
Rank 5/5
Requires 30 points in Beast Mastery Talents
Your pets critial strikes will increase the critical strike chance of your party members by 5% if within 41 yards of your pet. Lasts 10 sec.
Master of Aspects
Rank 5/5
Requires 35 points in Beast Mastery Talents
The effects of individual hunter aspects are enchaned.
Hawk - Increases the attack power bonus by 20%.
Monkey - Reduces physical damage against you by 5%.
Wild - Reduces nature damage by 6% against affected targets.
Cheetah/Pack - Adds a 20% to avoid being dazed when hit.
Beast - Increases damage done against beasts by 5% for both you and your pet.
Call for Aid
Rank 1/1
Requires 40 points in Beast Mastery Talents
320 Mana
Instant cast
5 min cooldown
Your pet will break free of all bonds and distractions to quickly rush to your aid. Dispells all fears, charms, disorients, stuns and movement impairing effects on your pet. Pet will run at high speed to the hunter, intercepting the next melee or ranged attack made against the hunter within 10 sec.
Survival
Readiness
Rank 1/1
Requires 1 point in Deterrance
Requires 20 points in Survival Talents
Instant cast
10 min cooldown
When activated this ability immediately finishes the cooldown on your other hunter abilities.
Fast Maneuvering
Rank 5/5
Requires 25 points in Survival Talents
Reduces the chance you will be critically hit by melee attacks by 5%.
Snake Bite
Rank 3/3
Requires 30 points in Survival Talents
Your Mongoose Bite and Raptor Strike critical hits have a 100% chance to damage the target for an additional 100 Nature damage and cripple the target, reducing movement speed by 40% and attack speed by 20%. Lasts 12 sec.
Stinging Strikes
Rank 5/5
Requires 35 points in Survival Talents
All ranged attacks against Dazed targets cause additional Nature damage equal to 10% of weapon damage.
Survival Instincts
Rank 5/5
Requires 35 points in Survival Talents
When you have less than 20% health, all damage taken is reduced by 45%.
Suppresion Fire
Rank 1/1
Requires 5 points in Stinging Strikes
Requires 40 points in Survival Talents
120 Mana
Instant cast
5 min cooldown
Increases the hunter's chance to hit with ranged attacks by 25% and ranged attack speed by 30%, but reduces ranked attack power by 10%. Ranged attacks have a 20% to daze the target for 3 sec. This effect does not stack with rapid fire. Lasts 15 sec.
Marksman
Improved Rapid Fire
Rank 2/2
Requires 25 points in Marksman Talents
Increases the duration of your Rapid Fire ability by 4 sec.
Focus Fire
Rank 5/5
Requires 30 points in Marksman Talents
Increases your ranged attack power by 10%.
Armor Piercing Rounds
Rank 3/3
Requires 30 points in Marksman Talents
Your ranged attacks will ignore 600 of the targets armor.
Gun Specialization
Rank 5/5
Requires 35 points in Marksman Talents
Increase your damage dealt with guns by 26 and your ranged attacks have a chance to daze the target for 2 sec.
Bow Specialization
Rank 5/5
Requires 35 points in Marksman Talents
Increase your damage dealt with bows by 24 and your ranged attacks have a chance to damage the target for 39-45 nature damage.
Crossbow Specialization
Rank 5/5
Requires 35 points in Marksman Talents
Increase your damage dealt with crossbows by 24 and your ranged attacks have a chance to damage the target for 39-45 shadow damage.
Deadly Aim
Rank 1/1
Requires 40 points in Marksman Talents
20 Mana
Instant cast
3 min cooldown
Steadies your aim, causing your ranged attacks not to miss and increasing your critical strike chance by 30%. Lasts 10 sec.
Filed under: Hunter, Expansions
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Slughorn Sep 8th 2006 2:41PM
Honestly, these seems pretty well in line with what Hunters should expect in the Expansion...Higher impact on Survival and Marksman trees and a slight improvement to Beast Mastery. I'd be slightly more inclined now to spec more towards Survivalist, Readiness being an absolute must. INteresting for sure.
Adam Sep 8th 2006 2:42PM
Well first of all, this post was made a week ago on the forums.
Second of all, if you read the title of the post you'll realize they're fake as admitted by the original poster himself. It's just another "wouldn't it be cool if..." type post. Hunter talents do not exist in alpha at the moment, end of story. :)
Spencer Callaghan Sep 8th 2006 2:53PM
The title of the forum post says "fake potential", I see no admission by anyone that they are confirmed to be fake.
Either way, I posted them as food for thought more than anything.
Adam Sep 8th 2006 3:08PM
They are well done for fake, but some of the wording gives it away.
Also the fact that people playing alpha have already confirmed the new hunter talents don't even exist yet.
I also love most of the talents mentioned, which is further confirmation that they'll probably be fake. lol
Zemekis Sep 8th 2006 3:46PM
There's a similar list of talents at:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=20293476&sid=1
Maybe an updated version of the above. Could be real. Or both could be utter BS. Who knows?
Huma Sep 13th 2006 10:44AM
I would be most pleased with some more improvement to BM tree..
And two pets of course :-) that would be challange..
(~wild dreams: two 1.0 pet freezing+Bestial Wrath :-)
~ wild dreams2.0: ALL beast would be tameabe, some Drakonkin too :-))
But at least I expect at least to allow me to train and retrain my own pet..
Raggamuffin Sep 16th 2006 9:02PM
Armor Piercing Rounds
Rank 3/3
Requires 30 points in Marksman Talents
Your ranged attacks will ignore 600 of the targets armor.
So you are saying that mages will have about -40/50% armour against our attacks yet we can 2-3 shot them already? Erm.... nope.
Unkle Sep 26th 2006 5:34PM
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Steadies your aim, causing your ranged attacks not to miss and increasing your critical strike chance by 30%. Lasts 10 sec.
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considering the confirmed changes to critical, this is obviously a fake. (not to mention omfg overpowered)
TeddyK Oct 5th 2006 10:02AM
About the Pets post from Huma, this is a rumor, but i have heard that hunters will be able to tame some trolls... Not the humanoid type trolls like the player models. More of the Trolls say, from ST or like the Beast in BRD. just a rumor though, id like to tame some sort of dragonkin too, with a dragonbreath cone attack or something.