An Overview of Hunter Class Changes in the War Within Patch 11.0.5

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• New Talent: Deathblow — Kill Command/ Aimed Shot has a 10% chance to grant Deathblow. Deathblow: The cooldown of Kill Shot is reset. Your next Kill Shot can be used on any target, regardless of their current health.
• Steady Shot now generates 10 Focus baseline for all specs.
• Tranquilizing Shots empowered by Kodo Tranquilizer will now prioritize players.
• Updated animations for Volley and Rapid Fire.
• Improved Kill Shot has been removed.

• New Talent: Bleak Arrows — Your Auto Shot now deals Shadow damage. Your auto shot has a 20%/8% chance to grant Deathblow.
• New Talent: Phantom Pain — When Kill Command/ Aimed Shot damages a target affected by Black Arrow, 8% of the damage dealt is replicated to each other unit affected by Black Arrow.
• New Talent: Banshee's Mark — A Murder of Crows now deals Shadow damage and casting Black Arrow has a 25% chance to summon a Murder of Crows on your target.
• New Talent: The Bell Tolls — Black Arrow is now usable on enemies with greater than 80% or less than 20% health.
• New Talent: Shadow Dagger — While in combat, casting Disengage releases a fan of daggers at nearby enemies, dealing very low Shadow damage and slowing affected targets by 30%.
• New Talent: Bleak Powder — Casting Black Arrow while Beast Cleave/ Trick Shots is active causes Black Arrow to explode upon hitting a target, dealing moderate damage to nearby enemies.
• New Talent: Soul Drinker — When an enemy affected by Black Arrow dies, you have a 10% chance to gain Deathblow.
• Black Arrow has been redesigned — Kill Shot is now replaced with Black Arrow: You attempt to finish off a wounded target, dealing high Shadow damage and low Shadow damage over time for 10 seconds. Only usable on enemies with less than 20% health.
• Withering Fire has been redesigned — Every 3 casts of Bestial Wrath/While Trueshot is active, you surrender to darkness for 12 seconds. When you gain Deathblow, Black Arrow automatically fires at your target and two additional Black Arrows at 50% effectiveness.
• Shadow Surge has been redesigned — Periodic damage from Black Arrow has a small chance to erupt in a burst of darkness, dealing moderate Shadow damage to all enemies near the target. Damage reduced beyond 8 targets.
• Visual effects updated for Shadow Surge, Bleak Powder, Withering Fire, and Black Arrow.

The following talents have been removed:

• Dark Empowerment
• Darkness Calls
• Death Shade
• Grave Reaper
• Overshadow
• Shadow Erasure
• Shadow Lash
• Pack Leader

• Scattered Prey duration increased to 20 seconds (was 15 seconds).

• Lunar Storm's visual effects have been updated.

• New Talent: Snakeskin Quiver — Your Auto Shot has a 15% chance to also fire a Cobra Shot.
• New Talent: Serpentine Rhythm — Casting Cobra Shot increases its damage by 25%, stacking up to 4 times. Upon reaching 4 stacks, the bonus is removed, and you gain 8% increased pet damage for 8 seconds.
• New Talent: Barbed Scales — Casting Cobra Shot reduces the cooldown of Barbed Shot by 2 seconds.
• Cobra Senses has been redesigned — Now reduces the Focus cost of Cobra Shot by 5 and increases its damage by 35%.
• Hunter's Prey has been redesigned — Kill Shot will strike 1 additional target and deal 10% increased damage for each of your active pets. Stacks up to 5 times.
• Multi-Shot damage increased by 300%.
• Barbed Shot damage increased by 100%.
• Barbed Shot cooldown increased to 18 seconds (was 12 seconds) and duration increased to 12 seconds (was 8 seconds).
• Barbed Shot’s pet frenzy duration increased to 12 seconds (was 8 seconds).
• Thrill of the Hunt duration increased to 12 seconds (was 8 seconds).
• Pack Tactics energy regeneration increased to 125% (was 100%). Pack Tactics now replaces Steady Shot.
• Animal Companion no longer reduces the damage of all your pets by 35%.

The following pet ability damage has been reduced by 35%:

• Bite
• Bloodshed
• Claw
• Kill Command
• Smack
• Stomp

• Training Expert is now a 1-point talent.

The following talents have been removed:

• Improved Kill Command
• Kindred Spirits
• Dark Ranger

• Shadow Houndss has been updated — When summoning a Dire Beast, you have a 25% chance to also summon a Shadow Hounds. Shadow Hounds now have Beast Cleave for their duration.

• New Talent: Pin Cushion — Casting Steady Shot reduces the cooldown of Aimed Shot by 2 seconds. Choice node with Improved Steady Shot.
• New Talent: Improved Deathblow — Aimed Shot now has a 15% chance and Rapid Fire now has a 25% chance to grant Deathblow. Kill Shot’s critical strike damage is increased by 25%.
• Improved Steady Shot has been updated — Now makes Steady Shot grant an additional 10 Focus.
• Precise Shots renamed to Precise Shot and has been updated — Now empowers your next cast of Arcane Shot, Chimaera Shot, or Multi-Shot to deal 100% increased damage (was 2 casts at 70% bonus).
• Steady Focus has been updated — Casting Steady Shot increases your Haste by 8% for 15 seconds (was casting Steady Shot twice in a row).
• Steady Focus no longer plays its visual effects when it is refreshed.
• Trueshot now reduces the focus cost of Aimed Shot baseline.
• Rapid Fire Barrage effectiveness increased to 40% (was 30%).
• Razor Fragments is now a rolling periodic.
• Master Marksman now benefits from Unnatural Causes.
• Wailing Arrow no longer consumes Trick Shots.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Wailing Arrow from benefitting from Hydra's Bite.
• Nerub-ar Palace 4-set bonus updated — Consuming Precise Shots increases the damage of your next Aimed Shot by 20% (was 10%).
• Nerub-ar Palace 4-set bonus no longer stacks (used to stack 2 times).
• Nerub-ar Palace 4-set bonus will no longer be inconsistently consumed by Trick Shots-empowered Aimed Shots.
• Nerub-ar Palace 4-set bonus will now consistently benefit all damage instances of a Trick Shots-empowered Aimed Shot.
• Nerub-ar Palace 4-set bonus will now behave properly with spell-queued Arcane Shots and Multi-Shots.
• The position of Unerring Vision and Calling the Shots has swapped.
• Eagletalon's True Focus has been removed.

• Ruthless Marauder has been redesigned — Fury of the Eagle's damage is increased by 10% and damage from Fury of the Eagle has a 20% chance to generate a stack of Tip of the Spear. When Fury of the Eagle ends, your Haste is increased by 8% for 10 seconds. Now a 1-point talent.
• Merciless Blows has been redesigned — Butchery causes affected targets to bleed for heavy damage over 8 seconds.
• Sic 'Em has been updated — Kill Command’s chance to grant Deathblow is increased to 15% and Deathblow now makes Kill Shot strike up to 2 additional targets. Your chance to gain Deathblow is doubled during Coordinated Assault.
• Exposed Flank has been updated — Now empowers your next Kill Command to deal 50% increased damage, strike 3 targets, and generate a Tip of the Spear stack for each target it hits.
• Grenade Juggler has been updated — Now resets the cooldown of Explosive Shot instead of automatically firing it.
• Butchery damage increased by 50%.
• Butchery no longer has charges and its cooldown has been increased to 15 seconds.
• Fury of the Eagle damage increased by 25%.
• Fury of the Eagle channel time reduced to 3 seconds (was 4 seconds).
• Fury of the Eagle now consumes a stack of Tip of the Spear when the channel begins, and the damage bonus will persist for the duration of the channel.
• Kill Command resets no longer reduce the cooldown of Fury of the Eagle.
• Tip of the Spear’s consumption grace period has been reduced to 0.3 seconds (was 0.7 seconds).
• Relentless Primal Ferocity now grants 2 additional stacks of Tip of the Spear (was 1).
• Frenzy Strikes Wildfire Bomb cooldown reduction per target hit increased to 3 seconds (was 1 second).
• Killer Companion now increases Kill Command’s damage by 10/20% (was 5/10%).
• Bombardier’s aura is now removed at more reasonable times.
• Spearhead’s cast animation now blends with other animations.
• Spearhead will no longer go on cooldown if the pet is out of range.
• Ranger and Terms of Engagement have swapped positions in the talent tree.
• Harpoon will now find an appropriate destination during the Rasha’nan fight in The Dawnbreaker dungeon.

• Howl of the Pack now also increases Wildfire Bomb damage by 20%.
• Wild Attacks now also increases the damage of Raptor Strike/ Mongoose Bite by 20%.

• Symphonic Arsenal damage increased by 200%.

You can find other Patch 11.0.5 class changes linked below.