WoW SoD Hunter
The Hunter is a pure DPS class in World of Warcraft. Hunters can tame animals to aid them in battle. The hunter can set traps and has companion animals such as wolves or cats. In WoW Classic Era hunters can specialize in bows and rifles. In Season of Discovery hunters can also be played as a melee DPS. Raid builds without companions will also be possible in SoD.
Learn more about the Hunter in Season of Discovery in our WoW SoD Hunter overview.
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WoW SoD Hunter Talent Calculator
We developed a talent calculator for WoW Classic’s Season of Discovery. This talent calculator is up to date 1.15 and contains all the runes that you can currently select with the 
Hunter. You can find our WoW SoD Talent Calculator here.
All Runes for Hunters in WoW SoD
Here you can find all the runes available to the Hunter in the Season of Discovery:
| Rune | Effect | Slot |
|---|---|---|
 Beast Mastery Phase 1 | Your pet's damage and health are increased by 15%, and its Focus regeneration by 50%. In addition, your pet's Growl now also Taunts the target to attack it for 3 sec. | Chest |
 Cobra Strikes Phase 1 | Your critical hits with Shot and Strike abilities and with Mongoose Bite cause your pet's next 2 special attacks to critically hit. | Chest |
 Lone Wolf Phase 1 | You deal 30% increased damage with all attacks while you do not have an active pet. | Chest |
 Master Marksman Phase 1 | Increases your critical strike chance by 5%, and reduces the Mana cost of all your Shot abilities by 25%. | Chest |
 Carve Phase 1 | A sweeping attack that strikes all enemies in front of you with your melee weapons for 65% weapon damage. Your primary target takes 50% increased damage. | Hands |
 Chimera Shot Phase 1 | You deal 135% weapon damage, refreshing the current Sting on your target and triggering an effect: Serpent Sting - Instantly deals 48% of the damage done by your Serpent Sting. Viper Sting - Instantly restores mana to you equal to 60% of the total amount drained by your Viper Sting. Scorpid Sting - Attempts to Disarm the target for 10 sec. This effect cannot occur more than once per 1 minute. | Hands |
 Cobra Slayer Phase 4 | Mongoose Bite now has a 10% chance to activate on each of your melee attacks, a 100% chance when an enemy dodges. This chance accumulates, with the chance rising by 10% from each subsequent attack if it does not reset. Mongoose Bite also deals additional damage equal to 45% of your Attack Power. | Hands |
 Explosive Shot Phase 1 | You fire an explosive charge into the enemy target, dealing 99-139 Fire damage to all enemies within 8 yards. The charge will deal damage again every second for an additional 2 sec. | Hands |
 Flanking Strike Phase 1 | You and your pet deal simultaneous instant 100% melee damage. Afterward, you deal 8% increased damage for 10 sec, stacking up to 3 times. Your pet's Basic attacks have a 50% chance to reset the cooldown on Flanking Strike. | Legs |
 Kill Shot Phase 4 | You attempt to finish off a wounded target, firing a ranged attack dealing 100% weapon damage plus 719. Kill Shot has no minimum range. Kill Shot's cooldown is reset if used on an enemy that has 20% or less health. | Legs |
 Serpent Spread Phase 1 | Targets hit by your Multi-Shot are also afflicted by your Serpent Sting for 12 sec. | Legs |
 Sniper Training Phase 1 | Your Shot abilities gain 2% increased critical strike chance while you have not moved for the last 2 sec, stacking every sec up to 5 times. At 2 or more stacks, your Aimed Shot becomes instant. While moving, you will lose 1 stack per sec. | Legs |
 Expose Weakness Phase 2 | Your melee and ranged criticals increase your attack power by 40% of your current Agility for 7 sec. | Waist |
 Melee Specialist Phase 2 | Your Raptor Strike is now instant, and Mongoose Bite and Raptor Strike have a 30% chance on each attack to reset the cooldowns of Mongoose Bite and Raptor Strike. | Waist |
 Steady Shot Phase 2 | A steady shot that causes 100% ranged weapon damage. | Waist |
 Dual Wield Specialization Phase 2 | Increases the damage done by your offhand weapon by 50% and causes your Raptor Strike to strike with both weapons when you are dual-wielding. | Feet |
 Trap Launcher Phase 2 | Your Freezing, Immolation, and Explosive Traps can now be placed at any location within 35 yards. Additionally, your Fire-based and Frost-based traps now have separate shared cooldowns. | Feet |
 Wyvern Strike Phase 4 | Replaces your Wyvern Sting ability with Wyvern Strike, a vicious strike that deals 140% weapon damage and causes the target to Bleed for damage over time. Wyvern Strike requires you to have the Wyvern Sting talent, and replaces the Wyvern Sting abilities found in the Survival spellbook. | Feet |
 Catlike Reflexes Phase 3 | Increases your chance to dodge by 20% and your pet's chance to dodge by 9%. In addition, reduces the cooldown of your Flanking Strike ability by 50%. | Head |
 Lock and Load Phase 3 | Each time you place a trap, your next Shot (except Scatter Shot) ability within 20 sec costs no mana and does not incur a cooldown. | Head |
 Rapid Killing Phase 3 | Reduces the cooldown on Rapid Fire by 80%, Rapid Fire now also grants 40% increased melee attack speed, and your next Shot ability within 20 sec after killing a target worth experience or honor deals 20% increased damage. | Head |
 Focus Fire Phase 3 | Consumes all applications of Frenzy from your pet, increasing your ranged attack speed by 3% and granting 4 Focus to your pet for each application of Frenzy consumed. Lasts 20 sec. Your pet gains Frenzy each time it uses a Basic Attack, increasing its melee attack speed by 6% for 10 sec, stacking up to 5 times. | Wrist |
 Raptor Fury Phase 3 | Raptor Strike increases damage done by Raptor Strike and Mongoose Bite by 15% for 30 sec, stacking up to 5 times. Subsequent doses do not extend the duration of this effect. | Wrist |
 T.N.T. Phase 3 | Increases the damage done by Explosive Shot and all your damaging traps by 10%. Additionally, the initial damage of Explosive Trap and the total periodic damage of your Immolation Trap are increased by 25% of your melee Attack Power. | Wrist |
 Hit and Run Phase 4 | You gain 30% movement speed for 15 sec after using Raptor Strike. Your pet's damaging abilities send the target into a Rabid Frenzy, increasing their melee attack power by 91 but reducing armor by 640 for 2 min. Rabid enemies will not flee and will ignore Fear and Horror effects. | Back |
 Improved Volley Phase 4 | Reduces the mana cost of your Volley by 50%, reduces its cooldown by 100%, increases its damage by 100%, and it no longer suffers pushback from damaging attacks. Volley also deals 3% of your ranged Attack Power as additional damage each time it deals damage. | Back |
 Resourcefulness Phase 4 | Reduces the mana cost of your Traps by 100% and their cooldowns by 40%. | Back |
 Arcane Specialization Phase 4 | Chance to hit with Arcane spells increased by 6%. Not cumulative with other ring runes. | Finger |
 Fire Specialization Phase 4 | Chance to hit with Fire spells increased by 6%. Not cumulative with other ring runes. | Finger |
 Frost Specialization Phase 4 | Chance to hit with Frost spells increased by 6%. Not cumulative with other ring runes. | Finger |
 Nature Specialization Phase 4 | Chance to hit with Nature spells increased by 6%. Not cumulative with other ring runes. | Finger |
 Meditation Specialization Phase 5 | Restores 5 mana per 5 sec. This effect is not cumulative with other ring runes. | Finger |
Axe Specialization Phase 4 | Skill with Axes and Two-Handed Axes increased by 5. This effect is not cumulative with racial bonuses or other ring runes. | Finger |
 Dagger Specialization Phase 4 | Skill with Daggers increased by 5. This effect is not cumulative with racial bonuses or other ring runes. | Finger |
 Fist Weapon Specialization Phase 4 | Skill with Fist Weapons (Unarmed) increased by 5. This effect is not cumulative with racial bonuses or other ring runes. | Finger |
 Pole Weapon Specialization Phase 4 | Skill with Staves and Polearms increased by 5. This effect is not cumulative with racial bonuses or other ring runes. | Finger |
 Ranged Weapon Specialization Phase 4 | Skill with Bows, Guns, Crossbows, and Thrown weapons increased by 5. This effect is not cumulative with racial bonuses or other ring runes. | Finger |
 Sword Specialization Phase 4 | Skill with Swords and Two-Handed Swords increased by 5. This effect is not cumulative with racial bonuses or other ring runes. | Finger |
You can find more details about the runes and locations in our WoW SoD Hunter Runes Guide.
Best Race for Hunters in WoW Classic
The best race for a Hunter depends on whether you are playing on the Alliance or Horde side:
Alliance
- In PvE
Night Elf is the best race for Alliance Hunters. - In PvP Night Elf is the best choice for Open World PvP and BGs for an Alliance hunter. For duels
Dwarf is a very strong contender.
Horde
- In PvE
Troll is the best race for Horde Hunters. - In PvP
Orc is the best choice for Horde Hunters.
Hunter Builds in WoW SoD
In the Season of Discovery, the runes and new game content will change the meta and its builds in WoW Classic. Below are Hunter builds designed for the current phase of Season of Discovery.
Since Hunters can only take on the role of a damage dealer, we have summarized all builds in WoW SoD Hunter Specs.
Hunter Macros in WoW Classic
You can write very useful macros for a Hunter in WoW Classic to improve your gameplay. Find the most important macros in our guide “WoW Classic Hunter Macros“. You’ll learn how to write macros yourself by reading through the examples, too.
Hunters in Fresh & Era
To learn more about Hunters for Blizzard’s Anniversary servers from 2024 or Era servers from 2019, use our WoW Classic Hunter guide.
All WoW SoD Class Guides
You can find all class guides for Season of Discovery here:
