class changes

Hunter and Druid: keeping the identity, opening the choices

Review selected official Forever Hunter and Druid changes, then explore community-sourced beta talent trees with clear version labels.

Selected announced changes

Blizzard’s deep dive introduces Summon Hawk and Lone Wolf for Hunters, alongside changes to traps. For Druids, Improved Mark of the Wild becomes part of the baseline toolkit.

Announcement and calculator data serve different purposes

The official article explains design changes; it is not a complete machine-readable tree. Our Hunter calculator and Druid calculator use a separately attributed community beta export for positions, ranks, and prerequisites.

The calculators display their exact data version. Beta tuning may change after that snapshot. A shared build from a different version is rejected with a clear warning instead of silently applying its points to new nodes.

This independent summary was written and checked on October 11. The linked September 30 source contains the full deep dive.

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