• Improved Aspect of the Hawk - Max 5 points, provides a 10% chance to add up to a 15% attack speed increase to all your normal ranged attacks for the next 12 seconds.
  • This can proc quite often, and proc's off of shots while it is active. This means that you can expect it to be active almost 1/2 the time.
  • 15% speed increase can provide a big DPS boost, and is nothing to ignore.
  • Recommended
    
    
• Endurance Training - Max 5 points, increases the health of your pet by up to 10% and your health by up to 5%.
  • While grinding and leveling your pet is your tank, and any health increase is highly recommended.
  • In the end game where your pet is not taking as much damage, it can be replaced.
  • Must have while leveling or soloing

• Focused Fire - Max 2 points, All damage caused by you is increased by up to 2% while your pet is active and the critical strike chance of your kill command is increased by up to 20%.
  • A straight 2% damage bonus for 2 talent points is amazing.
  • The boost to kill command is a nice bonus.
  • Highly Recommended
    
    
• Improved Aspect of the Monkey - Max 3 points, adds up to 6% to your chance to dodge while aspect of the monkey is active.
  • The dodge increase is really a survival type talent, and would be great in that tree.
  • Skip it unless your a survival hunter
    
    
• Thick Hide - Max 3 points, adds up to 20% to the armor rating of your pet and up to 10% of your armor contributions from items.
  • Provides a solid amount of damage mitigation, especially for your pet.
  • Since your pet will be tanking for you need this talent while leveling.
  • Must have talent
    
    
• Improved Revive Pet - Max 2 points, reduces the casting time of revive pet by up to 6 seconds, and the mana cost by up to 40%. In addition your pet comes back with up to 30% additional health.
• This can be a great talent in raids, where if your pet dies at the start of a long fight you would like to bring it back to life.
• In normal 5 man instances and leveling, the ability is not worth the two points.

• Pathfinding - Max 2 points, increases the speed bonus of your aspect of the cheetah and aspect of the pack by up to 8%.
  • Marginally useful, however most players don't run enough using the aspects to be worth 2 talent points.
  • Skip it
    
    
• Bestial Swiftness- 1 point, increase outdoor movement speed of your pet by 30%.
  • Can be very useful when leveling or soloing outdoors.
  • Very useful in arena combat to provide your pet that little extra speed boost.
    
    
• Unleashed Fury - 5 points, increases the DPS of your pet by up to 20%
• With this ability your pets damage goes up significantly.
• There is also no other real contender for your talent points at this level.
• Must have talent
  

• Improved Mend Pet - Max 2 points, Gives your mend pet spell up to a 50% chance of cleansing once curse, disease, magic or poison effect from the pet per tick.
  • This is a very good talent while you are leveling or grinding as it will help keep your pet alive much longer by removing bad effects.
  • One point is not worth it, put both points into it.
  • Recommended
    
    
• Ferocity - Max 5 points, provides up to a 10% bonus to your critical strike chance.
  • Another big increase to your pet damage and worth taking.
  • A prerequisite for frenzy which makes this a...
  • Must have talent

• Spirit Bond - Max 2 points, while your pet is active you will regenerate up to 2% of your total health every 10 seconds.
  • A very useful leveling and grinding talent as it decreases your downtime.
  • Can be useful in raids to lower your requirement for healing, but does not make a huge difference as it is only 12% of your health per minute.
  • Pick it up if you grind or are still leveling
    
    
• Intimidation - 1 point skill, your pet intimidates its target on the next successful melee attack, causing a high amount of threat and stunning the target for 3 seconds.
  • A great talent overall. Provides an additional pet taunt and a stun.
  • A requirement to get bestial wrath and therefore a...
  • Must have talent
    
    
• Bestial Discipline - Max 2 points, increases your pets focus regeneration by up to 100%
  • This is a huge increase in your pets attack output, doubling the number of special attacks they will be able to use.
  • Recommended

• Animal Handler - Max 2 points, increases your speed while mounted by up to 8% and your pet's chance to hit by up to 4%.
  • The mounted speed increase is nice, but not the real reason for the talent.
  • The 4% bonus hit chance for your pet is a huge boost when raiding, where you have a big miss chance against the bosses.
  • Recommended for raids
    
    
• Frenzy - Max 5 points, gives your pet up to a 100% chance to gain a 30% attack speed increase for 8 seconds after dealing a critical strike.
  • The 30% attack speed increase can add up to a lot of extra damage.
  • Attacks that re proc the ability while it is already active can reset the 8 second counter.
  • Must have talent

• Ferocious Inspiration - Max 3 points, provides up to a 3% damage increase for all party members for 10 seconds after your pet scores a critical hit.
  • This can be a big increase to your parties damage output as it will add to everything they do.
  • Recommended for raiding
    
    
• Bestial Wrath - 1 point skill, sends your pet into a rage, causing 50% additional damage for 18 seconds. While enraged in can not be stopped unless killed.
  • This is an amazing talent as if adds damage and stops all forms of CC from working on your pet.
  • Great in the PvP arenas, as that annoying warlock can no longer fear your pet of of themselves.
  • Once of the key talents to being a beast master hunter
  • Must have talent
    
    
• Catlike Reflexes - Max 3 points, increases your pets chance to dodge by up to 9% and yours by up to 3%.
  • Very useful for your pet to stay alive while grinding or soloing.
  • Useful for PvP where you will be a target much of the time.

• Serpent's Swiftness - Max 5 points, increases your ranged attack speed by up to 20% and your pets melee attack speed by up to 20%.
  • The main reason to be a beast master. While you do less damage per shot than a marksman hunter, you put out 20% more shots. This adds up to a huge amount of damage.
  • Your pet attacks more often, doing more damage and interrupting more often.
  • Must Have Talent

• The Beast Within - 1 point skill, when your pet is effected by bestial wrath, you also enrage doing 10% additional damage and reducing the mana cost of your abilities by 20%. While enraged you can not be stopped unless killed.
  • A nice boost in damage, but more importantly you can not be feared or CC'ed in any way.
  • This is what being a beast master is all about!
  • Must Have Talent

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