Counterattack

Hunter · Survival · opens at 15 points spent · 1 rank

Counterattack works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.

30 Mana · Melee Range · Instant · 5 sec cooldown

Counterattack ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 A strike that becomes active after parrying an opponent's attack. This attack deals 50% weapon damage plus 26 and immobilizes the target for 5 sec. Counterattack cannot be blocked, dodged, or parried.

What Counterattack does in Classic Era

Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side.

  1. Rank 1 A strike that becomes active after parrying an opponent's attack. This attack deals 40 damage and immobilizes the target for 5 sec. Counterattack cannot be blocked, dodged, or parried.

Where Counterattack sits in the Survival tree

Counterattack is a Survival talent for Hunter. You need 15 points in Survival before the row it sits on opens. It also requires Deterrence first.

How often people take Counterattack

24 of the 130 public Hunter builds saved here — 18% — put at least one point in Counterattack. Counted across the 1498 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.

Builds that take Counterattack

One of the public Hunter builds written up here spends points on Counterattack.

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

  • Forever client build 1.60.1.69893