Savage Strikes ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases the critical strike chance of all your melee abilities by 2%.
- Rank 2 Increases the critical strike chance of all your melee abilities by 4%.
What Savage Strikes 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.
- Rank 1 Increases the critical strike chance of Raptor Strike and Mongoose Bite by 10%.
- Rank 2 Increases the critical strike chance of Raptor Strike and Mongoose Bite by 20%.
Where Savage Strikes sits in the Survival tree
Savage Strikes is a Survival talent for Hunter. You need 5 points in Survival before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Entrapment, Survivalist, Improved Wing Clip
How often people take Savage Strikes
63 of the 129 public Hunter builds saved here (49%) put at least one point in Savage Strikes. Counted across the 1500 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 Savage Strikes
8 of the public Hunter builds written up here spend points on Savage Strikes.
- Hunter Survival 5/11/35 · 2/2 , 245 up
- Hunter Marksmanship 5/33/13 · 2/2 , 12 up
- Hunter Survival 5/13/33 · 2/2 , 9 up
- Hunter Survival 12/4/31 · 2/2 , 5 up
- Hunter Survival 5/11/35 · 2/2 , 4 up
- Hunter Survival 13/4/31 · 2/2 , 3 up
- Hunter Survival 18/0/26 · 2/2 , 3 up
- Hunter Survival 8/11/24 · 2/2 , 2 up
Where this came from
Changed in Forever.
- Forever client build 1.60.1.70755
- the WoW: Forever client's hotfix cache, 3 November 2026 (DBCache.bin, build 70755)