Sniper Shot

Hunter · Marksmanship · opens at 30 points spent · 1 rank

Sniper Shot does not exist in Classic Era. It is new in World of Warcraft: Forever.

Changed in the latest patch (patch of 3 November). See the patch notes

365 Mana · 45 yd range · 4 sec cast · 15 sec cooldown

Sniper Shot ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 A long-range shot that deals ranged damage plus 320 and increases the range of your next 3 Shots by 10 yards for 10 sec.

Where Sniper Shot sits in the Marksmanship tree

Sniper Shot is a Marksmanship talent for Hunter. You need 30 points in Marksmanship before the row it sits on opens. It also requires Trueshot Aura first.

How often people take Sniper Shot

23 of the 129 public Hunter builds saved here (18%) put at least one point in Sniper Shot. 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 Sniper Shot

6 of the public Hunter builds written up here spend points on Sniper Shot.

Where this came from

New in Forever.

  • Forever client build 1.60.1.70755
  • the WoW: Forever client's hotfix cache, 3 November 2026 (DBCache.bin, build 70755)