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Cunning

Cunning1 point

Your Spotting Eagle gains the Cunning specialization, granting you Master's Call and Pathfinding. Your pet removes all root and movement impairing effects from itself and a friendly target, and grants immunity to all such effects for 4 sec. Your movement speed is increased by 8%.

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TypeTalent
Ranks1 point
ClassHunter
Specializations3
Tree sectionMarksmanship specialization talents
Row4 of 11
Choice withTenacious
Game build12.1.5
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Tree position

In the Marksmanship Hunter talent tree, Cunning sits in the Marksmanship specialization talents, row 4 of 11. It is a single-point node.

Choice node

Cunning shares its node with Tenacious. A character takes one of the two.

  • Tenacious

    Your Spotting Eagle gains the Tenacity specialization, granting you Endurance Training and Air Superiority. You gain increased maximum health. Your Spotting Eagle alerts you to oncoming danger, reducing all damage you take by 3%

Connected above

The tree draws a line into Cunning from Avian Specialization or Unbreakable Bond.

  • Avian Specialization

    The damage bonus of Spotter's Mark is increased by 20%. Additionally, your Eagle learns how to Fetch. Damaging an enemy with abilities empowered by Precise Shots has a 30% chance to apply Spotter's Mark to the primary target, causing your next Aimed Shot and Rapid Fire to deal 20% increased damage to the target.

  • Unbreakable Bond

    Regain access to Call Pet. While outdoors, your pet deals 15% increased damage and takes reduced damage.

Connected below

Cunning leads on to No Scope.

  • No Scope

    Rapid Fire grants Precise Shots.

Same row

Also on this row: Surging Shots, Penetrating Shots and Trick Shots or Aspect of the Hydra.

  • Surging Shots

    Rapid Fire deals 35% additional damage, and Aimed Shot has a 15% chance to reset the cooldown of Rapid Fire.

  • Penetrating Shots

    Gain critical strike damage equal to 25% of your critical strike chance.

  • Trick Shots

    When Multi-Shot hits 3 or more targets, your next Aimed Shot or Rapid Fire will ricochet and hit up to 5 additional targets for 85% of normal damage.

  • Aspect of the Hydra

    Aimed Shot and Rapid Fire now hit 1 additional targets for 35% of their damage.

Talent trees

Cunning is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Hunter: Beast Mastery (DPS), Marksmanship (DPS), Survival (DPS).

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Cunning Changes by patch

Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.

  • First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)
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