Hunter pets, specs and the new Human

Last checked: 2026-11-12

Hunters are the ranged mail class with a tamed pet. The three trees are Beast Mastery, Marksmanship and Survival. Human Hunter is one of the six new combinations on the product page, so Alliance is no longer locked out of the class the way Classic Era players remember. IGN says almost every race can be a Hunter except Gnome and Undead, and it points Alliance at Night Elf for Shadowmeld and Horde at Tauren or Troll.

The pet is half the class, and the pet page is where families, diets and example pets live. Two numbers from the 10 Nov hotfix belong here because they change how a pet feels: pet health was corrected from 150% to 115%, and Arcane Shot’s mana cost was set to 11% of base mana. On 11 Nov, Volley procs and movement interrupts were fixed. I am not reprinting a full pet-ability matrix on this URL. If the question is “which family has Swipe,” use the pets table and Wowhead’s tame list of 676 pets. I do not have an authoritative answer for the strongest health family, so I will not name one.

Leveling advice that I can actually support is short. Take the pet, keep food that matches the diet once you know it, and do not build a talent string from memory. The research file’s Hunter volume is about 600 for leveling tips, separate from the pet questions.