Deadly Aspects

Deadly Aspects ranks in Forever

1. Rank 1 While Aspect of the Hawk is active, all normal ranged attacks have a 2% chance of increasing ranged attack speed by 30% for 12 sec. While Aspect of the Beast is active, all melee auto attacks have a 2% chance of increasing melee attack speed by 30% for 12 sec.
2. Rank 2 While Aspect of the Hawk is active, all normal ranged attacks have a 4% chance of increasing ranged attack speed by 60% for 24 sec. While Aspect of the Beast is active, all melee auto attacks have a 4% chance of increasing melee attack speed by 60% for 24 sec.
3. Rank 3 While Aspect of the Hawk is active, all normal ranged attacks have a 6% chance of increasing ranged attack speed by 90% for 36 sec. While Aspect of the Beast is active, all melee auto attacks have a 6% chance of increasing melee attack speed by 90% for 36 sec.
4. Rank 4 While Aspect of the Hawk is active, all normal ranged attacks have a 8% chance of increasing ranged attack speed by 120% for 48 sec. While Aspect of the Beast is active, all melee auto attacks have a 8% chance of increasing melee attack speed by 120% for 48 sec.
5. Rank 5 While Aspect of the Hawk is active, all normal ranged attacks have a 10% chance of increasing ranged attack speed by 150% for 60 sec. While Aspect of the Beast is active, all melee auto attacks have a 10% chance of increasing melee attack speed by 150% for 60 sec.

What Deadly Aspects 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. In Classic Era it is called Improved Aspect of the Hawk.

1. Rank 1 While Aspect of the Hawk is active, all normal ranged attacks have a 1% chance of increasing ranged attack speed by 30% for 12 sec.
2. Rank 2 While Aspect of the Hawk is active, all normal ranged attacks have a 2% chance of increasing ranged attack speed by 30% for 12 sec.
3. Rank 3 While Aspect of the Hawk is active, all normal ranged attacks have a 3% chance of increasing ranged attack speed by 30% for 12 sec.
4. Rank 4 While Aspect of the Hawk is active, all normal ranged attacks have a 4% chance of increasing ranged attack speed by 30% for 12 sec.
5. Rank 5 While Aspect of the Hawk is active, all normal ranged attacks have a 5% chance of increasing ranged attack speed by 30% for 12 sec.

Where Deadly Aspects sits in the Beast Mastery tree

Deadly Aspects is a Beast Mastery talent for Hunter. It sits on the first row, so it can be taken straight away.

• Same row: Endurance Training

How often people take Deadly Aspects

117 of the 120 public Hunter builds saved here — 98% — put at least one point in Deadly Aspects. 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.

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

• BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage