Efficiency
Hunter · Marksmanship · opens at 5 points spent · 5 ranks
Efficiency works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Efficiency ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Reduces the Mana cost of your Shots, Stings, and melee abilities by 3%.
- Rank 2 Reduces the Mana cost of your Shots, Stings, and melee abilities by 6%.
- Rank 3 Reduces the Mana cost of your Shots, Stings, and melee abilities by 9%.
- Rank 4 Reduces the Mana cost of your Shots, Stings, and melee abilities by 12%.
- Rank 5 Reduces the Mana cost of your Shots, Stings, and melee abilities by 15%.
Slot corrected from a secondary source; not yet verified in footage.
What Efficiency 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 Reduces the Mana cost of your Shots and Stings by 2%.
- Rank 2 Reduces the Mana cost of your Shots and Stings by 4%.
- Rank 3 Reduces the Mana cost of your Shots and Stings by 6%.
- Rank 4 Reduces the Mana cost of your Shots and Stings by 8%.
- Rank 5 Reduces the Mana cost of your Shots and Stings by 10%.
Where Efficiency sits in the Marksmanship tree
Efficiency is a Marksmanship talent for Hunter. You need 5 points in Marksmanship before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Improved Stings, Careful Aim
How often people take Efficiency
37 of the 120 public Hunter builds saved here — 31% — put at least one point in Efficiency. 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