Improved Tracking

Hunter · Survival · available from the first tier · 5 ranks

Improved Tracking does not exist in Classic Era. It is new in World of Warcraft: Forever.

Improved Tracking ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 While tracking Beasts, Demons, Dragonkin, Elementals, Giants, Humanoids, or Undead, all damage you deal to the tracked creature type is increased by 1%.
  2. Rank 2 While tracking Beasts, Demons, Dragonkin, Elementals, Giants, Humanoids, or Undead, all damage you deal to the tracked creature type is increased by 2%.
  3. Rank 3 While tracking Beasts, Demons, Dragonkin, Elementals, Giants, Humanoids, or Undead, all damage you deal to the tracked creature type is increased by 3%.
  4. Rank 4 While tracking Beasts, Demons, Dragonkin, Elementals, Giants, Humanoids, or Undead, all damage you deal to the tracked creature type is increased by 4%.
  5. Rank 5 While tracking Beasts, Demons, Dragonkin, Elementals, Giants, Humanoids, or Undead, all damage you deal to the tracked creature type is increased by 5%.

Where Improved Tracking sits in the Survival tree

Improved Tracking is a Survival talent for Hunter. It sits on the first row, so it can be taken straight away.

How often people take Improved Tracking

70 of the 120 public Hunter builds saved here — 58% — put at least one point in Improved Tracking. 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

New in Forever.

  • BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage