Intimidation
Hunter · Beast Mastery · opens at 20 points spent · 1 rank
Intimidation works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
84 Mana · 100 yd range · Instant · 1 min cooldown
Intimidation ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Command your pet to Stun the target for 3 sec on its next successful attack, which also gains 100% increased critical strike chance. Generates high threat.
What Intimidation 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 Command your pet to intimidate the target on the next successful melee attack, causing a high amount of threat and stunning the target for 3 sec.
Where Intimidation sits in the Beast Mastery tree
Intimidation is a Beast Mastery talent for Hunter. You need 20 points in Beast Mastery before the row it sits on opens. It also requires Bestial Swiftness first. Taking it opens Bestial Wrath.
- Requires: Bestial Swiftness
- Unlocks: Bestial Wrath
- Same row: Spirit Bond, Bestial Discipline
How often people take Intimidation
44 of the 120 public Hunter builds saved here — 37% — put at least one point in Intimidation. 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