Savage Strikes ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases the critical strike chance of all your melee abilities by 2%.
- Rank 2 Increases the critical strike chance of all your melee abilities by 4%.
Rank 1 from footage (2% crit on all melee abilities, replacing Classic's 10% on Raptor Strike and Mongoose Bite). Rank 2 not shown; scaled like Classic (linear, 2x at max rank) to 4%.
What Savage Strikes 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 Increases the critical strike chance of Raptor Strike and Mongoose Bite by 10%.
- Rank 2 Increases the critical strike chance of Raptor Strike and Mongoose Bite by 20%.
Where Savage Strikes sits in the Survival tree
Savage Strikes is a Survival talent for Hunter. You need 5 points in Survival before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Entrapment, Survivalist, Improved Wing Clip
How often people take Savage Strikes
52 of the 120 public Hunter builds saved here — 43% — put at least one point in Savage Strikes. 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