Anticipation
Shaman · Enhancement · opens at 10 points spent · 3 ranks
Anticipation works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Anticipation ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases your chance to dodge by an additional 2%.
- Rank 2 Increases your chance to dodge by an additional 4%.
- Rank 3 Increases your chance to dodge by an additional 6%.
What Anticipation 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. It has 5 ranks in Classic Era rather than 3.
- Rank 1 Increases your chance to dodge by an additional 1%.
- Rank 2 Increases your chance to dodge by an additional 2%.
- Rank 3 Increases your chance to dodge by an additional 3%.
Where Anticipation sits in the Enhancement tree
Anticipation is a Enhancement talent for Shaman. You need 10 points in Enhancement before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Elemental Weapons, Shamanistic Focus
How often people take Anticipation
53 of the 232 public Shaman builds saved here — 23% — put at least one point in Anticipation. 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
- Xaryu VOD 2872270692 @5:32
- Xaryu VOD 2872270692 @5:31:24 (rank 1 tooltip)