Improved Tracking, a Survival Hunter talent in WoW Forever

Improved Tracking is a passive talent in row 1 of the Survival tree. It needs no points in Survival, so you can take it from level 10 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 5 ranks. It is new in Forever and replaces Monster Slaying and Humanoid Slaying from Classic.

Improved Tracking

5 ranks

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

Every rank of Improved Tracking

Rank	Text
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%.
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%.
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%.
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%.
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%.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Survival tree

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Needs

No prerequisite talent

Unlocks

No talent needs it

Same row

• Deflection

Row above

None: this is the first row

Row below (row 2)

• Entrapment
• Savage Strikes
• Survivalist
• Improved Wing Clip

Row numbers are on the left and the number in a corner is a talent's rank count. Gold marks Improved Tracking.

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Game data from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70291, as published by talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0) on 2026-10-08 and reformatted by us. Numbers can still change before launch.