Intimidation, a Beast Mastery Hunter talent in WoW Forever

Intimidation is an active talent in row 5 of the Beast Mastery tree. It needs 20 points in Beast Mastery, so the earliest you can take it is level 30 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 1 rank. It has changed since Classic Era.

Intimidation

1 rank

8% of base mana
100 yd range
Instant
1 min cooldown

Requires 20 points in Beast Mastery
Requires Bestial Swiftness at 1/1

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.

Every rank of Intimidation

Rank	Text
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.

Where it sits in the Beast Mastery tree

Needs

Bestial Swiftness at 1/1

Unlocks

Bestial Wrath

That talent needs Intimidation at 1/1.

Same row

Row above (row 4)

Row below (row 6)

Frenzy

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

Compared with Classic Era

What differs from Classic Era: its rank 1 text.

Rank 1 text

Classic Era

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.

WoW Forever

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.

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The other Hunter trees: Marksmanship and Survival. Everything that changed for the Hunter since Classic is on the changes page.

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.