Rapid Killing, a Marksmanship Hunter talent in WoW Forever

Rapid Killing is a passive talent in row 3 of the Marksmanship tree. It needs 10 points in Marksmanship, so the earliest you can take it is level 20 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 2 ranks. It is new in Forever and has no Classic counterpart.

Rapid Killing

2 ranks

• Requires 10 points in Marksmanship

Reduces the cooldown on your Rapid Fire ability by 1 min. In addition, when you kill a non-trivial enemy or it dies while afflicted by your Serpent Sting, you gain Rapid Killing, increasing the damage of your next Shot ability within 20 sec by 10%.

Every rank of Rapid Killing

Rank	Text
Rank 1	Reduces the cooldown on your Rapid Fire ability by 1 min. In addition, when you kill a non-trivial enemy or it dies while afflicted by your Serpent Sting, you gain Rapid Killing, increasing the damage of your next Shot ability within 20 sec by 10%.
Rank 2	Reduces the cooldown on your Rapid Fire ability by 2 min. In addition, when you kill a non-trivial enemy or it dies while afflicted by your Serpent Sting, you gain Rapid Killing, increasing the damage of your next Shot ability within 20 sec by 20%.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Marksmanship tree

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Needs

No prerequisite talent

Unlocks

• Rapid Recuperation

That talent needs Rapid Killing at 2/2.

Same row

• Improved Arcane Shot
• Lone Wolf

Row above (row 2)

• Improved Stings
• Efficiency
• Careful Aim

Row below (row 4)

• Trueshot Aura
• Mortal Shots

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

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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.