Surefooted, a Survival Hunter talent in WoW Forever

Surefooted is a passive talent in row 3 of the Survival tree. It needs 10 points in Survival, so the earliest you can take it is level 20 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 3 ranks. It has changed since Classic Era.

Surefooted

3 ranks

Requires 10 points in Survival

Increases your hit chance by 1% and reduces the duration of movement impairing effects on you by 10%.

Every rank of Surefooted

Rank	Text
Rank 1	Increases your hit chance by 1% and reduces the duration of movement impairing effects on you by 10%.
Rank 2	Increases your hit chance by 2% and reduces the duration of movement impairing effects on you by 20%.
Rank 3	Increases your hit chance by 3% and reduces the duration of movement impairing effects on you by 30%.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Survival tree

Needs

No prerequisite talent

Unlocks

No talent needs it

Same row

Row above (row 2)

Row below (row 4)

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

Compared with Classic Era

What differs from Classic Era: its rank 1 text and its position.

Position

Classic Era

Survival, row 4, column 2

WoW Forever

Survival, row 3, column 2

Rank 1 text

Classic Era

Increases hit chance by 1% and increases the chance movement impairing effects will be resisted by an additional 5%.

WoW Forever

Increases your hit chance by 1% and reduces the duration of movement impairing effects on you by 10%.

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All Survival talents

The other Hunter trees: Beast Mastery and Marksmanship. 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.