Improved Hamstring, an Arms Warrior talent in WoW Forever

Improved Hamstring is a passive talent in row 6 of the Arms tree. It needs 25 points in Arms, so the earliest you can take it is level 35 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 3 ranks. It is the same as in Classic Era.

Improved Hamstring

3 ranks

Requires 25 points in Arms

Gives your Hamstring ability a 5% chance to immobilize the target for 5 sec.

Every rank of Improved Hamstring

Rank	Text
Rank 1	Gives your Hamstring ability a 5% chance to immobilize the target for 5 sec.
Rank 2	Gives your Hamstring ability a 10% chance to immobilize the target for 5 sec.
Rank 3	Gives your Hamstring ability a 15% chance to immobilize the target for 5 sec.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Arms tree

Needs

No prerequisite talent

Unlocks

No talent needs it

Same row

Improved Slam

Row above (row 5)

Row below (row 7)

Mortal Strike

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

Compared with Classic Era

Improved Hamstring is the same as in Classic Era.

It sits in the same place, has the same number of ranks and has the same rank 1 text.

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All Arms talents

The other Warrior trees: Fury and Protection. Everything that changed for the Warrior 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.