This from the official site:
Hunter Talent Sneak Peek! | 10/13/2004 9:37:12 PM GMTDT
Since the Hunter talents are done internally, I managed to get you a sneak peek of what's coming up. Without further ado, here are the trees and a sample talent from each!
Beast Mastery
This talent tab focuses on improving the Hunter's pets, Aspects, and the Hunter's interaction with their pet.
Sneak Peek Talent - Spirit Bond: Each time the Hunter's pet strikes an enemy, the Hunter gains some life.
Marksmanship
This talent tab allows the hunter to specialize in ranged combat, focusing on enhancing their shots and stings.
Sneak Peek Talent - Scatter Shot: A short-range shot (no min range), that deals less damage then normal but confuses the target for several seconds.
Survival
This talent tab gives the Hunter the opportunity to specialize in close combat, enhancing their melee abilities and traps.
Sneak Peek Talent - Deterrence: When activated, this spell significantly increases the Hunter's dodge and parry chance for several seconds.
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- Caydiem -
Assistant Community Manager, WoW
Read the replies here:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-hunter&t=8399#Post8399
All I have to say are those are some really good choices for the class!! You must decide if you should improve your Pet, Ranged ability, or Melee ability!! If that isn't a tough choice, I don't know what is.
I'll say this about melee: We weren't meant to be very effective so I do kind of feel this is a wasted area. If you want to be effective at melee, play a more melee intensive class.
Our main strengths are ranged damage and our pets. Picking between which skills to take should be tough. I think we'll have a lot of fun with these.
Off the Hunter topic, Paladin talents should come soon after. With all the complaints about Paladins being poor soloers, I expect to see one area of talents that improve melee ability in general, one that focuses on spells and auras, and one that focuses on "Holy" things like heals and undead. Time will tell though.
I'm really glad for this insight into the Hunter though, can't wait to see what all the talents are.