The subject of this article was removed from World of Warcraft in patch 4.0.1. This includes items and quests that can no longer be obtained. The in-game information in this article is kept purely for historical purposes and should probably not be under any other categories.

Improved Tracking
While tracking Beasts, Demons, Dragonkin, Elementals, Giants, Humanoids and Undead, all damage done to those types by the Hunter is increased by X%.
Usable by
Class	Hunter
Properties
Location	Survival, Tier 1
Affects	All abilities
Ranks	5
Requirements
Points required	N/A
Spec specific	Yes

• While tracking Beasts, Demons, Dragonkin, Elementals, Giants, Humanoids and Undead, all damage done to those types by the Hunter is increased by X%.

Improved Tracking is a consolidated version of Monster Slaying and Humanoid Slaying.

Note that you do not have to change the tracking mode according to your target to get the bonus -- you have to have one of the tracking modes on.

Rank table

Notes

Instead of being an x% increase in damage and x% increase in critical damage to the foe in question, it becomes a flat x% increase in damage. Point for point this provides less than the old versions for each type individually, but is superior for four reasons:

1. More DPS increase total - 5% damage increase is usually better than 3% damage, 3% crit damage.
2. Saves a talent point - you only spend 5 points total, not 6 like you would if you wanted to maximize the effect versus all targets.
3. More versatile - works on Elementals, Demons, and Undead as well as everything the old versions did.
4. Cleaner tree - no longer do you feel obligated to take 3/3 Hawk eye and then be forced into taking either a partial talent or Savage Strikes.

Patch changes

• Patch 3.2.0 (04-Aug-2009): The tooltip for Improved Tracking has been slightly re-written to indicate that it only works on the hunter, and works on melee damage as well. 
  
• Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): This talent has been slightly re-designed. Now reads: While tracking Beasts, Demons, Dragonkin, Elementals, Giants, Humanoids and Undead, all ranged damage done to those types is increased by 1/2/3/4/5%.
  

            Was "Increases all non-periodic damage done to targets that are being tracked 1/2/3/4/5%."

• / Patch 3.0.2 (14-Oct-2008): Added. 
  

External links

• Wowhead
• Thottbot
• WoWDB

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