Dire Beast

Dire Beast
Dire Beast Row 6 Beast Mastery hunter talent 40 yd range 20 sec cooldown Instant Summons a powerful wild beast that attacks the target and roars, increasing your Haste by 5% for 8 sec. Generates 20 Focus
Properties
Class	Hunter
School	Nature
Cooldown	20 seconds
Talents
Talent required	[Hunter's Prey] or [Poisoned Barbs]
Other information
Improvements	[Dire Cleave], [Dire Command], [Dire Frenzy], [Huntmaster's Call], [Shadow Hounds]
Glyphs	[Glyph of Arachnophobia],  [Glyph of Dire Bees],  [Glyph of Nesingwary's Nemeses],  [Glyph of the Dire Stable]
Related buff
Dire Beast Haste increased by 5%. Duration: 8 seconds

Dire Beast is a Beast Mastery hunter talent.

Patch changes

• Hotfix (2025-03-12): Dire Beasts will now find a safe location when being summoned on fights with hard-to-reach bosses (example: Kyrioss).
  
• Patch 11.1.0 (2025-02-25):
  • Visual effects have been updated.
  • Dire Beasts now leap to their target when summoned.
    
• Patch 11.0.2 (2024-08-13): Damage reduced by 10%.
  
• Patch 11.0.0 (2024-07-23): Damage increased by 10% and now grants 20 Focus.
  
• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 6 talent (was a level 15 talent).
  
• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): No longer has a Focus cost.
  
• Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Now a level 15 talent (was a level 12 ability). Redesigned.

  Previous effect: Summons a powerful wild beast to attack your target for 8 sec. Generates 12 Focus over its duration.
  

• Patch 7.2.5 (2017-06-13): Now has 2 charges baseline.
  
• Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Now learned at level 12 (was 10).
  
• Hotfix (2016-08-12): Dire Beast is a bit less noisy.
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Redesigned into a Beast Mastery hunter ability.

  Previous effect: Summons a powerful wild beast to attack your target for 15 sec. Each time the beast deals damage, you will gain 2 Focus.
  

• Hotfix (2014-10-17): Damage increased by 15%.
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Now restores 2 Focus per hit (down from 5 Focus per hit).
  
• Hotfix (2013-09-11): Should no longer summon snakes that were larger than usual while on the Timeless Isle.
  
• Hotfix (2013-03-15): Dire Beast summons should now have the Avoidance aura.
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Added.
  

External links

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