The hunter's Ranged Weapon Specialization talent

[playingtokrush]

I would assume it is 1% of base absolute.  Other talents like this work on base damage anyway.  AP and arrows and such will add on top, so I would think they get no bonus.

Passive talents generally are pretty conservative.
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At least the crit related talents operate on total damage. There really is no reasonable explanation for why RWS shouldn't as well, especially when you consider that it has a 25 talent point prerequisite. Five talent points for what will amount to about a 1% damage increase is pretty pathetic.

I guess this seems to be in line with a lot of people's impressions that the hunter talents were rushed.