Introduction to the Survival Hunter

Survival is the Melee Hunter spec. It has a versatile toolkit with lots of Crowd Control potential, very high burst AoE damage potential, and good single-target damage. Survival lies somewhere between Marksmanship and Beast Mastery. While it does not have Spirit Mend, it can use any pet type for any situation just like Beast Mastery.

Below you will find a beginners guide to the Survival Hunter, you can click on highlighted abilities, for a more in depth description of them.

Strengths and Weaknesses of the Survival Hunter

Talents

Level	Choices
15	Viper’s Venom ✅	Terms of Engagement	Alpha Predator
30	Guerrilla Tactics ✅	Hydra’s Bite	Butchery
45	Trailblazer	Natural Mending ✅	Camouflage
60	Bloodseeker ✅	Steel Trap	A Murder of Crows
75	Born To Be Wild	Posthaste ✅	Binding Shot
90	Tip of the Spear	Mongoose Bite ✅	Flanking Strike
100	Birds of Prey ✅	Wildfire Infusion	Chakrams

Rotation of the Survival Hunter

The basic rotation of Survival Hunter is as follows:

• Cast  Mongoose Bite aggressively to extend  Coordinated Assault when it is close to expiring

• Use  Coordinated Assault on cooldown, but do not overlap an existing Coordinated Assault

• Cast  Kill Command on cooldown, if it will not Focus cap you

• Cast  Wildfire Bomb on cooldown

• Fire  Serpent Sting to spend  Viper’s Venom procs, or simply in order to apply/refresh the DoT

• Cast  Mongoose Bite to spend Focus, always trying to prevent yourself from hitting the Focus cap.

Cooldowns

 Coordinated Assault is Survival’s primary DPS cooldown. It increases all your damage done by 20%, and increases  Kill Command‘s chance of resetting its cooldown by 25% for 20 seconds. It has a 2-minute cooldown

 Aspect of the Eagle increases the range of your  Raptor Strike to 40 yards for 15 seconds, on a 1-minute and 12-second cooldown

Stat Priority

The stat priority for the Survival Hunter is

1. Haste
2. Versatility
3. Critical Strike
4. Mastery

MooBundo

Pro Healer (If I’m tabbed in), otherwise a total Moob