Survival Hunter PvE

[Azortharion 60]

11 hours ago, Guest Brewwarden said:

How on earth am I supposed to sync the talent trees with the rotations if the rotation tells me to use spearhead but the talent tree does not even touch that lineage?

Heya. We've undergone a bit of a transition period as Spearhead builds were much more common before the new 4PC became ubiquitous, which caused the confusion. I've updated the guide today to default to the 4PC in the rotation.

[Guest Kasturas]

You will use the 9.0.5 talent setup if you have the S1 tier set. If you have the new tier set then you use the new talent setup. They recommend that you should replace your old 4 -piece when you have all 4 of the new set. The old setup used spearhead for ST and Coordinated Assault for AoE.

[ashkir 0]

amazing guide! Thank you! A suggestion, some of your BIS lists include staff (staves) however whetstones can't be used on them. Perhaps suggest a weapon oil that can be used if using a staff versus polearm? Polearms are bladed and use whetstones, staves aren't. 

[Azortharion 60]

14 hours ago, ashkir said:

amazing guide! Thank you! A suggestion, some of your BIS lists include staff (staves) however whetstones can't be used on them. Perhaps suggest a weapon oil that can be used if using a staff versus polearm? Polearms are bladed and use whetstones, staves aren't. 

Hey! Thanks, the guide has been updated to include a mention of the Ironclaw Weightstone, usable on Staves.

[KeepoVS 0]

What buff do you get from explosive shot that you want to hold the CD till right before coordinated assault. I think I'm missing something. You refer to it in step 6 of the AoE rotation on the M+ setup. Thanks for the guide.

[Azortharion 60]

17 hours ago, KeepoVS said:

What buff do you get from explosive shot that you want to hold the CD till right before coordinated assault. I think I'm missing something. You refer to it in step 6 of the AoE rotation on the M+ setup. Thanks for the guide.

The end of Coordinated Assault resets the cooldown of Explosive Shot.

So, there is no reason to cast an Explosive Shot when CA is within 20s of coming off CD. Why? Because no matter what you do, you will only get one more Explosive Shot into that window (20s until CA starts, 20s duration on it), so you might as well hold it until CA begins to get the damage buff on your Explosive Shot.

[ashkir 0]

Question,

Why do we drop Mongoose Bite in M+?

 

 

[Azortharion 60]

10 minutes ago, ashkir said:

Question,

Why do we drop Mongoose Bite in M+?

 

 

While it is a decent (and really, only decent) single-target talent, AoE demands are far higher in Mythic+ and it is the first talent to be sacrificed for AoE talents because it's less remarkable across the board than most other talents.

[Guest Weslysnipez]

Why take explosive trap over implosive trap in mythic+, sems bad to knockback the pack instead of knocking them up no?

[Guest Mirron]

Hi,

I've been watching/reading your guide for a while, always great.

I'm new to survival, could you explain 3. on the sentinel dungeon/mm+. (Aoe rotation)

Before using butcher (on cooldown), we want to use all our bombs for the reset. Do we want those bombs to be affected by tip? 

If we don't bother with tip, maybe better to include that circumstance in the part 2. (When we use bomb without tip)

    1: bomb on 2 charges

    2: before co-ordinate assault

    3: lunar storm

    4: before butcher

Keep it up

[Azortharion 60]

  

On 12/1/2024 at 5:03 AM, Guest Mirron said:

Hi,

I've been watching/reading your guide for a while, always great.

I'm new to survival, could you explain 3. on the sentinel dungeon/mm+. (Aoe rotation)

Before using butcher (on cooldown), we want to use all our bombs for the reset. Do we want those bombs to be affected by tip? 

If we don't bother with tip, maybe better to include that circumstance in the part 2. (When we use bomb without tip)

    1: bomb on 2 charges

    2: before co-ordinate assault

    3: lunar storm

    4: before butcher

Keep it up

Bombs cast before Butchery, just as the ones before Coordinated Assault (like the opener) do not need to be Tipped. That said, we can see when Butchery is coming off CD and dumping our Bombs beforehand accordingly. Since we can see it coming and prepare, we can Tip them. It's all about playing ahead - if Butchery comes off CD by "surprise", then we would dump all Bombs regardless of Tip, but ideally that is not how it works out in practice.