Survival Hunter Leveling Guide from 1 to 80 — The War Within (11.0.7)
On this page, you will find our Level by Level Survival Hunter leveling guide for The War Within. Make sure to use the slider to make the guide adapt to your level. For more general leveling information, please refer to our Hunter leveling guide.
Survival Hunter Leveling Guide for The War Within
Survival Hunter Leveling Playstyle
Survival Hunter, thanks to being able to use its pet as a tank to some extent, is good for both questing and dungeon leveling. It has the best survivability of the Hunter Specs, though because its pet is not as sturdy as a Beast Mastery Hunter's, it can still not make the same kind of pulls.
Grab a Ferocity pet and Misdirection, and activate it before tagging as many mobs as possible, usually with Wildfire Bomb, and watch the mobs flock to your pet. Then, take out the mobs with Wildfire Bomb. Whenever you kill an enemy, the cooldown of Harpoon is reset and you can fly to a new one!
Survival Hunter Leveling Talents
This is my recommended Talent Build for Leveling your Survival Hunter in The War Within.
Best Leveling Talents for Survival Hunter in The War Within
This is my recommended Leveling Build for Survival Hunter in The War Within. Be sure to click the "Talents by Level" option in the bottom right.
Best Leveling Gear for Survival Hunter
When leveling up, always choose the piece of loot with the highest item level. The only exception to this rule is if you have a Ring or Necklace with a slightly lower item level, but 2 secondary stats on it instead of 1.
Level-by-Level Rotation for Survival Hunter
To keep things simple while leveling and learning the spec, use the slider to select your level, and watch as the leveling rotation grows with each level!
Move the slider below to make the guide update to your level!
- Use Misdirection on your pet to shift aggro onto it.
- Use Harpoon to close gaps to enemies quickly.
- On AoE, Use Fury of the Eagle on cooldown when mobs are gathered up.
- On AoE, Use Butchery on cooldown. Try to hold it for many targets!
- Use Explosive Shot on cooldown.
- Use Kill Shot on cooldown.
- Use Wildfire Bomb on cooldown.
- Use Kill Command on cooldown. This generates Tip of the Spear stacks that empower your other abilities, too, so try to use those stacks on Bombs, Explosive Shots, etc.
- Spam Raptor Strike.
- Spam Arcane Shot.
- Use Steady Shot as a filler.
Best Leveling Pet for Survival Hunter
All pets do the same damage, but they vary in their utility and special abilities. For Leveling, the best pet is any Ferocity-type pet, as they heal themselves whenever they do damage, allowing you to make larger pulls.
Ferocity pets also come with Primal Rage which is a Bloodlust effect. This should be used as often as possible when you are fighting for over thirty seconds.
You can find a list of all the Pets and the abilities they bring on our Spell Summary Page.
Level 80: Congratulations!
Congratulations on reaching Level 80! Now that you have hit Level 80, we recommend looking at our Easy mode page and Talents section to learn how to play at max level.
Changelog
- 15 Dec. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.7.
- 30 Oct. 2024: Updated for October 29 Hotfixes.
- 22 Oct. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.5.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Preliminary update for The War Within Season 1.
- 22 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Season 4.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.2
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
- 01 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 24 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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This guide has been written by Azortharion, a Hunter Guidewriter, Theorycrafter, and top player since 2014, who is widely considered one of the best PvE Hunters in the world. He is an accomplished player with hundreds of top parses across all Hunter specs. He is the Head Admin of Trueshot Lodge, the official Hunter Class Discord. You can find him on his stream on Twitch and his channel on YouTube. He also has his own, personal Discord server where you can freely ask him any Hunter questions you may have!
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