Survival Hunter Mists of Pandaria: Remix Guide — The War Within Pre-Patch
On this page, you will learn the best Gems to use for your Survival Hunter in Mists of Pandaria: Remix, as well as the best leveling talents and rotation, whether you are leveling in the open world, or through raids and dungeons.
If you were looking for our normal leveling guide for Survival Hunter, please check out our Leveling page.
Remix: Mists of Pandaria Guide for Survival Hunter
Welcome to our MoP Remix Guide for Survival Hunter! This page contains everything you need to know about getting the most out of your Survival Hunter in the Patch 10.2.7 special feature, Mists of Pandaria: Remix.
This page is focused only on Survival Hunter in MoP Remix. If you want to know more about MoP Remix in general, such as its rewards, check out our dedicated page below.
Best MoP Remix Leveling Talents for Survival Hunter
Below, you will find our recommended leveling build and talent pickup order for your Survival Hunter in MoP Remix. There are various ways of leveling in MoP Remix, and we offer some builds for the most relevant ways.
Note that this Leveling section is specific to MoP Remix. For our The War Within Leveling Guide for Survival Hunter, please check our dedicated Leveling page.
Best MoP Remix Leveling Build for Survival Hunter
General Leveling Build
This build will serve you well for nearly all scenarios, including open-world leveling, dungeons, and scenarios.
Single-Target Raid Build
Some raid fights in MoP Remix will call for pure single-target damage. Use this build for those fights.
Best Gems for Survival Hunter in MoP Remix
Gems are one of the unique ways to augment your character in MoP Remix, offering offensive, defensive, and utility benefits. On this page, we list the best gems for each type. To learn more about Gems in MoP Remix in general, check out our dedicated page below.
- Meta Gem:
Oblivion Sphere
- Cogwheel Gem:
Dark Pact — Most others prefer Blink, but we are mobile already and I recommend Dark Pact to counteract our squishiness.
- Prismatic Gems: You will have a tremendous amount of stats as you start unlocking all Gem
slots, and there is no single best stat to stack. Several Tinker Gems offer
huge amounts of secondary stats, and you want to adjust your stats around these.
The caps for each stat are 36000 Mastery Rating, ~70% Crit, and ~50% Haste.
Tinker Gems are going to bring you to the crit hardcap of 100%, and well past
the Haste softcap of 100%. Remaining stats should go into Versatility. The best
gems
are
Perfect Deadly Sapphire/
Perfect Masterful Amethyst/
Perfect Quick Topaz/
Perfect Versatile Diamond.
- Tinker Gems:
Windweaver — The group Haste from this is extremely highly tuned.
Enkindle
Victory Fire — Very potent for leveling where you reliably killing blow all mobs. Not great for group content.
Lightning Rod
Slay
Brilliance
Incendiary Terror +
Opportunist is a strong combo before you have high Crit levels. Incendiary Terror remains good even without Opportunist.
Wildfire
Hailstorm
Meteor Storm +
Opportunist — Early-game before you get high Crit. Meteor Storm is good alone, too.
Sunstrider's Flourish — Benefits hugely from high Crit and
Opportunist
Explosive Barrage
Mark of Arrogance — Strong if you regularly take damage that originates from enemies, like Raid AoE effects from bosses and the like.
Storm Overload
Brittle — Extremely powerful on AoE with dying targets. Weak on single-target/raid bosses.
Ankh of Reincarnation — If you want a Cheat Death. Optional.
Frost Armor — Strong Defensive, optional.
- There are other Tinker Gems, but none stand out in the way that the ones above do. I encourage you to experiment with different combinations, while keeping in mind the strength of the ones listed here.
Level by Level Rotation
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!
Leveling Rotation for Survival Hunter
When using our slider, note that some talents may appear sooner than you expect them to in the rotation. This is because we have two recommended builds above, each taking talents at slightly different times, and sometimes entirely different talents.
- Use
Harpoon to close gaps to enemies quickly.
- On AoE, Use
Fury of the Eagle on cooldown.
- On AoE, Use
Butchery on cooldown.
- Use
Explosive Shot on cooldown.
- Use
Kill Shot on cooldown.
- Use
Wildfire Bomb on cooldown.
- Spam
Raptor Strike.
- Spam
Arcane Shot.
- Use
Steady Shot as a filler.
Changelog
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 29 May 2024: Updated Tinker Gem recommendations.
- 20 May 2024: Updated Tinker Gem rankings based on live server power levels.
- 17 May 2024: Updated Tinker and Cogwheel Gem recommendations in light of recent changes and new information.
- 14 May 2024: Page added.
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This guide has been written by Azortharion, a Hunter Theorycrafter and Guidewriter since 2014 who is widely considered one of the best Hunters in the world. He is an accomplished player with hundreds of top parses for all Hunter specs throughout the game's history. He is also the owner of Trueshot Lodge, the 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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