Survival Hunter DPS Crucible of Storms Raid Guide — Dragonflight 10.2.5
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Survival Hunter for each boss of the following raid: Crucible of Storms. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.2.5.
Disclaimer
This page will be a rough outline of the bosses and mechanics in the Crucible of Storms raid. This page will focus primarily on how a Survival Hunter can optimize its performance on the raid bosses in Crucible of Storms, and not on an actual raid strategy for the bosses. Initially, this page will focus on Heroic mode and lower, however, as more bosses are being killed on Mythic, the guide will also include optimizations for Mythic bosses.
Survival in Crucible of Storms
Survival Hunters are not very popular, but they are still a solid Melee DPS with high single-target damage, good burst and decent mobility. From a DPS perspective, it competes with both of the other Hunter specs and is widely considered to be fun to play.
Talent Cheatsheet
The Restless Cabal
Survival Hunter Playstyle on The Restless Cabal
A variety of builds can work on the Restless Cabal, but the most common
and best potential build involves 
Viper's Venom, 
Hydra's Bite, and
Wildfire Infusion combined with using lots of 
Latent Poison
traits.
With this build, we recommend saving 
Coordinated Assault for 
Bloodlust/
Heroism,
or when you have 9 stacks of the 
Promises of Power debuff.
Resounding Protection and 
Duck and Cover Azerite Traits are extremely powerful
on this fight. The size of the absorb shield does not go down
when your health goes down with the Promises of Power debuff on the fight.
This means that the traits effectively give you a 100%+ absorb shield.
Uu'nat, Harbinger of the Void
Survival Hunter Playstyle on Uu'nat
It is worth banking close to two charges of 
Wildfire Bomb
for when the adds spawn.
We recommend a 
Birds of Prey-based build that uses 2-3 
Blur of Talons
traits. This will ensure that your second Coordinated Assault will
cover the adds that spawn without any issues.
Changelog
- 13 Jan. 2020: This page has been reviewed for the release of Patch 8.3 and no changes are necessary.
- 24 Jun. 2019: This page has been reviewed for the release of Patch 8.2 and no changes are necessary.
- 13 May 2019: Added Survival tips for Uu'nat.
- 01 May 2019: Added Survival tips for The Restless Cabal.
- 14 Apr. 2019: Guide added.
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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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