Survival Hunter PvP Guide — The War Within (11.0.7)
This guide will walk you through everything you need to know to play Survival Hunter in a PvP environment. The guide will cover everything from talent choices, PvP talents, gameplay and rotation, and useful racial bonuses. It is most applicable to Arena content, but most talents and racial bonuses will work in Rated Battlegrounds and skirmishes.
If you were looking for TBC Classic content, please refer to our TBC Hunter PvP guide.
Survival Hunters in the Current Meta
Survival Hunter is a powerful Hunter specialization with high burst and overall damage, strong mobility and crowd control potential.
The Survival Hunter damage rotation leaves a lot of space for skill expression and outplay potential. Survival is a hybrid between ranged and melee DPS, where much of the rotation can be done from range, and getting into melee range is only required when dumping focus with Raptor Strike/ Mongoose Bite and for using Muzzle.
The Survival Hunter rotation in The War Within does not require you to apply dots before being able to do meaningful burst damage, meaning that you are free to swap targets at short notice with low opportunity cost. Coordinated Assault has been entirely reworked and can be played as a one-minute offensive cooldown ( Symbiotic Adrenaline) or into one of the most dangerous offensive cooldowns in the game ( Relentless Primal Ferocity).
Survival cleaves a lot in its rotation, and in The War Within Explosive Shot becomes more central to the rotation with new talents Grenade Juggler and the newly designed Bombardier. Wildfire Bomb damage over time effect now rolls over, meaning Survival Hunters do not need to wait for the effect to end before throwing their next bomb.
Doing maximum damage as Survival in The War Within now revolves around consuming a Tip of the Spear whenever using your heavy hitters.
There is flexibility in the PvP talents available, with niche utility options that aren't available to Beast Mastery or Survival Hunters ( Sticky Tar Bomb, Mending Bandage and Tracker's Net).
Once you are comfortable weaving in and out of melee range during your burst windows, kiting in-between, timing your crowd control windows, and maximizing your consistent damage outside of cooldowns, Survival is an incredibly fun and rewarding specialization.
Survival rewards opportunistic and aggressive play as well as knowing when and how to kite between damage windows. You win by setups, burst, and punishing enemies that misuse defensives or position poorly. Survival is not a spec that wins by one-shotting, and playing to maximize damage done (and reduce damage taken) is how it competes with other specializations that may be more forgiving when it comes to burst or crowd control.
Survival Hunter Strengths and Weaknesses
- High burst cleave damage with Wildfire Bomb, Butchery and Explosive Shot
- High sustained damage
- High mobility and kiting tools
- Mortal strike from pets
- Support for team with Roar of Sacrifice, Master's Call, Mending Bandage or Interlope
- Multiple crowd options in Intimidation, Binding Shot, Freezing Trap, High Explosive Trap, Scatter Shot/ Bursting Shot, Entrapment, Tracker's Net and Sticky Tar Bomb
- High number of keybinds and a hit-and-run playstyle that isn't as intuitive as other melee specs
- Heavily relies on landing Freezing Trap at the right moment
- Can easily break crowd control while bursting with Wildfire Bomb and Explosive Shot
- Needs to go into melee range when activating Coordinated Assault or landing Butchery, and low survivability when stuck toe-to-toe with melee specializations
Survival Hunter Hotfixes in Patch 11.0.5 (The War Within Season 1)
17 December 2024
Racial tuning
Various lesser played racess were buffed on the release of this patch, the most significant being Void Elf, where Spatial Rift received significant improvements. The changes to Regeneratin' will also make Zandalari troll much stronger in niche situations where being able to sustain a game longer by healing during Aspect of the Turtle is important.
Siren Isle's Cyrce's Circlet Gems
A new ring was added in the patch, with unique special gem bonuses. These are heavily nerfed and PvP and due to the loss of secondary stats it is not expected that the new ring system will be relevant in rated PvP game modes.
6 November 2024 (bug fix)
Hunter
- Kill Shot and Black Arrow will now appropriately damage their primary target when out of combat.
30 October 2024 (bug fixes)
Survival
- Deathblow no longer incorrectly has a reduced chance to proc in PvP instances.
- Pack Leader: An issue preventing Frenzied Tear from activating consistently has been corrected.
- Resolved an issue that was causing Wildfire Bomb to consume multiple stacks of Tip of the Spear per cast.
- Pack Leader: Scattered Prey will now correctly increase Butchery's damage for Survival Hunters.
Notes
These bug fixes will help Survival in arena. The particularly important one is the Deathblow fix, which had made the talent Sic 'Em obsolete following the 10.0.5 rework.
The fix to Scattered Prey makes it a competitive option on the choice node with Covering Fire, but as most of the damage from Butchery comes from Merciless Blows rather than Butchery itself, Covering Fire will likely remain the more reliably powerful talent.
22 October 2024 (patch 11.0.5 rework)
Hunter
- New Talent: Deathblow. Kill Command has a 10% chance to grant Deathblow. Deathblow: The cooldown of Kill Shot is reset. Your next Kill Shot can be used on any target, regardless of their current health.
- Steady Shot now generates 10 Focus baseline for all specs.
- Tranquilizing Shots empowered by Kodo Tranquilizer will now prioritize players.
- Improved Kill Shot has been removed.
Developer's note: Each Hunter specialization has a way to generate Deathblow, but only Marksmanship referred to it as Deathblow. These changes are meant to unify the Deathblow design while still allowing each specialization to interface with it in a unique way.
Hero talents: Pack Leader
- Howl of the Pack now also increases Wildfire Bomb damage by 20%.
- Wild Attacks now also increases the damage of Raptor Strike/ Mongoose Bite by 20%.
Hero talents: Sentinel
- Lunar Storm's visual effects have been updated.
- Symphonic Arsenal damage increased by 200% (for Survival only).
Survival
- Ruthless Marauder has been redesigned. Fury of the Eagle's damage is increased by 10% and damage from Fury of the Eagle has a 20% chance to generate a stack of Tip of the Spear. When Fury of the Eagle ends, your Haste is increased by 8% for 10 seconds. Now a 1-point talent.
- Merciless Blows has been redesigned. Butchery causes affected targets to bleed for heavy damage over 8 seconds.
- Sic 'Em has been updated. Kill Command's chance to grant Deathblow is increased to 15% and Deathblow now makes Kill Shot strike up to 2 additional targets. Your chance to gain Deathblow is doubled during Coordinated Assault.
- Exposed Flank has been updated. Now empowers your next Kill Command to deal 50% increased damage, strike 3 targets, and generate a Tip of the Spear stack for each target it hit.
- Grenade Juggler has been updated. Now resets the cooldown of Explosive Shot instead of automatically firing it. Developer's note: By allowing you to manually fire Explosive Shot, we can open up this talent's ability to synergize with existing effects (like Grenade Juggler's own cooldown reduction) while also eliminating some frustrating edge-cases.
- Butchery damage increased by 50%.
- Butchery no longer has charges and its cooldown has been increased to 15 seconds.
- Fury of the Eagle damage increased by 25%.
- Fury of the Eagle channel time reduced to 3 seconds (was 4 seconds).
- Fury of the Eagle now consumes a stack of Tip of the Spear when the channel begins, and the damage bonus will persist for the duration of the channel.
- Kill Command resets no longer reduce the cooldown of Fury of the Eagle.
- Tip of the Spear's consumption grace period has been reduced to 0.3 seconds (was 0.7 seconds).
- Relentless Primal Ferocity now grants 2 additional stacks of Tip of the Spear (was 1).
- Frenzy Strikes Wildfire Bomb cooldown reduction per target hit increased to 3 seconds (was 1 second).
- Killer Companion now increases Kill Command's damage by 10/20% (was 5/10%).
- Bombardier's aura is now removed at more reasonable times.
- Spearhead's cast animation now blends with other animations.
- Spearhead will no longer go on cooldown if the pet is out of range.
- Ranger and Terms of Engagement have swapped positions in the talent tree.
- Harpoon will now find an appropriate destination during the Rasha'nan fight in The Dawnbreaker dungeon.
Notes
This rework finally brings Pack Leader in-line with Sentinel. The 20% additional damage to Wildfire Bomb and Raptor Strike/ Mongoose Bite is a huge swing in what the Pack Leader tree brings to the table.
Meanwhile, the heavy increase to both the damage and cooldown of Butchery combined with the new damage over time effect Merciless Blows creates a lot of potential new talent builds, especially in area of effect scenarios. Survival Hunters will not only do huge area of effect damage, but also be able to to "funnel" that damage (increase single target damage by doing area of effect damage) using the synergy between Butchery resetting the cooldown of Wildfire Bomb via Frenzy Strikes, and Wildfire Bomb reducing the cooldown of Butchery via Covering Fire.
Incorporating Butchery into your rotation may require a slight adjustment in playstyle for some, as you will want to use it as often as possible, which will require moving into melee range regularly.
The rework to Grenade Juggler also gives Survival Hunters a higher degree of control over their rotation and in particular, whether their rotation will break crowd control at inconvenient moments. The reduction is randomness here also makes it easier to play around the breakable version of Freezing Trap instead of taking Diamond Ice.
Despite the buff to Relentless Primal Ferocity, Survival Hunters are going to be encouraged to stick with Symbiotic Adrenaline to have higher uptime on Vicious Hunt and Pack Coordination during their Coordinated Assault, due to the Pack Leader capstone, Pack Assault.
Survival Hunters playing Pack Leader for the first time will also appreciate the additional on-demand survivability from Den Recovery as well as well as neat tricks such as catching someone off-guard with a Muzzle outside of melee range using extended Cornered Prey range.
It is possible that the Fury of the Eagle changes will make it powerful in certain matchups, but the talent options for Survival are so strong, and Fury of the Eagle so easy to get countered on, that it's unlikely to be played with any consistency.
8 October 2024
Hunter
- Survival of the Fittest now provides 25% damage reduction in PvP combat (was 30%).
- Survival Tactics (PvP Talent) now has a 2 second duration (was 3 seconds).
Hero Talents: Sentinel
- Sentinel: Don't Look Back effectiveness reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
Survival
- Nerub-ar Palace 2-Set Bonus: Now increases Wildfire Bomb damage by 8% (was 5%).
- Nerub-ar Palace 4-Set Bonus: Now increases Raptor Strike/ Mongoose Bite damage by 20% on targets affected by Wildfire Bomb (was 10%).
Notes
This round of PvP tuning aims to reduce Hunter's survivability. The nerf to Survival Tactics particularly will make it so that you are less likely to survive a stun using only a pre- Feign Death.
The nerf to Don't Look Back in the Sentinel tree has indirectly made Pack Leader a more viable defensive choice because Den Recovery has not been reduced.
The damage buffs to the 2-set and 4-set Survival tier bonuses are a welcome change, although as three of the five tier set pieces have Critical Strike rating and Mongoose Bite/ Raptor Strike are not a major portion of Survival's damage, you may still prefer to run only the 2-set instead of taking the 4-set bonus, for the slightly better stat distribution.
4 September 2024
Hero talents: Pack Leader
- Vicious Hunt damage decreased by 10% for Survival.
- Howl of the Pack critical strike damage bonus increased to 11% for Survival (was 7%).
- Furious Assault damage bonus increased to 60% for Survival (was 30%).
- Cull the Herd damage over time increased to 60% for Survival (was 30%).
Notes
The nerf to Vicious Hunt and buffs to Howl of the Pack, Furious Assault and Cull the Herd are aimed at making sure that Kill Command does not take priority over other heavy hitters in your rotation when playing Pack Leader. Even with the adjustments, this does not affect the recommended Survival talent trees because Sentinel simply provides more damage than the bonuses from the Pack Leader Hero Talent tree.
If you are running Pack Leader, for example in double DPS 2v2 to benefit from the on-demand healing from Den Recovery, you should try to align Spearhead with Howl of the Pack procs to get the maximum benefit, although if the timing isn't ideal it is fine to use Spearhead even without the proc.
The Furious Assault and Cull the Herd are nice passive damage increases that do somewhat close the gap between Pack Leader and Sentinel.
Content of the Guide
- On the Survival Hunter PvP Talents page, you will find an analysis of the talents available to Survival Hunters, as well as an overview of the PvP talents, with advice on which ones to take and under which conditions.
- On the Survival Hunter PvP Pets page, you will find an overview of the advantages of each pet type with advice on which ones to take and under which conditions.
- On the Survival Hunter PvP Rotation and Playstyle page, you will learn how to use your spells, depending on the situation (dealing damage, surviving, controlling enemy players, etc.), and what is generally expected of your class and spec in PvP.
- On the Survival Hunter PvP Stat Priority and Gear page, you will find the stat priority to follow in PvP, as well as advice for choosing your gear, which may vary depending on your playstyle and composition.
- On the Survival Hunter PvP Best Races page, you will find lists of the Alliance and Horde races, ranked by how good they are for Survival Hunters in PvP, as well as explanations regarding why and how their racials benefit you.
- On the Survival Hunter PvP Useful Macros page, you will find a collection of useful PvP macros for Survival Hunters.
- On the Survival Hunter Arena Composition page, you will find the list of the most powerful Arena compositions featuring Survival Hunters in both 2v2 and 3v3 modes.
- On the Survival Hunter in Battleground Blitz page, you will find a summary of how to play Survival in Battleground Blitz specifically, including the playstyle, role in specific battlegrounds, talent builds, and macros.
Changelog
- 15 Dec. 2024 (pets): Reviewed for patch 11.0.7.
- 15 Dec. 2024 (races): Reviewed for patch 11.0.7 racial balancing changes.
- 15 Dec. 2024 (macros): Reviewed for patch 11.0.7.
- 15 Dec. 2024 (playstyle): Reviewed for patch 11.0.7.
- 15 Dec. 2024 (comps): Reviewed for patch 11.0.7.
- 15 Dec. 2024 (blitz): Reviewed for patch 11.0.7.
- 15 Dec. 2024 (gear): Reviewed for patch 11.0.7 and added section on Cyrce's Circlet.
- 15 Dec. 2024 (talents): Reviewed for patch 11.0.7.
- 15 Dec. 2024 (this page): Added patch 11.0.7 changes.
- 15 Dec. 2024 (this page): Added patch 11.0.7 changes.
- 10 Nov. 2024 (this page): Added 6 November bugfix.
- 10 Nov. 2024 (this page): Added 6 November bugfix.
- 31 Oct. 2024 (blitz): Updated talent builds as Deathblow fixed.
- 31 Oct. 2024 (talents): Updated talent builds as Deathblow fixed.
- 31 Oct. 2024 (this page): Updated with 30 October hotfixes.
- 31 Oct. 2024 (this page): Updated with 30 October hotfixes.
- 27 Oct. 2024 (comps): Updated tier lists.
- 24 Oct. 2024 (blitz): Updated talent builds as Deathblow bugged.
- 24 Oct. 2024 (talents): Updated talent builds as Deathblow bugged.
- 24 Oct. 2024 (this page): Updated tier guidance.
- 24 Oct. 2024 (this page): Updated tier guidance.
- 21 Oct. 2024 (pets): Updated for 11.0.5 rework.
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- 21 Oct. 2024 (macros): Updated for 11.0.5 rework.
- 21 Oct. 2024 (playstyle): Updated for 11.0.5 rework.
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- 21 Oct. 2024 (talents): Updated for 11.0.5 rework.
- 21 Oct. 2024 (this page): Updating following 10.0.5 rework.
- 21 Oct. 2024 (this page): Updating following 10.0.5 rework.
- 11 Oct. 2024 (macros): Updated notes with targeting macro advice.
- 11 Oct. 2024 (playstyle): Included note about Camouflage bug.
- 11 Oct. 2024 (talents): Rearranged PvP talent priority.
- 11 Oct. 2024 (this page): Updated weaknesses.
- 11 Oct. 2024 (this page): Updated weaknesses.
- 08 Oct. 2024 (playstyle): Updated defensives and trapping.
- 08 Oct. 2024 (blitz): Updated talent builds.
- 08 Oct. 2024 (gear): Updated tier section.
- 08 Oct. 2024 (talents): Updated talent builds.
- 08 Oct. 2024 (this page): Added 8 October 2024 hotfixes.
- 08 Oct. 2024 (this page): Added 8 October 2024 hotfixes.
- 25 Sep. 2024 (blitz): Updated Defensives, Resource Race, Hybrid, Embellishment and Macro sections.
- 22 Sep. 2024 (races): Updated Night Elf description.
- 22 Sep. 2024 (blitz): Updated mobility section
- 13 Sep. 2024 (gear): Expanded on how to craft PvP gear and Algari Diamond gems.
- 11 Sep. 2024 (gear): Changed suggested Embellished items.
- 09 Sep. 2024 (pets): Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 09 Sep. 2024 (races): Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 09 Sep. 2024 (macros): Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 09 Sep. 2024 (playstyle): Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 09 Sep. 2024 (comps): Updated comp tier lists based on current meta.
- 09 Sep. 2024 (blitz): Updated embellishments.
- 09 Sep. 2024 (gear): Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 09 Sep. 2024 (talents): Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 09 Sep. 2024 (this page): Added link to Blitz page.
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- 03 Sep. 2024 (this page): Added September 4 Hotfixes.
- 03 Sep. 2024 (this page): Added September 4 Hotfixes.
- 21 Aug. 2024 (pets): Reviewed for The War Within Launch.
- 21 Aug. 2024 (races): Added the new Earthen race.
- 21 Aug. 2024 (macros): Updated for The War Within launch.
- 21 Aug. 2024 (playstyle): Updated for the War Within Launch.
- 21 Aug. 2024 (comps): Reviewed for The War Within Launch.
- 21 Aug. 2024 (blitz): Page added.
- 21 Aug. 2024 (gear): Updated for The War Within launch.
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- 21 Aug. 2024 (this page): Updated for The War Within launch.
- 21 Aug. 2024 (this page): Updated for The War Within launch.
- 10 Aug. 2024 (this page): Updated with August 14 hotfixes.
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- 23 Jul. 2024 (pets): Reviewed for patch 10.0.1.
- 23 Jul. 2024 (races): Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 23 Jul. 2024 (macros): Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
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- 23 Jul. 2024 (this page): Updated for The War Within Prepatch.
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- 07 May 2024 (pets): Reviewed for 10.2.7.
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- 22 Apr. 2024 (pets): Reviewed for Season 4.
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- 22 Apr. 2024 (playstyle): Removed Fury of the Eagle from rotations.
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- 22 Apr. 2024 (talents): Added Season 4 meta talent builds.
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- 23 Mar. 2024 (pets): Page created.
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- 15 Jan. 2024 (races): Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
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- 06 Nov. 2023 (races): Reviewed for Patch 10.2
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- 04 Sep. 2023 (races): Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
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- 11 Jul. 2023 (talents): Updated the Talent Build.
- 10 Jul. 2023 (races): Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5
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- 09 May 2023 (races): Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.1.
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- 30 Jan. 2023 (races): Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
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- 11 Dec. 2022 (races): Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
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- 10 Nov. 2021 (races): Reviewed for Patch 9.1.5.
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- 10 Nov. 2021 (talents): Updated Tier 6 Regular Talent.
- Updated PvP Talents.
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- 03 Jul. 2021 (races): Reviewed for Patch 9.1.
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- 30 Mar. 2021 (races): No updates needed for Patch 9.0.5.
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- 06 Dec. 2020 (gear): Added BiS gear list for Shadowlands.
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- 29 Nov. 2020 (this page): Added Covenant page, removed Azerite mentions, and updated gear section.
- 29 Nov. 2020 (this page): Added Covenant page, removed Azerite mentions, and updated gear section.
- 16 Oct. 2020 (races): This page was checked for patch 9.0.1 and no updates were necessary.
- 16 Oct. 2020 (macros): This page was checked for patch 9.0.1 and no updates were necessary.
- 16 Oct. 2020 (playstyle): Added How to Crowd Control section.
- Updated all Damage Rotation section.
- Updated Defensive section.
- 16 Oct. 2020 (comps): This page was checked for patch 9.0.1 and no updates were necessary.
- 16 Oct. 2020 (talents): Updated Talent Table.
- Updated Tiers 3 and 4 Regular Talents.
- Updated PvP Talents.
- 16 Oct. 2020 (this page): This page was checked for patch 9.0.1 and no updates were necessary.
- 16 Oct. 2020 (this page): This page was checked for patch 9.0.1 and no updates were necessary.
- 09 Sep. 2020 (talents): Updated Pet Talents.
- 20 Feb. 2020 (talents): Updated PvP Talents.
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- 28 Jan. 2020 (macros): Page added.
- 28 Jan. 2020 (comps): Page added.
- 28 Jan. 2020 (talents): Page added.
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