Survival Hunter PvP Stat Priority, Gear, and Trinkets — Midnight Season 1

The stat priority for Survival Hunter in PvP is as follows:

1. Agility
2. Versatility to around 23%
3. Haste and Mastery at a 1:2 ratio
4. Critical Strike

Agility is the best stat in all situations. You will want a balance of Versatility and Haste that you are comfortable with and then focus on Mastery.

If you do not have enough Versatility, you will take a lot of damage and likely find yourself dying more often than you otherwise would.

If you do not have enough Haste, you will not be able to use all of the global cooldowns and abilities required to set up crowd control and burst targets down before the enemy can crowd control you, kite, or use defensives.

If you do not have enough Mastery, your damage will be too low to finish kills.

As a general recommendation, you should use four pieces of your tier gear (Shoulders, Chest, Gloves and Legs), and the rest of your gear should have Versatility and Mastery where available, and Versatility Haste when it isn't.

There is a slight increasing diminishing return on secondary stats past 30%, further increased past 40%.

You should be aware that Critical Strike damage in PvE content is 200% of the damage the ability would normally have done, but in PvP, this is reduced to 150% of the damage the ability would have normally done.

• Head: Galactic Gladiator's Chain Helm
• Neck: Thalassian Competitor's Amulet - Crafted with Versatility & Mastery
• Shoulders: Primal Sentry's Trophies
• Cloak: Galactic Gladiator's Shawl
• Chest: Primal Sentry's Scaleplate
• Wrists: Galactic Gladiator's Chain Wristguards
• Hands: Primal Sentry's Talonguards
• Waist: Galactic Gladiator's Chain Belt
• Legs: Primal Sentry's Legguards
• Feet: Galactic Gladiator's Chain Boots
• Ring 1: Thalassian Competitor's Signet - Crafted with Mastery & Haste
• Ring 2: Thalassian Competitor's Signet - Crafted with Mastery & Haste
• Trinket 1: Galactic Gladiator's Medallion
• Trinket 2: Galactic Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity
• 1h Weapons: Galactic Gladiator's Slicer x2 ( Pack Leader)
• 2h Weapon: Galactic Gladiator's Battlestaff ( Sentinel)

You should be aware that Survival Hunter can be played with either a two handed weapon or two one handed weapons. As Pack Leader you should use one handers, and as Sentinel you should use a two handed weapon.

Conquest vendor PvP Gear will always have Versatility and then a second stat which will be either Haste, Mastery, or Critical Strike Rating.

Almost every piece of conquest gear has a Haste option, but not many pieces have a Mastery option available.

If you have too much Versatility, the easiest way to transfer it to Haste or Mastery is to craft the ring Thalassian Competitor's Signet or necklace Thalassian Competitor's Amulet.

Survival Hunter Midnight Season 1 tier bonuses:

Note that tier set bonuses are nerfed by 50% in PvP.

• (2) Set Survival: Wildfire Bomb damage increased by 10%
• (4) Set Survival: Wildfire Bomb provokes an additional Strike as One at 100% effectiveness

The Season 1 tier set will increase your throughput and you should get your tier set as soon as possible. The only downside is that four of the five set pieces have your worst stat (Critical Strike rating). The tier set bonuses do not change your rotation.

I recommend that you get the 4-set bonus with Shoulders, Chest, Gloves, and Legs (leaving the Head because it has high Critical Strike Rating and Haste).

To craft a piece of gear with the PvP item level scaled to 289, you must craft the Thalassian Competitor's item for that slot, and apply Galactic Gladiator's Heraldry while crafting. You should not use crafted gear unless it has the item level scaled to 289 in PvP.

To avoid letting your Versatility get too low, most of your crafted gear should have Versatility as one of the stats. I recommend only having one or two items crafted Haste Mastery if you are going to craft any.

You can apply Embellishments while crafting gear, and you can equip two Embellished crafted pieces of gear at once.

I recommend that you craft two Thalassian Competitor's Signets with the Prismatic Focusing Iris Embellishment and an Thalassian Competitor's Amulet, one with Haste Mastery, one with Versatility and Haste, and one with Versatility and Mastery. If you need more survivability in a match-up you can swap your Haste Mastery piece for a Galactic Gladiator's Amulet or Galactic Gladiator's Signet.

I recommend that you craft Thalassian Competitor's Signet with the Prismatic Focusing Iris Embellishment and the stats as either Haste Versatility or Haste Mastery so that you can have two Haste Rings. Crafting the ring with Haste Mastery will give you more damage but slightly reduce your survivability.

It is important that you equip two PvP trinkets. This will give you an Agility and Stamina boost that will increase your damage and survivability.

• Galactic Gladiator's Medallion
• Galactic Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity

• Galactic Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity
• Galactic Gladiator's Badge of Ferocity

Galactic Gladiator's Medallion is a mandatory trinket to have equipped at all times for non-human players. This allows you to remove any crowd control on yourself. Humans can use this trinket to have a shorter (90-second) the cooldown on escaping stuns, for example, into Rogue Mage teams.

Galactic Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity increases your Haste and has a chance to proc your primary stat. This is an overall strong trinket, as the stat will proc often throughout an arena match (and will generally proc very early when your cooldowns are active).

Galactic Gladiator's Badge of Ferocity grants you some Crit and a powerful Agility on-use every minute. Synchronize this with Takedown.

Galactic Gladiator's Emblem increases your maximum health when used. This gives you an additional defensive when you think a team is focusing you or you think they are about to stun and burst you. A good example of when you will want to use this trinket is when facing Rogue Mage teams.

Here are the best enchants for a Survival Hunter:

• Boots: Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt
• Chest: Enchant Chest - Mark of the Rootwarden
• Helm: Enchant Helm - Empowered Blessing of Speed
• Legs: Forest Hunter's Armor Kit
• Rings: Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Tenacity
• Shoulders: Enchant Shoulders - Akil'zon's Swiftness
• Weapon Enchant: Enchant Weapon - Strength of Halazzi

You can use one Heliatrope gem in Midnight, and for this you can choose between:

• Enduring Heliotrope (increased durability as you take less damage when stunned)
• Determined Heliotrope (increased throughput against teams that regularly slow you)

The best choice of Heliatrope gems is Enduring Heliotrope, which will increase your survivability when you need it most.

The Determined Heliotrope gem is a straight throughput increase against teams that will apply slows to you constantly at the cost of survivability.

Your other gems should be selected based on your stat needs.

• For Haste, use Flawless Versatile Peridot or Flawless Masterful Peridot
• For Versatility, use Flawless Quick Lapis or Flawless Masterful Lapis
• For Mastery, use Flawless Versatile Amethyst or Flawless Quick Amethyst