Survival Hunter Gearing Guide

The War Within Season 3 Survival Hunter Tier Set:

Packleader

• (2) - Pet and Beast damage increased by 15%. Summoning a Beast grants 8% haste, mastery, or crit chance based on the Beast for 8 sec. Beast Mastery: Pet damage increased by 5% and Beast damage by 15%. Summoning a Beast grants 8% haste, mastery, or crit chance based on the Beast for 8 sec.
• (4) - Summoning a Beast has a 25% chance to rouse nearby wildlife into a Stampede, dealing massive Physical damage over 7 sec. This chance is 100% while Lead from the Front is active.

Sentinel

• (2) - When Lunar Storm fades, gain Boon of Elune, causing next 2 Wildfire Bombs to deal Arcane damage and have 60% increased damage
• (4) - Sentinel’s damage increased by 25%. Abilities consuming Boon of Elune guarantee 2 stacks of Sentinel.

With 11.2 Blizzard has a new approach to the tier set bonuses, by making them have very similar effects across specs by tying them to hero talents hero talents (in our case sentinel and packleader).

Unfortunately this means all tier sets work very similarly and do not affect gameplay too much. Tier sets will still be mandatory for any competitive PvE content meaning you want to farm them through the raid or by using the catalyst to convert season 3 items.

You should still prioritise the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Survival Hunter, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

Araz's Ritual Forge: Is Survival’s strongest available trinket, giving you an on-use effect which increases your main stat by a huge amount for the cost of 15% of your health. Although its downsides can be very relevant, especially in higher levels of content, its damage is unmatched in both Mythic+ and Raid.

Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker: A very strong trinket which passively increases your crit chance every 60s after using your first ability. The duration of its crit buff can be extended by critting during its proc time.

Astral Antenna: A strong passive trinket which increases your crit for 10s. While on paper it’s slightly stronger than Peacemaker, it can be more awkward to use in practice due to Peacekeeper always lining up with our offensive cooldowns.

Some more honorable mentions for trinkets are Signet Of The Priory and Empowering Crystal Of Anub'ikkaj respectively.

You want to focus on the most impactful upgrades with your crafted gear. At the start of a season, this will likely be focusing on crafting a Weapon first as the high item level will outperform any other weapon that most people will realistically be able to receive at the start of a season.

For embellishments we have a couple of options.

Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension in combination with Writhing Armor Banding is your best embellishment combination for DPS. This embellishment will increase a random secondary stat every 8 seconds stacking up to 10 times.

Darkmoon Sigil: Vivacity is your second best embellishment. This will cause your abilities to randomly increase your secondary stats. This Embellishment can only be crafted on a weapon and due to survival hunters using a 2 Handed weapon, we can only craft it once.

Dawnthread Lining and Duskthread Lining are both good performing Embellishments on paper. They will both provide you with secondary stats as long as you are above an HP threshold. However, this can be a massive downside if you are constantly below that HP threshold.

Reshii Wraps

Reshii Wraps is a new Cloak released in Patch 11.2 and will be the only cloak you use (and the only one that can drop from any content in Season 3). You gain access to it via a quest chain and completing chapter 3 of the main patch storyline.

The Reshii Wraps are upgradable via Ethereal Strands and can have secondary stats of your choice added to it.

To add a secondary stat to the Reshii Wraps you use a Fiber in the Fiber Socket of the Cloak. The highest quality version of the Fibers requires a work-order to a Tailor.

When picking a Fiber, I strongly recommend simming your character for the best stat for your current gear and intended content. If you just want a quick recommendation for which Reshii Fiber to use, then use Pure Energizing Fiber (Mastery).

To find out more about the Reshii Wraps, you can read the Method Reshii Wraps Overview Guide.

D.I.S.C Belt

Durable Information Securing Container is a new belt added in 11.1.7 which is a special belt acquired in delves which lets you socket new exclusive gems in it.

The belt will be your Best in Slot belt once obtained at 691

Recommended Titan Discs for Survival Hunter:

• Critical Chain for Single Target
• Critical Chain for AOE

For more information about unlocking the DISC belt and the different Miniature Titan Disc effects available, check out Method's D.I.S.C Belt Guide.