Survival Hunter Gearing Guide

Midnight Prepatch Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Damage done increased by 6%.
• (4) Set Bonus: Damage done increased by 10%.

In the Pre-Patch the bonuses above replace the current Tier Set from The War Within Season 3, automatically converting the old Tier Set bonuses. They give a simple damage increase, and don’t need any playing around.

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.

Puzzling Cartel Chips

Puzzling Cartel Chips are a currency which will let you purchase dungeon and Raid gear from bosses on certain difficulties you have already defeated. To find out what your best upgrades are to prioritize for your cartel chips it is recommended to sim your character but here are also some recommended items that will usually be good to focus on first:

1. Araz's Ritual Forge
2. Interloper's Chain Boots
3. Astral Antenna / Improvised Seaforium Pacemaker