Tier Sets
Season 1 Survival Hunter Tier Set:
- (2) Set - Wildfire Bomb damage increased by 5%.
- (4) Set - [Mongoose Bite / Raptor Strike] deals 10% increased damage to targets affected by Wildfire Bomb.
As a Season 1 set, this set is extremely weak and lacks interactive gameplay (by design).
Once you acquire the 4 set you want to preferably space out your wildfire bombs for as long as possible to maximize the uptime of the increased mongoose bite damage.
survival hunter Best in Slot Gear
Provide best in slot gear tables: Overall, Raiding and M+. These can either be the best gear FROM that activity, or the best gear FOR that activity. You can also include text before and after the tables if you want to mention other options or make disclaimers.
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 Best Gear
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Lightless Scavenger's Skull | Raid or Vault |
| Neck | Trailspinner Pendant | Mists of Tirna Scithe |
| Shoulders | Lightless Scavenger's Taxidermy | Raid or Vault |
| Cloak | Consecrated Cloak | Craft |
| Chest | Goresplattered Membrane | The Bloodbound Horror |
| Wrist | Lightless Scavenger's Wristguards | Raid or Vault |
| Gloves | Lightless Scavenger's Mitts | Raid or Vault |
| Belt | Accelerated Ascension Coil | Broodtwister Ovi'nax |
| Legs | Lightless Scavenger's Stalkings | Raid or Vault |
| Boots | Defiance Crusher's Sabatons | The Dawnbreaker |
| Ring | Seal of the Poisoned Pact | Queen Ansurek |
| Ring | Writhing Ringworm | Broodtwister Ovi'nax |
| Trinket | Skardyn's Grace | Grim Batol |
| Trinket | Dead-Eye Spyglass | Siege of Boralus |
| Main Hand | Charged Halberd | Craft |
Best Gear from the Raid
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Lightless Scavenger's Skull | Raid or Vault |
| Neck | Silken Advisor's Favor | Anub'arash |
| Shoulders | Lightless Scavenger's Taxidermy | Raid or Vault |
| Cloak | Royal Emblem of Nerub-ar | Ulgrax the Devourer |
| Chest | Lightless Scavenger's Tunic | Raid or Vault |
| Wrist | Lightless Scavenger's Wristguards | Raid or Vault |
| Gloves | Clutches of Paranoia | Queen Ansurek |
| Belt | Accelerated Ascension Coil | Broodtwister Ovi'nax |
| Legs | Lightless Scavenger's Stalkings | Raid or Vault |
| Boots | Rasha'nan's Grotesque Talons | Rasha'nan |
| Ring | Seal of the Poisoned Pact | Queen Ansurek |
| Ring | Writhing Ringworm | Broodtwister Ovi'nax |
| Trinket | Sikran's Endless Arsenal | Sikran |
| Trinket | Void Reaper's Contract | Nexus-Princess Ky'veza |
| Main Hand | Spire of Transfused Horrors | Broodtwister Ovi'nax |
Best Gear from Mythic+
| Slot | Item | Source |
| Head | Lightless Scavenger's Skull | Catalyst or Vault |
| Neck | Trailspinner Pendant | Mists of Tirna Scithe |
| Shoulders | Lightless Scavenger's Taxidermy | Catalyst or Vault |
| Cloak | Troggstitched Drape | Grim Batol |
| Chest | Lightless Scavenger's Tunic | Catalyst or Vault |
| Wrist | Penumbral Rimeguards | City of Threads |
| Gloves | Claws of Tainted Ichor | Ara-Kara, City of Echoes |
| Belt | Cinch of Lingering Influence | City of Threads |
| Legs | Lightless Scavenger's Stalkings | Catalyst or Vault |
| Boots | Sure-Foot Sabatons | Siege of Boralus |
| Ring | Seal of the City Watch | Siege of Boralus |
| Ring | High Nerubian Signet | The Dawnbreaker |
| Trinket | Skardyn's Grace | Grim Batol |
| Trinket | Dead-Eye Spyglass | Siege of Boralus |
| Main Hand | Harvester's Interdiction | Ara-Kara, City of Echoes |
Trinkets
Skardyn's Grace: Is overall your go to trinket in both Single target and AOE. When using it you want to make sure to use it in combination with coordinated assault for huge burst damage.
Empowering Crystal of Anub'ikkaj: A passive stat stick trinket which will perform well in both ST and AOE. It proccing random stats is not a big downside anymore as mastery is no longer a dead stat for Survival Hunter.
Ara-Kara Sacbrood: Another essentially passive trinket which performs well in single target and AOE.
Void Reaper's Contract: Despite us not being able to make use of the set bonus, this is a strong single target trinket. Unfortunately though, it falls off in AOE scenarios such as M+ and on most raid bosses.
Embellishments
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.