Survival Hunter Midnight Playstyle and Rotation Guide

The general playstyle of survival hunter is about managing your Focus, Tip of The Spear and Wildfire Bomb charges.

This is done by making sure you cast high priority abilities with the Tip of The Spear buff to increase their damage and by generating focus and Tip of The Spear stacks with Kill Command.

Single Target

Opener

1. Cast Hunter's Mark before pulling
2. Cast Takedown
3. Cast Wildfire Bomb
4. Cast Boomstick
5. Cast Kill Command
6. Cast Wildfire Bomb
7. If Sentinel, Cast Moonlight Chakram

Rotation

1. If Pack Leader, cast Kill Command if Howl Of The Pack Leader beast is ready
2. Cast Kill Command to generate Tip Of The Spear stacks
3. If Sentinel, cast Wildfire Bomb if Sentinels Mark is active or if you are about to cap charges
4. Cast Takedown
5. Cast Boomstick
6. If Sentinel, cast Moonlight Chakram
7. If Packleader, cast Wildfire Bomb if Wyvern is active and you have Tip Of The Spear stacks
8. Cast Flamefang Pitch
9. Cast Raptor Swipe with Tip Of The Spear
10. Cast Raptor Strike with or without Tip Of The Spear active
11. Cast Kill Command
12. Cast Wildfire Bomb

Multi Target

Opener

1. Cast Takedown
2. Cast Boomstick
3. Cast Kill Command
4. Cast Wildfire Bomb
5. Cast Wildfire Bomb

Rotation

1. If Pack Leader, cast Kill Command if Howl Of The Pack Leader beast is ready
2. Cast Kill Command to generate Tip Of The Spear stacks
3. Cast Boomstick
4. Cast Wildfire Bomb if you are about to cap charges
5. If Sentinel, Cast Wildfire Bomb with Sentinels Mark
6. Cast Takedown
7. If Sentinel, Cast Moonlight Chakram
8. Cast Flamefang Pitch
9. Cast Raptor Swipe with Tip Of The Spear
10. Cast Raptor Strike
11. Cast Kill Command

Cooldowns

Survival currently has 3 DPS cooldowns, 2 of which being mandatory pickups in Takedown and Boomstick, whereas Flamefang Pitch is an optional cooldown to further increase your AoE damage.

Takedown: Causes you and your pet to dash at your target, increasing your overall damage for 6 seconds. Use this when you want to deal a lot of damage in a short time, usually in combination with your other cooldowns.

Boomstick: A strong attack which causes you to deal AoE damage in a cone in front of you for 4 seconds. Similar to the Fury Of The Eagle. Use this especially in AoE situations with 2+ enemies.

Flamefang Pitch: A strong AoE attack which causes you to explode an area of an enemy causing huge AoE damage. Use this especially in AoE situations with 2+ enemies.

Defensives

Hunters have multiple defensive cooldowns. Most of which being damage reduction / immunities meaning they should be used before you get low to get the most value out of it.

Aspect Of The Turtle: Causes you to be immune to most direct damage and causes you to take reduced damage from everything else. Use this if there is a big burst of damage happening but make sure to cancel it as soon as you are not in any danger anymore as you can not attack while in this aspect.

Exhilaration: A Decent self heal with a shortish cooldown for an defensive that also gets reduced from talents. Strong in situations in which all your group is dropping low. Use this to help your healers top your party easier.

Survival Of The Fittest: A strong damage reducing ability causing you and your pet to take reduced damage. A mistake people tend to make with this ability is using it when you are already low HP. Make sure to pre-emptively use your wall when you expect high damage to hit you.

Roar Of Sacrifice: A new reworked ability in midnight causing your pet to take part of the damage your target would take. This is a very nice wall you can either use on yourself or your party members when they are about to take a huge amount of damage. Although you have to make sure your pet does not die from the damage they take, this is a great utility to have.