Survival Hunter Midnight Talents Guide

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With the removal of Explosive Shot there are no more essential active dps talents in the general hunter tree anymore.

Once you pick up the passive dps increase talents such as Keen Eyesight, Unnatural Causes and Trigger Finger you can pick whichever utility tools are needed for the content you are planning on playing.

The most notable of these are as follows:

• Roar Of Sacrifice, which acts as a wall for one of your party or raid members
• Emergency Salve to cleanse hard hitting diseases and poisons
• Intimidation for a single target or AOE stun on adds in raids or packs in Mythic+
• Camouflage for stealth to skip packs in Mythic+
• Binding Shot and Tar Trap for group CC

With the overhaul of the Survival Class Tree in Midnight, Survival now has a couple of new exciting Spec talents.

Boomstick: An AoE cooldown ability with a very short cooldown, which is available in both our AOE and Single target builds. This will help Survival Hunter not only in M+ but also in helping our damage profile in raids. Having good cleave in a mainly single target build is always a valuable strength to have in a raid environment.

Strike As One: A passive talent causing the consumption of the Tip Of The Spear to make your pet hit an additional time and increasing the damage of all your pets.

Mongoose Fury: Previously an optional single target talent, it is now essentially a baseline addition to the Survival Hunter toolkit due to the position in the talent tree. Due to that, Mongoose Fury already has some talents such as Mongoose Rounds interacting with it, which was a much asked for addition from the Survival Hunter community. Expect Mongoose Fury also to interact with future tier sets due to this.

Flamefang Pitch: A Strong AOE ability on a 60s cooldown which can be further enhanced by its talents giving it a second charge. Making it situationally strong in M+ and raid situations.

Takedown: A very basic cooldown, increasing both your and your pets damage by a significant amount. It can further be enhanced, most notably by Savagery reducing its cooldown by up to 30 seconds. This can be extremely valuable especially in raid situations to have slightly different cooldown windows.

Raptor Swipe is Survival's new Apex Talent. Causing your Raptor Strike to turn into Raptor Swipe.

This causes your main spender to become an AOE spender, increasing your AOE damage significantly.

While the Apex Talents are strong enough for us to invest all four points into, it will do very little to actually change our gameplay.

Sentinel vs Packleader

Currently Sentinel outperforms Packleader in Raids partially due to Packleader focusing on bleeds and Survival’s bleed talents being extremely weak. Also, Hogstrider incentives us to use Hatchet Toss, which even with the talent is not worth casting currently.

Packleaders main upside is having slightly more priority damage in its AoE build and also being the go to hero talent if you want to Dual Wield due to its Lethal Barbs talent. Overall 2 Handed Sentinel will outperform Dual Wield Packleader if considering raid and Mythic+.

Sentinel

The Sentinel hero talent focuses on summoning an owl which if summoned marks targets with Sentinel Mark which increases the damage of your next Wildfire Bomb. When this mark is consumed Lunar Storm triggers, dealing additional AOE damage to enemies in a 10y radius. This owl has a chance to spawn every time a Tip Of The Spear buff is consumed.

Its main defensive benefit is Don't Look Back, which will shield you over time if sentinels mark is consumed. This is great not only for rot damage, but also for potential one-shots.

Sentinel is currently the preferred Hero Talent for Survival Hunter in pure output situations.

Packleader

The Packleader hero talent tree is focused on increasing the effectiveness of Kill Command, by summoning a random beast to aid you in battle every 30 seconds. When you cast Kill Command, you will summon one of the three following pets:

• Bear: Charges its main target and deals major AoE damage.
• Wyvern: Causes you and your pets to deal increased damage.
• Boar: Deals heavy damage to your main target and some AoE damage.

The defensive component of Packleader is Shell Cover causing your Survival Of The Fittest cooldown to further increase the damage reduction by an additional 10%. In most cases this is bad, as you are essentially stacking defensive cooldowns.

Packleader is the main hero talent for dual wielding currently as Lethal Barbs increases Survival’s focus regeneration by a decent amount while dual wielding.

Dual Wielding vs 2H Weapon

TLDR Sentinel wants 2H while Packleader can Dual Wield.

In the Midnight expansion survival has gotten the option to dual wield instead of using a 2 Hander. Generally dual wielding causes ur offhand weapon damage to not increase the damage of survivals abilities. This would generally result in a straight dps loss.

However, Packleader in particular have access to Lethal Barbs causing your auto attack to passively regenerate focus. Having 2 weapons due to dual wielding will therefore increase your focus generation letting you use more spenders therefore making up for that damage loss.