Survival is better overall in PvP but MM has great distance and with appropriate setup your opening burst can wreck people so long as they’re not on top of you. Excellent in BGs.
Rogue got already PvP talent that clear mobility effect on sprint ( 1Mn sprint CD) + racial that clear mobility effect too 1 mn.
I don’t tryed rogue but i’m playing gnome MM hunter :
The clear roots is clearly strong, since in BFA you are dependant of Posthaste on certain classes , some class you cannot kite them easely like
DK since DK use rune to slow, you can abuse of racial and posthaste to ruin a lot of his rune so he will only able to spend runic power to regen back his rune.
Against warrior gnome racial are incredibly strong too : since as marksmanship you got exact control than the mobility warrior, the gnome racial is the thing that make you able to 100 % kite a warrior as Marksmanship ( i can’t imagine with Night Fae convenant how warrior gonna suffer from that).
Against rogue as hunter it’s pretty fun since only rogue assa can slow in distance, if you are not survival ( i mean without mending bandage ) you can’t dispell poison , but with the racial you are able to remove the slowing poison ( in Shadowland it can be replaced / combo with kyrian that remove bleed, poison etc) so you are able to set again the rogue in trouble ( or in case you need to seek back the rogue that kite behind pillar and you got Trailblazer so with the racial you can seek back easely the rogue.
Against hunter it’s pretty fun too since their slow is not dispellable so you will be able to beat the ranged hunter by the limit range since you are free with racial and your opponent is still slow. Remember too against survival hunter being gnome make you able to kite the survival since the hunter survival need to be in melee range to slow you down ( and if you are the survival you are able to seek the hunter back with the pet + racial ).
Against paladin gnome is fun too as hunter , paladin got only a slow by CD ( 30 seconds CD for 10 seconds slow) and it’s magic slow. So that mean with Survival tactic you can dispell the slow easely. But paladin ret got a honor talent named Law and Order that when you dispell his slow, his slow CD is reduced by 15 seconds. Since your Feign Death is only 30 seconds, thanks to the racial gnome you are able to dispell it again and then the next 15 sec when slow will be reapplied your feign death come back again. This is really strongs against paladin.
Disclaimer : All thing above is very quick summarised . It’s a quick explaination, not what happen 100% of the time. Also these situation is correct and give a idea how strong gnome racial is stronger than we can imagine as hunter.
Even though my own Hunter (MM) is a Mechagnome I agree with this sentiment wholeheartedly, the Gnome Escape Artist racial is criminally underrated and super strong. It’s especially good for ranged Hunters are many of their encounters are “down to the wire” based upon playing the rock-paper-scissors game of “you use gapclose/snare, I use escape” game correctly and having EA as one additional button means more often than not you can beat them out and kite them without issues so long as you don’t mess up. That or you’ve forced them to spend resources of reapplying their snare so if they do catch you they have no resources to burst you down.