How to survival Hunter?

[Ernést-sylvanas]

Hello guys

Playing Survival Hunter abit seriously for the 1st time and wanted to main but came into some discomfort.

I know Raptor strike/mongoose bite is kinda our focus spender & Wild fire bomb our main damage dealer after RS/MB while kill command in survival plays a very different role, a heavy role / tedious role.

It’s damage is low but we need to click it before EVERY skills because the main reason been it increases the damage of other skills by (x?)% and the damage scales with our total crit rate. For some reason, game wants me to play with legit 0% haste making GCDs nearly +1s for each click.

Wildfire Bomb DOT’s duration seems extremely fast (6s) because of slow play style. idk if i am playing the class good but atm survival hunter gives me the feeling of bloated enhancement shaman.

At the moment in PVE, my engaging are as follows:
Coordinated Assault → Wildfire bomb → Explosive shot → Flanking Strike → Wildefire bomb → Fury of the eagle → kill command → Wildfire bomb → kill command …so on
I keep going same afterwards because the whole process becomes “kill command before every click” situation because of the damage boost but if i ignore the damage boost then my DPS falls off hard and been slow makes it even worst.

Maybe making Tip of the spear a duration base buffer would be better then a stack base buffer?, Instead making kill command give us 10s of Tip of the spear buff for (x?)% dmg buffer would be great?

idk much…
Thank you taking your times guys

[Hræsvëlg-archimonde]

Most don’t play with Fury of the eagle.
Coordinated assault as a start ? CA will give you back 2 bombs, so either throw 2 bombs first or flanking strike first or try to have 2 tips before engaging.

The way it’s going with 11.0.5 it seems we still won’t need haste (bigger dmg, less buttons to press with thing like the butchery changes)

You will have some haster anyway with the 4p tier set and possibly from trinket if you play with the egg, so you should be ok for GCDs (but you know it’s okay to have downtime, not the first class with this “issue”)

[Gavia-deathwing]

I really suggest looking up guides on YouTube there are some great ones for PvP and PvE that explain this. Survival received many quality of life improvements and it’s gameplay is smooth (or at least smoother). Stick with it. It’ll reward u, once get grasp of it.