Survival Hunter Playstyle and Rotation Guide

Opener

1. Cast Hunter's Mark before combat
2. Cast Wildfire Bomb and Harpoon together
3. Cast Coordinated Assault
4. Cast Kill command
5. Cast Spearhead
6. Cast Flanking Strike
7. Cast Wildfire Bomb

Proceed with the general rotation.

General Rotation

1. Cast Wildfire Bomb if Lunar Storm is available
2. Cast Spearhead if you used Coordinated assault
3. Cast Flanking Strike with Tip of the Spear.
4. Cast Raptor Strike (or Mongoose Bite) with Tip of the Spear to consume Strike it Rich.If you do not have Tip of the Spear,
5. Cast Wildfire Bomb at 2 charges of Wildfire Bomb
6. Cast Wildfire Bomb with Tip of the Spear if you are about to cap on Wildfire Bomb.
7. Cast Butchery
8. Cast Coordinated Assault if you have no remaining Wildfire Bomb charges.
9. Cast Kill Command to regenerate Focus it generates.
10. Cast Wildfire Bomb with Tip of the Spear stacks
11. Cast Kill Shot.
12. Cast Explosive Shot.
13. Cast Raptor Strike.

Multi Target

General Rotation

1. Cast Wildfire Bomb if Lunar Storm is available
2. Cast Spearhead if you used Coordinated assault
3. Cast Butchery with Tip of the Spear.
4. Cast Fury of the Eagle
5. Cast Raptor Strike (or Mongoose Bite) with Tip of the Spear to consume Strike it Rich.If you do not have Tip of the Spear,
6. Cast Wildfire Bomb at 2 charges of Wildfire Bomb
7. Cast Wildfire Bomb with Tip of the Spear if you are about to cap on Wildfire Bomb.
8. Cast Coordinated Assault if you have no remaining Wildfire Bomb charges.
9. Cast Kill Command to regenerate Focus it generates.
10. Cast Wildfire Bomb with Tip of the Spear stacks
11. Cast Kill Shot.
12. Cast Explosive Shot.
13. Cast Raptor Strike.

General Playstyle

Your Focus management, Tip of the spear usage and cooldowns are the 3 main things to juggle with survival hunters.

Capping on focus or tip of the spear stacks is a big mistake and will cost you a lot of damage over time. Likewise, using tip of the spear on your highest damage abilities is very important, while also simultaneously juggling your general ability cooldowns to make sure your abilities are not off cooldown for too long.

Cooldown Usage

Survival Hunter cooldowns got reworked and are now pretty straight forward.

However, for Coordinated Assault there are some things you want to be aware off:

• When specced into bombardier you want to make sure to use all your wildfire bomb stacks before casting coordinated assault.
• While specced into Relentless Primal Ferocity, kill command will also cause kill command to stack an additional stack of tip of the spear, which will let you be more aggressive with your hard hitting abilities.

Defensives

Hunter defensives are generally abilities you want to use before you take heavy damage instead of after. Make sure to know which mechanics and fight abilities are dangerous to you and use Aspect of the turtle and survival of the fittest before the damage will come in.