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 Kill command regardless of focus if Howl of the Pack Leader is available
3. Cast Spearhead if you used Coordinated assault
4. Cast Flanking Strike with Tip of the Spear.
5. Cast Raptor Strike (or Mongoose Bite) to apply Serpent Sting
6. Cast Fury of the Eagle with Tip of the Spear
7. Cast Coordinated Assault
8. Cast Wildfire Bomb at 2 charges of Wildfire Bomb
9. Cast Wildfire Bomb with Tip of the Spear stack.
10. Cast Butchery
11. Cast Kill Command to regenerate Focus it generates.
12. Cast Raptor Strike/Mongoose Bite
13. Cast Kill Shot / Explosive shot if you can not cast anything and ur focus is low enough

Multi Target

General Rotation

1. Cast Wildfire Bomb to trigger Lunar Storm
2. Cast Wildfire Bomb without tip of the spear if:
1. Cast Wildfire Bomb without tip of the spear at 2 charges of Wildfire Bomb
2. Cast Wildfire Bomb without tip of the spear when butchery about to be off cooldown and would overcap bomb
3. Cast Fury of the eagle with a Tip of a spear stack
4. Cast Butchery
5. Cast Explosive shot with tip of the spear
6. Cast Coordinated Assault if you have no remaining Wildfire Bomb charges.
7. Cast Kill Command to regenerate Focus it generates.
8. Cast Explosive Shot.without tip of the spear
9. 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.

Cooldowns

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 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

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.