Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Midnight Season 1

Welcome to our Gear and BiS Page for Survival Hunter for Midnight Season 1. Check this page to learn everything you need to know about gearing a Survival Hunter, including the BiS Gear from all sources, Raiding, and Mythic+, information on the best Trinkets, Tier Sets, and much more.

The Midnight Expansion brought a major stat squish, reducing the stats and numbers of virtually everything in the game, including Item Levels and the stats on gear.

You can find more information about Gearing and much more in Midnight on our Midnight page.

For discussion and information on Stats specifically, check out our Stats page below.

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BiS Gear for Survival Hunter

BiS List for Season 1 Raid Gear BiS List for Season 1 Mythic+ Gear BiS List for Season 1

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BiS List for Survival Hunter in Season 1

This list contains the best gear in every slot for Season 1 of Midnight, from all sources.

There are many different setups that perform within the margin of error. This one chooses as many Raid items as possible, since they are easier to obtain than hoping for the right Mythic+ item from your Great Vault. Mythic+ items are chosen when there is no equally strong Raid alternative. This list is not the end-all-be-all list where any item that is not listed is far behind this specific selection.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Helm	Primal Sentry's Maw	Lightblinded Vanguard - Voidspire, or Matrix Catalyst
Neck	Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn	Midnight Falls - March on Quel'Danas
Shoulder	Pauldrons of the Void Hunter	Seat of the Triumvirate
Cloak	Draconic Nullcape	Vaelgor and Ezzorak - Voidspire
Chest	Primal Sentry's Scaleplate	Chimaerus - Dreamrift, or Matrix Catalyst
Bracers — Pack Leader	Farstrider's Plated Bracers	Leatherworking
Bracers — Sentinel	Fallen King's Cuffs	Fallen-King Salhadaar - Voidspire
Gloves	Primal Sentry's Talonguards	Vorasius - Voidspire, or Matrix Catalyst
Belt	World Tender's Barkclasp	Leatherworking
Legs	Primal Sentry's Legguards	Vaelgor and Ezzorak - Voidspire, or Matrix Catalyst
Boots	World Tender's Rootslippers	Leatherworking
Ring #1	Occlusion of Void	Nexus-Point Xenas
Ring #2	Omission of Light	Nexus-Point Xenas
Trinket #1	Radiant Plume	Belo'ren - March on Quel'Danas
Trinket #2	Gaze of the Alnseer	Chimaerus - The Dreamdrift
Sentinel Weapon	Inescapable Reach	Vorasius - Voidspire
Pack Leader Main Hand	Hungering Victory	Vorasius - Voidspire
Pack Leader Off-Hand	Farstrider's Mercy	Blacksmithing

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Raid Gear BiS List for Survival Hunter in Season 1

This list contains the best gear in every slot for Season 1 of Midnight, from the Midnight Season 1 Raids. It is very similar to our Overall BiS List, since that is biased towards Raid Gear as well, but in this case, absolutely no Mythic+ items are included.

There are many different setups that perform within the margin of error. This list is not the end-all-be-all list where any item that is not listed is far behind this specific selection.

TipsWhich Raid-Items Do I Want Most?

If you need to submit a list of highly-important items to your raidleader, or simply want to focus on the most important bosses and items, we got you covered!

• Radiant Plume: Our best passive trinket. It can be freely swapped to a Umbral Plume, but we will almost always prefer the Radiant one.
• Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn: The best Neck in the game by a lot. Mythic+ alternatives have awful stats. It also has an extra socket.
• Inescapable Reach: Our BiS Sentinel Weapon.
• Hungering Victory: Our BiS Pack Leader Main Hand.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Helm	Primal Sentry's Maw	Lightblinded Vanguard - Voidspire, or Matrix Catalyst
Neck	Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn	Midnight Falls - March on Quel'Danas
Shoulder	Nullwalker's Dread Epaulettes	Vaelgor and Ezzorak - Voidspire
Cloak	Draconic Nullcape	Vaelgor and Ezzorak - Voidspire
Chest	Primal Sentry's Scaleplate	Chimaerus - Dreamrift, or Matrix Catalyst
Bracers — Pack Leader	Farstrider's Plated Bracers	Leatherworking
Bracers — Sentinel	Fallen King's Cuffs	Fallen-King Salhadaar - Voidspire
Gloves	Primal Sentry's Talonguards	Vorasius - Voidspire, or Matrix Catalyst
Belt	World Tender's Barkclasp	Leatherworking
Legs	Primal Sentry's Legguards	Vaelgor and Ezzorak - Voidspire, or Matrix Catalyst
Boots	World Tender's Rootslippers	Leatherworking
Ring #1	Eye of Midnight	Midnight Falls - March on Quel'Danas
Ring #2	Bond of Light	Lightblinded Vanguard - Voidspire, or Matrix Catalyst
Trinket #1	Radiant Plume	Belo'ren - March on Quel'Danas
Trinket #2	Gaze of the Alnseer	Chimaerus - The Dreamdrift
Sentinel Weapon	Inescapable Reach	Vorasius - Voidspire
Pack Leader Main Hand	Hungering Victory	Vorasius - Voidspire
Pack Leader Off-Hand	Farstrider's Mercy	Blacksmithing

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Mythic+ Gear BiS List for Survival Hunter in Season 1

This list contains the best gear in every slot for Season 1 of Midnight, from Midnight Season 1 Mythic+. This is aimed at people who do not intend to engage much with Raid content.

There are many different setups that perform within the margin of error. This list is not the end-all-be-all list where any item that is not listed is far behind this specific selection.

TipsWhich Dungeons Should I Farm?

If you have limited time to play the game, we recommend to farm the following dungeons:

• Nexus-Point Xenas: BiS Ring Set Bonus
• Seat of the Triumvirate: BiS Shoulders
• Windrunner Spire: BiS Trinket from Mythic+

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Helm	Primal Sentry's Maw	Lightblinded Vanguard - Voidspire, or Matrix Catalyst
Neck	Pendant of Aching Grief	Windrunner Spire
Shoulder	Pauldrons of the Void Hunter	Seat of the Triumvirate
Cloak	Rigid Scale Greatcloak	Skyreach
Chest	Primal Sentry's Scaleplate	Chimaerus - Dreamrift, or Matrix Catalyst
Bracers	Amberfrond Bracers	Windrunner Spire
Gloves	Primal Sentry's Talonguards	Vorasius - Voidspire, or Matrix Catalyst
Belt	World Tender's Barkclasp	Leatherworking
Legs	Primal Sentry's Legguards	Vaelgor and Ezzorak - Voidspire, or Matrix Catalyst
Boots	World Tender's Rootslippers	Leatherworking
Ring #1	Occlusion of Void	Nexus-Point Xenas
Ring #2	Omission of Light	Nexus-Point Xenas
Trinket #1	Algeth'ar Puzzle Box	Algeth'ar Academy
Trinket #2	Solarflare Prism	Skyreach
Sentinel Weapon	Roostwarden's Bough	Windrunner Spire
Pack Leader Main Hand	Radiant Slicer	Nexus-Point Xenas
Pack Leader Off-Hand	Farstrider's Mercy	Blacksmithing

FAQWhich Tier Set Pieces Do I Want?

For Midnight Season 1 as a Survival Hunter, you will want to try and prioritize getting the Helmet, Chest, Gloves, and Legs set pieces, though finishing the set bonus is the most important thing here. We want the flexibility to use Pauldrons of the Void Hunter when fighting Aberration Bosses, and some good Mastery-Crit Shoulders otherwise.

Survival Hunter Trinkets

On-Use - Algeth'ar Puzzle Box or, alternatively, Emberwing Feather
Passive - Radiant Plume or, alternatively, Solarflare Prism

As Survival, we want a powerful on-use Trinket to pair with our Takedown, and a strong passive Trinket option in our second slot.

There are quite a few other valuable trinkets out there, so make sure to click on our ranking chart to see if they are worth equipping. Note that you do not want to have more than 1 on-use Trinket. You can almost think of the "On-Use" Trinkets ranked as being separate from the others.

Click for Survival Hunter Trinket Rankings

Ranking	Trinkets
S Tier	Algeth'ar Puzzle Box — On-Use Radiant Plume — Same Trinket as Umbral, but swapped to Mastery. Umbral Plume — Same Trinket as Radiant, but swapped to Critical Strike. Gaze of the Alnseer
A Tier
B Tier	Heart of Wind Solarflare Prism Emberwing Feather — On-Use
C Tier	Ranger-Captain's Iridescent Insignia Vessel of Tortured Souls Undreamt God's Oozing Vestige Light Company Guidon — On-Use
D Tier	Eye of the Drowning Void Latch's Crooked Hook Void Stalker's Contract

Throughout this page, we regularly refer to the importance of simming yourself on Raidbots, as it is an indispensable aspect of optimizing your character.

If you are new to simming and Raidbots, check out our detailed guide below.

You can have two Embellishments, which are special effects that come from Crafted Gear. In other words, all good gearsets have two Embellished, crafted items, and below, I will explain the best Embellishments to use, and what to craft them on.

The big decision is whether to prioritize crafting a weapon or other pieces first. World Tender's is endgame BiS; but early on, the iLvl increase of a Weapon is tough to pass up. However, the first boss on Mythic offers a weapon, and your Mythic+ Great Vault offers another chance of getting a weapon.

Much also depends on whether Dual-Wielding or Two-Handing is optimal, which in turn comes down to what Hero Talent is optimal. At the moment, Sentinel is better in the vast majority of situations, with Pack Leader only being better for competitive Mythic+ which we will not see much of in the first month or two, so I will be tackling this Crafting section from a 2-handed perspective. You can always grab a Dagger later on when Patch 12.0.5 hits with Turbo Boost and the Mythic+ pushing gets more seriously underway.

• Option 1: World Tender's Rootslippers/ World Tender's Barkclasp — Your BiS in the long run, and a "safe" Craft in the sense that they will never be replaced. However, if you Craft this and you do not get a Mythic Weapon drop for weeks on end, it can be worse than Crafting a Weapon.
• Option 2: Aln'hara Pikestaff with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt — In a way, this is "safer" as its minimum DPS is higher, but it does put you on an awkward path and you will not finalize your BiS Crafts for quite a long time. On the bright side, you have a guaranteed chunk of extra power early on, and you will not have a lot of anxiety about getting a Mythic weapon to drop.
• Option 3: Wait as long as you possibly can to see if you get a Mythic Weapon drop, and then decide afterwards. The longer you can wait, the better. You could wait until after your kill of the first boss on Mythic, you could wait until your first Vault, and so on.
• For myself, as a World #150 Hall of Fame guild player with another Hunter in my raid, I am likely going to craft the World Tender Set after seeing what the first boss drops. My co-Hunter is likely going to craft Weapon at the same time. That way, at least one of us will get full value out of a weapon if it drops, we are sort of hedging our bets.

You should ideally sim the optimal stats to craft for your particular character, but Crit/Mastery is most likely your best option with a Thalassian Missive of the Peerless.

You do not need to have a Professions to get gear crafted for you, that is what Crafting Order NPC's are for, but if you are interested in crafting for yourself and saving some Gold, check out our Professions Overview page:

You will be able to upgrade your items via Crests such as Myth Dawncrest. Once you have upgraded a slot to a certain item level, upgrading other items of that slot to that item level is free.

When you upgrade with Crests, you should think of it as upgrading slots and not items.

Additionally, since Crests are a limited resource, you will want to obtain the highest item-level possible before upgrading a given slot, as this means you will spend fewer Crests on that slot in total. If you are at all capable of doing a +10 Dungeon, for example, it would be a VERY bad idea to upgrade an item from a +9 Dungeon, because you just wasted 20 Crests that could have been saved by just farming the slot on a +10.

We see a ton of players, even at a high level, mess up their upgrade priorities, and upgrading prematurely. Getting this right will put you far ahead of most players.

Below is the slot priority you should upgrade your items in. If you ever want to deviate from this, you should have a very good reason.

Survival Hunter Crest Upgrade Priority

Weapon → Trinkets → Helmet/Chest/Legs → Shoulder/Gloves/Belt/Boots → Rings/Neck → Cloak/Bracer

Note that exceptions are possible, such as special items that have more Item Level scaling than their slot would imply.

You can learn more about the Gear Upgrade System in our Gear Upgrade System page.