Season of Discovery Hunter Melee DPS Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities

The Melee Hunter rotation is based entirely around using your only available melee abilities on cooldown. The rotation is quite simple with little room for variation.

Including your new Runes, your abilities are Mongoose Bite, Raptor Strike, and the new Flanking Strike. You also have the option to use Carve for AoE.

Your rotation as a Melee Hunter involves a priority list. Keep all of the below abilities on cooldown while always staying in melee range to not miss auto-attacks.

1. Flanking Strike;
2. Raptor Strike;
3. Mongoose Bite;
4. Carve.

Hunters are unique in that they have both a melee and a ranged basic attack with separate cooldowns and short animation times. While most ranged Hunters will try to optimize their rotation by weaving in melee attacks, melee Hunters have the choice to do the opposite. If you did want to optimize a bit, you would want to run out into range every ~10 seconds to do a single auto-shot plus a Multi-Shot. You could optimize this further by doing it slightly more frequently with Serpent Sting as well, but you risk running out of mana with too many ranged shots.

Other than racial abilities, Melee Hunters will not have any cooldowns to use.