Survival Hunter DPS Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible Raid Guide — Dragonflight 10.2.7
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Survival Hunter for each boss of the following raid: Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.2.7.
Introduction
Below, you can find class and spec-specific advice for every fight in Aberrus. If you are looking for a general overview of the Raid that is not spec-specific, check out our dedicated Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible guides.
On this page, you will find Survival Hunter specific information to deal with each boss in the Aberrus raid. These are not complete encounter guides but specific tips for doing the bosses as a Survival Hunter.
This page assumes that you already understand most of the mechanics of each encounter. These can be found on the full raid guide, so what is contained here are details specifically tailored toward Survival Hunter and how you can deal with each fight as best as possible.
All recommendations are progression-based tips and will not necessarily be the best for an overall DPS ranking.
Talent Builds By Boss
To make importing talents easier, I have aggregated the builds into the list below into three main builds. Taking these as a baseline, you can handle all raid encounters in this tier.
Dragonflight Raid Talent Builds for Survival Hunter
Single Target Raid Build for Survival Hunter
This build is the default single target build for Survival Hunter.
Suggested Encounters:Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
AoE Raid Build for Survival Hunter
This build suits AoE-heavy encounters. It is also very flexible with no cooldowns, and a heavy reliance on the short-cooldown, bursty Fury of the Eagle for AoE situations.
Suggested Encounters:Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
General Defensive Usage Notes
Survival Hunter has several defensive spells that you should plan to use and rotate throughout mechanics. You should opt to use the smaller cooldown spells often as needed with incoming mechanics and save bigger cooldowns like Aspect of the Turtle for large incoming damage.
- Exhilaration
- Survival of the Fittest
- Fortitude of the Bear with a Tenacity Pet summoned.
General Cooldown Usage
Survival Hunter has a few cooldowns to think about using optimally on the fights in Aberrus:
- Coordinated Assault — Our best and biggest cooldown, used for practically all scenarios.
- Spearhead — Our 60-90-second cooldown. Not used at all times!
- Fury of the Eagle — Barely counts as a cooldown, but is still worth explicitly saving for moments of big AoE, for example.
In addition to the general rotation, you want to keep in mind that your goal is to use your cooldowns as often as possible during an encounter. With that in mind, your secondary goal is to use them at the correct time.
I highly suggest using some Addon or WeakAura to track the estimated time to die of your target/boss target. Method Raid Tools has this as an option if you are already using this addon. By tracking time to die, if you know that you can only fit one more cycle of your cooldowns in before the boss dies, you can choose to hold these cooldowns to better line up with Bloodlust, your Potion, or even your other cooldowns, trying to look for opportunities to stack all of them.
Kazzara, the Hellforged
Defensive Usage
- Use your defensives for Wings of Extinction and Hellsteel Carnage, in particular their overlaps at ~1:30 and ~2:30 in the encounter.
Cooldown Timings
- No special considerations.
Mechanical Tips
- Use Disengage when targeted by Rays of Anguish to more easily drag the laser over the Dread Rifts.
For more information, please refer to our Kazzara guide.
The Amalgamation Chamber
Defensive Usage
- Use your defensives for Gloom Conflagration in Phase 2. Generally, Phase 2 hurts far more than Phase 1, so you want to enter Phase 2 with all of your defensives available if possible.
Cooldown Timings
- No special considerations.
Mechanical Tips
- Use Disengage when targeted by Blistering Twilight to place the puddles optimally. Make sure to Harpoon back.
- Use Aspect of the Turtle to solo-soak the Fiery Meteor/ Gloom Conflagration mechanics.
For more information, please refer to our Amalgamation Chamber guide.
The Forgotten Experiments
Defensive Usage
- Use defensives when you have MISSING if needed to hold onto the debuff for longer. You will definitely want to use defensives if you have MISSING and Infused Explosion occurs at the same time.
Cooldown Timings
- No special considerations.
Mechanical Tips
- You can use Aspect of the Turtle to prevent the Bleed application from Rending Charge.
For more information, please refer to our Forgotten Experiments guide.
Assault of the Zaqali
Defensive Usage
- Molten Barrier hurts and you should use your defensives for surviving the tail-end of it happening. It can coincide with Scorching Roar as well, which you should have a defensive prepared for every time.
Cooldown Timings
- Use your 2-minute cooldowns for the first and third Molten Barrier. Send the others on cooldown.
Mechanical Tips
- You cannot use Aspect of the Turtle to soak Catastrophic Slam.
- Kick Lava Bolt as much as possible.
For more information, please refer to our Assault of the Zaqali guide.
Rashok, the Elder
Defensive Usage
- This fight hurts and you will have to be smart about your defensive usage. The main mechanics to look out for are Overcharged/ Conduit Flare, and their overlaps at roughly 1:00, 2:30, and 3:20. You might also want to use a defensive on Scorching Heatwave.
Cooldown Timings
- No special considerations.
Mechanical Tips
- Use Aspect of the Turtle either as part of your defensive kit, or to negate the knockback from Smoldering Rage.
- You can also use Disengage or even Harpoon immediately after the knockback to optimize your positioning.
- When targeted by Searing Slam, use Disengage to place it well. Make sure to Harpoon back.
For more information, please refer to our Rashok the Elder guide.
The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn
Defensive Usage
- Use defensives for overlaps of Blast Wave with other mechanics. These are separated by around 35 seconds, starting 45 seconds in. At 2:30 and 3:00, they will possibly overlap with Unstable Embers if you are targeted by it.
Cooldown Timings
- Save your 2-minute cooldowns for the first set of adds, and then hold it again later in the fight for the ~2:57 add spawn. Send your 45-seconds on cooldown.
Mechanical Tips
- We have no specific tips for the mechanics of this fight besides using Disengage liberally to position yourself optimally. If anything arises, we will add some more tips to this section.
For more information, please refer to our Zskarn guide.
Magmorax
Defensive Usage
- Defensives should primarily be used for Igniting Roar, which happens at various intervals throughout the fight. When a Roar is coming up, pay attention to your health and that of the raid before deciding on using a defensive.
Cooldown Timings
- No special considerations.
Mechanical Tips
- Use Aspect of the Turtle to negate the Overpowering Stomp mechanic where possible. Use Disengage otherwise.
- Use Disengage to be a mechanical hero! Your mobility makes you excellent for soaking Magma Puddles on this fight, especially ones far away.
For more information, please refer to our Magmorax guide.
Echo of Neltharion
Defensive Usage
- Defensives should be used when targeted by Volcanic Heart, and when wall breaks in the fight overlap with other mechanics.
- If necessary, you can also use cooldowns for Umbral Annihilation, but this is generally a healer mechanic where if you would have died with no defensive, so would half the raid.
Cooldown Timings
- If Surrender to Corruption is imminent, you might want to save your cooldowns to see if you get Corrupted. If you do, send your cooldowns on the add!
Mechanical Tips
- We have no specific tips for the mechanics of this fight besides using Disengage liberally to position yourself optimally. If anything arises, we will add some more tips to this section.
For more information, please refer to our Neltharion guide.
Scalecommander Sarkareth
Defensive Usage
- You can assist your Healers by using defensives on Glittering Surge, though it should rarely be needed.
- Other than this, you should primarily use defensives to cover mistakes as there are no other, specific moments of high incoming damage.
Cooldown Timings
- Simply use your cooldowns on cooldown. Every 45-second cooldown should line up with add spawns starting in Phase 2.
Mechanical Tips
- When entering the Void Phase in both intermissions and other times, use Disengage to speed yourself up via the Posthaste Talent while collecting the orbs to increase your Haste. Use Aspect of the Cheetah to extend your movement speed. The faster you can get out, the more damage you can do!
For more information, please refer to our Scalecommander Sarkareth guide.
Changelog
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Season 4.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
- 13 May 2023: Updated with tips for Scalecommander Sarkareth.
- 08 May 2023: Page added.
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This guide has been written by Azortharion, a Hunter Theorycrafter and Guidewriter since 2014 who is widely considered one of the best Hunters in the world. He is an accomplished player with hundreds of top parses for all Hunter specs throughout the game's history. He is also the owner of Trueshot Lodge, the Hunter Class Discord. You can find him on his stream on Twitch and his channel on YouTube. He also has his own, personal Discord server where you can freely ask him any Hunter questions you may have!
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