Survival Hunter DPS Amirdrassil Raid Guide — Season 4

Below, you can find class and spec-specific advice for every fight in Amirdrassil. If you are looking for a general overview of the Raid that is not spec-specific, check out our dedicated Amirdrassil, the Dream's Hope guides.

On this page, you will find Survival Hunter specific information to deal with each boss in the Amirdrassil 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.

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.

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
• Fortitude of the Bear with a Tenacity Pet summoned.
• Survival of the Fittest

Survival Hunter has a few cooldowns to think about using optimally on the fights in Amirdrassil:

• Spearhead — Our 90-second cooldown. Not used at all times!
• Death Chakram — Our small, 45-second mini-cooldown.
• 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.

• Try to be liberal with defensive cooldowns during the intermission, especially if you are running far to soak Splintering Charcoal and debuff branches with Ember-Charred.

• Ensure Fury of the Eagle lineups with spawns of adds.

• On Mythic there are larger adds that need to be focused down. Make sure you are ready to swap to these as they are about to spawn.

For more information, please refer to our Gnarlroot guide.

• If you are targeted with Blistering Spear make sure to use at least Exhilaration before it hits if you are low on HP.
• Consider using Aspect of the Cheetah if targeted by Slicing Torment. This can make it much easier to dodge the circle with the increased movement speed. Note that the travel time on the jump is based on distance from the boss, so it is usually a good idea to use Turtle to run far as well.
• After each intermission the boss deals increased damage. This means it is more critical to have good defensive usage after each subsequent intermission. By the end of the fight you should be quite liberal with uses of Exhilaration.

• Ensure that Fury of the Eagle is available and used on every Spear spawn.

• Try to position yourself at a far enough distance away so that dodging Twisting Blade is easier.
• During the intermission make sure you are mindful of your positioning so you do not get accidentally knocked back into a Marked for Torment circle. Soaking more than once will be deadly.

For more information, please refer to our Igira guide.

• While soaking Flood of the Firelands deals a relatively small amount of damage, shortly after the boss will channel Serpent's Fury. This is your best candidate to use your defensive cooldowns.

• No specific timings to mention.

• When soaking Flood of the Firelands be sure to position yourself so that you get knocked back in the correct direction. The direction is determined based on the position of your character and the center of the soak.

For more information, please refer to our Volcoross guide.

• Be sure to use a defensive if you are ever soaking Barreling Charge. Depending on how many people are also soaking Exhilaration should be enough, or if it is very few people consider using Aspect of the Turtle. You will still get the debuff.

• No specific timings to mention.

• Be sure to pay attention to boss health to kill them as evenly as possible.

For more information, please refer to our Council of Dreams guide.

• Be sure to progressively use more defensive abilities for each cast of Raging Inferno as it does ramping damage for each subsequent cast.
• You should consider using at least Exhilaration when you soak Falling Embers in Phase 2.
• Pay attention in Phase 2 if you get targeted by Flash Fire. You should use Exhilaration to help get this absorb off you quickly before you explode when it expires.

• Consider delaying cooldowns around picking up the Blazing Coalescence orb. This does deal a bit of damage when picking up but also gives you increased critical strike chance for 10 seconds. The buff is not super important to plan around, but its worth paying attention to these spawns around your cooldowns since they need to be soaked regardless.

• If you are targeted by Scorching Roots be sure to not get hit and kite this effectively so your group members can easily purify it with the Seed of Life.

For more information, please refer to our Larodar guide.

• Be sure to use at least Exhilaration when soaking the smaller circles throughout the room.

• No specific timings to mention.

• While fighting the Cycle Warden Nymue is effectively immune so you should just focus the add and not worry about the boss.

For more information, please refer to our Nymue guide.

• Depending on the strategy used you can save Exhilaration to help heal off your Overheated debuff quickly. You might be stacking with group members for this and if so you typically want all of these to be healed off at once so be cautious.

• Typically you will want to save cooldowns for the intermission phase where you will get significantly increased damage from Ignited Essence. You have 5 orbs to collect each intermission and if you fail to collect any the boss instead gets the buff.
• The timings for the intermission after you pick up your orbs is roughly ~1:10, ~2:50, ~4:30, and ~6:00. You should ensure you have a Spearhead available for every phase. This might mean delaying your orb pickups slightly on the first set, while the remaining ones should be easy enough to get to work out.

• Before the intermission starts you will get knocked back and spawn 5 Ignited Essence orbs you need to soak. Soak them all within a short time of one another, as the buff does not extend on each pickup.

For more information, please refer to our Smolderon guide.

• No specific defensive usage to mention.

• Generally speaking the fight works out naturally well for our 2 minute cooldowns if you use things on cooldown as you get them. You should always have these for every intermission burn phase.

• You can Disengage the root, but you will explicitly not want to do this on Mythic.

For more information, please refer to our Tindral guide.

• No specific defensive usage to mention. Not because you will not be using a ton of defensives, but because the fight is highly dynamic with no single, massive hits or bursts of damage.

• No specific timings to mention, other than ensuring Fury of the Eagle use on the small adds throughout Phase 2.

• No specific tips to handle mechanics to mention.

For more information, please refer to our Fyrakk guide.