Survival Hunter DPS Crucible of Storms Raid Guide — Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.1.5

1. Disclaimer

This page will be a rough outline of the bosses and mechanics in the Crucible of Storms raid. This page will focus primarily on how a Survival Hunter can optimize its performance on the raid bosses in Crucible of Storms, and not on an actual raid strategy for the bosses. Initially, this page will focus on Heroic mode and lower, however, as more bosses are being killed on Mythic, the guide will also include optimizations for Mythic bosses.

2. Survival in Crucible of Storms

Survival Hunters are not very popular, but they are still a solid Melee DPS with high single-target damage, good burst and decent mobility. From a DPS perspective, it competes with both of the other Hunter specs and is widely considered to be fun to play.

3. Talent Cheatsheet

4. The Restless Cabal

4.1. Suggested Talents for Survival Hunter on The Restless Cabal

• Level 15: Viper's Venom or Terms of Engagement
• Level 30: Guerrilla Tactics or Hydra's Bite
• Level 45: Natural Mending
• Level 60: Bloodseeker
• Level 75: Posthaste (or Born To Be Wild, situationally)
• Level 90: Mongoose Bite
• Level 100: Birds of Prey or Wildfire Infusion

4.2. Survival Hunter Playstyle on The Restless Cabal

A variety of builds can work on the Restless Cabal, but the most common and best potential build involves Viper's Venom, Hydra's Bite, and Wildfire Infusion combined with using lots of Latent Poison traits.

With this build, we recommend saving Coordinated Assault for Bloodlust/ Heroism, or when you have 9 stacks of the Promises of Power debuff.

Resounding Protection and Duck and Cover Azerite Traits are extremely powerful on this fight. The size of the absorb shield does not go down when your health goes down with the Promises of Power debuff on the fight. This means that the traits effectively give you a 100%+ absorb shield.

5. Uu'nat, Harbinger of the Void

5.1. Suggested Talents for Survival Hunter on Uu'nat, Harbinger of the Void

• Level 15: Viper's Venom or Terms of Engagement
• Level 30: Guerrilla Tactics
• Level 45: Natural Mending
• Level 60: Bloodseeker
• Level 75: Posthaste (or Born To Be Wild, situationally)
• Level 90: Mongoose Bite
• Level 100: Birds of Prey (or Wildfire Infusion, situationally)

5.2. Survival Hunter Playstyle on Uu'nat

It is worth banking close to two charges of Wildfire Bomb for when the adds spawn.

We recommend a Birds of Prey-based build that uses 2-3 Blur of Talons traits. This will ensure that your second Coordinated Assault will cover the adds that spawn without any issues.

6. Changelog