Survival Hunter DPS Crucible of Storms Raid Guide — Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.3
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Survival Hunter for each boss of the following raid: Crucible of Storms. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.3.
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.
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.
Talent Cheatsheet
We advise to use the following talents on The Restless Cabal.
- Level 15:
Viper's Venom or 
Terms of Engagement - Level 25:
Guerrilla Tactics or 
Hydra's Bite - Level 30:
Natural Mending - Level 35:
Bloodseeker - Level 40:
Posthaste (or 
Born To Be Wild, situationally) - Level 45:
Mongoose Bite - Level 50:
Birds of Prey or 
Wildfire Infusion
We advise to use the following talents on Uu'nat, Harbinger of the Void.
- Level 15: Viper's Venom or Terms of Engagement
- Level 25: Guerrilla Tactics
- Level 30: Natural Mending
- Level 35: Bloodseeker
- Level 40: Posthaste (or Born To Be Wild, situationally)
- Level 45: Mongoose Bite
- Level 50: Birds of Prey (or Wildfire Infusion, situationally)
The Restless Cabal
We advise you to use the following talents against The Restless Cabal.
- Level 15: Viper's Venom or Terms of Engagement
- Level 25: Guerrilla Tactics or Hydra's Bite
- Level 30: Natural Mending
- Level 35: Bloodseeker
- Level 40: Posthaste (or Born To Be Wild, situationally)
- Level 45: Mongoose Bite
- Level 50: Birds of Prey or Wildfire Infusion
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.
Uu'nat, Harbinger of the Void
We advise you to use the following talents against Uu'nat, Harbinger of the Void.
- Level 15: Viper's Venom or Terms of Engagement
- Level 25: Guerrilla Tactics
- Level 30: Natural Mending
- Level 35: Bloodseeker
- Level 40: Posthaste (or Born To Be Wild, situationally)
- Level 45: Mongoose Bite
- Level 50: Birds of Prey (or Wildfire Infusion, situationally)
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.
Changelog
- 13 Jan. 2020: This page has been reviewed for the release of Patch 8.3 and no changes are necessary.
- 24 Jun. 2019: This page has been reviewed for the release of Patch 8.2 and no changes are necessary.
- 13 May 2019: Added Survival tips for Uu'nat.
- 01 May 2019: Added Survival tips for The Restless Cabal.
- 14 Apr. 2019: Guide added.
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This guide has been written by Azortharion, a theorycrafter of all things Hunter-related for many years. He is an accomplished player with dozen of top parses for all specs throughout the game's history. He is also the Admin of Trueshot Lodge, the Hunter Class Discord, and you can watch his stream on Twitch. He even has his own personal Discord channel where you can get notifications about when the guides get updated and have direct communications with him.
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