Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Shadowlands 9.2.5

Welcome to our Gearing Page for Survival Hunter, this section will cover everything you need to know about equipping your character correctly.

For more detailed information on Stat Priority, please visit our Stats page.

For more detailed information on Gems and Enchants, please visit our Gems and Enchants page.

We also have a page dedicated to simulations for different aspects of your character. These can be found on our Simulationspage.

The Tier Set Bonus for Survival Hunter can be obtained from the Raid, as well as the Weekly Great Vault. Tier bonuses exist on Helm, Shoulders, Chest, Gloves, and Legs, and you need 4 pieces to complete the set. The bonuses are as follows:

• Survival Hunter 2-Piece — When Kill Command resets, it has a 40% chance to make your next Wildfire Bomb incur no cooldown.
• Survival Hunter 4-Piece — Your Wildfire Bombs deal 30% additional damage. This bonus is increased to 80% for bombs empowered by the 2pc bonus.

The set bonuses in combination are extremely strong for all situations, but especially AoE.

Since you only need 4 pieces while there are 5 in total, this means that you can omit one piece in favour of a stronger one with better stats, or higher item level. The most obvious candidate for this is omitting the Legs in favour of the Epochal Oppressor's Greaves from The Jailer, which are 7 iLvls higher than the tier legs.

You can also use the open slot for a Legendary craft, provided that you have the other 4 pieces required to finish the set. Legs are another good candidate for this, but so is the Chest and Helm.

In the longer term, you can use the Creation Catalyst to convert any item of the aforementioned slots into a Tier item, retaining its item level and tertiary stats. This means that you could convert the Epochal Oppressor's Greaves into a tier item eventually, and then use Creation Catalyst to put a Legendary in your high-budget Helm or Chest slots.

Domination Gems do not work in any Patch 9.2 content, and are no longer within the scope of this guide for that reason.

At this stage in the game, and despite the stat priority, there are so many variables and so many layers of optimization that you can apply to your character that there is no way for a guide or anything else to tell you exactly what gear you should wear. This is why we always recommend simulating your own character using Raidbots. The website can help you choose items, trinkets, Legendaries, Enchants/Gems, and even Covenants, Soulbinds, Conduits, and so on.

Patch 9.0.5 reintroduced the Valor currency. For more information on where to get Valor from, how it works, weekly caps and more, see our Valor page.

Survival Hunters should upgrade the items with Valor that will benefit the most in the moment. The easiest way to figure out what is best for your specific character is by using Raidbots' Droptimizer. You can select "+10 Weekly Chest" as a replacement for the highest item level Valor upgrade. Below is a list of item slots that you might want to upgrade first.

• Your weapon is by far your strongest item, and should always be the top priority to upgrade.
• Trinkets have a major impact on your DPS, particularly on-use ones such as Inscrutable Quantum Device and Overcharged Anima Battery.
• Aside from this, the best scaling items tend to be Helms, Chests, and Leg items. Wrists and Cloaks are low-priority as they have relatively little Agility on them.

Thanks to Bloodmallet.com, a comprehensive list of available trinkets for Survival are listed against each other below. Keep in mind that this only a guideline, and that you should be simming your own character if you care about optimizing it.

While the Inscrutable Quantum Device trinket performs exceptionally well in simulations, its use in Raids is very varied, as there will be many situations where it will not proc its powerful stat proc, but instead heal someone, or give a healer Mana. Raidbots offers the ability to sim it at different "odds" of getting a stat proc beyond the first use. Use this in conjunction with log analysis to find out if you should be using this Trinket.

Many people have a tendency to overthink the distribution of their secondary stats. An important thing to remember is that a higher quantity of stats is nearly always better than a better quality of stats. Because of this, wearing higher item level gear with worse stats tends to be better than lower item level gear with great stats. The exception for Survival Hunters would usually be Mastery, which is terrible in all cases and should be avoided, but keep this general principle in mind when considering gear. For more detailed stats information, please refer to our dedicated page.

This does not include trinkets as they are covered in the above chart. It also does not include Legendaries, as we have a dedicated page for those.

Slot	Item	Source
Helm	Godstalker's Sallet	Anduin Wrynn in Sepulcher of the First Ones
Necklace	Cabochon of the Infinite Flight	Timecap'n Hook Tail in Mythic Tazavesh, the Veiled Market
Shoulders	Godstalker's Pauldrons	Lords of Dread in Sepulcher of the First Ones
Cloak	Shroud of the Sire's Chosen	Lords of Dread in Sepulcher of the First Ones
Chest	Godstalker's Hauberk	Rygelon in Sepulcher of the First Ones
Bracers	Interdimensional Manica	Rygelon in Sepulcher of the First Ones
Gloves	Godstalker's Gauntlets	Lihuvim, Principal Architect in Sepulcher of the First Ones
Belt	Combustible Collaboration Girdle	Lihuvim, Principal Architect in Sepulcher of the First Ones
Legs	Epochal Oppressor's Greaves	The Jailer in Sepulcher of the First Ones
Boots	Ephemera-Stained Sollerets	Halondrus the Reclaimer in Sepulcher of the First Ones
Ring #1	Bloodoath Signet	An Affront of Challengers in Mythic+ Theater of Pain
Ring #2	Loquacious Keeper's Peridot	Lihuvim, Principal Architect in Sepulcher of the First Ones
Weapon	Zovastrum, the Unmaking	The Jailer in Sepulcher of the First Ones