Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot — 12.0.5

Welcome to our Gear and BiS Page for Survival Hunter for Midnight Season 1. Check this page to learn everything you need to know about gearing a Survival Hunter, including the BiS Gear from all sources, Raiding, and Mythic+, information on the best Trinkets, Tier Sets, and much more.

The Midnight Expansion brought a major stat squish, reducing the stats and numbers of virtually everything in the game, including Item Levels and the stats on gear.

Upgrading gear in Midnight continues to use the Crest system which lets you increase the item level of gear along tracks that relate to where you obtained the item, which harder content dropping gear that can be upgraded to higher Item Levels. For more information, read up on our dedicated page on how the gearing system works and what has changed in the Midnight expansion.

OverallRaidMythic+

This list contains the best gear in every slot for Season 1 of Midnight, from all sources.

There are many different setups that perform within the margin of error. This one chooses as many Raid items as possible, since they are easier to obtain than hoping for the right Mythic+ item from your Great Vault. Mythic+ items are chosen when there is no equally strong Raid alternative. This list is not the end-all-be-all list where any item that is not listed is far behind this specific selection.

This list is by no means a replacement for simming yourself. Depending on your previous Great Vault choices and the gear you have available, your BiS gear might look different in some spots than the below list.

FAQWhich Tier Set Pieces Do I Want?

For Midnight Season 1 as a Survival Hunter, you will want to try and prioritize getting the Helmet, Chest, Gloves, and Legs set pieces, though finishing the set bonus is the most important thing here. We want the flexibility to use Pauldrons of the Void Hunter when fighting Aberration Bosses, and some good Mastery-Crit Shoulders otherwise.

Survival Hunter

1.1.

Overall Best in Slot

Primal Sentry's Maw Helm

Catalyst or Lightblinded Vanguard Empowered Hex of Leeching

Primal Sentry's Talonguards Hands

Catalyst or Vorasius

Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn Neck

Midnight Falls

Primal Sentry's Cinch Waist

Catalyst any Mythic Belt

Pauldrons of the Void Hunter Shoulders

Seat of the Triumvirate Silvermoon's Mending

Primal Sentry's Legguards Legs

Catalyst or Vaelgor and Ezzorak Forest Hunter's

Draconic Nullcape Cloak

Vaelgor and Ezzorak

Whipcoil Sabatons Feet

Windrunner Spire Shaladrassil's Roots

Primal Sentry's Scaleplate Chest

Catalyst or Chimaerus Mark of the Worldsoul

Eye of Midnight Ring

Midnight Falls Eyes of the Eagle

Shirt

Bond of Light Ring

Lightblinded Vanguard Eyes of the Eagle

Tabard

Algeth'ar Puzzle Box Trinket

Algeth'ar Academy

Farstrider's Plated Bracers Bracers

Crafted by Leatherworking

Gaze of the Alnseer Trinket

Chimaerus

Hungering Victory Main Hand

Vorasius Arcane Mastery

Farstrider's Mercy Off Hand

Crafted by Blacksmithing Arcane Mastery

This list contains the best gear in every slot for Season 1 of Midnight, from the Midnight Season 1 Raids. It is very similar to our Overall BiS List, since that is biased towards Raid Gear as well, but in this case, absolutely no Mythic+ items are included.

There are many different setups that perform within the margin of error. This list is not the end-all-be-all list where any item that is not listed is far behind this specific selection.

This list is by no means a replacement for simming yourself. Depending on your previous Great Vault choices and the gear you have available, your BiS gear might look different in some spots than the below list.

TipsWhich Raid-Items Do I Want Most?

If you need to submit a list of highly-important items to your raidleader, or simply want to focus on the most important bosses and items, we got you covered!

• Radiant Plume: Our best passive trinket. It can be freely swapped to a Umbral Plume, but we will almost always prefer the Radiant one.
• Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn: The best Neck in the game by a lot. Mythic+ alternatives have awful stats. It also has an extra socket.
• Hungering Victory: Our BiS Main Hand dagger.

Survival Hunter

1.2.

Best Raid Gear

Primal Sentry's Maw Helm

Catalyst or Lightblinded Vanguard Empowered Hex of Leeching

Primal Sentry's Talonguards Hands

Catalyst or Vorasius

Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn Neck

Midnight Falls

Primal Sentry's Cinch Waist

Catalyst any Mythic Belt

Nullwalker's Dread Epaulettes Shoulders

Vaelgor and Ezzorak Silvermoon's Mending

Primal Sentry's Legguards Legs

Catalyst or Vaelgor and Ezzorak Forest Hunter's

Draconic Nullcape Cloak

Vaelgor and Ezzorak

Whipcoil Sabatons Feet

Windrunner Spire Shaladrassil's Roots

Primal Sentry's Scaleplate Chest

Catalyst or Chimaerus Mark of the Worldsoul

Eye of Midnight Ring

Midnight Falls Eyes of the Eagle

Shirt

Bond of Light Ring

Lightblinded Vanguard Eyes of the Eagle

Tabard

Radiant Plume Trinket

Belo'ren

Farstrider's Plated Bracers Bracers

Crafted by Leatherworking

Gaze of the Alnseer Trinket

Chimaerus

Hungering Victory Main Hand

Vorasius Arcane Mastery

Farstrider's Mercy Off Hand

Crafted by Blacksmithing Arcane Mastery

This list contains the best gear in every slot for Season 1 of Midnight, from Midnight Season 1 Mythic+. This is aimed at people who do not intend to engage much with Raid content.

There are many different setups that perform within the margin of error. This list is not the end-all-be-all list where any item that is not listed is far behind this specific selection.

This list is by no means a replacement for simming yourself. Depending on your previous Great Vault choices and the gear you have available, your BiS gear might look different in some spots than the below list.

TipsWhich Dungeons Should I Farm?

If you have limited time to play the game, we recommend to farm the following dungeons:

• Nexus-Point Xenas: BiS Ring Set Bonus
• Seat of the Triumvirate: BiS Shoulders
• Algeth'ar Academy: BiS Trinket from Mythic+

Survival Hunter

1.3.

Best Mythic+ Gear

Primal Sentry's Maw Helm

Catalyst or Lightblinded Vanguard Empowered Hex of Leeching

Primal Sentry's Talonguards Hands

Catalyst or Vorasius

Barbed Ymirheim Choker Neck

Pit of Saron

Primal Sentry's Cinch Waist

Catalyst any Mythic Belt

Pauldrons of the Void Hunter Shoulders

Seat of the Triumvirate Silvermoon's Mending

Primal Sentry's Legguards Legs

Catalyst or Vaelgor and Ezzorak Forest Hunter's

Rigid Scale Greatcloak Cloak

Skyreach

Primal Sentry's Swiftsteps Feet

Catalyst Shaladrassil's Roots

Primal Sentry's Scaleplate Chest

Catalyst or Chimaerus Mark of the Worldsoul

Occlusion of Void Ring

Nexus-Point Xenas Eyes of the Eagle

Shirt

Omission of Light Ring

Nexus-Point Xenas Eyes of the Eagle

Tabard

Algeth'ar Puzzle Box Trinket

Algeth'ar Academy

Farstrider's Plated Bracers Bracers

Crafted by Leatherworking

Solarflare Prism Trinket

Skyreach

Radiant Slicer Main Hand

Nexus-Point Xenas Arcane Mastery

Farstrider's Mercy Off Hand

Crafted by Blacksmithing Arcane Mastery

Itemization

Enchants and Stat Priority

Looking to optimize your character? Check out our Enchant and Stat Priority guides for more information!

EnchantsStats

Survival Hunter Trinkets

On-Use - Algeth'ar Puzzle Box or, alternatively, Emberwing Feather
Passive - Gaze of the Alnseer or, alternatively, Solarflare Prism

As Survival, we want a powerful on-use Trinket to pair with our Takedown, and a strong passive Trinket option in our second slot.

There are quite a few other valuable trinkets out there, so make sure to click on our ranking chart to see if they are worth equipping. Note that you do not want to have more than 1 on-use Trinket. You can almost think of the "On-Use" Trinkets ranked as being separate from the others.

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Ranking	Trinkets
S Tier	Algeth'ar Puzzle Box — On-Use Gaze of the Alnseer
A Tier	Radiant Plume — Same Trinket as Umbral, but swapped to Mastery.
B Tier	Heart of Wind Solarflare Prism Emberwing Feather — On-Use Umbral Plume — Same Trinket as Radiant, but swapped to Critical Strike.
C Tier	Ranger-Captain's Iridescent Insignia Vessel of Tortured Souls Undreamt God's Oozing Vestige Light Company Guidon — On-Use
D Tier	Eye of the Drowning Void Latch's Crooked Hook Void Stalker's Contract

Patch 12.0.5 introduces two new gearing systems that you need to familiarize yourself with:

• Nebulous Voidcore is a new currency that can be used to "Bonus Roll" on certain dungeons and items. Using it will guarantee a drop from that source, but the item you get is random. However, you are protected from repeats. Use this enough times on a boss or dungeon, and you are guaranteed your desired item.
• Ascendant Voidcore extends the upgrade capabilities of Weapons and Trinkets, letting you upgrade them even further than before.

Seasonal Mechanics

Voidforge and Voidcores

Check our our guide on the Voidforge to learn how to acquire this powerful upgrades!

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Obviously, the straightforward answer to this question is to use the Voidcores on the best upgrade that you have not yet gotten. This is unique to your character, but I will offer a list of some of the most important items for Survival Hunter, with the goal being that you can just go down the list and chase the #1 thing you see that you do not already have.

It is also worth noting that Bonus Rolling for an item that you may be able to get from an upcoming raid boss drop could be a bad idea, depending on how you value "power now" versus "power later".

Voidcore (Bonus Roll) Priority

1. Mythic Track Main Hand Weapon
2. Algeth'ar Puzzle Box
3. Mythic Gaze of the Alnseer
4. Remaining BiS List Items

Using your Ascendant Voidcores follows a similar priority list as using your Crests:

1. Your Main-Hand Weapon is the highest priority.
2. Your Algeth'ar Puzzle Box.
3. Your other Trinket.

Generally, focus on upgrading Myth Track items, as the currency is limited. One exception may be for the Algeth'ar Puzzle Box, because it is quite difficult to obtain at Myth Track from Great Vault.

You can have two Embellishments, which are special effects that come from Crafted Gear. In other words, all good gearsets have two Embellished, crafted items, and below, I will explain the best Embellishments to use, and what to craft them on.

1. Farstrider's Mercy with Crit/Mastery and Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt. Wear it on your main-hand while it is your highest item level weapon, and then swap it to your off-hand when you get a higher item level main-hand. This is the best crafted item for Survival Hunter, and the one you should prioritize the most.
2. Farstrider's Plated Bracers with Crit/Mastery and Arcanoweave Lining.

You should ideally sim the optimal stats to craft for your particular character, but Crit/Mastery is most likely your best option with a Thalassian Missive of the Peerless.

For more information about crafting gear you can visit our Professions page.

You will be able to upgrade your items via Crests such as Myth Dawncrest. Once you have upgraded a slot to a certain item level, upgrading other items of that slot to that item level is free.

When you upgrade with Crests, you should think of it as upgrading slots and not items.

Additionally, since Crests are a limited resource, you will want to obtain the highest item-level possible before upgrading a given slot, as this means you will spend fewer Crests on that slot in total. If you are at all capable of doing a +10 Dungeon, for example, it would be a VERY bad idea to upgrade an item from a +9 Dungeon, because you just wasted 20 Crests that could have been saved by just farming the slot on a +10.

We see a ton of players, even at a high level, mess up their upgrade priorities, and upgrading prematurely. Getting this right will put you far ahead of most players.

Below is the slot priority you should upgrade your items in. If you ever want to deviate from this, you should have a very good reason.

Survival Hunter Crest Upgrade Priority

Weapon → Trinkets → Helmet/Chest/Legs → Shoulder/Gloves/Belt/Boots → Rings/Neck → Cloak/Bracer

Note that exceptions are possible, such as special items that have more Item Level scaling than their slot would imply.

Throughout this page and elsewhere in our guide, we regularly refer to the importance of simming yourself on Raidbots. This is because every character is unique, and each gear piece you have access to can change what is best right now for you.

While we do offer recommendations for gear and trinkets, these are not complete replacements for simming yourself. The only way to truly optimize your character to that degree is by making use of the tools available!

Optimization

Simulations and Tools

For further reading on how to truly maximize your character's potential, check out our guide on Raidbots!

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This guide has been written by Azortharion, a full-timer Hunter Guidewriter, Theorycrafter, Content Creator, and top player since 2014 who is widely considered one of the best PvE Hunters in the world. He is an accomplished player with hundreds of top parses across all Hunter specs. He is the Head Admin of Trueshot Lodge, the official 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!