Survival Hunter DPS Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — The War Within Pre-Patch

• Maximizing Focus and Tip of the Spear stacks generated by casting Kill Command on cooldown without ever letting it cap you on either resource.
• Maximizing Focus spent on Mongoose Bite by never Focus capping.
• Ensuring that Tip of the Spear stacks are spent on high-impact abilities and not fillers.

• All the same goals as the single-target Rotation.
• Maximizing our Wildfire Bomb charge generation and reducing wastage with Butchery and Fury of the Eagle and Ruthless Marauder.

1. Ensure Hunter's Mark is active on the target from you or another Hunter in the group!
2. Use Harpoon to reach the target.
3. Use any on-use Trinkets, as well as your Potion.
4. Use 2x Wildfire Bombs.
5. Use Coordinated Assault.
6. Use Spearhead.
7. Use Flanking Strike.
8. Use Wildfire Bomb.
9. Use Explosive Shot
10. Proceed with your normal Rotation according to the priority list below.

This priority list describes the optimal single-target Rotation for Survival Hunter.

1. Use Ashes of the Embersoul alongside Spearhead. Coordinated Assault.
2. Use Bandolier of Twisted Blades on cooldown.
3. Use Beacon to the Beyond on cooldown.
4. Use Darkmoon Deck Box: Dance on cooldown.
5. Use Elementium Pocket Anvil on cooldown. In a Mythic+ setting, it is important to end every combat with the Anvil off cooldown, allowing you to use it once out of combat to refresh it. The goal is to keep it at 5 stacks as much and as often as possible. In Raid, you can just cast it on cooldown with little regard for this.
6. Use Globe of Jagged Ice on cooldown.
7. Use Manic Grieftorch on cooldown.
8. Use Homeland Raid Horn on cooldown.
9. Use Irideus Fragment alongside Spearhead. Coordinated Assault.
10. Use Algeth'ar Puzzle Box alongside Spearhead. Coordinated Assault.
11. Use Storm-Eater's Boon on as many targets as possible. You will not be able to move during its 10-second duration, but you can still attack. You can Aspect of the Turtle if you are about to get hit by a voidzone while immobilized. Basically, be careful when using this Trinket!
12. Use Witherbark's Branch alongside Spearhead. Coordinated Assault To play this Trinket optimally, you want to collect the spheres it spawns in a staggered fashion. Collect the first two immediately, then collect the last one when the buff is just about to expire, thereby extending its buff. Doing this properly is a solid DPS increase over simply collecting them all. Try your best, but do not fret if you cannot play it perfectly every time.
13. Use Mirror of Fractured Tomorrows alongside Spearhead. Coordinated Assault
14. Use Spearhead on cooldown. It can be helpful to pool a bit of Focus for it, as it only lasts 10 seconds, and you want to maximize your Raptor Strike/ Mongoose Bites within it! You always want to cast Coordinated Assault before Spearhead.
15. Activate Coordinated Assault on cooldown. Dump all of your Wildfire Bomb charges before activating it, regardless of Tip status.
16. Wildfire Bomb if it is on 2 charges.
17. Spend your Tip of the Spear stacks, generated by Kill Command, according to this priority list:
    1. Wildfire Bomb if it is near 2 charges.
    2. Flanking Strike. Since Flanking generates Tip stacks, you want to be on no more than 1 Tip stack when you use it.
    3. Kill Shot.
    4. Explosive Shot.
    5. Since the entries below this point are not cooldown-limited, it is worth weaving in Kill Command if you are sub-75 Focus at this priority.
    6. Wildfire Bomb.
    The idea is that we do not want to cast these abilities without Tip active if we can help it. With how plentiful Kill Command resets are, this should mostly be straightforward.
18. Use Kill Shot when there is nothing else to do as a filler.
19. Use Raptor Strike when there is nothing else to do as a filler.
20. Use Mongoose Bite when there is nothing else to do as a filler.

1. Ensure Hunter's Mark is active on the target from you or another Hunter in the group!
2. Use Fury of the Eagle,
3. Use all your Wildfire Bombs.
4. Use Coordinated Assault, along with your Potion and on-use Trinkets.
5. Use 2x Wildfire Bomb
6. Use Butchery
7. Use Kill Command
8. Use Wildfire Bomb
9. Use Explosive Shot
10. Use all your Wildfire Bombs.
11. Continue your normal Rotation, as defined by the priority below.

This priority list describes the optimal AoE rotation for Survival Hunter.

1. Use Ashes of the Embersoul alongside Spearhead. Coordinated Assault.
2. Use Bandolier of Twisted Blades on cooldown.
3. Use Beacon to the Beyond on cooldown.
4. Use Darkmoon Deck Box: Dance on cooldown.
5. Use Elementium Pocket Anvil on cooldown. In a Mythic+ setting, it is important to end every combat with the Anvil off cooldown, allowing you to use it once out of combat to refresh it. The goal is to keep it at 5 stacks as much and as often as possible. In Raid, you can just cast it on cooldown with little regard for this.
6. Use Globe of Jagged Ice on cooldown.
7. Use Manic Grieftorch on cooldown.
8. Use Homeland Raid Horn on cooldown.
9. Use Irideus Fragment alongside Spearhead. Coordinated Assault.
10. Use Algeth'ar Puzzle Box alongside Spearhead. Coordinated Assault.
11. Use Storm-Eater's Boon on as many targets as possible. You will not be able to move during its 10-second duration, but you can still attack. You can Aspect of the Turtle if you are about to get hit by a voidzone while immobilized. Basically, be careful when using this Trinket!
12. Use Witherbark's Branch alongside Spearhead. Coordinated Assault To play this Trinket optimally, you want to collect the spheres it spawns in a staggered fashion. Collect the first two immediately, then collect the last one when the buff is just about to expire, thereby extending its buff. Doing this properly is a solid DPS increase over simply collecting them all. Try your best, but do not fret if you cannot play it perfectly every time.
13. Use Mirror of Fractured Tomorrows alongside Spearhead. Coordinated Assault
14. Use Spearhead on cooldown. It can be helpful to pool a bit of Focus for it, as it only lasts 10 seconds, and you want to maximize your Raptor Strike/ Mongoose Bites within it! You always want to cast Coordinated Assault before Spearhead.
15. Use Fury of the Eagle on cooldown. It is more used for its Wildfire Bomb cooldown reduction than damage.
16. Activate Coordinated Assault on cooldown. Dump all of your Wildfire Bomb charges before activating it, regardless of Tip status.
17. Spend your Tip of the Spear stacks, generated by Kill Command, according to this priority list:
    1. Wildfire Bomb if it is near 2 charges.
    2. Flanking Strike. Since Flanking generates Tip stacks, you want to be on no more than 1 Tip stack when you use it.
    3. Explosive Shot.
    4. Since the entries below this point are not cooldown-limited, it is worth weaving in Kill Command if you are sub-75 Focus at this priority.
    5. Wildfire Bomb.
    6. Raptor Strike if Merciless Blows is active.
    7. Mongoose Bite if Merciless Blows is active.
    The idea is that we do not want to cast these abilities without Tip active if we can help it. With how plentiful Kill Command resets are, this should mostly be straightforward.
18. Use Butchery on cooldown.
19. Use Kill Shot when there is nothing else to do as a filler.
20. Use Mongoose Bite as a filler, if you have nothing else to do.
21. Use Raptor Strike as a filler, if you have nothing else to do.