Survival Hunter DPS Rotation, Cooldowns, and Abilities — Dragonflight 10.2
On this page, you will learn how to optimize the rotation of your Survival Hunter in both single-target and multiple-target situations. We also have advanced sections about cooldowns, procs, etc. in order to minmax your DPS. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.2.
If you were looking for WotLK Classic content, please refer to our WotLK Classic Survival Hunter rotation.
Survival Hunter Rotation for Dragonflight
Welcome to our Rotation page for Survival Hunters. On this page, you will find everything you need to know about actually playing the spec in Raiding and Mythic+ scenarios.
Best Talent Builds for Survival Hunter in Dragonflight
We highly recommend you go and grab the best Talent Builds for the spec before diving into the Rotation. Check out our dedicated Talents page below:
Simplified Survival Hunter Rotation for Beginners
If the rotations below seem overwhelming to you, you might benefit from visiting our Easy Mode page, which outlines a close-to-optimal rotation in simpler terms.
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The content on this page is purely PvE-related. If you are looking for PvP Rotation Tips, please visit our PvP page below.
Survival Hunter Rotations
Each of the sections below explain the rotation for Enhancement at different target counts. Click the boxes to switch to the desired damage type.
Survival Hunter Rotation
The buttons below can be used to select between curated Single-Target and AoE/Mythic+ loadouts. You can also use the switches below to add or remove individual talents you may also be using:
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Single-Target Rotation Goals for Survival Hunter
- Maximizing Focus generated by casting
Kill Command on cooldown, without ever letting it Focus cap you.
- Maximizing Focus spent on
Mongoose Bite by never Focus capping. Ideally packing as much Focus as possible inside of
Mongoose Fury windows.
- Maximizing the benefit of our
Wildfire Bomb and its special effects offered by
Wildfire Infusion.
- Playing around our
Hunter Survival 10.2 Class Set 2pc by packing damage after our
Fury of the Eagle.
AoE Rotation Goals for Survival Hunter
- All the same goals as the single-target Rotation.
- Maximizing our
Wildfire Bomb charge generation and reducing wasteage with
Butchery and
Fury of the Eagle and
Ruthless Marauder.
Single-Target Opener for Survival Hunter in Dragonflight
- Ensure
Hunter's Mark is active on the target from you or another Hunter in the group!
-
Use
Steel Trap shortly before combat, timing it so that it will land when the pulltimer hits 0.
- Use
Death Chakram.
- Use all of your
Wildfire Bombs.
- Use
Fury of the Eagle.
- Use all the
Wildfire Bombs you have.
- Activate
Coordinated Assault, alongside your Potion.
- Use
Wildfire Bomb.
- Use
Kill Shot.
- Proceed with your normal rotation, as defined by the priority list below.
Single-Target Rotation for Survival Hunter
This priority list describes the optimal single-target Rotation for Survival Hunter.
- Use
Kill Shot to spend
Coordinated Assault procs during
Coordinated Assault. Check the Macros Page for some important, relevant macros for this.
- Use
Wildfire Bomb if it is about to reach 2 charges You should cancel your
Fury of the Eagle channel to throw your free Bomb granted by
Contained Explosion, as well.Finally, you should dump your Bombs before casting
Fury of the Eagle.
- Use
Death Chakram if you are below 60 Focus
- Use
Fury of the Eagle on cooldown but be prepared to cancel its channel if
Wildfire Bomb is capping on charges mid-channelbut do not fully channel it, cancel the channel if the conditions for the
Mongoose Bite or
Wildfire Bomb above is met!
- Use
Mongoose Bite if
Mongoose Fury is going to expire within 1 GCD, or if the target is about to die.
- Use
Kill Shot on cooldown.
- Cast
Kill Command during
Pheromone Bomb if you are below 70 Focus and
Fury of the Eagle is on cooldown, to try and reduce Fury's cooldown as much as possible.
- Use
Mongoose Bite to dump your Focus before a
Pheromone Bomb is coming up, to ensure maximal
Kill Commands inside of it.
- Use
Flanking Strike on cooldown if you are below 60 Focus.
- Activate
Coordinated Assault on cooldown.
- Use
Pheromone Bomb when you have less than 30 Focus, to maximize your ability to spam
Kill Command inside of it without Focus capping.
- Cast
Kill Command if you are below 72 Focus and
Flanking Strike is on cooldown
- Spam
Mongoose Bite when
Shrapnel Bomb is active, to stack the
Internal Bleeding bleed.
- Cast
Wildfire Bomb on cooldown, provided you are not currently Focus capped.
- Use
Steel Trap on cooldown.
- Use
Fury of the Eagle on cooldown. Fully channel it, if there is nothing else to do.
- Cast
Mongoose Bite when there is nothing else to do, as a filler.
AoE Opener for Survival Hunter
- Ensure
Hunter's Mark is active on the target from you or another Hunter in the group!
- Use
Death Chakram.
- Use all your
Wildfire Bombs.
- Cast
Butchery
- Use all your
Wildfire Bombs.
- Cast
Fury of the Eagle
- Use all your
Wildfire Bombs.
- Cast
Butchery
- Use all your
Wildfire Bombs.
- Cast
Coordinated Assault.
- Use all your
Wildfire Bombs.
- Cast
Kill Shot
- Continue your normal rotation, as defined by the priority below.
AoE Rotation for Survival Hunter
This priority list describes the optimal AoE rotation for Survival Hunter.
- Use
Kill Shot during
Coordinated Assault. Check the Macros Page for some important, relevant macros for this.
- Use
Death Chakram on cooldown.
- Use
Wildfire Bomb on cooldown.
- Activate
Coordinated Assault on cooldown when
Fury of the Eagle is on cooldown.
- Use
Explosive Shot on cooldown.
- Use
Fury of the Eagle on cooldown.
- Use
Butchery if it is about to reach 3 charges. During
Shrapnel Bomb, try to dump all of your charges to get 3 stacks of
Internal Bleeding, while of course respecting the lines above in the priority.
- Cast
Kill Command during
Pheromone Bomb if you are below 70 Focus and
Fury of the Eagle is on cooldown, to try and reduce Fury's cooldown as much as possible.
- Use
Butchery on cooldown unless
Shrapnel Bomb is coming up.
- Spam
Mongoose Bite.
- Cast
Kill Command if you are below 70 Focus.
- Use
Flanking Strike on cooldown if you are below 60 Focus.
- Cast
Kill Shot on cooldown.
- Use
Mongoose Bite when there is nothing else to do, which is pretty rare!
Addons for Survival Hunter Rotation
Check out our Addons page below for some recommended Addons to get the most out of your Survival Hunter!
Macros for Survival Hunter Rotation
Check out our Macros page below for some recommended Macros to get the most out of your Survival Hunter!
Mythic+ Tips and Tricks for Survival Hunter
For information about Mythic+ as a Survival Hunter, please refer to our Mythic+ page.
WeakAuras for Survival Hunters in Dragonflight
WeakAuras can have a tremendously positive effect on your performance. Since this is a broad topic, we made a page dedicated to it.
Questions for the Author
Thanks for reading my Rotation Guide for Survival Hunter. If you have any questions about it that you would like to ask me directly, feel free to drop into my Discord Server and drop me (Azortharion) a ping at any time.
Changelog
- 12 Nov. 2023: Added missing Wildfire Bomb line to the ST rotation.
- 07 Nov. 2023: Fixed an issue where Wildfire Bomb would not appear in the ST rotation with the AoE build.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 17 Jul. 2023: Updated the AoE rotation and opener significantly in light of recent APL updates, and added on-use Trinkets to the rotation.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.5.
- 29 Jun. 2023: Updated the Death Chakram line in the single-target rotation.
- 16 Jun. 2023: Significant rotational overhaul with new checkboxes, a new feature that lets you select checkbox presets, and a variety of changes to both the single-target and AoE rotations.
- 15 Jun. 2023: Removed the top line of the AoE Rotation, thereby reducing the priority of maintaining the 4PC Debuff on AoE.
- 13 Jun. 2023: Removed the FoTE Bloodseeker Macro as the bug was fixed and it is no longer needed.
- 03 Jun. 2023: Updated the AoE opener slightly.
- 26 May 2023: Updated the AoE opener significantly to better reflect the AoE rotation change.
- 25 May 2023: Important AoE Rotation Update, and updated the default checkboxes, and added information about an important Fury of the Eagle Macro.
- 13 May 2023: Small wording change in the 4PC Rotation Line.
- 01 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Small rotational fixes.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated Harpoon's role in the rotation.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Rotational update for the Set Bonus.
- 30 Nov. 2022: Updated mentions of Kill Command having 2 charges in the priority to "cap charges" to encompass both situations with and without Alpha Predator.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 24 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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This guide has been written by Azortharion, a Hunter Theorycrafter and Guidewriter since 2014, and considered one of the best Hunters in the world. He is an accomplished player with dozen of top parses for all specs throughout the game's history. He is also the Founder/Owner/Head Admin of Trueshot Lodge, the 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!
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