Survival Hunter DPS Stat Priority — The War Within (11.1.5)

Survival's favourite stat is essentially always Mastery. After this, it varies by Hero Talent, and content, as we will explore in the stat priorities below.

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Stat Priority for Survival Hunter in The War Within

Single-Target — Pack Leader Single-Target — Sentinel Mythic+/AoE — Pack Leader Mythic+/AoE — Sentinel

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Pack Leader Survival Hunter Single-Target Stat Priority

1. Mastery;
2. Haste;
3. Crit;
4. Versatility.

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Sentinel Survival Hunter Single-Target Stat Priority

1. Mastery;
2. Crit;
3. Versatility.
4. Haste;

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Pack Leader Survival Hunter Mythic+AoE Stat Priority

1. Mastery;
2. Haste;
3. Crit;
4. Versatility.

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Sentinel Survival Hunter Mythic+AoE Stat Priority

1. Mastery;
2. Haste/Crit;
3. Versatility

There are points at which certain stats will start offering less benefit. These are the points of diminishing return. After this point, stats will give progressively less benefit. This does not necessarily mean that a Stat will no longer be good past its point of diminishing returns, but if you find yourself crossing them, you should pay special attention to your sims and find out if you should look for different stats.

• 21000 Crit, or 44%;
• 19800 Haste, or 30%;
• 23400 Versatility, or 30%
• 21000 Mastery Rating

If you are ever in doubt about what items to wear for any given situation, the only way to truly figure it out for your character is to use Raidbots (click for a guide on how to use it). This website allows you to easily compare gear you already have, as well as gear you do not have.

Gearing decisions will not always be clear-cut. This is obvious if you have ever had to choose between a high item level piece of loot with bad stats, and a lower item level piece of loot with perfect stats. These decisions and more are the reason we recommend using Raidbots to help simulate your character.

Raidbots takes everything into account including procs, RNG elements, your specific gear, racials and more. If you have made sure you performed the simulation correctly, then you can generally trust Raidbots' results to be accurate.

The gems, enchants, and consumables you will use are directly derived from your stat priority and you can find our advice on this topic in our dedicated page.

Agility is your primary stat. It provides you with Attack Power, which determines the damage your abilities do across the board.

Mastery, through Mastery: Spirit Bond increases the damage of you and your pet, and reduces your damage taken by a flat 3%. Its effect is doubled while you are within 25 yards of your pet. Increased Mastery will improve the damage, but not the damage reduction.

Haste increases you and your pet's attack speed and Focus regeneration, reduces your Global Cooldown from 1.5 seconds to a minimum of 0.750 seconds, and reduces the cooldown on many of your abilities, including Kill Command.

Critical Strike increases your chance to critically hit with all spells and abilities. Crits deal double damage by default, but several effects can increase your crit damage, and make crits even stronger.

Versatility increases all your damage and healing done, and decreases all damage taken.