Survival Hunter PvP Guide — Midnight Season 1

The Midnight Expansion brings huge changes for all Hunter specs, primarily focused on streamlining and simplifying aspects of the kit.

• Raptor Strike has a chance to proc Sentinel's Mark on the target, causing your Wildfire Bomb to deal increased damage to affected targets.
• Maximum Focus increased to 125.
• The chance of generating Sentinel's Mark procs is 10% higher during Takedown.
• After activating Takedown, the Takedown button becomes Moonlight Chakram which sends a glowy Chakram that deals heavy AoE damage as it bounces between enemies. Choice nodes can cause this Chakram to give us a charge of Wildfire Bomb and trigger Sentinel's Mark.

• Increased Focus regen with each auto-attack granting 2 Focus.
• The Bear has been nerfed by 40%, making it more balanced relative to the other Beasts. In the past, we often had to pay special attention to optimizing around the Bear. Now, Beasts are more balanced which means that you do not tend to worry too much about which one you have coming up.

• Takedown is a new 1:30 (baseline) cooldown that replaces and aims to take the best parts of Coordinated Assault and Flanking Strike in one ability. It deals heavy initial damage, gives you 50 Focus, charges you to the target, and then increases you and your pet's damage done by 20% for 8 sec. There are talents that can make this do increased and AoE damage and improve attack speed for its duration, or reduce its cooldown to 1:15/1:00.
• Wildfire Bomb now costs 10 Focus.
• Flamefang Pitch is a new 1-minute cooldown ability that throws down a firebomb of sorts on the ground that deals damage to targets within. Talents can give it an additional charge.
• Fury of the Eagle has been redesigned to Boomstick. Mechanically almost identical, but it fires shotgun blasts instead of hitting very fast with your Spear, and it has a far longer range. It has a 1-minute cooldown. There are talents that significant increase its single-target, dropping off its damage with more targets.

Midnight introduces new Apex Talents, unlocked between Level 80 and 90. Survival gets:

• Raptor Swipe
• Raptor Swipe
• Raptor Swipe

They cause Raptor Strike to occasionally turn itself into Raptor Swipe, dealing increased damage, and causing it to hit multiple targets as well. Very simple and passive, yet very powerful.

• Various crowd control abilities have been removed, including Scatter Shot, High Explosive Trap, and Entrapment.
• Concussive Shot has been enhanced by the new talent Improved Snaring.
• You now have Wing Clip by default if you do not take Concussive Shot.