Survival Hunter PvP Stat Priority, Gear, and Trinkets (The War Within Pre-Patch)
Choosing your gear carefully is important for your Survival Hunter in PvP. We give you a stat priority to help you choose items with the right stats, followed by advice on how to choose the rest of your gear and your trinkets.
This page is part of our Survival Hunter PvP Guide.
Stat Priority for Survival Hunters in PvP
The stat priority for Survival Hunter in PvP is as follows:
- Agility;
- Versatility to at least 30%;
- Haste to 33.5%;
- Mastery;
- Versatility over 35%.
- Critical Strike rating
Agility is the best stat in all situations. You will want a balance of Versatility and Haste that you are comfortable with and then to focus on Mastery.
There is a slight increasing diminishing return on secondary stats past 30%, further increased past 40%. You are unlikely to pass 40% of any stat except Versatility, and if you are at 40% Versatility, you should change some of it to Haste or Mastery.
As a general rule, you want Versatility between 30-35%, Haste at around 33.5%, and the rest of your stats going towards Mastery chance.
If you do not have enough Versatility, you will take a lot of damage and likely find yourself dying more often than you otherwise would.
If you do not have enough Haste, you will not be able to use all of the global cooldowns and abilities required to set up crowd control and burst targets down before the enemy is able to crowd control you, kite or use defensives.
If you do not have enough Mastery, your burst (with Mongoose Bite and
Explosive Shot) will be low.
You should have Versatility as your highest stat anyway, but if
you are using the embellished piece of gear Venom-Steeped Stompers,
Versatility or Mastery should be your highest stat to increase the damage done
by your Explosive Shot and Mongoose Bite combinations.
Gear Recommendations
Conquest Gear
Conquest vendor PvP Gear will always have Versatility and then a second stat which will be either Haste, Mastery, or Critical Strike Rating.
Almost every piece of conquest gear has a Haste option which you should take if your Haste is below 33.5%.
If you have too much Versatility, the easiest way to transfer it to Haste or
Mastery is to craft the PvP Rings ( Ring-Bound Hourglass and
Signet of Titanic Insight) and neck
Torc of Passed Time.
Tier Gear
Survival Hunter Dragonflight Season 4 Tier Bonuses
Note: In the pre-patch for The War Within, the Dragonflight Season 4 tier set bonus is still active.
- (2) Set Bonus: Raptor Strike, Mongoose Bite, Carve, and Butchery damage increased by 12%.
- (4) Set Bonus: Raptor Strike, Mongoose Bite, Carve, and Butchery have a 20% chance to make your next Raptor Strike, Mongoose Bite, Carve, or Butchery cost 10 less Focus and deal 40% increased damage.
The tier set from Season 4 leans into Raptor Strike (or Mongoose Bite when talented, which it should always be).
Neither of the bonuses particularly affect your rotation, and they are essentially just passive buffs to Raptor Strike/Mongoose Bite.
Because your stat priority calls for a balance of Versatility, Haste and Mastery, using four pieces of this tier set won't make your stats worse.
I recommend that you get the 4-set bonus with Shoulders, Chest, Gloves and legs.
Crafted Gear
Embellished Gear
Recommended Embellished PvP Gear:
Infurious Boots of Reprieve for the high uptime buff to your Agility
Adaptive Dracothyst Armguards for consistent increases to your secondary stats
This combination of embellishments will give you consistent damage throughout a PvP encounter.
Alternatively, you can play:
Venom-Steeped Stompers for the bonus to your preferred stat (if it's increasing your Versatility the proc is around a 10% damage increase with another piece of gear embellished with
Toxified Armor Patch)
Flame-Touched Helmet with
Toxified Armor Patch to increase the bonus from the Venom Steeper Stompers (or apply
Toxified Armor Patch to any other piece of crafted PvP gear)
This combination is less consistent but provides the maximum burst damage from embellished gear pieces.
Other Crafted Gear
When you need to rearrange your stats, I recommend that you craft:
Ring-Bound Hourglass (and/or
Signet of Titanic Insight) with stats as Versatility and Haste or Mastery
Torc of Passed Time with stats as Versatility and Haste or Mastery
Recommended Trinkets
Note: It is important to be wearing 2 PvP trinkets. This will give you an Agility and Stamina boost that will increase your damage and survivability.
Non-human
Draconic Gladiator's Medallion
Draconic Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity
Human
Draconic Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity
Draconic Gladiator's Badge of Ferocity
Draconic Gladiator's Medallion is a mandatory trinket to have
equipped at all times for non-human players. This allows you to remove any crowd
control on yourself. Humans can use this trinket to have a shorter (90-second)
the cooldown on escaping stuns, for example, into Rogue Mage teams.
Draconic Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity increases your Haste and has
a chance to proc your primary stat. This is an overall strong trinket, as the
stat will proc often throughout an arena match (and will generally proc very
early when your cooldowns are active).
Draconic Gladiator's Badge of Ferocity grants you some Crit and a
powerful Agility on-use every minute. Synchronize this with
Coordinated Assault.
Draconic Gladiator's Emblem increases your maximum health when used.
This gives you an additional defensive when you think a team is focusing you or
you think they are about to stun and burst you. A good example of when you will
want to use this trinket is when facing Rogue Mage teams.
Gems and Enchants
Here are the best enchants and gems for a Survival Hunter:
- Boots:
Enchant Boots - Plainsrunner's Breeze
- Belt:
Shadowed Belt Clasp
- Cloak:
Enchant Cloak - Homebound Speed
- Chest:
Enchant Chest - Waking Stats/
Enchant Chest - Accelerated Agility (Accelerated Agility is generally preferred in most situations but Waking Stats is a slight damage and health increase if you prefer).
- Rings:
Enchant Ring - Devotion of Haste/
Enchant Ring - Devotion of Mastery
- Weapon Enchant:
Enchant Weapon - Sophic Devotion
You should use one Fierce Illimited Diamond/
Skillful Illimited Diamond
depending on your stat needs, and
Keen Neltharite/
Zen Neltharite/
Keen Ysemerald,
also depending on whether you need more Haste or Mastery.
Changelog
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 4.
- 23 Mar. 2024: Guide re-written.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5
- 09 May 2023: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.1.
- 30 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 22 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
- 29 Jul. 2022: Reviewed and updated for Shadowlands Season 4.
- 31 May 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
- 28 Feb. 2022: Updated the recommended gear and trinkets.
- 10 Nov. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.1.5.
- 03 Jul. 2021: Updated Recommended Gear.
- Added Shards of Domination section.
- 02 May 2021: Updated Recommended Gear.
- 12 Apr. 2021: Updated Stat Priority.
- 30 Mar. 2021: No updates needed for Patch 9.0.5.
- 06 Dec. 2020: Added BiS gear list for Shadowlands.
- 29 Nov. 2020: Removed outdated Traits and Essences.
- Removed outdated gear.
- Added gems section.
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