Survival Hunter PvP Talents and Builds (Dragonflight 10.2)
Choosing the right PvP and PvE talents is a prerequisite to proper performance in PvP. This guide goes through the various talent choices available to you as a Survival Hunter and gives you the best combinations you can take.
This page is part of our Survival Hunter PvP Guide.
Talent Choices for Survival Hunters
PvP Talents for Survival Hunters
You can choose 3 of the following PvP talents. Each of them has their uses, but some are better for certain strategies than others. The top three choices are the most useful, but can be replaced with other PvP talents, depending on your team's goal.
Primary PvP Talents for Survival Hunters
Roar of Sacrifice instructs your pet to protect a friendly target
from critical strikes, making attacks against that target unable to be critical
strikes, but 20% of all damage taken by that target is also taken by the pet.
It lasts 12 seconds and this is a powerful defensive cooldown that is helpful
for you and your teammates. With a cooldown of only 1 minute, this is an
ability that your healer can call-out to use if they are stuck in crowd
control. This is a mandatory PvP talent.
Situational PvP Talents for Survival Hunters
Survival Tactics causes
Feign Death to remove all harmful
magical effects, and reduces damage taken by 99% for 1.5 seconds. This is a
mandatory talent when playing against classes with multiple DoTs (Affliction
Warlock, Shadow Priest, Balance Druid). This reduces the enemies' overall
damage and helps your healer with dispelling harmful effects. You can also use
this to stop incoming spells that are being cast on you. This is a mandatory
talent when playing against a DoT class.
Chimaeral Sting does offer an interesting range of effects. When
used,
this will apply a slow, then a silence, then a damage/healing reduction on your
target. This could be used if your team wants to focus a healer or caster for
most of the game. Use this during your burst rotation.
Mending Bandage instantly clears all bleeds, poisons, and diseases
from your target, and heals for 30% damage over 6 seconds. Being attacked will
stop you from using
Mending Bandage. You should consider this PvP talent
when playing against specializations like Feral Druids or Assassination
Rogues.
Never ever take Sticky Tar, as it is bugged and can lead to
DPS increases for the enemy team.
Pet Talents
Pets do not have talent trees, and instead have their own types of specialization (Cunning, Ferocity, or Tenacity).
Each specialization gives your pet a few abilities. Cunning
provides the ability Master's Call, by far the best pet ability to have.
To get the
Mortal Wounds debuff from your pets, you will need one of
the following pets:
- Hyena
- Raptor
- Rodent
You can also use a Ferocity pet which grants 10% Leech if you are not
comfortable using
Master's Call, though we highly recommend it:
- Carrion Bird
- Ravager
- Scorpid
- Wasp
Changelog
- 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.2
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 11 Jul. 2023: Updated the Talent Build.
- 09 May 2023: Updated for Dragonflight Patch 10.1.
- 30 Jan. 2023: Updated the recommended talent build.
- 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.
- 22 Feb. 2022: Updated the recommended talents.
- 10 Nov. 2021: Updated Tier 6 Regular Talent.
- Updated PvP Talents.
- 03 Jul. 2021: Updated PvP Talents.
- 30 Mar. 2021: No updates needed for Patch 9.0.5.
- 16 Oct. 2020: Updated Talent Table.
- Updated Tiers 3 and 4 Regular Talents.
- Updated PvP Talents.
- 09 Sep. 2020: Updated Pet Talents.
- 20 Feb. 2020: Updated PvP Talents.
- 28 Jan. 2020: Page added.
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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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