Survival Hunter

dear guys, i'm Lyoko a multi-gladiator hunter and today i'm here for introduce you in this amazing class!

what are you going to read in this guide?

- talents

- stats, gear

- enchants, glyphs, profession

- garrison builds

- rotation for single target and AOE

THEN LET'S START!

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TALENTS

TIER 1 - LEVEL 15
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Chimera. This talent is the most important in PvE encounter because Having extra Deterrences is really important for surviving when your healers can't heal a lot of damage or when for any reason you are too far from them, having a disengage every 10 seconds than 20 give you more mobility and in encounter like "flamebender ka'graz" make easly stack on the spell "molten torrent"

TIER 2 - LEVEL 30
Binding Shot is sometimes the best talent for your second tier.this spell can be used to CC multiple targets in order to stop enemys damage.

TIER 3 - LEVEL 45
Iron Hawk is often a better talent choice. This talent helps mitigate on damage that in normal encounters will kill you giving a possibility to survival when damage are constantly and high.

TIER 4 - LEVEL 60
Because it represents the highest DPS on this tier, Thrill of the Hunt is the best talent for your fourth row of talents. You can line up the reduced Arcane Shot focus cost and unleash powerful single target damage onto your opponents

TIER 5 - LEVEL 75
A Murder of Crows is the best talent on this tier. It offers a powerful DPS cooldown every one minute. When paired with an on use or proc trinket, this ability represents a lot of damage that can improve your dps without problems!

TIER 6 - LEVEL 90
ON THIS TIER YOU HAVE 2 BASIC CHOOSE:
1 - GLAIVE TOSS Because of its reliability and short cooldown, Glaive Toss is the best talent on this tier. It can be used while on the run and deals consistent damage. In addition, the ability does not cost much focus so it can easily be budgeted into your burst damage.
2 - Barrage this talent cost a lot of more focus than glaive toss, but give you a powerful aoe spell every 30 seconds that can easly improve your dps, it's not so powerful in single target and can easy be a "dead spell" in the single target rotation because for his focus cost it's no easy to use at everytime

TIER 7 - LEVEL 100
Lone wolf it's the best talent of your final tier, can improve your damage for 30% when you are without pet, giving you the possibility to apply 1 of the missing raid buffs. some people could say:

"why not exotic munitions?"

Because exotic munitions it's more a pvp talent than pve, you could use only venom ammo in single target that can be useful but doesn't increase your dps like can do a 30% buff from lone wolf that used with BARRAGE you can easy destroy every enemys in aoe, doing more damage than fire ammos of exotic munitions talent!
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STATS THAT YOU NEED!

Your primary stat as a Survival Hunter is Agility. Agility increases the damage done by all of your abilities.

Your important secondary stats are the following:

Haste – increases attack speed and focus regeneration
Mastery – increases all magic damage dealt
Critical Strike – causes abilities to hit for 150% of their normal damage dealt
Multistrike – gives a chance to do extra damage for 30% of the total damage dealt by an ability
Versatility – increases damage dealt and reduces damage taken

for my rotation i really like to use hunter based on full crit chance, causes abilities to hit for 150% of their normal damage dealt, in firestorm with a big crit % can easy proc "lock 'n load" a passive skills that give you 2 charge of a free explosive shot when Black Arrow it's active on the target that's your main spell damage and used with the talent LONE WOLF can easy make a good dps without spamming spells!

then MY priority of PvE statistics are the following:

Agility > Crit > Mastery > Versatility > Haste > Multistrike

But as i said this is MINE, you could use a lot of stats combo.

 for example:

Agility > Versatiltiy > Mastery > Multistrike > Crit > Haste

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WHAT GEAR SHOULD I USE?

you need to put your hands on the BRF (blackrock foundry) bonus set 4/5 this set will give you 2 different effects based on your specialization, for survial you will gain

2 item of 5 (2/5) EVERYTIME you cast black arrow on target you will gain 2 charge of "lock 'n load" giving you a free cast and damage done

4 item of 5 (4/5) EVERYTIME your exlosive shot hit the target you will take 15% increased damange done for 3 seconds, that based on this guide will be litreally a "nuclear bomb"

for start to enjoy the dps my advice it's to take the PvP  bonus 2/4 that everytime you throw a Freezing trap on target you get 50 focus instant, giving you a easy spamm of abilities without having a "dead rotation"

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WHAT ENCHANTS I NEED?

the enchants you need on your gear are the following:

Neck Enchant: Gift of Versatility / 75 versatility

Rings Enchant: Gift of Versatility / 50 versatility

Cloak Enchant: Gift of Versatility / 100 versatility + 10% speed

Weapon Enchant: Hemet’s Heartseeker / 750 mastery for 10 seconds

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WHAT GLYPHS SHOULD I USE?

standard glyphs:

1 - Glyph of Deterrence - 20% damage reduction while deterrence is active

2 - Glyph of the liberation - heals you for 4% of your max health when disengage

3 - glyph of Pathfinding - 8% speed boost when aspect it's active (in mount too)

Minor glyphs:

1 - aspect of the cheetah

2 - none

3 - none

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WHAT PROFESSION SHOULD I HAVE?

on hunter i like to have:

engineering - useful items and gear items

mining - for get some useful materials

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WHAT SHOULD I BUILD IN MY GARRISON?

LARGE SPOTS

. gnomish gearworks - this build will give you useful object and dps items. everyday items will change

. stables - will give you 3 effects that are useful for move in draenor

MEDIUM SPOTS

. trading post - will give you a reputation boost and acces to new faction items

. lunarfall in - will give you daily quests useful for FUN objects

SMALL SPOTS

. alchemy lab - THE MOST USEFUL BUILD OF YOUR GARRISON, will give you the possibility to make potions without the profession and everyday will give you 4 potions for your primary stat!

. storehouse - useful build for check your bank and void bank and for make trasmog right there in your garrison

. engineering works - useful build for your profession and for farm items for crafting

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ROTATION FOR SINGLE TARGET AND AOE

THE ROTATION of a survival hunter it's simple

-SINGLE TARGET ROTATION

1 - Your Burst

2 - black arrow

3 - explosive shot with 3 seconds delay Beetween each other

4 - your tier 6 talent (glaive toss, Barrage)

5 - arcane shot

6 - cobra shot

-AOE ROTATION

1 - your tier 6 talent (glaive toss, Barrage)

2 - Black arrow on the mob with more HP

3 - explosive shot on different targets

4 - spamming Multi-Shot