Guide to Survival raiding Azlannagh of Scrashield Legion
Basic
There are currently three ways of playing your Survival Hunter in raids. The first one is Sniper Training with Serpent sting LnL procs (I call it Serpent Sniper). The second one is Trap Mastery with trap LnL procs (Trap Dancer). The third and final one is a hybrid version of both play styles.
Serpent Sniper
Core talents:
· Sniper Training
· Noxious Stings
Trap Dancer
Core Talents:
· Trap Mastery
· Resourcefulness
Hybrid
I won’t discuss these builds in depth because:
1. I never tried them
2. They waste too much points in SV
Mandatory Talents
BM
Improved Aspect of the Hawk: This is a great talents to get our haste softcapped. If your haste is capped enough to lose another point in this talents, feel free to do so, since its usefulness isn’t that great when your SS is on GCD when this procs.
| Haste | Points IAotH |
| > 522 | 0 |
| 412-522 | 1 |
| 308-411 | 2 |
| 209-307 | 3 |
| 115-208 | 4 |
| 27-114 | 5 |
| <27 | n/a |
If you take the Glyph of IAotH:
| Haste | Points IAotH |
| > 522 | 0 (not worth to take the glyph) |
| 412-521 | 1 (but drop the glyph) |
| 209-411 | 1 |
| 115-208 | 2 |
| 27-114 | 3 |
| 0-26 | 4 |
MM
Lethal & Mortal Shots: Core talents for every build.
Focused Aim: Only when you need some extra %hit.
Careful Aim: A nice boost in AP. Just free DPS basically. Same as Hunter VS. Wild and Expose Weakness.
Go for the Throat: It’s advisable to take at least 1 point in this talent.
SV
Improved Tracking: Another ‘free’ DPS upgrade. I would have put a neat macro here, but 3.0.8 rendered that useless.
Survival Instincts: Free DPS and a bit of damage reduction as well, what more can healers ask for?
Survivalist: Mandatory due to Hunter VS. Wild.
Hunter VS. Wild: Same as Careful Aim and Expose Weakness.
Lock and Load: The very CORE of survival these days
T.N.T.: Stun will be pretty much useless in a raid environment, but the extra %crit to ES is nice.
Killer Instinct: More DPS. Helps with the EW uptime.
Lighting Reflexes: …
Expose Weakness (2/3): One of our unique proc buffs. Same as Careful Aim and Hunter VS. Wild.
Trill of the Hunt: Making all those +crit talents even better.
Master Tactician: The other unique proc.
Hunting Party: One or two points should be enough to keep you (and some of your raid) going for a while.
Explosive Shot: Needs no further explanation.
Sniper Training/Resourcefulness & Trap mastery: Choose according to specc.
Not Mandatory but still nice
Wyvern Sting & Noxious Stings: Give three points for added DoT power and get a free CC!
Hawk Eye: Was kind of useful for Sniper, but I guess 3.0.1 will decrease its usefulness.
Entrapment: Some extra CC (if procs). Useful in Spider wing and blubber pulling in Construct. But for general raiding a bit pointless.
Improved Feign Death: Unlike BM you will produce massive threat, so fast agro dumping can be a blessing and also keeps the repair bill down.
Not Done!
Scatter Shot and other pure PvP talents have no use at all in a raid. But if you have suggestions feel free to add them.
Gear
Haste & Hit > AP > Agi > crit
Why?
With the gear from naxx, OS and EE, you will mostly receive haste rating. But gear prior to the raids has more +hit. So I ended up shipping talent points from IAotH to Focused Aim. And I need +hit food as well during raids. Unless there is a draenei nearby.
Agility is not the big deal anymore in SV. Like I explained in the talents section, the talent has taken a similar place next to Careful Aim and Hunter VS. Wild.
You will have loads of crit from your gear and with some pala’s and a feral druid in your raid, your crit will rock (especially ES)!
Math
Explosive Shot: (RAP x 0.16 + 428) – (RAP x 0.16 + 516) damage. And of course this happens three times over 3 sec.
Serpent Sting: (RAP x 0.2 + 1210) damage over 15 sec. With the Glyph you will get two extra ticks, so the tooltip is wrong; your Sting does the damage divided by 15, times 21.
Steady Shot: (RAP x 0.1 + 252) damage. The handicapped little brother of Explosive shot. Does some nice damage if glyphed.
Aimed Shot: (Ranged DMG + 408) damage. Which means it better DPS then SS. And the debuff is nice when dealing with auto healing trash.
Kill Shot: (200% DMG + (RAP x 0.4 + 650)). Our ranged execute. With proper talents you’ll have some nice figures at the end of bossfights.
Rotation
Always keep Serpent Sting up. Then start with ES > AS > SS spam. They are ranked in order of importance. A macro with that’s cast Kill Shot and Kill Command whenever they are available and spams SS if not, is nice to max out your DPS.
Important!
When LnL procs, don’t spam ES, but weave something in between. Since ES is actually a DoT and it will overlap if you cast another ES right after the other one and thus losing DPS.
Macro’s and addons
Addons
To notify of an LnL proc there is a neat addon called EventAlert which will work for every class with talent procs.
CooldownButtons is nice for those who work with hotkeys to notify them of ES or AS being off CD.
whats AS
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