Best Survival Hunter Talent Tree Builds - Midnight

By DoolB Updated: 2026/08/11

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]Delves (Best)		Skulking Viper's Ambush set bonuses than Pack Leader is, which means that Sentinel outperforms by roughly 2.5%. Once you obtain the full tier set, Sentinel will typically outperform Pack Leader by about ~6%. There are two important factors that might sway your choice at times. First, Pack Leader has a substantial damage advantage in the 3-4 target counts, equalising at 5, and falling behind beyond. This can still be somewhat useful to consider because some Mythic+ keys such as King's Rest are not very mob-dense at all. Additionally, the Twin Fangs raid encounter features two snake bosses that are inconveniently too far away for Wildfire Bomb to cleave, but Raptor Swipe shouldn't have any problems doing so, which gives Pack Leader a small advantage here. Second, Sentinel handles forced downtime and rot-damage intake significantly better. Its focus regeneration is not reliant on auto attacks unlike Pack Leader's Lethal Barbs. This makes Aspect of the Eagle a significantly better ability for Sentinel to rely on. Best Survival Hunter Raid Talent Build Because our talent tree and rotation is fairly rigid and limited by resources, there is very little flexibility in our talent trees. Although it comes with the disadvantage of limited flexibility, it also comes with the advantage of having a surprisingly high AoE potential for a dedicated Single Target build. ] heading=false] Further Details Adapting your build for 1 minute intervals. If an encounter has an important 1 minute cadence, you can add 2 points into Savagery, at the cost of Razor Edge. Additionally, you can move Wildfire Infusion into Flanked, and Killer Companion into Flanker's Advantage. With these changes, Raptor Strike provides less value to the build, meaning Shrapnel Bomb and Vulnerability can be moved to their choice node counterparts, Flamebreak and Blackrock Munitions. Making all these changes drops your Single Target by about ~1.5%, but gives you a solid 1 minute CD foundation which may fit some encounters more. Minor gameplay changing talents. Swapping Bloody Claws to Wallop moves some damage into your primary spenders, it doesn't really impact your output in any significant way, losing you ~0.1% ST DPS, but it can result in more passive cleave provided you don't talent into Two Against Many. Swapping Shellshock to Outland Venom can grant you a tinytiny bit of ST DPS, depending on your crit rating. This is typically no more than ~0.1% ST dps, but it can lose you a little bit of low-target AoE. Best Survival Hunter Mythic+ Talent Build As mentioned before, our talent tree is quite rigid, however Pack Leader can utilize Lethal Barbs when paired with dual wield to skip Flanker's Advantage, putting the point in Bloodseeker instead, leveraging to combo for some impressive focus gains. ] Tracking multiple Sentinel's Mark can be a little difficult on the default UI. Nameplates will need to be utilized if you want to track multiple targets, but frankly we recommend simply tracking your Wildfire Bomb cooldown instead; If you suddenly gain ~6 seconds of cooldown reduction you will know a mark procced. Directly hitting marked targets to benefit from Wildfire Bomb's primary target boost is a tiny ~0.6% damage gain at the cost of some priority damage, so this does not have to be optimised as a priority. heading=false] Further Details Wildfire Shells may seem to make more sense at a glance, however it impacts your damage profile in perhaps unexpected ways. Mongoose Rounds converts into a fair amount of AoE damage just by itself through Bloody Claws and Two Against Many. Additionally, Wildfire Shells feeds you with a bunch of bombs that will start to eat GCDs away from Raptor Swipe, which triggers the supercharged Strike as One through Raptor Swipe. With that being said, Wildfire Shells at least has some niche use in strengthening the Boomstick <> Wildfire Bomb feedback loop resulting in (possibly) better Boomstick timings inbetween add spawns in some boss encounters. ] Pack Leader builds revolve around Howl of the Pack Leader and the beasts it will spawn in combat, granting various positive effects. Pack Leader favours buttons such as Raptor Swipe and effects like Strike as One paired with Two Against Many to deal its AoE, alongside Wildfire Bomb to round out the rotation. Because of the focus on the former effects, the AoE (soft)cap is on the low side. heading=false] Further Details Pack Leader excells at low density cleave and priority damage, and even has a fairly substantial amount of funnel, meaning you can gain Single Target output by the mere presence of adds. Playing Pack Leader in Mythic+ is often done for this reason alone, and if you decide to run Pack Leader, you should primarily focus down the bulky mobs from pack to pack. Although your damage meter might not look as impressive as that of a Sentinel Survival hunter, you can still contribute Key-Time at a similar rate (albeit with greater effort.) by making sure the bulky mobs aren't left until the end of a pack just to be single-targeted down. Best Survival Hunter Delve Talent Build The delve builds are mostly similar to a Mythic+ based build, taking various utility talents such as No Hard Feelings and Wilderness Medicine to improve the tankiness of our pet, as well as taking Camouflage as a default pick for some skipping shenanigans. Keep in mind every class now has access to Recuperate, so the healing effect of Camouflage has limited value in a delve. ] Most utility based talents are either situational or optional in Delve content, however this build skips none of the fundamentals and you should have an answer to almost any kind of debuff or cast sent your way. Pack Leader pets are very slightly tankier than Sentinel pets, depending on your playstyle and ability to micro your pet movement, you may want to tank yourself, in which case you might want to consider Sentinel instead. heading=false] ] Most utility based talents are either situational or optional in Delve content, however this build skips none of the fundamentals and you should have an answer to almost any kind of debuff or cast sent your way. Pack Leader pets are very slightly tankier than Sentinel pets, depending on your playstyle and ability to micro your pet movement, you may want to have your pet tank for you, in which case you might want to consider Pack Leader instead. heading=false] Survival Hunter Leveling Builds If you're searching for advice on both the best talents to pick while leveling and the optimal order in which to take them, our leveling tips page has got you covered. There, you will find information about different leveling talent builds, the recommended order in which to pick them, and information about your spec's rotation and cooldowns. Survival Hunter Leveling Tips Our Survival Hunter guides are always updated with the latest information from in-game experience, simulations, and logs. Make sure to check our changelog for this page by clicking on View Changelog in the Quick Facts column or on the book icon at the top of the page. If you are interested in more in-depth Survival Hunter guides for , make sure to browse the Navigation Bar at the top of the page, along with our list of Related Guides just beneath the Table of Contents.

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Comment by Sarthorius

Dunno why no aspect of the Eagle in there, since it seems even more important now that we tend to use our ST more (with Mongoose Bite), and there most certainly will be fights where you'll have to get off your target(s) for some time (needing to get away from AoE, or to soak stuff for example), and it was one of the big differential from other melee.

Comment by ZacAttac21

I take it the "Essential AoE" build is for cleave damage in raids?

Comment by Oldbury

While I won't use it myself as I enjoy the playstyle of Latent build (and ran it during Shadowlands S1 despite being offmeta), I really like the addition of the "comfy" M+ build, and find that the addition of "easy mode" alternatives is something a lot of the WoWhead class guides lack, so big kudos to the writer for including this.

Comment by Syrox817

Why are the Tyrannical and the Burst AoE builds the exact same?

Comment by DonksterNL

I'm missing my Serpent Sting for pulling mobs together :(

Comment by jenrai

Why would you take No Hard Feelings over Intimidation in M+? Having an extra stun in the group is far more valuable than five seconds off an ability that doesn't work correctly half the time.

Comment by hlokk101

No interrupt for m+? What is this?

Comment by elbardo

Whoever wrote this doesn't play hunter. Who doesn't take Posthaste? it's a free stronger blessing of freedom for yourself every 20 seconds. Instead they take checks talents 10 seconds CDR on feign death on the raid ST?

Comment by Jomojo

Why not take Disruptive Rounds and something else instead of 2 points in Improved feign death?

Comment by elbardo

Why would you take Misdirection instead of Hunter's Avoidance on raid ST?

Why do you still take improved feign death?

Comment by Maizou

The Raid Cleave for Pack Leader build is missing half of the talents on both sides of the tree.

Comment by TheOGNubz

Why does the top say Packleader is BiS for Delves, but when you go down to the Delves section it's showing Sentinel?

Comment by Lamortdeboo

Hey, quick question for the M+ talents for 12.1. Why take bloodseeker when the build isn't running any bleeds? (fire damage increase instead of bomb=bleed, no Sic'em)

Best Survival Hunter Talent Tree Builds - Midnight

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