Survival Hunter Tomb of Sargeras Guide

By Deliriad Last Updated: 2018/06/22 Changelog Patch: 7.2.5

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Hide behind Infernal Spike to avoid being hit by Infernal Burning.

Avoid destroying Infernal Spike when targeted with Crashing Comet.

Aim Shattering Star to collide with multiple Infernal Spike to decrease damage taken.

Have Disengage ready to jet you to behind a pillar if targeted with Shattering Star. Of course, use Improved Harpoon to return to damage dealing.

Try to time your trap usage and for times when you'll need to be hiding behind a pillar.

Aspect of the Turtle will block Infernal Burning, allowing you to keep more up-time on the boss.
Pay attention to your raid timers to know when Infernal Burning is coming up, so you're not building up to a 6 stack of Mongoose Fury while having to hide behind a pillar

Call of the Wild

Sephuz's Secret or any utility legendary.

Wrists - Pain-Singed Armguards

Waist - Belt of Screaming Slag

Back - Cloak of Stifling Brimstone

Trinket - Infernal Cinders

Arcane - Charred Hymnal of the Moon

Life - Icon of Perverse Animation

Storm - Felsoul Vortex

Confess when at full Torment to collect Remnants of Hope from Belac's cage and alleviate Unbearable Torment.

Avoid attacking Atrigan and Belac during Bone Saw and Fel Squall respectively, so you don't get additional Torment.

Perpare to Harpoon between Atrigan and Belac a little early, to avoid getting clipped by their AoE and gaining Torment.

Put up DoTs on your current target right before having to swap; they will not generate Torment if they're applied before Bone Saw or Fel Squall. This is easiest done with Carve to apply Serpent Sting to both bosses, if your raid keeps them close-ish to eachother. You can also sometimes get Explosive Trap to tick on both bosses, but be careful as their hit-boxes are not as large as most raid bosses, and you may just miss hitting either of them.

Caltrops re-applies every second, and can cause serious problems with your torment if used wrong. As such, it is not recommended for this fight.

Use Rangers Net on the adds to proc Sephuz's Secret as often as possible.

Call of the Wild

Sephuz's Secret or Frizzo's Fingertrap

Helm Token - Wildstalker Helmet

Legs - Flesh-Raking Leggings

Shoulders - Pauldrons of the Gibbering Eye

Neck - String of Extracted Incisors

Trinket - Cradle of Anguish

Arcane - Inexorable Truth Serum

Blood - Blood of the Unworthy

When the boss casts Draw In , make sure to move to avoid being hit by moving pools of Drenching Waters.

Move out of the impact point of Drenching Slough to avoid taking unnecessary damage or stacks of Drenched.

Feign Death to remove fixate from adds in a tight spot.

While kiting adds, make sure to use all of your traps or any ranged abilities so you don't lose too much DPSing up-time.

Disengage will take you over the green puddles during Draw In if you're desperate.

Call of the Wild

Butcher's Bone Apron

Gloves Token - Wildstalker Gauntlets

Chest - Hauberk of Frozen Mist

Feet - Insulated Finpads

Ring - Scaled Band of Servitude

Iron - Calcified Barnacle

Slay Abyss Stalkers at the correct time to ensure that Concealing Murk is available for Slicing Tornado.

Stand behind Concealing Murk to prevent being struck by Slicing Tornado.

Bring Befouling Ink to Sarukel, The Unending Hunger when he opens his Befouling Ink.

If your raid team is lacking in decent ranged players, you can help with the feeding the whale Befouling Ink, but only do so if you have Disengage and Improved Harpoon both ready to reduce lost up-time on the boss.

Call of the Wild

Butcher's Bone Apron

Legs Token - Wildstalker Leggings

Helm - Azure Squallshaper's Helm

Back - Shroud of the Drowned Adherent

Trinket - Terror From Below

Trinket - Vial of Ceaseless Toxins

Blood - Pungent Chum

Storm - Flawless Hurricane Pearl

If targeted by Rapid Shot move to the light side of the moon to clear stacks of Umbra Suffusion.

If affected by Moon Burn move to the other side of the moon to trigger Astral Purge.

Defeat the Moontalon before Deathly Screech becomes lethal.

If Umbra Suffusion or Lunar Suffusion stacks get too high, move to the other side of the moon to clear them.

Hunters have great respect for other hunters, and don't like to kill each other, so take a moment to think about how awesome these Huntresses are... then go ahead and kill them.

As with many fights, timing your movement boosts using Disengage and Improved Harpoon. Try to use these to quickly clear your stacks by crossing the moon line at the last minute before the moon cycle.

Moontalon should not be alive long enough to get the full damage from Steel Trap, so make sure not to cast it where she will trigger it. Using Spitting Cobra while Moontalon is up is helpful if your team is having trouble getting it down quickly enough, and should swap targets with you after Moontalon dies. If you are using , try to use it about 14 seconds before moontalon dies so you can get CD resets on it; this also helps ensure you're doing max damage to it between 25% and 0% HP.

Call of the Wild

Your best utility legendary

Shoulder - Mantle of Waning Radiance

Waist - Waistguard of Interminable Unity

Ring - Yathae's Thumb Ring

Trinket - Tarnished Sentinel Medallion

Trinket - Umbral Moonglaives

Arcane - Mote of Astral Suffusion

Iron - Chiseled Starlight

Life - Moontalon's Feather

If afflicted with Soulbind , quickly move to another similarly afflicted player in the opposing realm.

Manage the final explosion from Shattering Scream to ensure it removes applications of Bonecage Armor.

If in the corporeal realm, use all of your AoE burst while the adds are above 50% health.

In the final phase, use all of your Butchery charges quickly while your side (corporeal or spirit) is stacking in, then switch to your normal single target rotation on the big guy until you can move back in again.

Use Rangers Net on adds to activate Sephuz's Secret.

Call of the Wild

Sephuz's Secret or Frizzo's Fingertrap

Cloak Token - Wildstalker Cape

Hands - Gauntlets of Spiteful Haunting

Neck - Locket of Splintered Souls

Trinket - Spectral Thurible

Life - Glowing Prayer Candle

Storm - Preserved Starlight Incense

Dive into the pit when Unstable Soul is about to expire.

Collect stacks of either Creator's Grace or Demon's Vigor by touching Fragments that match your Infusion during Watcher's Wrath.

Quickly break Titanic Bulwark and interrupt Wrath of the Creators .

Use Disengage to jump into the big hole at the last possible minute.

It can be tempting to use Aspect of the Cheetah to run through the orbs ahead of everyone else. Don't do this. You'll be kicked out of the hunter club and forced to go play a support class. It is, however, acceptable to use Cheetah toward the end of that phase to grab an extra orb or two that your group was going to miss anyway.

Use Muzzle to interupt and proc Sephuz's Secret.

Call of the Wild

Sephuz's Secret or your best utility legendary.

Chest Token - Wildstalker Chestguard

Head - Crown of Discarded Hope

Wrist - Chaos-Calming Wristguards

Ring - Band of Rescinded Truths

Trinket - Engine of Eradication

Storm - Unfurling Origination

Help soak the effects of Dark Mark.

Avoid Unbound Chaos and the targets of Shadowy Blades.

Move away from the Fallen Avatar while he casts Rupture Realities.

When dealing with Unbound Chaos, instead of running away, start at your max range (about five yards from the bosses hit box), and then slowly move in toward the boss. If you line up the green swirly drops closely, you should be able to keep dealing damage the entire time.

You can solo soak Recommended Legendaries:

Call of the Wild
Sephuz's Secret or your best utility legendary.

Priority Target Damage Build:

Hunter Gear:

Survival Tips and Tricks

Track Humanoids will point out where Illidan is on your minimap while it's dark/foggy.
Take Butchery if your group isn't putting out enough AoE damage on the adds from Shadow Reflection: Erupting.

Recommended Legendaries:

Call of the Wild
Sephuz's Secret or your best utility legendary.

Priority Target Damage Build:

Hunter Gear Drops:

Notes on Talent Builds and Legendaries

Way of the Mok'Nathal has the highest damage potential in the level 15 tier. However, it also has a high skill cap, and shouldn't be taken on progression if doing so will cause you to make mechanical mistakes, or will just occupy too much of your attention. If you feel completely comfortable with it, it can be used to great success on any of the fights in Tomb of Sargeras.
Regardless of the fight, about 15-20% of top parsing hunters take , and about 80-85% take Snake Hunter (Replace), this may be primarily a matter of preference. It's possible we might see more uses of Mortal Wounds later on when more people have the tier 20 set bonus, but for now, it's not really being used by top performing hunters.
Dragonsfire Grenade is starting to see some use, perhaps due to the buff it got for patch 7.2.5; however, it's still used much, much less than the other two level 90 tier talents. For the vast majority of SV hunters, the decision on this tier is one of Serpent Sting for single-target/priority-target, or Butchery for burst AoE.
In the level 100 tier, we saw only a couple of fights where there was any swapping away from Spitting Cobra. In the two exceptions, Mistress Sassz'ine and The Desolate Host, we saw top parsing SV Hunters taking Expert Trapper at a rate of 52% and 48%, respectively. It's also worth noting here that while Caltrops was sometimes taken without Expert Trapper, Expert Trapper was never taken without Caltrops.
For other specs, we see Soul of the Huntmaster being swapped in and out depending on various talents taken. For SV hunters, this doesn't seem to be the case at all, and we only rarely saw top performing SV hunters wearing Soul of the Huntmaster.
For the most part, Survival Hunters have a lot possible variations in both talent builds and Legendary usage.
Outside of Call of the Wild, which 81%-96% of top performing SV Hunters used on every single fight, there's no clear cut, obvious rule for which legendary goes in which situation.
Sephuz's Secret was used a lot for single target fights, though never in more than 56% of top parses on any given single target fight.
Similarly, Butcher's Bone Apron was used a lot for multi-target fights (when Butchery is choosen), but again, on AoE fights it still was only taken about 60% of the time.

Although Kil'jaeden's Burning Wish sims well, on AoE fights especially, it never saw greater than 20% usage in top progression parses.

Changing from Tier 19 to Tier 20 Gear

There's no one size fits all solution for when to swap out your Tier gear. In general, the tier 19 set bonuses are considerably stronger than tier 20, and benefit both AoE and Single-target. However, Agility is very strong for SV hunters, so we'll likely go ahead and swap out fairly early, unless you're fortunate enough to have a lot of high ilvl, titanforged tier 19 pieces.

If you choose to hold onto your higher ilvl tier 19 gear, try to use the gear from the slots with the lowest stat budgets, like the Cloak, the Gauntlets or the Spaulders.

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