Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (2025)

1.

Best in Slot Gear Guide for Survival Hunter

Welcome to our Gear and BiS Page for Survival Hunter forThe War Within Season 1. Check this page to learn everythingyou need to know about gearing a Survival Hunter, including theBiS Gear from allsources, Raiding, and Mythic+, information on the best Trinkets, Tier Sets, andmuch more.

For discussion and information on Stats specifically, check out our Stats page below.

Survival Hunter Stat Priority

Simming Yourself — A Guide to Raidbots

2.

BiS Gear for Survival Hunter

Overall BiS List for Season 1Nerub-ar Palace Gear BiS ListMythic+ Gear BiS List

3.

Overall BiS List for Survival Hunter

This list contains the best gear in every slot for Season 1 of The War Within, from all sources.

In general, BiS Items for Survival are simply ones that have lots ofMastery on them.

SlotItemSource/Note
WeaponSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (1) Harvester's Interdiction (639)Ara-Kara, City of Echoes (626), or Great Vault
HelmSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (2) Lightless Scavenger's Skull (639)Silken Court/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
NeckSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (3) Trailspinner Pendant (639)Mists of Tirna Scithe (626), or Great Vault
ShoulderSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (4) Lightless Scavenger's Taxidermy (639)Rasha'nan/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
CloakSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (5) Consecrated Cloak (636)Crafted by Tailoring
ChestSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (6) Goresplattered Membrane (639)The Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace
BracersSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (7) Glyph-Etched Vambraces (636)Crafted by Leatherworking
GlovesSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (8) Lightless Scavenger's Mitts (639)Sikran/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
BeltSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (9) Reinforced Anti-Intruder Chainmail (639)The Stonevault (626), or Great Vault
LegsSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (10) Lightless Scavenger's Stalkings (639)Nexus Princess Ky'veza/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
BootsSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (11) Sure-Foot Sabatons (639)Siege of Boralus (626), or Great Vault
Ring #1Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (12) Seal of the Poisoned Pact (639)Queen Ansurek in Nerub-ar Palace
Ring #2Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (13) Writhing Ringworm (639)Broodtwister Ovi'nax in Nerub-ar Palace
Trinket #1Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (14) Skardyn's Grace (639)Grim Batol (626), or Great Vault
Trinket #2 (Single-Target)Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (15) Mad Queen's Mandate (639)Broodtwister Ovi'nax in Nerub-ar Palace
Trinket #2 (All-Rounder)Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (16) Ovi'nax's Mercurial Egg (639)Broodtwister Ovi'nax in Nerub-ar Palace
Trinket #2 (More Straightforward To Use, All-Rounder)Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (17) Empowering Crystal of Anub'ikkaj (639)The Dawnbreaker (626), or Great Vault

3.

Nerub-ar Palace Raid Gear BiS List for Survival Hunter

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Survival Hunter in The War Within Season 1 from the Nerub-ar Palace Raid.

Note that this BiS List is for items from the Raid. I am separating the BiS lists by gear sources.This is what you send to yourRaid Leader/Loot Council when they ask you what your BiS gear is from the Raid.

Note that there is no such thing as a singular, all-encompassing "BiS". The best items vary per character and situation, and there aremany items that are essentially equivalent in terms of DPS, namely when we are just shuffling secondary stats around. I will list one "BiS"item per slot, sometimes two if I feel there is a significant difference for Raiding and Mythic+, but ultimately, BiS lists are not verypractically useful and you should be simming your character to find out what gear to equip next. Nonetheless, there is a huge demand forthis list and thus, despite me not thinking you should really care much about it, it is here for your perusal.

SlotItemSource/Note
WeaponSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (18) Spire of Transfused Horrors (639)Broodtwister Ovi'nax in Nerub-ar Palace
HelmSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (19) Lightless Scavenger's Skull (639)Silken Court/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
NeckSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (20) Sureki Zealot's Insignia (639)Sikran in Nerub-ar Palace
ShoulderSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (21) Lightless Scavenger's Taxidermy (639)Rasha'nan/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
CloakSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (22) Royal Emblem of Nerub-ar (639)Ulgrax the Devourer in Nerub-ar Palace
ChestSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (23) Goresplattered Membrane (639)The Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace
BracersSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (24) Throne Defender's Bangles (639)Sikran in Nerub-ar Palace
GlovesSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (25) Lightless Scavenger's Mitts (639)Sikran/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
BeltSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (26) Lost Watcher's Remains (639)The Bloodbound Horror in Nerub-ar Palace
LegsSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (27) Lightless Scavenger's Stalkings (639)Nexus Princess Ky'veza/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
BootsSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (28) Rasha'nan's Grotesque Talons (639)Rasha'nan in Nerub-ar Palace
Ring #1Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (29) Seal of the Poisoned Pact (639)Queen Ansurek in Nerub-ar Palace
Ring #2Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (30) Writhing Ringworm (639)Broodtwister Ovi'nax in Nerub-ar Palace
Trinket #1Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (31) Mad Queen's Mandate (639)Queen Ansurek in Nerub-ar Palace
Trinket #2Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (32) Ovi'nax's Mercurial Egg (639)Broodtwister Ovi'nax in Nerub-ar Palace

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Survival Hunter from The War Within Season 1 Mythic+.

Note that this BiS List is for items from Mythic+. I am separating the BiS lists by gear sources.This is the list you can chase when you want to improve your gear by farming Mythic+ dungeons.

Note that there is no such thing as a singular, all-encompassing "BiS". The best items vary per character and situation, and there aremany items that are essentially equivalent in terms of DPS, namely when we are just shuffling secondary stats around. I will list one "BiS"item per slot, sometimes two if I feel there is a significant difference for Raiding and Mythic+, but ultimately, BiS lists are not verypractically useful and you should be simming your character to find out what gear to equip next. Nonetheless, there is a huge demand forthis list and thus, despite me not thinking you should really care much about it, it is here for your perusal.

SlotItemSource/Note
WeaponSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (33) Harvester's Interdiction (639)Ara-Kara, City of Echoes (626), or Great Vault
HelmSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (34) Lightless Scavenger's Skull (639)Silken Court/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
NeckSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (35) Trailspinner Pendant (639)Mists of Tirna Scithe (626), or Great Vault
ShoulderSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (36) Lightless Scavenger's Taxidermy (639)Rasha'nan/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
CloakSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (37) Anvilhide Cape (639)The Stonevault (626), or Great Vault
ChestSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (38) Coagulum Cuirass (639)City of Threads (626), or Great Vault
BracersSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (39) Hiveswarm Bracers (636)Mists of Tirna Scithe (626), or Great Vault
GlovesSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (40) Lightless Scavenger's Mitts (639)Sikran/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
BeltSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (41) Reinforced Anti-Intruder Chainmail (639)The Stonevault (626), or Great Vault
LegsSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (42) Lightless Scavenger's Stalkings (639)Nexus Princess Ky'veza/Matrix Catalyst/Great Vault
BootsSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (43) Sure-Foot Sabatons (639)City of Threads (626), or Great Vault
Ring #1Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (44) Seal of the City Watch (639)Siege of Boralus (626), or Great Vault
Ring #2Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (45) High Nerubian Signet (639)The Dawnbreaker (626), or Great Vault
Trinket #1Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (46) Skardyn's Grace (639)Grim Batol (626), or Great Vault
Trinket #2Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (47) Empowering Crystal of Anub'ikkaj (639)The Dawnbreaker (626), or Great Vault

3.

Best Trinkets for Survival Hunter in The War Within Season 1

Raiding Trinket Tier ListMythic+ Trinket Tier List

4.

Raiding Trinket Tier List for Survival Hunter

This Trinket Tier List is single-target biased, as this tends to be the most important aspect of Raiding. When Trinkets are equal on single-target, I will "break the tie" by looking into which Trinket performs better in AoE/mixed scenarios.

Note that the Trinkets are compared at their highest possible Item Level, which is only 626 for Delve Trinkets. Not only that, but639 Mythic+ Trinkets are only obtainable via the Great Vault — Not a very reliable source. At equal iLvls, thepicture may be very different and that is why you should sim yourself.

A "Tier" as defined by this list is around 0.5% DPS, meaning that S-Tier Trinkets are around 0.5% better than A-Tier Trinkets, and so on.

3.1.

S-Tier

  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (48) Skardyn's Grace — Our undisputed BiS Trinket numbers-wise, and also enhances our burst.
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (49) Mad Queen's Mandate — Best for pure single-target, and can be played around to some extent to either reduce itscooldown, or waiting for low HP on a boss to finish it off in style.
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (50) Shadow-Binding Ritual Knife — Very strong, even though it only goes to 626. Especially strong before you have access to other Trinkets at 639 iLvl.
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (51) Void Reaper's Contract — A single-target one-trick pony, but technically the best for this one purpose, but only very slightly moreso than the more universal Trinkets above.

3.1.

A-Tier

  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (52) Ovi'nax's Mercurial Egg — Can be optimal when played perfectly, which entails constantly moving and then suspending theTrinket at 20 Mastery and 10 Agility stacks, ideally with your cooldowns. This is often not very practical, however.
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (53) Ara-Kara Sacbrood — A bit more single-target-oriented than the Empowering Crystal.
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (54) Empowering Crystal of Anub'ikkaj — A bit more AoE-oriented than the Sacbrood.
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (55) Sikran's Endless Arsenal
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (56) Dead-Eye Spyglass — Because this Trinket marks targets, it is problematic on "stop-start" situations such as Mythic+, and fights with frequent target swaps.

3.1.

B-Tier

  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (57) Spelunker's Waning Candle
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (58) Bottled Flayedwing Toxin
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (59) Detachable Fang

3.1.

C-Tier

  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (60) Quickwick Candlestick
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (61) Mistcaller Ocarina — Not great for yourself, but when its effect is multiplied onto all of your hopefully powerful allies, it is.. an okay Trinket.
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (62) Twin Fang Instruments
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (63) Concoction: Kiss of Death
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (64) Harvester's Edict

3.1.

D-Tier

  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (65) Treacherous Transmitter
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (66) Overclocked Gear-a-Rang Launcher
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (67) Imperfect Ascendancy Serum
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (68) Abyssal Trap
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (69) Everburning Lantern
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (70) Scroll of Momentum
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (71) Wildfire Wick

4.

Raiding Trinket Tier List for Survival Hunter

This Trinket Tier List is single-target biased, as this tends to be the most important aspect of Raiding. When Trinkets are equal on single-target, I will "break the tie" by looking into which Trinket performs better in AoE/mixed scenarios.

Note that the Trinkets are compared at their highest possible Item Level, which is only 626 for Delve Trinkets. Not only that, but639 Mythic+ Trinkets are only obtainable via the Great Vault — Not a very reliable source. At equal iLvls, thepicture may be very different and that is why you should sim yourself.

A "Tier" as defined by this list is around 0.5% DPS, meaning that S-Tier Trinkets are around 0.5% better than A-Tier Trinkets, and so on.

3.1.

S-Tier

  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (72) Skardyn's Grace — Our undisputed BiS Trinket numbers-wise, and also enhances our burst.
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (73) Ovi'nax's Mercurial Egg — Complex trinket, ideally suspended with 20/10 secondary/primary stats after movement on your Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (74) Coordinated Assault.

3.1.

A-Tier

  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (75) Shadow-Binding Ritual Knife
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (76) Ara-Kara Sacbrood — A bit more single-target-oriented than the Empowering Crystal. More straightforward than Ovinax.
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (77) Empowering Crystal of Anub'ikkaj — A bit more AoE-oriented than the Sacbrood. More straightforward than Ovinax.
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (78) Harvester's Edict

3.1.

B-Tier

  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (79) Sikran's Endless Arsenal
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (80) Treacherous Transmitter
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (81) Spelunker's Waning Candle
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (82) Void Reaper's Contract
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (83) Twin Fang Instruments

3.1.

C-Tier

  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (84) Quickwick Candlestick
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (85) Mad Queen's Mandate
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (86) Bottled Flayedwing Toxin
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (87) Mistcaller Ocarina — Not great for yourself, but when its effect is multiplied onto all of your hopefully powerful allies, it is a solid Trinket.
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (88) Dead-Eye Spyglass

3.1.

D-Tier

  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (89) Overclocked Gear-a-Rang Launcher
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (90) Imperfect Ascendancy Serum
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (91) Abyssal Trap
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (92) Everburning Lantern
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (93) Concoction: Kiss of Death
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (94) Scroll of Momentum
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (95) Wildfire Wick
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (96) Detachable Fang

4.

"Simming" Yourself as a Survival Hunter

Throughout this page, we regularly refer to the importance of simmingyourself on Raidbots, as it is an indispensable aspect of optimizing your character.

While we do offer generic sim charts for Trinkets, this should not be areplacement for simming yourself, at least not if you want to minmax sub-1%!

If you are new to simming and Raidbots, check out our detailed guide below.

Simming Yourself — A Guide to Raidbots

5.

Best Crafted Items for Survival Hunter

Our BiS Crafts are pretty straightforward. We want 2x Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (97) Dawnthread Lining on some sensible slots. WhileSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (98) Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension and its Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (99) Writhing Armor Banding can perform similarly for somecharacters, it takes 80 seconds to stack up Ascension to full power while in combat, and it will regularly drop off between packs inMythic+.

For players coming right into the Season from its beginning, the choice is very different as we are not just concerned about the bestCrafted Slots and Embellishments, but also potentially short-term Item Level gains. While the 2x Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (100) Dawnthread Lining setup is optimalin the longer run, in the short-to-medium-term, crafting a Weapon with a Darkmoon Sigil is preferable because of the immediate, short-termvalue of a weapon upgrade, and because we start the Season with 2 Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (101) Spark of Omens.

Please note that double-Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (102) Dawnthread Lining has a tendency to not work outside of combat in some scenarios. If you have two of themequipped, but are only getting Crit from one of them, try to intentionally drop below 80% HP and then heal yourself back up. this WeakAura can help alert you when it is not working so you can fix it.

You should ideally sim the optimal stats to craft for your particular character, but Mastery/Crit or Mastery/Haste are generally safe "overall" choices.

5.1.

Best Embellishments and Crafting Order for Survival Hunter

  1. Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (103) Charged Halberd (Early Season, costs 2 Sparks) — This item is not our long-term BiS, but if you are coming fresh into the Season with Mythic0 606iLvl gear or below, then the sheer Item Level value of a Weapon is going to exceed the value of the best Embellishments. Forreference, the value of upgrading a Weapon by 30 iLvl is around 8% before even considering an Embellishment, while the value of upgradingsome other slots (as below) with Embellishment by 30 iLvl is only around 4-5%. That said, if you wait until your first Great Vault and it has a Weapon, then you may wish to craft something else instead. As forEmbellishments, I recommend Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (104) Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension for Raiding and Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (105) Darkmoon Sigil: Vivacity for Mythic+.
  2. Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (106) Consecrated Cloak with Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (107) Dawnthread Lining (1 Spark) — Cloaks, alongside Bracers, have the lowest Item LevelBudget of all Armor items. This makes them ideal BiS candidates when considering Crafts, because Crafted items are capped at 636, whileother items cap at 639. The idea is to lose the least possible DPS by picking the lowest-budget slots to drop 3 iLvl on.
  3. Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (108) Glyph-Etched Vambraces with Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (109) Dawnthread Lining (1 Spark) — Similarly to the Cloak, we get Bracers here as it is the best long-term play.
  4. Next, chase Item Level where needed, preferring Weapon > Helm/Chest/Legs (though these are likely occupied by tier) > Boots/Belt > Rings/Necks > Cloaks.
  5. At this point, you are mostly done crafting. You can spend future Sparks on off-spec items, alternatively statted crafts for different situations, and so on.

5.2.

Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (110) Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension vs Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (111) Darkmoon Sigil: Vivacity

These are two weapon-only Embellishments with different secondary stat effects. On sustained encounters, ones that keep you in combat forseveral minutes, Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (112) Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension is about 0.5% better. However, because Ascension takes a whole 80 seconds to reach fullpower, if you are primarily doing non-Raiding content, Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (113) Darkmoon Sigil: Vivacity is better as it does not have this problem.

6.

Best Gear Crest Upgrades for Survival Hunter

You will be able to upgrade your items via Crests such asSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (114) Gilded Harbinger Crest. Once you have upgraded a slot to a certain itemlevel, upgrading other items of that slot to that item level is free.

When you upgrade with Crests, you should think of it as upgrading slots and not items.

Additionally, since Crests are a limited resource, you will want to obtainthe highest item-level possible before upgrading a given slot,as this means you will spend fewer Crests on that slot in total. If you are atall capable of doing a +9 Dungeon, for example, it would be a VERY bad idea toupgrade an item from a +8 Dungeon, as those are wasted Crests you may not get back for a very long time.

We see a ton of players, even at a high level, mess up their upgrade priorities, and upgrading prematurely.Getting this right will put you far ahead of most players.

Below is the slot priority you should upgrade your items in. If you ever want to deviate from this, you should have a very good reason.

  1. Weapons
  2. Trinkets
  3. Helm/Chest/Legs
  4. Shoulders/Gloves/Belt/Boots
  5. Rings and Necks
  6. Cloaks and Bracers

Note that exceptions are possible, such as special items that have more Item Levelscaling than their slot would imply.

7.

Season 1 Tier Set for Survival Hunter

The Tier Set is comprised of 5 items, all carrying the Lightless Scavenger moniker.Unique DPS bonuses are unlocked when wearing 2, and 4 pieces from the set:

  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (115) Hunter Survival Season 1 2pcSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (116) Wildfire Bomb damage increased by 5%. It is hard toprovide any commentary on this.
  • Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (117) Hunter Survival Season 1 4pcSurvival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (118) Mongoose Bite/Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (119) Raptor Strike deals 10% increaseddamage to targets affected by Survival Hunter DPS Gear and Best in Slot - The War Within (Season 1) (120) Wildfire Bomb. With Bombsbeing so plentiful, this will be up for the vast majority of thetime.

The Tier Set Bonus is absolutely mandatory for competitive play, and youshould prioritize obtaining it. You can use theMatrix Catalyst to convert regular items (from Mythic+, forexample) into Tier Items.

You only need 4 pieces out of 5 to get both set bonuses. We recommend youget all items except for the Chest, due to its lack of Mastery. Check out the BiS List for more information.

9.

Changelog

  • 02 Oct. 2024: Updated the BiS Trinkets for pure single-target.
  • 20 Sep. 2024: Updated the Trinket Tier List and Best Trinkets after re-evaluations and simulation tools maturing.
  • 13 Sep. 2024: Added note about double-Dawnthread Lining not working and how to fix it.
  • 09 Sep. 2024: Preliminary update for The War Within Season 1.
  • 27 Aug. 2024: Added a note about Crafted gear to the Pre-Season BiS List.
  • 22 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within.
  • 25 Jul. 2024: Updated the BiS Trinkets, Crafting List, BiS List, and more.
  • 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.

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