Welcome to Skill Capped’s Guide on the Best PvP Talents & Hero Talents for Survival Hunters in The War Within 11.0

All sections for Survival Hunter PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal hero talents, class talents, spec talents, race, stats, gear, enchants, gems, and macros. This will help you have a good understanding of Survival Hunters in PvP for The War Within, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section will guide you on the best Survival Hunter PvP Talents in The War Within.

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Hero Talents: Sentinel
Hero Talents: Pack Leader
Class Talents
Spec Talents
PvP Talents

The War Within expands our arsenal of talent options, which include our new talent hero talent trees, Sentinel and Pack Leader. With Pack Leader being considerably stronger than it was from the previous patch, we will cover the best builds for each respective Hero tree.

Hero Talents: Sentinel

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For our default talent build, we have Sentinel. This build is centered around our Sentinel hallmark talent, which will naturally stacks on the target you are hitting. After generating over three Sentinel stacks from our damaging abilities, each Sentinel stack you apply on the target could create a delayed explosion. This means each stack of Sentinel will deal direct damage every second on the affected target until all stacks have been used up, and will naturally happen as you play.

Down below are new talents we receive that require a bit more understanding in order to optimize your gameplay.

Catch Out gives you a short lasting root on targets that attack you, and is on a one minute cooldown. This does not trigger the Diminishing Returns effect for roots, making it highly useful for annoying the enemy team.
Overwatch treats your current Sentinel stacks as an execute, and will proc all at once as the target reaches below 20% health.
Lunar Storm summons an owl to consistently spray direct damage on your target, as long as the player remains in its radius. This also gives a solid damage modifier to any Sentinel marked target inside, and is only activated by Wildfire Bomb. It’s important to note that this can break Crowd Control, so precise decision-making may either make or break the game.

Hero Talents: Pack Leader

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Next up, we have Pack Leader is considerably stronger in the new patch. These changes involve buffing our core damaging spells like Wildfire Bomb and Raptor Strike thanks to Howl of the Pack and Wild Attacks.

Down below are the new talents we receive from this Hero tree that make up this build.

Cull the Herd applies a periodic bleed effect on all targets affected by Kill Shot, while buffing our bleed damage in the process. This makes our Butchery bleed from Merciless Blow quite strong. However, this doesn’t should be focused on entirely and will naturally happen to increase our throughput.
Cornered Prey makes it easier to attack from ranged if you choose to use Disengage defensively.
Scattered Prey makes your second Butchery stronger than the first one you use.

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Hunter Class Talents

In the Hunter Class talent tree, most of your talent choices will be mandatory when advancing onto each tier. Some of most noteworthy talents represented in The War Within are:

Survival of the Fittest is now one of your most potent defensive cooldowns, especially when paired with Padded Armor for an additional charge. This provides a 25% damage reduction on your character for a short duration, and has been reduced to a 90 second cooldown. You can activate this either right before taking a lot of damage or while enduring it.
Kodo Tranquilizer giving us a solid quality of life enhancement to our Tranquilizing Shot, as it now removes one magic effect on two nearby targets. In PvP, this does not remove an additional magic effect on your selected target.
Roar of Sacrifice as our most iconic source of team utility, allowing us to immune any incoming Critical Strike damage while active on you or an ally. This is castable from the Hunter while in Crowd Control, but requires your pet to be out of Crowd Control and in Line of Sight of the target in order to use.

We also suggest selecting some optional talents depending on what you are facing or what you are up against.

Emergency Salve instead of Binding Shackles against Assassination Rogues, Death Knights, and Shadow Priests, as this talent removes both Poison and Disease effects after activating Feign Death and Aspect of the Turtle.
Scare Beast instead of Disruptive Rounds against Druids to fear them in any of their forms.
Misdirection if you select Interlope as one of your PvP talents, which involves removing one talent point from Keen Eyesight.

Survival Spec Talents

For our spec talents, most of these will be mandatory as you advance onto each tier. Some of the most noteworthy talents are:

Tip of the Spear, which you will be using to buff your direct damaging abilities. This ability is stackable up to 3 times, and will consume one stack via your next direct damaging ability. You’ll want to have this up before pressing hard-hitting direct abilities, such as Flanking Strike, Explosive Shot, Kill Shot, and Wildfire Bomb.
Bombardier, which is quite powerful if used in an optimal manner. You can maximize your cleave damage if you use Spearhead once Coordinated Assault expires, giving you a higher crit chance on your next enhanced Explosive Shot thanks to Deadly Duo. Make sure to dump all of your Wildfire Bomb charges before activating Coordinated Assault as it resets all bomb charges.
Butchery is significant to your cleave damage, as it deals a relatively strong initial hit and applies a bleed effect to any target hit by it if Merciless Blow is selected.

Survival Hunter PvP Talents

In the current meta, your default Survival PvP talent loadout will typically include Survival Tactics, Chimaeral Sting, and Diamond Ice.

Survival Tactics is our hard-locked PvP talent, granting a extremely high damage reduction for a short duration after using Feign Death. This helps negate a huge chunk of damage when needed.
Chimaeral Sting cycles through a powerful snare, a short silence, and ends with a short damage and healing reduction on the affected target. This becomes super effective, during the snare effect, for landing traps.
Diamond Ice is great for a bracket like Solo Shuffle, especially when paired with Unholy Death Knights or Demon Hunters, or in matchups where landing Crowd Control is vital. Be mindful that this talent makes your Freezing Trap last one second less.

For your last PvP talent slot, Chimaeral Sting or Diamond Ice will be swapped around with additional PvP talents depending on your matchup and current composition played. You’ll be swapping Chimaeral Sting out when facing Shamans, Paladins, Monks, and Druids who can dispel the Poison effect from their healer, otherwise Diamond Ice for any of our optional talents.

Sticky Tar Bomb if you are facing melee cleaves. This not only applies a disarm effect to your selected target, but explodes upon expiration and spreads to all nearby targets, disarming them as well for the same duration.
Mending Bandage against Feral Druids and Assassination Rogues to remove bleeds off yourself or allies, especially on Feral Frenzy or Deathmark.
Interlope against classes like Frost Mage, Shadow Priest, and Affliction Warlock that can throw out some heavy hitting spells. This can save you or allies while stun-locked. Make sure to remove one talent point in Keen Eyesight for Misdirection to make use of this talent.