Welcome to Skill Capped’s Guide on the Best Stats, Gear, Gems & Enchants 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, macros, and pets. 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 Stats, Gear, Gems & Enchants in The War Within.

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Stat Priority
PvP Gear
Embellishments
Enchants
Gems

Survival Hunter Stat Priority

Versatility (25%) > Haste = Mastery > Critical Strike

Versatility will be our most important stat. You want to focus on getting as much of it as you can, up to at least 25%. This will happen automatically through PvP gearing, as most of the items you will end up using will have Versatility on them.

After Versatility, you’ll be looking to acquire a solid amount of Haste and Mastery. For Haste, this makes our periodic DoT effects tick faster, mainly with Wildfire Bomb, and the global cooldown is reduced.

Mastery, on the other hand, increases the damage you and your pet deal, while providing you some damage reduction as well. Since you are commonly in melee range, or at least close to your pet when attacking your preferred target, you’ll receive double of its effects a majority of the time.

Lastly, Critical Strike will be your last priority. We don’t have any talents that synergize with what this secondary stat offers, making it essentially avoided during your gearing process.

BiS Survival Hunter PvP Gear

Main Pieces

Head: Lightless Scavenger’s Skull
Shoulders: Lightless Scavenger’s Taxidermy
Chest: Forged Gladiator’s Chain Tunic
Gloves: Algari Competitor’s Chain Gauntlets with (Haste / Versatility) or (Mastery / Versatility)
Legs: Algari Competitor’s Chain Leggings with (Haste / Versatility) or (Mastery / Versatility)

Off-Pieces

Back: Forged Gladiator’s Shawl or Algari Competitor’s Cloth Cloakwith (Haste / Versatility) or (Mastery / Versatility)
Belt: Forged Gladiator’s Chain Belt or Algari Competitor’s Chain Girdle with (Haste / Versatility) or (Mastery / Versatility)
Bracers: Forged Gladiator’s Chain Wristguards or Algari Competitor’s Chain Cuffs with (Haste / Versatility) or (Mastery / Versatility)
Boots: Forged Gladiator’s Chain Boots or Algari Competitor’s Chain Treads with (Haste / Versatility) or (Mastery / Versatility)

Jewelry

Neck: Algari Competitor’s Amulet with (Haste / Versatility) or (Mastery / Versatility)
Ring 1: Algari Competitor’s Signet with Mastery / Versatility
Ring 2: Algari Competitor’s Signet with Haste / Versatility

Weapons

Main Hand: Forged Gladiator’s Battlestaff

Trinkets

Trinket 1: Forged Gladiator’s Insignia of Alacrity
Trinket 2: Forged Gladiator’s Medallion

When it comes to trinkets, we will be equipping Forged Gladiator’s Insignia of Alacrity. It has an extremely high proc chance, and with us having more uptime on Coordinated Assault from our Survival and Sentinel trees, this trinket is our best option.

You will then need a Forged Gladiator’s Medallion to break out of CC every 2 minutes.

An alternative trinket from Forged Gladiator’s Insignia of Alacrity is Forged Gladiator’s Emblem, as this will assist us with surviving massive burst windows.

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Best Survival Hunter Embellishments

Item 1: Elemental Focusing Lens on any crafted piece.
Item 2: Elemental Focusing Lens on any crafted piece.

The Elemental Focusing Lens embellishment provides us with the most consistent throughput, and is only effective as long as you have at least 1 gem equipped.

This embellishment occasionally deals damage from a specific school of magic based on the gem you equip. Keep in mind that the damage from this embellishment can’t be buffed by cooldowns, talents, or any damage bonuses from school types.

Best Survival Hunter Gems

Core Gems: Enduring Bloodstone + Quick Onyx
Alternative Gem: Versatile Onyx

In The War Within, you will use a Vicious Jeweler’s Setting to add sockets to your Helmet, Neck, Bracers, Belt and Rings. Two sockets can be added to the Neck and Rings.

Enduring Bloodstone will be our newly introduced PvP gem that can only be attributed once onto your character’s gem slots. This will give you some additional damage reduction when affected by Crowd Control.

For all gem slots, we will mostly use Quick Onyx, granting us a nice balance of both Mastery and Haste that supports our throughput. However, Versatile Onyx serves as a solid alternative that helps us greatly with our default stat priority.