I’ve been playing survival as an alt for about a month now, and I’ve been enjoying it. The nessingwary’s trapping apparatus build is stupid and annoying, but I enjoy the wildfire infusion build. Pretty much the play style in single target involves setting up for your next bomb, which is nice because it’s not as repetitive as some other spec’s rotations. In aoe it feels super hectic, even though it is survival’s strength. That rotation is mostly pumping out as many bombs as possible and dotting up targets in between. The main annoying thing about this is that if there’s a priority target or one with an important cast you have to interrupt (like the big robots in spires) it can be tough to get switched back over to it in time.
Honestly I think it’s a fun spec, but it does suffer from a lot of bad community perception, and the fact that it destroyed a popular spec when it was created made a lot of people very understandably angry. Like Enzil said I think it would be better as a more warrior type spec since a lot of its abilities can be used from range which makes it feel weird sometimes. I did start playing it because I liked the idea of a spec where I could fight side by side with my irl dog, but it didn’t quite live up to that for a few different reasons.