I keep getting dropped VERY quickly by survival hunters. I know it’s their bomb, but I don’t know how to see the burst coming, or how to counterplay. I feel after they pop CDs, there’s little damage, then 100-0. I also just don’t understand survival hunters kits very well.
Would love your thoughts! HALP! :'D
FYI: I’m playing as Ret, around 2k MMR in 2s/SS. I generally play with a friend on Pres for 2s, or my brother on his MW.
We don’t have a flashy looking cooldown; however when charge you; like a warrior charge they are about to go crazy
Survival doesn’t really have “big cds” the way other classes do. There’s some weaving of amps with kill commands to give tts which buffs flanking strike and mongoose bite. There’s explosive shot, fury of the eagle, and flanking strike and mongoose bite/bombs which all do ~2mil damage a global.
Survival hunter is unironically one of the strongest specs in the game right now and, while it doesnt have ret immunities or giant arcane barrages, will consistently 100-0 a target every single trap.
The easiest thing to track and look out for is explosive shot and know that they’re committing big damage onto that target with that go. Hope that helps!
Both of your responses track with my experience. And it makes sense: trap or charge? Need to respect their damage. Thank you!
Not sure if this is normal, but I was hit by Rapid Fire ticks at 1.1 million, then aimed shots and black arrows by MM. That much uninterrupted damage seems excessive.
You try and use a shield, well – they put a silencing shot on you. True to their names, MM are probably the best anti-caster spec.
Gravity Lapse doesn’t interrupt their damage either, they can still Aimed Shot or Rapid Fire through it.
Survival hunters have one heal. Carry on.
Never looked at the damage breakdown but queued into surv in a shuffle and he would open with trap on my healer, I instantly Dark Pact, port after initial stun, and soul burn + health stone. This, coupled with external CD from my healer after trap, is the only way I don’t have to Unending Resolve first global.
The initial damage is insane. Maybe I should just wall immediately but there seems to be almost no ramp time required for them to start doing insane damage.
That’s really my only complaint though, I’d rather have surv be insane than warrior any day of the week.
When they’re at 5 stacks of mongoose bite, you have explosive shot on you, some pets start charging you, and ur healer goes into a trap, it’s time to press a wall cause eagle, bite, flank are comin
Very helpful–thank you Bant!
Its probably even more OP then ret, being the second most represented spec over 2400 while being one of the least played traditionaly.
Its less visible cuz their is no double survival lobby every 3 matchup.
Yeah lock is just perma dead into any hunter spec (and ret) it’s borderline unplayable. Cupid as a lock might as well just leave the game. Port does nothin into those specs they are too fast, lots of dots, and aren’t limited by melee range
to the ground like a beast
I appreciate this reference. My guild memes about it every reclear XD