Wildfire Infusion Alternative?

Classes Hunter
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Hey all, I’ve been playing my hunter more recently and have taken a liking to Survival, but the Wildfire Infusion talent kind of kills it for me. It feels extremely weird to play around and I have grown to dislike this talent a lot. I know taking another talent in its place would be a dps loss but as long as its not a massive hit, I’m ok with losing some dps if it means I don’t have to play this talent anymore. What would be the best alternative talent I could use in its place? I’m currently running the Spearhead build and there seems to be a few different places I could put the point and can’t choose, so any insight from a more experienced surv hunter would be much appreciated!

Again, I understand not running this talent will be a decent hit in dmg, but as long as I’m not dropping to tank dmg, I’m ok with the hit, just don’t want to deal with this talent anymore.

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it sounds like you’re overthinking the WFI talent, you don’t need to play around it at all

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If you’re already taking an ST-only talent in Spearhead, why not just use Quickshot to path into Fury of the Eagle instead of WFI? (I’m assuming you’re aiming for FotE; else there’s no reason to take WFI anyways if you’d rather avoid it.)

That said, the only management for WFI is in wanting (nearly) 3 Butchery charges ready before Shrapnel in mass AoE, since the DoT stacks will scale infinitely, some Serpent Sting applications during gather before Volatile Bomb, and you can max out a Mongoose Bite window or Butchery into soon-to-end AoE (or, soon to fall below 5 targets) without worrying about Focus starvation afterwards if you have a Pheromone Bomb ready.

WFI’s not remotely invasive for single-target and only adds a bit of optimization for AoE.