Hunter · DPS
Survival Hunter rotation assistant for World of Warcraft
Bombs and Mongoose streaks that hold melee uptime through the pack.
Rice Rotations reads your Survival Hunter from the game picture, decides which ability comes next, and presses the key for it from a second PC or a virtual machine. It runs on World of Warcraft Midnight retail and on Mists of Pandaria Classic, and the profile is included in the same subscription as the other thirty-nine specializations.
How the Survival Hunter profile plays
Survival is a melee Focus spec with a bomb timer. Rice keeps Wildfire Bomb off cooldown, sends Kill Command for Focus and procs, spends into Mongoose Bite windows rather than pressing it dry, and keeps Serpent Sting from falling off the targets that matter.
DPS is about never wasting a global. Rice keeps your builder and spender priority correct through procs and haste changes, lines burst cooldowns up with the window they are meant for, and switches to the multi-target priority when the pull is actually stacked rather than when a timer says so.
The profile reacts to the pull instead of replaying a fixed list: interrupts fire on casts that matter, dispels go out when a debuff lands, and cooldowns are held for the burst window rather than used the moment they come up. Dozens of Survival Hunter settings decide how aggressive or how conservative that behaviour is, so a raid night and a Mythic+ push can use different profiles of the same spec.
Cooldowns and burst windows
Coordinated Assault and Spearhead are opened together with Focus banked and the bomb ready, so the whole window is spenders. Kill Shot is taken as soon as it becomes available.
What the Survival Hunter rotation handles
- Wildfire Bomb kept on cooldown
- Mongoose Bite windows played instead of pressed dry
- Serpent Sting upkeep across targets
- Muzzle on interrupts, Turtle and Survival of the Fittest on damage
Raid, Mythic+ and the rest
Raid protects the Mongoose Bite window and bomb cadence. In Mythic+ it moves to Butchery and bomb cleave, keeps Serpent Sting spread where it is worth spreading, and holds the burst for the pack that deserves it.
Raid nights, Mythic+ keystones, delves, world content and levelling alts. Rice Rotations is built and tuned for PvE, so there are no arena or battleground profiles. The desktop client is Windows only.
Setup and safety
Nothing is attached to the game: there is no injection, no memory reading and no unlocker. Rice runs on a second PC or a virtual machine, reads your gaming PC as a video stream and sends keystrokes back, so the machine running World of Warcraft only ever sees keyboard input arriving.
- Built and tuned for PvE. No arena or battleground profiles.
- Midnight retail is supported.
- Classic is Mists of Pandaria only, so no Era, no Wrath, no other ruleset.
Survival Hunter questions
- Is Survival harder to automate because it is melee?
- The priority is no harder, but you are in melee range, so the profile is built to keep pressing while you move and reposition rather than assuming you are parked.
- Does it hold the bomb for cleave?
- On packs the bomb and Butchery are used as the cleave engine, with settings for how aggressively to hold charges.
Other Hunter specializations
Browse every supported specialization or see what is included per spec.