Robcat's Over-Cooked PVP leveling Rexxar Build!

1. Levels 10–14: Deflection 5/5
2. Levels 15–17: Improved Wing Clip 3/3
3. Levels 18-19: Entrapment 2/5
4. Level 20: Deterrence
5. Levels 21-23: Surefooted 3/3
6. Levels 24: Entrapment 3/5
7. Level 25: Counterattack
8. Levels 26-29: Predator's Edge 4/5
9. Level 30: Strider Kick
10. Levels 31-32: Survivalist's Discipline 2/2
11. Levels 33-34: Resourcefulness 2/2
12. Level 35-39: Deadly Aspects 5/5
13. Levels 40-42: Improved Aspect of the Monkey 3/3
14. Levels 43-44: Focused Fire 2/2
15. Level 45: Bestial Swiftness
16. Levels 46-49: Unleashed Fury 4/5
17. Level 50: Summon Hawk
18. Level 51: Unleashed Fury 5/5
19. Levels 52-54: Ferocity 3/5
20. Level 55: Intimidation
21. Levels 56-50: Lethal Attacks

First we head down the survival tree because, as the name implies, it's going to help us survive. I debated long and hard about perhaps going down Beast Mastery first, at least down to Pathfinding, but ultimately decided against it, as that would put us very behind in getting some key talents like Counterattack and Strider Kick. You could always respec into survival instead at around level 30 and would potentially be ahead of the curve with your extra move speed bonus up until that point, but for the sake of the fluidity of this guide we will pretend that isn't an option and start off strong with 5/5 parry from Deflection.

Next, we go 3/3 Improved Wing Clip. This talent, to the uninitiated, is sleeper strong. As a survival hunter, in PvE and PvP you will likely start/end any melee engagement with an enemy with a wing clip, and this gives you a 1 in 5 chance of cheesing the holy heck out of your opponent by creating an entire 5 seconds of distance and global cooldowns to either add layers of debilitating sting or shot effects, or to give you time to use a Linen Bandage or even line up an Iron Grenade. Immobilize as a cc does not break on damage, so you're free to play with your food. It's very likely you will get several wing clips off in any skirmish, thus making the likelihood even higher that we will get a proc.

To follow that up, we go 2/5 Entrapment. We will be throwing another point in this later, with the option further down the line to fill it out completely if we so choose. Entrapment's CC effect is an entrap not an immobilize, so it does not share a diminishing return. It does have a diminishing return with itself, but in my experience, people don't expect Immolation Trap to provide any cc at all, so even a dimished one after a Frost Trap causes enemies brains to explode in sheer frustration and panic as they try to fathom what is happening to them while stuck to the floor, caught on fire, beneath a hail of poisoned arrows, and facing a hunter who's spamming /laugh.

Now we grab Deterrence, giving us a 50% chance to avoid an attack made against us, but this is added with whatever defense stats we already have, if we have Aspect of the Monkey on, combined with our Deflection, we then have a 63% chance to avoid, plus our native 5% parry and 5% dodge, this becomes a 73% chance to negate melee attacks. And, spoiler alert, we will be taking Improved Aspect of the Monkey, bumping this up to 79%, and that's not even mentioning the bonuses we will be getting from agility, and as you can see, this can get out of hand very quickly. On just a 5-minute cooldown, you can even use this offensively, particularly in solo PvE scenarios to speed up risky encounters by ensuring you maintain great uptime on Mongoose Bite.

Surefooted is one of the most powerful talents for leveling and endgame in the entirety of all 3 hunter talent trees. As hunters, we already have a leg up on hitting mobs much higher level than us, and this makes it even more likely. Pets are also now properly getting hit chance from us, so we nearly triple dip this talent across our ranged/melee/pet's hit tables, not to mention it also now reduces the duration we are slowed. In my experience, very skilled PvP players have an internal clock counting down the length of their CC on enemies, and talents that reduce that time also mess with that internal countdown and give you opportunities react and counter when they expect it the least.

Now, we need to spend this stray point somewhere. You can choose between another rank of Entrapment to give you an extra second of cc, or a single point in Clever Traps, which will give you an extra 1 second on Freezing Trap, 3 seconds on Frost Trap, 15ish damage on Immolation Trap. Clever Traps shines a lot more with two talents, and we will have some extra to spend near the end of the build, but personally I would take 3/5 Entrapment for the time being.

Now things get really juicy with Counterattack, yet another way to immobilize a target for another 5 seconds! And the best part is; this doesn't share a diminishing return with Improved Wing Clip or Entrapment. Because Improved Wing Clip is a random chance, it doesn't share DR with a guaranteed immobilize. The name of the game with Survival hunter on a PvP server is choice of engagement, and you maintain more than enough CC to choose if and when you want to go in already right here and now at level 25 when most other classes hardly have a even handful of options to start or end an engagement.

Predator's Edge 4/5 allows our melee crits to scale even harder, making us even deadlier in the short fights we choose to take. This also offsets the dual wield damage penalty, if we so choose to go that route. We will also have the option to finish out the ranks of this later, if we so choose.

THE GRAND FINALE Strider Kick! The ability that pulls this entire spec together, completely whomping your foe for a huge chunk of damage, while also enabling the freedom of either disengaging from the fight to line up more shots, reposition, and recuperate some hp. Repositioning is the key here, as this is the same amount of movement speed as Aspect of the Cheetah, but without the massive daze penalty, allowing you place traps around as you see fit, or even just stick on top of your target! This has to be one of my new all time favorite abilities in the game, equally as hilarious as it is deadly.

Nearly wrapping up the tree, we have 2/2 Survivalist's Discipline which will make our Deterrence a 3 minute cooldown, all but ensuring we have it up whenever we want. This also reduces the cooldown of our trap abilities by about 12 seconds each. Turning many of our traps into repeatable nuisances that control even more time on the field in both PvP and PvE scenarios. This also does kind of negate the need for Clever Traps duration increases by a little.

Lastly (for now) we will grab Resourcefulness. All the hunter trees have the ability to take a new mana regeneration talent, and we technically will have the option for this or Bestial Discipline which essentially has 100% uptime, doesn't require you to land any critical hits, but also doesn't lower the cost of your melee abilities and traps. I prefer Resourcefulness in both scenarios, but if you find yourself low on crit in the late game you could swap on for the other.

Now we dip our feet into Beast Mastery with 5/5 Deadly Aspects. In a few of my PvE focused guide videos, I discuss how only the percent chance to proc the attack speed really only needs 2-3 points here, however, in PvP when uptime in melee or ranged is not guaranteed, especially if we are swapping from Aspect of the Monkey into Aspect of the Hawk or Aspect of the Beast, we really really want the best chance possible to proc with whatever amount of hits or shots we can muster, and weighed against Endurance Training, I'm going to take all 5 in Deadly Aspects here. This is also a huge and consistent increase to our PvE damage.

Told ya! Now we take 3/3 Improved Aspect of the Monkey. In PvP or even solo PvE we will be in Aspect of the Monkey a lot. Now, our pets even share a bonus with us, in the event that you wanted to even split aggro from 2 mobs. This is Just another 6% to add to our ever growing pool of total melee mitigation, making us an incredibly frustrating class to play against.

For here, I go 2/2 Focused Fire, over Pathfinding . While not the biggest increase to our damage, Pathfinding's value tends to be higher when taken much earlier in the leveling build, primarily before we have access to mounts. Because we are here after level 40, I skip it entirely.

Now we throw a point in Bestial Swiftness. By this point, our pets will already have Dash or Dive, allowing whichever pet we choose to ZOOM in for a surprising engage or counter offensive! This is also around the same time many other classes start dipping into other trees, and often for utility purposes, and this lines up nicely for our ability to keep up with their new tools.

Unleashed Fury surprised me in testing on the beta, and some pet abilities can have some pretty funny interactions between this modifier and the happy/content/sad pet damage modifier, but ultimately its just our best option to continue down the tree.

Another Beastly ability to add to our arsenal, Summon Hawk. I actually like this ability a lot more in this build, at this time, than early in Beast Mastery. Summon hawk does do more damage than arcane shot, but the real upgrade lay in two core factors of the ability that are not stated in the tooltip. The summoned hawks both cause spell pushback and this ability does not have a minimum range. This finally gives hunters an ability to use while targets are in our dead zone, which is our biggest weakness.

Now we throw that extra point to finish Unleashed Fury, not much to say here xD

Nearly wrapped up, I'm throwing 3/5 into Ferocity, and finishing the tree with Intimidation, adding yet another type of debilitating cc with no diminishing returns shared among our other cc into our arsenal, both increasing our open world solo PvE and PvP capabilities. At this point, our chosen pet has probably grown quite huge, just like Misha.

These last 5 are dealers choice, but I'm out of characters for this so 5/5 Lethal Attacks it is!