Level 60 Survival Hunter PvP build

This is a 21/0/30-style control build: Marksmanship goes just deep enough for Scatter Shot, with Hawk Eye for range, Careful Aim, Improved Arcane Shot, and Mortal Shots to keep ranged burst threatening. Survival supplies the PvP engine: Entrapment, Improved Wing Clip, Surefooted, Deterrence, Counterattack, cheaper traps/melee tools, shorter Deterrence/trap cooldowns, and Strider Kick for when someone reaches you.

The gear is deliberately at the toughness knee from the provided curve: about 3060+ HP from gear and 3252 armor while keeping roughly 9% hit/crit and only costing about 5% throughput versus the glassier best-damage sets. Going to the 85 survival set buys only about 380 more HP but costs another 7% throughput, which is too much for a hunter that wins by creating kill windows. Cryptstalker pieces carry excellent agility, stamina, crit, hit, armor, and mp5; Dark Edge of Insanity adds a dangerous melee proc; Larvae of the Great Worm is the best ranged pressure weapon; Slayer’s Crest is your kill-window trinket, while Defiler’s Talisman gives a real defensive button.

Play at max range with Track Humanoids active for Improved Tracking. Mark early, keep a sting up—Viper Sting into mana users, otherwise use your damaging shots—and use Chimera Shot to refresh pressure. Scatter Shot is not a mindless cooldown: use it to stop casts, create space, or line up Aimed Shot. If melees connect, Wing Clip, Counterattack after a parry, Deterrence when low, then reset range with Concussive Shot.