Below are the most popular glyphs Survival Hunters used in patch 4.0.3a

Prime Glyphs

Glyph of Explosive Shot, Glyph of Kill Shot, Glyph of Steady Shot

Major Glyphs

Glyph of Disengage, Glyph of Misdirection, Glyph of Trap Launcher

Minor Glyphs

Glyph of Feign Death, Glyph of Mend Pet, Glyph of Revive Pet

I’m currently specced into a 0/18/53 build that focuses on improved stings as I mentioned in my other Hunter Raiding Builds post.

Some people will use a slightly different or an altered shot rotation priority on their Survival Hunters and it’s perfectly okay to do so, however, I’m going to tell you the one that works best for me for just about every situation. Sometimes I start the fight differently though (situational) but once the fight is started I’ll work back into this rotation.

Kill Shot > Explosive Shot > Black Arrow > Serpent Sting > Aimed Shot > Steady Shot

What I do for raids, because I haven’t created an automated macro yet for the survival rotation because of the changes to castrandom in a recent patch (don’t worry eventually I’ll create a nice macro), is I mirror 6 macro buttons to the first 6 positions of my hot bar to emulate this rotation, as you can see in this picture.

The priority simply goes from left to right, I always choose the furthest left skill as it comes available (minus serpent sting obviously because it has no cooldown). It’s fairly simple. You’ll notice all 6 of these keys are custom named macros, that’s because each key contains the following macro text:

#showtooltip Steady Shot
/cast Rapid Fire
/cast Kill Command
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Steady Shot

For every key you make, change the name and skill out of this macro and place it on your hot bar.

Survival Glyphs

The glyphs I’m using are: Kill Shot, Serpent Sting, Explosive Shot. The alternatives are Improved Aspect of the Hawk (if you take talents) or Steady Shot. That’s pretty much it, so good luck to you and have fun raiding in patch 3.3

Well, here is what I have come up with so far for Survival Hunter Shot rotation macro.

The only testing this macro has received is on the Heroic dummy I plan on taking it out to try on some raid bosses when I get the chance but it seems to run pretty smooth.
/use 13
/use 14
/cast kill command
/cast [modifier:ctrl] Black Arrow
/cast [modifier:alt] Explosive Shot
/castsequence reset=6/Shift  Serpent Sting, Null,
/castsequence reset=6 Steady shot, Steady Shot, Steady Shot, Explosive Shot

It’s pretty self explanatory, if you’re an Orc or you want Rapid fire you can put that in near the top too.  But what happens is it tries to fire off both trinkets and kill command then moves onto cast Serpent Sting.  Because of the Null that comes after Serpent sting it locks up the first castsequence, meaning it will not repeat and has to be reset by pressing shift, which is good because you don’t want to chain fire off Serpent Sting.  So when Serpent Sting needs refresh you simply press shift.

It continues to do the second cast sequence unless you press shift, alt, or control.  I threw in 3 steady shots before Explosive shot because it seemed to work, you can figure out how many need to go there yourself for your Hunter.

When Lock N Load procs you can press alt to fire off more explosive shots, this will by pass all cast sequences, and to refresh Black Arrow simply hit control.  If you’re not concerned with Explosive Shot you can change the Alt modifier to Kill Shot, either way you are going to have to weave one of those in manually outside of this macro for now.  It is possible to add Black Arrow to the first cast sequence and reset it with Shift.  You could make the first castsequence go something like: Serpent Sting, Steady Shot, Steady Shot, Black Arrow, Null.

What I’m thinking is that you might lose out on too much Explosive Shot DPS while you’re toying with it but I’ll keep working it, for now this is Version 1.0, I’ll keep updating it as I try it out and make it more efficient.