Havoc Demon Hunter guide

Hello and welcome to the Legion 7.0.3 Havoc Demon Hunter guide.

Havoc in Legion is a melee spec with extreme high mobility and insane burst AoE.  Demon Hunters use fury to perform their devastation attacks. Skill and dps based on your fury control and on uptime of momentum buff (if you choice it in 106 tier).

Unforgiving Predators
Demon hunters, disciples of Illidan Stormrage, uphold a dark legacy, one that frightens their allies and enemies alike. The Illidari embrace fel and chaotic magics—energies that have long threatened the world of Azeroth—believing them necessary to challenge the Burning Legion. Wielding the powers of demons they’ve slain, they develop demonic features that incite revulsion and dread in fellow elves.

Talents Calculator

Talent’s

99 tier

Fel Mastery – In Havoc rotation we must use Fel Rush on cd because it does about 6-8% of all our damage, with this talent it will be even more awesome, and will generate Fury which is nice

Chaos Cleave – Nice choice if you always have 2 targets, that stays close enough.

Blind Fury – Worst talent in this tier.

100 tier

Prepared – Quite good talent that will increase uptime of Momentum and generate additional Fury, but right now Demon Blades is slightly better.

Demon Blades – Overpowered talent that passively generates Fury (replace Demon Bite). Best in this tier.

Demonic Appetite – Just meh talent. Doesn’t worth it.

102 tier

Felblade – Additional spell that generate Fury, not the worst choice.

First Blood – Due to nerf of Blade Dance this talent became useless.

Bloodlet – Good talent for Single target fight, which potential fully open in cleaves fights. Our choice in that tier

104 tier

Netherwalk – Best choice if you need to soak some one-shoot ability.

Desperate Instincts – Passively saves you when your HP falls below 35%. You cannot activate this manually.

Soul Rending – Must have if you want to farm old raids solo.

106 tier

Momentum – Core mechanic of the Havoc gameplay. Our choice.

Fel Eruption – DPS gain is much less compare to other 2 talents.

Nemesis – Compare to Momentum you will lose around 1-2% of dps on single target and much more on AoE.

108 tier

Master of the Glaive – The only dps gain talent. Choice it.

Unleash Power – Most useless talent ever.

Demon Reborn – Due to nerf this talent became useless too.

110 tier

Chaos Blades – Best talent for pure single target fight.

Fel Barrage – Flawless talents which make us Kings on burst AoE

Demonic – Weakest talent in this tier.

Abilities

Active:

• Demon’s Bite – main Fury generator ( replaced by Demon Blades if we choose it).
• Chaos Strike – main dps ability, we will dump all our fury on it.
• Eye Beam – iconic AoE spell, it’s worth to use on Single Target if only you already have Artifact trait Anguish of the Deceiver.
• Blade Dance – AoE spell, worth to use it only on 4+ enemies. Also grants 100% dodge chance for 1 sec.
• Fury of the Illidari – ability gained by the Artifact. Use on Single Target, but delay it if you know that add’s will appear soon.
• Throw Glaives – strong ability that can ricochet on additional 2 enemies
• Metamorphosis – Burst cooldown that replace Demon’s Bite with Annihilation and Blade Dance with Death Sweep
• Vengeful Retreat – disengage for Demon Hunter’s
• Spectral Sight – ability that allows you to see invisible enemies
• Imprison – control that works only on demons
• Fel Rush – rush forward and deal damage to foes
• Blur – defensive cooldown
• Darkness – granting 15% avoid chance to all players in 8 yd radius

Passive:

• Shattered souls – very helpfull ability which leave healing orb after defeating an enemy.
• Double Jump – we all choose Demon Hunters for this ability
• Master: Demonic Presence – our mastery, but unfortunately it is the worst second stat.

Artifact

Havoc artifact is Twinblades of the Deceiver which ilvl is upgraded by relics.

Relics type for Havoc:

• Fel relic x 2
• Shadow relic

Twinblades of the Deceiver has his own Artifact tree. Traits can be opened by Artifact power which is a reward for daily quests, dungeons and etc.

Havoc’s artifact traits:

• Fury of the Illidari
• Warglaives of Chaos
• Unleashed Demons
• Balanced Blades
• Sharpened Glaives
• Critical Chaos
• Chaos Vision
• Anguish of the Deceiver
• Demon Speed
• Illidari Knowledge
• Rage of the Illidari
• Demon Rage
• Contained Fury
• Feast on the souls
• Deceiver’s Fury
• Inner Demons
• Overwhelming Power

Path to open all traits

Rotation

Havoc Demon Hunter single target rotation

Annihilation > Fel Barrage > Fury of the Illidari > Throw Glaives >Eye Beam> Chaos Strike

Note: Fel Barrage, Fury of the illidary, Throw Glaives, Eye Beam use only with Momentum buff.

Also we must never let the Fel Rush to have 2 stacks and use Vengeful Retreat on CD, it’s most important part becouse of the Momentum buff.

It will be perfect if your uptime of Momentum buff will be around 55% but 45% is fine too, If your uptime is <=40% then Nemesis for you will be better.

Best way to use Fel Rush and Vengeful Retreat on medium/large bosses is:

Multi-Target Rotation

Fel Barrage>Fury of the Illidari>Eye Beam>Fel Rush>Throw Glaives>Blade Dance

Note: Fel Barrage, Fury of the illidary, Throw Glaives, Eye Beam use only with Momentum buff.

Demon Hunter Tier

T 19 Raid tier

Head – Mark of second sight

Shoulder – Shoulderguard of second sight

Chest – Tunic of second sight

Hands – Gloves of second sight

Legs – Legwraps of second sight

T19 2 pieces: Your Fury generation from all abilities is increased by 20%.

T19 4 pieces: Increases your Chaos Strike critical strike chance by 10%.

Order Hall Armor Set

Chest – Vest of the Shattered Abyss

Boots – Boots of the Shattered Abyss

Gloves – Gloves of the Shattered Abyss

Head – Helm of the Shattered Abyss

Legs – Breeches of the Shattered Abyss

Shoulder – Spaulders of the Shattered Abyss

Waist – Belt of the Shattered Abyss

Wrist – Wristwraps of the Shattered Abyss

2 pieces: Increases your out-of-combat regeneration in outdoor Broken Isles zones.

Addons

DBM-SpellTimers (Deadly Boss Mods) – DBM – SpellTimers is a small but powerful addon that uses DBM timers to show spell cooldowns from raid members. It is fully configurable through a simple GUI so you can easily add new spells. It provides you with bars for typical raid cooldowns like heroism, shieldwall, battlerezz or anything else you might need. The GUI supports custom definition for your own wishes.

or

BigWigs Bossmods – Big Wigs is a boss encounter add-on. It consists of many individual encounter scripts, or boss modules; mini add-ons that are designed to trigger alert messages, timer bars, sounds, and so forth, for one specific raid encounter.

Bartender4 – Bartender4 is a full ActionBar replacement mod. It provides you with all the features needed to fully customization most aspects of your action and related bars.

Weak Auras 2 – WeakAuras is a powerful and flexible framework that allows you to display highly customizable graphics on your screen to indicate buffs, debuffs, and a whole host of similar types of information. It was originally meant to be a lightweight replacement for Power Auras, but it now incorporates many features that Power Auras does not, while still remaining more efficient and easy to use.

Recount – Recount is a graphical damage meter

Skada – Skada is a modular damage meter with various viewing modes. It is inspired mainly by Assessment, but also by Recount.

Usefull Links

MMO-C Demon Hunter Weak Auras Thread, for both specs: http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1984610-Demon-Hunter-Weak-Auras-Thread

WA from @Kib ? : https://wago.io/p/Kib

Special thanks

To all Discord DH community, especially to Kib, Pawkets, Wordup, Calli.