Introduction to the Havoc Demon Hunter
Havoc Demon Hunter is predominantly a builder spender style rotation and is largely Global Cooldown locked. The core game style is taking advantage of your Fury pool and reacting to unpredictable gains. This class is probably one of the fastest classes to play so following a guide will ensure you correctly use high burst cooldowns and windows to push yourself even further.
Havoc still likely remains a dominant melee specialisation due to the power of the Chaos Brand debuff, and its versatile damage toolkit in most situations. Alongside this the utility tools such as
Darkness and
Netherwalk bolster its place in the raid
Below you will find a beginners guide to the Havoc Demon Hunter, you can click on highlighted abilities, for a more in depth description of them.
Strengths and Weaknesses of the Havoc Demon Hunter
Strengths
- Strong burst single target damage
- Extremely powerful cooldowns for high damage requirement moments
- Flexible mobility allowing for great positioning control in encounters
- Strong group utility, especially via
Chaos Brand
Weaknesses
- AoE is tied to cooldowns, which hurts sustained damage
- Some RNG is built into the resource system.
- If cooldowns not available , damage can be lackluster
- Some talents have problems with certain encounter types.
Talents
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Rotation of the Havoc Demon Hunter
The basic rotation for the Havoc Demon Hunter is as follows:
- Cast
Metamorphosis if available and not active.
- Use
Immolation Aura.
- Cast
Blade Dance /
Death Sweep.
- Use
Eye Beam.
- Cast
Chaos Strike /
Annihilation.
- Cast
Demon’s Bite to generate Fury.
You can use the recommended Addon ConRo for help with your rotation, it can be found in our Addons Guide here
Cooldowns
Metamorphosis is a powerful 30-second duration transformation buff on a long cooldown, with a flat 25% increase to Haste allowing for more ability uses while active.
- Using
Eye Beam is either cast on cooldown in single-target situations, but only if you can safely channel for the full duration, or at pressure points in a fight where a large stack of enemies will be available for high burst AoE.
Stat Priority
- Versatility
- Critical Strike = Haste
- Agility
- Mastery
Note here that Mastery is significantly lower than the other options; if it can be avoided, it should be. Some talent builds offer a slightly better performance with it, but it never reaches the level of alternatives.

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