Havoc Demon Hunter DPS Stat Priority — Midnight Season 1

Welcome to our Stat Priority page for Havoc Demon Hunter in the Midnight expansion! Here we'll quickly be going over the stats you should aim for on gear, alongside any special considerations depending on your build.

Havoc has no significant alterations between Hero Talents or target counts, so can safely use similar gear-sets for both.

Havoc generally has the following stat priority:

• Agility
• Critical Strike
• Mastery
• Haste
• Versatility

In Midnight, Agility is much more valuable following the stat squish, meaning that most of your gearing decisions are driven by item-level once again.

Know Your Enemy keeps Critical Strike as the focus due to the additional multiplier it provides, alongside working with proc effects. Mastery provides another strong multiplier to the majority of Havoc's strongest abilities, so is close behind. Generally, you want to stack as much of these two specific stats as possible.

Haste is significantly behind due to the lack of cooldown reduction on Eye Beam in particular, alongside the large amount of time spent in Metamorphosis that provides a large amount passively.

Versatility falls to the bottom, roughly similar in value to Haste, and as such isn't worth seeking out. It does, however, provide a small amount of extra defense for any you do have.

FAQDoes Know Your Enemy Affect Trinkets?

Yes. Know Your Enemy affects everything, so trinket procs, cantrip effects and embellishments all also benefit from its Critical Strike damage multiplier. As such, it maintains the high value of the stat regardless of your gear choices.

Every stat has a limit where they will begin to offer less increase per point gained, which are known as the points of diminishing return. Once you have reached these amounts, stats will become progressively less valuable and may fall behind other options. The current breakpoints are:

• Critical Strike - 1380 Rating
• Haste - 1320 Rating
• Versatility - 1620 Rating
• Mastery - 1380 Rating

While reaching these breakpoints doesn't make a stat immediately bad, you should keep them in mind when looking at gear upgrades or if you think your sim results are unusual. Often reaching these values is enough to lift the value of even less desirable secondary stats to a level worth picking some up.

If you are ever in doubt about what items to wear for any given situation, the best way to figure it out for your character is to use Raidbots. This website allows you to easily compare gear you already have, as well as gear you do not have.

Due to every character being unique with variables based on your current gear, racial bonuses and effects you have active, it is much easier to trust its bespoke output rather than a general priority if you are looking to min-max your damage potential.

The gems, enchants, and consumables you will use are directly derived from your stat priority. You can find our advice on this topic on our dedicated page.

As a Havoc Demon Hunter, Agility is your primary stat, meaning it aims to have this present on all gear pieces when possible. Individual stats provide the following benefits:

• Agility - provides you with Attack Power, increasing the damage of your Havoc abilities and melee attacks.
• Critical Strike - increases the chance for your attacks critically strike, dealing double damage. Additionally:
  • Havoc has talents with specific additional scaling with Crit, including Critical Chaos and Ragefire.
  • Know Your Enemy also converts Critical Strike Chance into bonus Critical Strike damage at a fixed rate, increasing the base 200% multiplier based on gear.
• Mastery - increases all Chaos damage you deal through Mastery: Demonic Presence. Additionally:
  • Also increases your base Movement Speed via Pursuit.
  • Certain talents convert non-Chaos abilities into Chaos damage, including them in the Mastery effect. Important examples are First Blood, A Fire Inside, and Soulscar.
• Haste - increases your auto attack speed, increasing Fury generation via Demon Blades. Additionally:
  • Reduces your Global Cooldown to a minimum of up to 0.75 seconds.
  • Reduces the cooldown of Blade Dance, Immolation Aura, and Throw Glaive.
• Versatility - increases all damage and healing you do (including trinkets and proc effects) by a flat amount. Additionally, reduces all damage you take by half of that amount.