Demon Hunter Guide

Havoc Demon Hunters embrace their inner demon, leaving chaotic devastation in their wake. They cut through their foes with their signature warglaives, and unleash their demonic form to erupt with fel power. Its primary resource, Fury, is generated through auto-attacks and Felblade, and used to fuel powerful strikes in Chaos Strike and Blade Dance. It also uses Eye Beam and Metamorphosis to transform into a powerful demon.

Havoc is a very fast paced playstyle with a build-and-spend loop. It uses its medium length cooldowns, Eye Beam and Immolation Aura, to deal AoE damage and enter Demonic. Its most powerful cooldown, Metamorphosis, transforms you into a demon, dealing significantly higher damage and increasing Haste.

It comes with strong single-target damage and very powerful burst in all situations. It also does a lot of free cleave, allowing it to deal with priority targets without sacrificing AoE. Alongside that, it has unmatched mobility through Fel Rush, and a suite of control to assist in Mythic+. Finally, it also provides the Chaos Brand debuff to the group, making it a staple in all content.

Havoc saw modest changes going into the new expansion, with some reduction in its Fury management. It's had some weaker aspects brought up, but remains very similar to its previous iteration. It still has strong damage for different situations, and provides Chaos Brand, making it very desirable for groups.

You can look at a full breakdown on what's changed in our guide!

Vengeance Demon Hunters are a walking inferno that bathe their foes in flame, shearing the souls from their enemies to feed their demonic hunger. They also carve forbidden sigils into the battlefield to scatter foes. Its primary resource, Fury, is generated through Fracture and Immolation Aura, and used on Soul Cleave. Demon Spikes is their mitigation tool, and they generate Soul Fragments which keep them healthy in combat.

Vengeance is quite involved compared to other tanks, combining a focus on ability juggling while keeping survival tools active. It needs to manage both Fury and Souls to navigate combat, using both in tandem to deal damage and stay healthy.

It uses Demon Spikes as its active mitigation tool, which can be maintained at all times, and plans its cooldowns like Fiery Brand and Metamorphosis for dangerous moments. Due to that, it requires good planning to make sure you're never caught on the back foot, but has some strong passive tools to ease the learning process with Frailty, Painbringer and Fel Flame Fortification. Much like other Demon Hunter specs, it also has incredibly good mobility, with Infernal Strike added onto the rest of the Demon Hunter suite.

Vengeance had a lot of changes made to its gameplay loop, aiming to address its slow build-up time and conflicting abilities. It's had extensive changes to its cooldowns and mitigation tools, while also having a new Hero Tree to share with Devourer.

You can look at a full breakdown on what's changed in our guide!

Devourer Demon Hunters arrive in Midnight, and have traded their mastery of Fel magic for the overwhelming power of the Void. They harvest the souls of their enemies to transform into a void empowered demon, unleashing the power of the cosmos. Its primary resource, Fury, is generated through casting Consume, while the secondary resource - Souls - are shattered when dealing damage with various abilities. These are used to access your Void Metamorphosis, which has no standard cooldown, and then gathered while transformed to cast increasingly powerful Collapsing Stars.

Devourer has an ebb-and-flow during combat, having a build state that gathers up souls to access Void Metamorphosis, and a spend state while transformed. When transformed, your Fury will drain at an increasingly rapid rate, and when you run out entirely, your transformation ends.

Its loop focuses heavily on the link between Consume, its main Fury spender, Void Ray, and these Void Metamorphosis windows. Like both other specs, it comes with incredible mobility with Shift, and also provides the valuable Chaos Brand debuff for your group.

As Devourer is all new, there's no previous iteration to compare it to. The playstyle is very unique, and like with all new specializations, is likely to be extremely popular.

We already have a guide ready to break it down if you're interested in giving it a try!